For those interested..



Nate

That is very good news, may actually get me flying the "old" map again occasionally.

Wow, that is excellent news! Really looking forward to this update.

Looks like the "old" map will still beat Nevada 10 to 1 on my sim nights. Really looking forward to it. Nevada is so far disappointing for me, I was expecting way more mesh resolution, and better textures. It's alpha so I hope they'll improve some things...

I agree that NTTR also needs higher resolution mesh and better textures and hoping they improve with future updates.

I doubt it will happen, to any significant degree. The map is already 25GB and sells for a significant price. Besides the fact that Nevada never would have been created if it hadn't been committed to before ED realized they were going to have to do it themselves.

isn't the Nevada terrain we have a pre-alpha release ? it is so blurry.

No, it is alpha AFAIK. Do you have that post processing DOF turned off? It looks nice only for screenshots, otherwise it's like a myopia filter.



The Jedi Master

I do have DOF enabled , looks nice in game and I got used to it.

my problem (if I can call it that) with the terrain, is that I am spoiled by this

How much HDD Space are those Nevada Textures?

I'll bet the NTTR gets some TLC being as it needs improvement and sells for a significant price.

No offense but having flown over Nevada a few times irl I don't find that pic of FSX/p3d Nevada all that impressive. Nice textures but I'm kinda a snob about flat towns these days.

Im torn about DCS Nevada. I try and not to ever complain about the price of a product. I use the saying "it's worth whatever someone will pay" all the time. I enjoy Nevada and think it has a place in DCS ( had a great time with the red flag campaigns also) I'm just not sure I'd buy at premium pricing (got it with the A-10). I get plenty of hard work and new tech went into making it but it's NTTR/Vegas and not a lot else IMHO. Still a nice break from the older map. That alone might make it worth the price.

I find Tom Weiss' pic posting of P3D all over a bit over the top. I get what you try to do but it is passed annoying point (imo). Any discussion is peppered by skins of P51 (sorry... they look worse on that plane than the one in DCS.. for me) and shots from P3D.

I like some aspects in P3D (mainly the whole Earth legacy from FSX) but this constant spraying of screenshots in threads about DCS or DCS ED forum's moderation lost its sense to me. To me they look like things made by a kid (no offence) that is just stubborn to correct something and keeps on doing the thing in a vane hope it will attract your attention to the funny part at least.

I have a good friend that peppers the TS with sick dirty talk... it is funny for a while but at some point is as boring as a continued b... job after "the fireworks"... but he insists and insists and insists until everyone puts him on mute,then it's funny how he complains no one listens to his calls about what's going on in the mission.

I think you also lose credibility by doing this... spamming.

Again... no offence... just saying...

Nope, I find the DOF blurring completely intolerable. I've seen it used in other games well, but here it's just not implemented properly unless I had my eyes removed and cameras installed. That's just not how things look to the eye, only to specific lenses of cameras.

P3D as far as I'm concerned doesn't exist. A sim with combat capability is just a massive waste of HD space and time.
Would you buy a car sim? Not racing, no, just regular cars driving to and from work and home and vacation.
Would you buy a first person exister? No shooting, no RPG, no quests, no unusual locations, just walking around the mall and grocery store and down main street and going to the garage to get your car fixed?


So why would you want a flight sim that's the equivalent of those? I literally cannot comprehend the mindset that can go for those types of sims. It's like buying a book and then just staring at the cover without ever opening and reading it. What's the point?




The Jedi Master

That first part gave me a chuckle. I suppose that people like me fly something like P3D because it's similar to when I used to go up in a Piper Cub. Nothing to shoot or blow up but it can be relaxing after a tough day to see the beauty of the world around me from a different vantage point. And in P3D, "see" things I'll never get to see in real life.

for the whole state of Arizona - close to 50 GB

it is not the size, but the low quality of the DCSW 2.0 textures that bothers me, after all, sand is sand, the base textures could look sharper and with higher resolution the colors would also be nicer.




+1

I think a lot of people will be surprised greatly how much better everything looks w/ the new Lighting/Shader Engine in 2.5

I am looking forward to it.

+1. Also looking forward to the new lighting/shading engine.

I cant do FSX, i sold it all off long ago at a great loss. (had aircraft, texture packs galore around $3000 worth, sold off for like $200 to get rid of it).

I bought the $5 FSX Steam Edition just in case I wanted to fly w/ friends,
but I know the 1st Time I launch it, set it up, and see it:
I'm gonna end up spending more money to make it look good, and still have little to no combat systems.

FSX basically got $5 more of my money even after I swore them off, as all of my friends have moved to either DCS or BMS (for F-16).