The recently released DCS: La-7 by Octopus G is getting a few assets added to the sim to help build up the eastern front flavour for the sim. Both the GAZ-AA truck and Po-2 bi-plane have long and storied histories and they are coming to DCS World as AI assets. Let’s have a look!

Work in progress assets

Giving scenarios more authentic flavour means making sure there’s assets and aircraft nearby that match the module in question. DCS: La-7 does have a bit of an issue in that there really isn’t much eastern front content, save for the DCS: Bf109K-4 or Fw190, to make it feel at home. Octopus G looks to be making an effort to try and give the La-7 a bit more to work with.

In a pair of recent Facebook page updates, Octopus G shared screenshots of the La-7 and I-16 modules in together with the GAZ-AA truck and Po-2 (also known as the U-2 and U-2VS in various forms) assets being developed as AI modules only.

In the update, the developer wrote that the assets were created to, “populate airfields and frontline scenes for the developing Lavochkin La-7 release in Digital Combat Simulator.”

Its unclear if any other assets are planned though both the GAZ-AA and Po-2 have uses beyond purely an eastern front of WWII scenario and I can see them popping up in other situations.

More from Octopus G here!