DCS F-15E is here!

June 22, 2023

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After many years of anticipating, waiting, and hoping, RAZBAM has hit the launch button on DCS: F-15E and catapulted what might arguably be their flagship module onto our PCs. Let’s have a look!

Strike Eagle arrives!

Launching with characteristically DCS style high energy trailer, RAZBAM’s F-15E is finally here. Everyone can now finally appreciate the new jet starting today with the pre-order pricing still currently up on the DCS e-Shop (for how long, we do not know).

Sporting the usual array of features including high resolution textures, a fully modelled cockpit both front and back, and detailed simulation of the jets various systems including it’s AN/APG-70 radar, the jet impresses with its spec sheet. The F-15E in early access has a small but useful array of guides and unguided weaponry and various training manuals and video guides are intended to help people get started with the jet.

RAZBAM and Eagle Dynamics both have said that they have intended for this to be a high quality early access release. Time will tell as the jet reaches everyone’s hands and it gets out through its paces.

Later in early access

Like nearly all DCS modules, F-15E is launching into early access with additional features and capabilities planned for later.

Additional interactive training missions, more chapters to the flight manual, and a free story driven campaign by Baltic Dragon are all planned.

Learn more about the DCS: F-15E right here!

6 responses to “DCS F-15E is here!”

CanadaOne

June 22, 2023 at 5:06 pm

Just bought it and have yet to fly it. After dinner there will be some flight time. Pretty sure the first little while will just be tooling around at Groom Lake, taking off and landing and see what it can do. And I’m sure it will be good fun.

If all I do with the plane is learn how to use the fancy A2G radar and drop LGB, I’ll have got my money’s worth.

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1. ShamrockOneFive
  
  June 22, 2023 at 7:13 pm
  
  That sounds like a lot of fun! Report back and let me/us know how it’s going. I’m super interested and curious to see how everyone else experiences this jet!
  
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  1. CanadaOne
    
    June 22, 2023 at 9:27 pm
    
    I like it! Seems light on the controls, super responsive, but what the hell do I know. Maybe it should be. I managed to take off and land and fire the guns. (Good gun sound.) Still trying to get the ground radar to work. Need more tutorials.
    
    Setting up my Warthog HOTAS and Voice Attack. Also have my TWCS throttle beside the Warthog throttle. So no shortage of buttons and switches. I just have to figure out what’s what.
    
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bfr

June 23, 2023 at 6:52 am

Only flown it about a bit so far, not dropped or fired anything. Seems pretty nimble even with a decent load slung underneath and doesn’t half pick up speed with the burners in. Kind of feared you’d be constantly trimming with it not being FBW but it seems to handle OK once you’ve got trim sorted post-takeoff. Pitch response seems very sensitive (almost reminiscent of how I remember some of the fast jets in FC3) and you don’t have to pull at all hard to get ‘over-G’ nags! First attempt at landing was fairly uneventful until after touchdown (slightly over-rotated trying to aero-brake) but the wheel brakes seemed to work without any real drama (some planes seem quite keen to go sideways if you don’t modulate your brake input).

Slight moan that the HOTAS multi-way switches in the controls list are at least partly labelled as to what they look like (e.g. castle) rather than as to what they primarily do. Still got loads left to do in terms of stick/throttle mappings but it was a pain having to cross-reference with the manual to figure out what was really what.

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HyperTextHero

June 23, 2023 at 10:13 am

My legs still hurt from sitting in the cockpit of Jane’s F-15 for never-ending flights, so this is a pass for me, but looks like a nice jet-bird!

I remember the arguments about the climb rate of the F-15 in CombatSim forums and maybe even comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim. The F-15E apparently climbs more slowly than a Boeing 737 and flight sim expert aficionados were up in arms 😀

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1. ShamrockOneFive
  
  June 23, 2023 at 9:36 pm
  
  Just goes to show that flight model discussions are as old as the sims themselves!
  
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