Well, the new map will fit pretty well with the Apache.
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Also, the way they put the Beagle front an center like that must mean release is imminent. The Mirage F1 is conspicuously absent.
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Well I am amazed. That video shows a lot of stuff that we can use. Excellent
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Oh yeah, the next level of the weather engine looks amazing.
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Para troops is what I took from that. South Atlantic looks bleak and inhospitable too but very looking forward to liberating Paris and all the grateful mademoiselles 
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Interesting song choice for the video… What a wonderful WORLD. Maybe the whole world update for the DCS engine coming next year??
Also curious how they will do Afghanistan. Will the map extend all the way to North Arabian Sea for carrier ops or will it be landlocked?
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Was there a Zero?
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Naw, a 190 in drag.
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That could be an F-4 or F-105.
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It would be great if ED implemented a world map steaming option like MSFS (if they haven’t already tapped Asobo’s patent).
Otherwise completing Iran on the PG map and connecting it to Afghanistan would allow for some immersive long range (F-15E) strikes from the UAE. The same could be said for a complete Turkey (or at least eastern Turkey) ultimately connecting Caucasus and Syria maps. Guess time will tell.
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Like in dont spoil the party? Spoil the party ED! Cant wait!.. Ok, tantrum over. 
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Exactly! I thought the same: - an odd choice while showing things being destroyed. But, the thought of the engine being upgraded to use the entire world didn’t dawn on me.
Well, it’s a sad and gloomy version of the music for MSFS 2020 trailer. In MSFS it was obvious. the “wonderful world” being the killer feature for that sim. It goes in line with ED’s plans of including a full world model, right? While I don’t think it’s going to be 2022, fits pretty well with the beyond part.
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Yeah, I read in recent PC Pilot about their plans of incorporating the whole world into the sim. How will they manage that is another question - will it be streamable like in MSFS2020?. Also the matter how the current maps fit into that world is another, even ED don’t have an answer for it currently.
Dynamic campaign development will probably need to take into account all this, so its implementation with this new world will work.
Coming years sure are looking interesting.
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Outside of putting a picture of a world in the UI and clicking on locations for existing maps any notion of a global map seems like a sick joke. It also seems rather pointless but feel free to prove me wrong.
MS with all their resource and their own Azure cloud system have come up with (via BlackShark) a good if slightly Beta version of a World. With 10 years of development it could get vastly better.
But it does highlight the many technical challenges. For example the AI can create the roads but creating bridges and traffic at the same height clearly cannot be done without manual intervention.
Manual 3D modelling is still required to make places look fully accurate.
Currently streaming everything over the network on this scale is very high latency.
Regardless of code - to ensure something is as it should be still requires a visual flyover of the terrain in game!!
And this is only for a civilian sim where none of the many things to take into account for combat do not have to be considered.
Currently DCS has small man made maps with mostly repeating tiles and buildings that performance wise are okay to poor even at their small size. Man made maps cannot be much else hence the switch to cutting edge AI for those that have mega resources.
Interesting to see what will happen but outside of someone else developing something suitable that can be leased in the next 20 years it seems unthinkable to me that it would be anything like MSFS.
The technical challenge is enormous in this case. I would think they rather aim at something X-Plane-like.