Some news coming in to us from Eagle Dynamics on a long awaited system that we all hope arrives to DCS World sooner than later. The dynamic campaign system has a status update on what they’ve been able to do with it recently. There’s also a screenshot competition and a new UH-1 campaign. Let’s have a look!
Dynamic campaign updates
This DCS World Weekend update has spent a fair bit of time talking about the dynamic campaign system and what they are doing with it. To briefly summarize the updates, they are working on a variety of components of the system and they are continuing to do a lot of core updates to make the system work – items that extend far beyond just the dynamic campaign.
The updates include AI forces command and control including a border and frontline system, terrain navigation, and decision making system for ground forces, among others. Ground force movement work is ongoing too enabling ground forces to use terrain and roads to optimally navigate. They are also continuing to integrate air force command and control.
Another interesting feature is a navigation mesh editor that they say will allow campaign creators to adjust old terrains to suit needs. This will have affects for non dynamic campaign experiences too!
They also report updating the track recording system to take into account the details of the dynamic campaign system. This is benefiting them for testing purposes but will hopefully improve the user experience too.
All of this is good progress but I think it also highlights the long road that this continues to be. DCS World, at its core, needs to be a lot better for dynamic campaign to be a success and this affects everything from AI unit pathing to track files to terrain mesh navigation. Items that we may not consider as part of the scope of the project until they write an update like this and then it becomes clear just how much needs to be done.
Screenshots, UH-1 campaign
Two other updates coming in this weekend. First, we’ve got a new competition for DCS screenshots. The first place win gets $100 ED miles, second place gets $50 in ED miles and the third place gets $25 in ED miles. You can enter by replying to this forum post to make your submission.
Meanwhile, we have a new campaign called Peacekeeper Lebanon with the DCS: UH-1H. This narrative based campaign will have you performing troop insertions and extractions, close air support and reconnaissance. This campaign is coming soon.
For all of this and more, read the latest DCS World Weekend News update!
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