Greetings - as a WWII backer I was issued keys for Normandy/Assets like three weeks ago but understood they weren't usable yet. Available today but requires upgrade to 2.0. Followed that link and installed 2.0 but now when I open it says I have no theaters - Caucasus is gone and opening the module manager doesn't seem to show any way to enter the key for Normandy - so I still have the modules I own but no way to fly them...I'm not super well versed in DCS so I'm just trying to figure out if I missed something...

Most people have been installing via the commandline I think,

Use
dcs_updater.exe install NORMANDY_terrain

dcs_updater.exe install WWII-ARMOUR

a guide to using the commands here.
https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030

Nate

Ok - thanks - but is the disappearance of the Caucasus normal?

Caucuses map is currently only in 1.5. When they're finished doing the map update it will be available as a module for 2.5 along with Nevada, Normandy and the other maps they're developing.

But don't hold your breath. Nasa could terra form mars before ED could update the caucuses map for 2.5

Sorry, but I'm confused... what happened to the good old installers that we've all been using for the past... I dunno... 20 years?

Command line installation? What year is it?






I do apologize. I realize ED is new to the scene and hasn't released any games before and thus has to be cut some slack in terms of getting stuff to install properly. After all, the question "How do we get our alpha testers to install this on their machines so they can bug test for us?" has never come up in their brainstorming meetings.


Might need a bit more "technology development" there, bud!

Welllll - I appreciate the info, but it's kind of problematic. I tried twice but the download choked at around 30% and killed my connection each time. This I think is a torrent issue - switched to HTTP and trying again - currently chugging away at a steaming .5 M/s. Seems kind of weird to me that the free map wouldn't automatically be upgraded and piggy back on to any big update. I guess I didn't realize the WIP nature of the whole thing...

There is no free map in v2.x.

Ah - ok - didn't get that either...

Ah, my old friend Nate with his inspirational post. Thought you would have quoted old mates launcher Here

Hey Cobra......I love how the Mig-21 activation is still bugged after a major update......

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Nate

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Winfield

Anyone remember this from not so long ago.....still takes a few members of the public to fix the balls up

So EVENTUALLY (after about 60Gb* of downloading and much gnashing of teeth) i have managed to get Normandy Installed. Using DOS commands of all things (what century are we in again??) But now I can't use it.
Where is it? how do I use it?
I am just exasperated that a major release can go so bad. It's just ludicrous.

Was this distribution method tested at all???


But thern again this is DCS and all things are subject to change (even if they don't work) LOL

Its just comical (if I really cared I could be quite angry at this debacle lol)

SD.

* when i first clicked the DCS world button it downloaded 44GB of data(which I thought was a bit strange) once that finished (after about 6hrs) I opened DCS world but no Normandy (or assets) were available. It turns out I then had to resort to using DOS commands (WOW) did I just wake up in 1980?
So after I run both Dos commands twice because the first time they didn't work, the WWII assets appeared but still no Normandy (I still cant believe i'm writing "dos commands" in 2017). So I try again. No joy. So I give up and I go to bed.
I wake up go to my PC start DCS world and LO and Behold Normandy is listed in my Modules. but how do I use it? where is it?

what a bloody farce. I am just about to give up on the whole bloody mess.

SD

Here ED's consumers were thinking after more than a year, the next map\update would be an easy install.....or then again, the post above yours practically says it all

I came home yesterday evening and still the updater did not find any new updates to install, so I made these bat files to install it, must have taken the whole night to do it as only early in the morning it was finishing the last download

to do it read this

http://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads.p...ap-and-assets-pack-installer#Post4359770

I'll give it a go after I read my newspaper and browse the news, I hope everything works OK.

Well, it took a while but I did get it to install. On my rig it's pretty glitch with stutters and ctd's but I haven't tried tweaking any graphic setting yet. I have another question though - in Instant Action I can only get flights for the P-51,190D, and the Spit - the F-86, Mig, and Su-25T have nothing and can't be flown. In Create Fast Mission nothing works at all, even set to Normandy - is this correct?

The Create Fast Mission function does not work yet. The Instant Action is currently only supporting WWII aircraft. However, any aircraft can be flown in a mission created in the ME.

OK - got it - thanx...