Offering both a retrospective and a look forward at upcoming content, the DCS World Weekend News update for this past Friday was all about scripted campaigns. Love em, or leave them, DCS World has steadily increased its collection of payware campaigns across a wide variety of authors and 2025 was a pretty good year for this category. Let’s have a look at past and future.

Growing category, new options ahead

This Friday’s update started off with a lengthy list of campaigns that have come out for DCS World over the last year. Here’s the abridged list:

• DCS: F/A-18C The Rampagers Campaign By Baltic Dragon
• DCS: Mosquito FBMkVI Freeman’s Folly Campaign By Sunts Simulations
• DCS: F-4E Red Flag 81-2 Campaign By Reflected Simulations
• DCS: F-4E – Northern Defenders ‘Phantoms Rising’ Campaign By Flying Cyking
• DCS: P-47D Wolfpack II: Overlord Campaign By Reflected Simulations
• DCS: A-10C II Outpost Campaign By Stone Sky
• DCS: F/A-18C & DCS: F-14 Iron Tide Campaign By Sandman Simulation
• DCS: F-16C Sentry Pacific 2025 Campaign By SOB Simulations

Eight releases spread out over the course of the year has been pretty good with a variety of aircraft and types covered. Of course, this doesn’t include the listing of freeware scenarios that the community has put together which is a little more difficult to pin down.

Looking ahead, Eagle Dynamics have presented us with a list of campaigns that are in development.

• Insurrection (Operation Green Line 2) By Badger633 – A sequel campaign to Operation Green Line and set on the DCS: Syria map flying the DCS: F/A-18C Hornet.
• DCS: F-5E Aggressors Red Flag 88-3 Campaign By Sabre-TLA – Fly over Nevada NTTR during a full scale red flag exercise.
• F-15C Flaming Cliffs Basic Flight Training Qualification Campaign By Sabre-TLA – Real-world-inspired performance check rides for the Flaming Cliffs F-15C.
• DCS: F-16C Fangs Out Campaign By Fight’s On Simulation – “B-Course-style” training campaign that takes the player from initial qualification through advanced air-to-air and air-to-ground employment.
• DCS: Spitfire IX Fight or Die Campaign By Reflected Simulations – Following No. 92 Squadron through 1941, a key period when the RAF shifted from defensive operations to offensive sweeps over occupied France.
• DCS: F/A-18C or DCS: F-16C Operation Shifted Focus Campaign By Wildcard Simulations – Set in an plausible alternate-history campaign in 1994 flying either the DCS: F/A-18C or DCS: F-16C over DCS: Syria.
• A-10A Flaming Cliffs & DCS: A-10C II Tank Killer Fulda Gap 1985 By Flying Cyking – Set during the opening days of a full-scale Warsaw Pact invasion of NATO, inspired by the Warsaw Pact military simulation exercise ‘Seven Days to the Rhine’. You can fly either FC: A-10A or DCS: A-10C.

Seems like a good list overall. If you’re a fan of scripted campaigns, you hopefully have a good amount to look forward to. I hope too that we’ll see more for helicopter pilots and maybe we’ll start to see some payware campaigns for the CH-47 and C-130.

Read the full news report here!