Status of Eagle Dynamics main products (at 06/19/12) http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/
DCS: World: Beta
DCS: P-51D: Beta
DCS: Combined Arms: Developing / Beta
DCS: Flaming Cliffs 3: Developing / ¿Alpha?
DCS: A-10C: integration Beta patch for DCS: World
DCS: Ka-50-2: integrated Beta patch StandAlone version for DCS: World / BS-2 update version waiting for integrated patch for DCS: World
DCS: Nevada Theater: Developing
DCS: Future fixed wing F-XX: unknow
DCS: Others products: unknow

3rd Parties (at 06/09/12)
Five companies/teams/persons has join to make 3rd Party addons for DCS: World

Laszlo "Beczl" Becz http://dcs-mig21.com
Hungarian ED Mod Maker passed to first ED 3rd Addons maker, your first product has:
-DCS: Mig-21Bis

IRIS Flight Simulation Software http://www.irissimulations.com/
Old Flight Simulator addon maker passed to ED 3rd Addons maker, your future projetcs:
-IRIS BD-5J Microjet
-IRIS F-15E Strike Eagle
-IRIS F-22A Raptor
-IRIS F-14D Tomcat
-IRIS T-38A Talon

VEAO Virtual European Air Operations http://www.veao.eu/
English ED Mod Maker passed to 3rd Addons maker, your future product list:
-DCS: Hawk
-DCS: Eurofighter Typoon.

RAZBAM http://www.razbamsims.com/
Old Flight Simulator addon maker passed to ED 3rd Addons maker, your future projetcs:
- T-2 BuckEye

CoreTex Design https://www.facebook.com/CoreTexDesigns
New company
-CoreTex Design F/A-18E

Razbam? God I PRAY he makes an A-6.

Boy I´d shell out 50$ for THAT @ DCS WartHog level...

Not sure, but the ED community not see with good eyes the FS (RAZBAM and IRIS) "converted" on 3rd Addons Maker without nothing experience on DCS world. And the proposed "addons" don`t has a clear roadmap to convert them on hardcore level quality addons.

Iris F15e will clearly be a DCS level plane

+1 to what komemiute said. I'd drop $50 for a DCS level A-6 in a heartbeat.

Why doesn't the company that makes the SuperBug for FSX step in and offer that for DCS? They're sure to make a killing, so to speak!

I am really glad ED listened to some of the comments I made to them months back. One such comment was to open up development to 3rd party developers, mainly the high end FSX crowd. And look at what we have now. Excellent. I cannot wait to see what comes of this.

Good job guys.

Jon over at VRS Simulations has stated on their forums that they are in discussions but he wasn't sure they'd do it, being so busy with TacPack right at the moment. I'll see if I can dig up that link.

Ripcord

EDIT -- here is part of that thread over on the VRS Forums here....

They really should be paying you for all your sage advice.

Nate

Oh yeah, sure -- I bet Matt Wagner just scours these forums looking for that next little nugget of wisdom... : )

I gotta say, though -- a lot of major companies would envy the free and easy access to their customer base opinions and preferences that DCS and other flight sim producers enjoy here and on other forums. Not sure how many would base major business decisions on it but I know a great many would see the value in it.

I suggested a name for Microsoft's next operating system - they've used it as well. You're all welcome!

VTAI are doing a DCS F-16
Not much info for now



Post link

Topic link

The problem of VTAI has a MOD, no a licenced 3rd Party, for now.

More News
IRIS confirm T-38 Talon Project

Beczl plans future Mig-23MF after release Mig-21Bis and a plausible Su-22, but that info has not confirmed.

Good thread - It is nice to see all the info collected in one place.

I shall be stealing from your initial post quite regularly

Nate

Because they have too much invested in FSX at this point,..

RAZBAM confirm T-2 Buckeye

You know the guys at VRS have a point. They've been working on F-18E for 5-6 years and look where they are. Now look at IRIS wanting to crank out 3 uber realistic aircraft. I dont want to wait till 2025 for a F-22, not that I like the aircraft, but for the users that do. And where exactly are they going to get the info for a study sim on that again?

While DCS has been heading in the direction of FSX, VRS has been trying to make FSX into DCS. I don't know if it would make sense to compete with themselves by supporting DCS when they are trying to market their TAC Pack and license it to other FSX developers. But, if the developers that were supposed to use TAC Pack are making DCS products instead, then VRS might have little choice but to join the DCS 3rd party crowd.

Personally, I would like to see both products succeed to maximized choice and competition for combat flight simmers. But FSX is technically a dead engine, whereas DCS is just ramping up. It's a gamble to move on to something new, but its a sure loss to stay with the obsolete. If you are in the horse and cart business when autos first appeared, you can safely keep making carts for many years... but one day, everyone wants cars/trucks and almost no one wants carts/wagons. Everything hinges on how well DCS and its 3rd party addons satisfies the community. They will have phenomenal success if they end up uniting many different groups: survey simmers (think SF2 crowd like myself), study simmers (Falcon 4/Jane's F/A-18/A2A FSX crowd), recreational simmers (FSX crowd as they are not necessarily study simmers), single player simmers, multiplayer simmers, etc.

All I can do is wait and see. But based on LOMAC/FC/DCS releases, I have fairly high expectations, which could set me up for a hard fall.

The Mig-21 is one that will probably be one of the better ones, just sensing.

oh please VRS Super bug! DCS runs so much better on my system than FSX, plus those autgen objects are such an eye sore, plus they have a working GM radar and FLIR