DCS World users have been asking for a more contemporary “green map” for quite a long time now as some of the drier regions of the world have been explored through successive map releases. Now Eagle Dynamics and Ugra Media are doing something a little different with a Cold War era map. Let’s have a look at the latest news!
It’s the Cold War!
Following a trend that has been building over the course of several years now, DCS World fans and developers have been producing and releasing quite a variety of Cold War era aircraft for us to fly in DCS World. The phenomenon hit critical mass when Engima’s Cold War server (now Heatblur’s Cold War server) surged in popularity a couple of years ago. That and the release of aircraft like Aerges Mirage F1, RAZBAM’s MiG-19, Eagle Dynamics own Mi-24P Hind as well as the growing interest in long time series veterans like the F-5E and MiG-21bis. The growth here is going to continue as we’ve got a F-100, G.91, MiG-17, A-7 Corsair II and many more releases in various states of development. That’s a lot of preamble… let’s talk about what we know about the map!
Ugra Media are producing this map and are clearly using every trick they learned from their DCS: Syria project to make this one work. The map is set in the 1980s with a 980×800 km map covering the following countries according to the release:
- West Germany
- East Germany
- Poland
- Czechoslovakia
- Low Countries
The map highlights the Fulda Gap, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig and Hannover. There are 100 airfields and heliports included as well as other military bases and checkpoints between east and west Germany.
Ugra Media are following their typical release strategy with a phase one release incorporating the zones marked below while phase two and three will extend and expand the coverage area. Ugra Media’s previous release, DCS: Syria, was extended several times from a much smaller scale map to one covering much of the theatre with dozens of airports, landmarks and cities added as time went on. It’s likely they will follow that method in some capacity.
As part of their early access plans are adding additional seasons. The map will start with just the summer season and then extend into other seasonal varieties as time goes on with spring, autumn and winter seasons planned.
Quite a few screenshots are available here!
Ugra have also separately released two preview videos titled “Berlin first look” …
… and then a second video called “Ramstein airbase.”
Neither Ugra Media nor Eagle Dynamics are saying when this project will release, however, the relatively complete images and video suggests that major work is well underway. Typically when Ugra Media has started to release videos, its meant that a launch isn’t too far away. Stay tuned for that!
Other DCS News
Also mentioned this week is a reminder of the ongoing DCS Spring Sale with up to 50% off many add-ons for the sim. The sale now extends to Steam as well with the Steam Spring Sale kicking off now.
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