DCS WWII: Europe 1944 Updates

[+ST0RM 145]

Let's just say that as someone who notices these things, one thing you can NOT say is "sims in the past 15 years have had really good marketing."

 

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Such a small niche in the gaming world now, its often word of mouth. Plus with some many gamers focusing on CoD style shooters or WoW MMOs, we're a dinosaur.

[+streakeagle 864]

We aren't dinosaurs, just a very special minority that finds the challenges of flying and air combat to be fun and interesting. Most people find it too boring or too much like work. I have had no success with word of mouth. Despite advocating flight sims since I was in the 9th grade and had a Timex Sinclair 1000 PC, I have only attracted/converted one or two people into combat flight sim fanatics. At best, I can only discover other people who already share my interests... and none of them live anywhere near me. My son is 7. I have raised him with a strong aviation background. At 3 or 4 years old, he could fly and win air races in Redline:XAR2 and take off with a Spitfire and shoot down a dumb circling AI B-24 in offline Aces High. He can name a lot of my models. But he does not love airplanes the way I do and probably never will.

[SilverDragon 93]

Racoon (WW2 ED team) show WW2 Normandy map extension to South England, and new airbases.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3026496&postcount=2

[SilverDragon 93]

[SilverDragon 93]

[SilverDragon 93]

Normandia Trailer on ED Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/eagle.dynamics/videos/10158413498320341/

 

Normandy info and WW2 Assets Pack (Free to WW2 Kickstarter Normandy map owners)

 

The DCS: Normandy 1944 Map and DCS: World War II Assets Pack will be available for download by late April 2017.

 

More details coming this weekend in the Newsletter!

 

The DCS: Normandy 1944 Map is centred on the World War II battlefield of Normandy, France and is specifically created to depict the period after the D-Day landings and the establishment of several allied airfields in Normandy to support the beachhead breakout in late June 1944. The map measures 267 x 348 kilometres and includes airfields in both Normandy and southern England. The map includes the famous D-Day landing beaches and the “Atlantic Wall”, rolling bocage fields of Normandy, large cities like Caen and Rouen, ports of Cherbourg and Le Havre, and 30 airfields. The map also includes multiple seasons and more detail and accuracy than any previous DCS World map by utilizing new map technologies.

A vital aspect of creating an authentic World War II battlefield is to populate it with matching artificial intelligence (AI) World War II assets. The DCS: World War II Assets Pack provides numerous World War II air, land and sea assets to populate the Normandy and other DCS World maps with. Eagle Dynamics has spent the last three year creating an entirely new set of combat vehicles to support DCS: World War II, and each unit is created with an exceptional level of detail and accuracy. These assets include:

 

• Tanks and Mobile Artillery

o M4 Sherman Firefly

o M4A4 Sherman with "Rhino" hedge cutter

o Mk VIII Cromwell

o Jagdpanzer IV

o Sd.Kfz. 162

o Tiger I

o Tiger II

o Panther V

o Panzer IV

o Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär, Sd. Kfz. 166

o Jagdpanther G1

 

• Cars and Trucks

o Jeep Willys

o Truck CCKW 353

o Bedford MWD

o Kübelwagen 82

o Truck Blitz 36-6700A

• Steam Train and Cars

o DRG Class 86 locomotive

o Tank wagon

o G10 covered wagon

o DR 50 Ton Flat Wagon Type SSys

• Anti-Aircraft Artillery

o Bofors 40 mm gun

o 8.8 cm Flak Gun 18, 36, & 37

o 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling

• Ships

o LCVP Higgins

o LST Mk2

o USS Samuel Chase

• Infantry

o US soldier

o UK soldier

o German soldier

• Aircraft 

o B-17G bomber

The DCS: World War II Assets Pack will continue to grow with DCS: Combined Arms compatibility and free asset additions that includes:

• New tanks

• SdKfz 234/2 "Puma"

• Sd.Kfz. 251

• Sd.Kfz.2 Kettenkrad

• Horch staff car

• E-boat Schnellboot type S-130

• Uboat type 7

• German search lights

• Barrage balloons

• Avro Lancaster

• Hawker Typhoon

• C-47

• Ju-88

• Fw 190 A-6 and A-8

• Bf 109 G-6

• A-20 Havoc/Boston

• B-24

• B-25

• B-26

 

The DCS: Normandy Map and the DCS: World War II Assets Pack will be available as a 20%-off, pre-purchase bundle for $47.99. Upon release in late April 2017, the DCS: Normandy 1944 Map and DCS: World War II Assets Pack bundle will be sold for $59.99, and the stand-alone DCS: Normandy 1944 Map for $44.99 and the stand-alone DCS: World War II Assets pack for $29.99.

Note: Those that took part in the DCS: World War II Kickstarter campaign, and provided a high enough contribution to receive the Normandy map, will receive the assets pack for free.

 

 

Edited March 9, 2017 by SilverDragon

[+Geezer 3,569]

Gorgeous stuff!  Will it be possible to mod the 1944 map?

[SilverDragon 93]

Map moding has actually unkonow. The ww2 assets pack has not exclusive of Normandy.

[SilverDragon 93]

To the WW2 Kickstarted Backers. Normandy map and Assets pack keys available on the Backers page (if reach the necessary pledge).

 https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/personal/backer/

 

some rumours of a close alpha previous to the alpha release late May