Let’s talk DCS maps and other complaints

Eagle Dynamics has been on a bit of an announcement spree recently and I thought after last week things might begin to settle down. I was wrong! We’ve seen both aircraft and scenery announcements and it’s been an interesting time to contemplate the future of the series. I want to take stock of what’s been…

Raven One: Dominant Fury teasers

Baltic Dragon’s Raven One campaign arrived with a bang in August of 2020 offering a scripted, story driven, adaptation of the Kevin Miller book by the same name. Now Baltic Dragon is back with a follow-up prequel experience called Raven One: Dominant Fury. In recent weeks we’ve seen several teasers and so here’s the latest….

A new DCS Open Beta and 3 new single player campaigns

Eagle Dynamics have released a new Open Beta for DCS World today. As with most Open Beta releases, it contains a variety of updates and fixes across the wide number of modules that the sim supports. It also marks the release of three new single player campaigns in the DCS World E-Shop that might get…

DCS Marianas, Syria map updates coming plus F-16 video

The latest DCS World Weekend News update comes with some news surrounding two maps for DCS World. First, the Marianas map with its WWII edition is now underway. Second, we get a bit more of a look at what Ugra Media are doing with DCS: Syria. There’s also a quick status update on the DCS:…

DCS: Syria map extension gets the spotlight

A post by Ugra Media developer MAESTR0 on the DCS World forums has included two new videos and over a dozen new screenshots and two new videos showcasing a major extension of the DCS: Syria map. Here’s what we know about the expansion. New videos, screenshots, and when We’ve known for some time that DCS:…

Flight Journal: Fun with DCS Liberation campaign multiplayer

You may have heard of DCS Liberation campaign before. I’ve written an article or two before about this third party dynamic campaign and mission generator for DCS World. Until recently, however, I hadn’t had the opportunity to try it in multiplayer but over the last couple of weeks I have and it’s been an incredible…

Full review of the DCS: Syria map

Until recently, new DCS World maps were few and far between. We had the default Caucasus map and the Nevada map and that was about it. Things have changed and we have a wider variety of maps now available than we’ve ever had before. DCS: Syria is among the latest to be declared a finished…

News round-up for May 8, 2021

Good morning everyone! Here’s a news round-up from around the flight sim community for May 8, 2021. These are news items that I’ve collected through the week that may not have made for a full news article. Red Star updates us on MiG-17 project We’ve heard a lot from Red Star Simulations recently on their…

Ugra Media shows off new Cyprus landmarks for DCS: Syria

New screenshots and a video are out for the impending addition to the DCS: Syria map showing off some of the scenery and landmarks being added to Cyprus which is now part of the DCS: Syria map. There’s also a new video for us to have a look at. Check it out! New details Over…