DCS news: New AH-64D features, new core assets, new F-5E updates, more!

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We’ve got plenty of DCS World news arriving today with some long awaited updates on the F-5E, some new features for the AH-64D, and even some new free assets coming to the core of the sim. Let’s have a look!

The next update

DCS World’s regular update pattern is set to bring us a bunch of new things and one of the focuses in this weeks’ DCS World Weekend News update is the DCS: AH-64D. First Matt Wagner talked about the FCR Zoom and C-SCOPE feature video earlier in the week.

The video also shows off a new feature for the Apache which lets you open the access ports and panels and see the inner workings ala the Blackshark 3. Nice!

Now we’ve got another new one talking about the FCR/TADS LINK. The later feature will let the pilot and CP/G link the TADS to the FCR NTS letting you visually identify targets and perform BDA after action.

This video also features the new DCS: Iraq map in the background. It’s been the subject of some talk as the map appears to show a modern day, 2020 or later, map rather than something from 2003. This is pretty typical for DCS maps as anything fairly recent has tended to be based on the latest imagery and roadmaps. In any case, you can get a clearer look at the map as Matt walks through the features.

New core features

Some of you may know Massun92’s Assets Pack which as been available in modded form for a while. Now the assets are being added to the core of DCS World. The extra details can be sprinkled around airbases and add extra immersion to players. Always appreciate that sort of thing!

The assets are reportedly being added in the next update if they pass all of the required checks.

F-5E getting some updates

For a long time there have been calls for the DCS: F-5E Tiger II to get some attention. The module is several years old and it has several notable bugs that community members have been hoping to see resolved. Some of us are also hoping that we see some art asset updates in places.

The updates include a few community asks and some other changes. Its not everything that everyone is hoping for but I see it as a sign of some forward movement on the jet that will hopefully lead to a few other items getting sorted too. According to this week’s update, here are what is coming in the next update:

  • The Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) now displays radars in search mode.
  • Ground clutter on the radar is now more accurately represented based on altitude and scanning elevation.
  • We’ve added the AIM-9J version of the Sidewinder air-to-air missile.
  • TACAN operation with no weight-on-wheels has been corrected.
  • It is no longer possible to uncage the AIM-9B Sidewinder in pre-launch mode using the Missile Uncage Switch.

Check out the full DCS World Weekend News update right here!

5 responses to “DCS news: New AH-64D features, new core assets, new F-5E updates, more!”

  1. Canada One Avatar
    Canada One

    Be great to see the F-5 cockpit get a new paintjob. Maybe that will come with the FC F-5. But why they are making that plane is beyond me. The F-5 is one of the simplest FF planes and they’re going to expend time and energy making it dumber. Ummm… okay.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      There’s a fairly simple reason. The FC: F-5E that they developed was done years ago for Modern Air Combat. It was intended to be a more sim-light, Ace Combat-esq (or maybe more Janes USAF style?), offshoot of DCS World. For whatever reason, and there may be several, they have backed away from tackling this project and decided instead to release the content they created for that as an update for Flaming Cliffs.

      Work’s already done so they are just rolling it out after the initial plan didn’t go through. IMHO, its not a bad idea as it bolsters Flaming Cliffs and offers more onramps for newer simmers. If they were extra smart, I’d offer upgrade paths and incentives for those folks to get the full fidelity DCS World version if they really like the Flaming Cliffs version.

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  2. Urgent Siesta Avatar
    Urgent Siesta

    It’d be GREAT if they’d start opening up to 3rd party “asset pack devs”.

    One thing that could TRULY enhance any DCSW map is if they’d let folks add airfields (e.g., NAS Fallon on NTTR, or the MANY airbases missing from the Persian Gulf)

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    1. Brate Poto Avatar
      Brate Poto

      And the new Iraq map, I have mixed feeling about this. ED could rather add some surface stuff to the Persian Gulf map, on the Iraq and Quatar territory. And of course, the iranian Kharg Island with oil processing facilities. For now, it focuses mainly on the Strait of Hormuz area.

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  3. Brate Poto Avatar
    Brate Poto

    “It is no longer possible to uncage the AIM-9B Sidewinder in pre-launch mode using the Missile Uncage Switch.” – what is pre-launch mode? Is it when the Sidewinder is boresighted and we direct it at the enemy plane and the missile sound pitches up? I think in this situation the missile SHOULD be able to uncage.

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