DCS: Syria

Nice videos, the terrain looks very good.

I think it is amazing to visualize how compressed the battlespace in this region is. The distance between points of interest are so small! This will realy provide great insight into the true nature of the historical air combat between Isreal and Syria.

Just looking at how small the Bekaa Valley really is and how in 1982 Syria put 19 SAM sites into just a small part of it (and how Isreal whiped them all out)…

Cannot wait for the hind, to fly down those valleys near the coast then do a rocket run on some targets. :smiley:

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Strike Fighters had its fictional Mid East map, it was fine. Not really all that different from the Israel map that came later.

A coastal Far East map with mainland to the west and islands to the east would be good, that could be used for China/Taiwan or Korea/China/Japan, or rotate it to put the islands to the south and it could be around Vietnam or Singapore or Malaysia.

And look at Arma, franchise I knew Malden by sight anywhere on the island. It did not make OFP any less immersive. I am all for poetic license, :+1:

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I’ll admit that I wasn’t too enthusiastic about the Syria map when it was revealed. But I’ve done a 180 after viewing the videos, especially given the Viper/Fulcrum potential. I must have imagined it as another predominant sandbox, which I suppose reveals geographic ignorance on my part. It looks fantastic.

Since there is a short discussion of fantasy maps, this would be mine. Perhaps too lush to take on, but hopefully the technology to reproduce will arrive before I pack it in.

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That and Fulda.

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fixed it for you.

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It was a real island scaled down 66% or so
The islands from OFP and its add on were Levkas, Tenerife and Krk IIRC.

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I know what i said :rofl: give me the agricultural hind rather than that hightech thing any day of the week.

Yeah, that fancy 1982 tech of the Apache is just too modern! When we were young, computers took up a whole building for 16k of storage!
But they got one that could fit on a helicopter??? Geez, so tiny! With like 1MB of storage or something??

Now this is a real man’s helo, none of that fancy machinery!image

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Pre-purchased!

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and bought… that hind looks nice … :smiley:

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Yep, instant pre-order for me. I think that’s the best release trailer I’ve seen yet for DCS!

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I bought it just for the little valley at :46. I will marry a round American woman there…and raise rabbits…

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I have something for rabbits :grin:

Pre-ordered :+1:

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Bought with no remorse and no thought at all. Eurobucks yeeted at it so hard, they broke the sound barrier even before they left the house.

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That valley is cold in the morning. Cold…and hard.

It’s time.

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So they said next patch is in a month… Those are going to be long weeks man!
They also said viper is going to get some lovin’ :smiley:

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Cha-Ching! Hey, it was only? about $30 US after my [meager] miles discount.

'Bout damn time i say. :wink:

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