Weekend News
Dear Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends,
This week we announced Open Beta 2.7.3 with powerful, new, under-the-hood features that enhance our unprecedented flying experience. DCS: Marianas provides an immersive, more natural environment that introduces our latest graphical technologies to render crisper details at low level flight. The beautiful islands of Rota, Tinian, Guam and Saipan are amazing to explore, and they are packed with unique, high quality assets throughout. You should not be surprised to learn that this map requires higher performing PCs to get the most detail.
After the launch of DCS: Mi-24P Hind, our dedicated Hind team has been working to eliminate recurring crashes, as well as stabilising the first iteration of the Petrovich AI. Various bugs have been fixed, and we encourage you to read the full changelog. The Hind’s external damage model is now on par with DCS: Mi-8MTV2 Magnificent Eight, and work has begun to improve tail rotor damage. The ammo counters for cannon and gun pods are now fully functional, and the Petrovich AI is able to determine ATGM launch distances. Next, we will be working on Petrovich’s ability to scan the environment and report targets and threats.
Please note that for a limited time, up to 50% discount is available on all of our products, including campaigns.
Thank you for your passion and support.
Yours sincerely,
Eagle Dynamics Team
DCS: Marianas
Early Access Available
We are committed to building the world’s best maps, and DCS: Marianas takes us even further down this road with brand new ways to navigate and explore. You will experience enhanced detail in cities and neighborhoods, commercial districts, airfields, ports, elevation, new buildings, new road colours and signs, custom-designed landmarks, and a new night-time mode with varied street lighting throughout.
For many of you DCS: Caucasus has become indispensable, and this year we’ve created more ways to enhance the DCS combat experience. Being a free map, DCS: Marianas brings our online community together with no purchase requirements. The Marianas brings an all new environment to play in with new missions.
DCS: Marianas is running on our latest EDGE 2.7 graphics engine. To fly this map you will need to download the latest Open Beta and head over to the Module Manager. We are looking forward, as ever, to your feedback. Please check out The Marianas Release Trailer.
Mi-24P Hind
Development Progress
Petrovich will now be responsible for countermeasures and will automatically select new ones when required. We are now working on giving “him” an interface for the ASO-2V panel.
We have also added a delay in response from the Petrovich interface. This delay emulates the time between commands being given and heard over the crew intercom. Work on the Petrovich voice overs also continues apace.
Petrovich will now inform you when reaching your desired course, altitude, or speed, and “he” will confirm RoE orders for ATGM launches. Although Petrovich has errors in determining distance to target, for now “he” will dynamically range +/- 300 meters. In later updates we will improve the error modeling by taking into account all the factors that play a role in building this error.
In the latest patch, we’ve added the implementation of the ammo counter panel. KMGU-2 fixes have been made and we have resolved engine control desync issues.
Looking ahead, our priorities are on Petrovich AI upgrades (including flying skills), further resolving de-sync issues in multiplayer, enhancing ATGM sight picture in VR and 2D, and improving overall key binding logic. We are also actively working on known issues and new-found bugs. Thank you for your reporting.
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Thank you again for your passion and support,
Yours sincerely,
) a good evening all round. I’m going to try and devote at LEAST 2 hours a week to DCS from now on as my skill bleed between sessions is borderline ridiculous now. Its getting harder and harder to keep up with everyone now and it’s getting depressing.
