DCS World has received a new update today bringing us up to DCS 2.9.10.4160. The update contains moderately sized list of bug fixes aimed at various modules and is also bringing with it the launch of DCS: Iraq map in early access. Let’s have a look!
Iraq map early access
Eagle Dynamics has rolled out a second map for 2024 and it’s the long expected Iraq map. Like with Afghanistan before it, the map is broken up into a couple of pieces and in early access is only detailed in some parts of the map.
The map is reportedly 320,000 square kilometers of detail area in the north right now and the total map area is expected to be 1,800,000 kilometers square. Eagle Dynamics have put together a map showing off what the northern and southern sections look like (or are planned) with the additional airports and airfields planned to be added in the north highlighted in orange.
As with Afghanistan, the northern sector can be purchased on its own or you can purchase the full map. Eventually when the southern sector is released you can purchase that one separately too or if you bought the whole thing you’ll get the updated sector when it launches. Everyone can fly the same map with areas outside of the one you own appearing with low detail objects.
During early access, Eagle Dynamics expect to add more airbases, more terrain details, and additional points of interest.
There’s also a note saying that the team doing Afghanistan is different from the one doing Iraq and other core DCS updates.
The staff assigned to the Iraq map would not be applicable to other tasks like the DCS Core, aircraft, AI, and other aspects of DCS. Likewise, the team creating the Iraq map is not the same as the one developing the Afghanistan map. As such, creating the Iraq map does not impact the development of other aspects of DCS.
This has been a point of contention and concern with DCS: Afghanistan having released earlier in the year and not having seen any significant updates since. The concern in the community is of course that a new map has been released while the other one is still being worked on. Hopefully both maps will progress at a reasonable rate.
Read the full FAQ on the map here. Interested in buying DCS: Iraq? It can be purchased on the e-Shop or on Steam.
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