1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted October 9, 2022 1. DDz Quorum Posted October 9, 2022 Quote The DCS: Normandy 2 map enlarges the DCS: Normandy 1944 map to 400 x 600 km to include London, Paris and the surrounding regions. Normandy 2 will feature over 130 original map objects and a detailed area six times larger than DCS: Normandy 1944. The Normandy map has been redesigned to include new churches, train stations, market squares, and gas stations, plus many other cultural and natural features. The United Kingdom region has been completely redone to a much greater level of detail and accuracy. This is in addition to also updating the French region. Key Features of DCS: Normandy 2 Recreation of London and Paris. Improved ground textures, roads, rail lines, fields, forests and new trees. Additional telegraph and power poles, semaphores, fences and new buildings More accurate rivers and coastlines, including the chalk cliffs of southern England. Updated and unique airfields with greater details and more equipment to better match the period. Normandy 2 brings the number of unique airfields to 50. DCS: Normandy 2 will benefit from new technology that allows existing maps to be extended with low-detailed areas. If you wish to pass on the upgrade, you may still join multiplayer servers and compatibility with campaigns will remain. Please note that the Normandy 2 upgrade is required to experience a much higher level of detail. DCS: Normandy 2 will be available as a complete map for $59.99 USD. If you have either DCS: Normandy 1944 or DCS: The Channel maps, you can purchase Normandy 2 for $14.99 USD. If you own both, you can purchase DCS: Normandy 2 for only $9.99 USD. 2 1 Quote
1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted October 13, 2022 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted October 13, 2022 This is the provisional breakdown of what to expect: I raised an eyebrow if I'm honest. Here is a copy of what I posted in reponse at EDs forums: Quote 1. Farnborough and Heathrow are irrelevant airfield choices; there are far better choices better relevant to the aircraft available in DCS. For example there are a slew of Advanced Landing Grounds based in the New Forest area west of the Solent that would be eminently suitable for the P-47; additionally RAF Thorney Island would make a prototypical home for fighter bomber Mosquitoes on the Normandy map. I have already provided information pertaining to these in these forums. 2. The lack of airfields that otherwise appear on the Channel map is disappointing; if ED are willing to share their development data for these airfields (Biggin, Detling, Manston etc) it opens up far more flexibility for mission makers who wish to make historically authentic missions to utilise both maps as appropriate to the mission target whilst keeping the player’s home base accurate - for example I might want to use 132 sqn based at Detling but attack a target that appears only on the Normandy. Previously I would have either had to use the channel map to have the correct home base but make the target in an inaccurate location or alternatively, use the Normandy map but use the wrong airfield to base the player at and have the target in it’s prototypical location. I was hoping this quandary would have been a thing if the past. 3. Since day 1 of Normandy 1 being announced many of us have been asking for the ability to remove/redact or otherwise have a version without the French allied ALGs; this would allow for the map to be prototypical for a far wider period than having them baked in. Is there any way that the locations could be left as grass field locations and for mission makers to load in templates to show the ALGs as required by mission date? 4. There are a few of the large Luftwaffe airfields in France that are often referenced in allied combat reports (Poix, Montdidier) that aren’t included but the tiny (and operationally almost irrelevant) Fecamp field is; what is the justification for this choice? 5. If any detail is required on any airfield layout I am happy to assist, free of charge, and provide relevant documentation, maps etc to ED or Urga. Please PM me. 1 Quote
1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted October 21, 2022 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted October 21, 2022 New screenies posted at ED forums today. A church I don't recognise but I feel has continental flavour; answers on a postcard...: This looks to be the Gare du Nord in Paris: The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Place looking East across St James' Park towards Westminster: No specific location but I suspect a French village: An unidentified colliery - there were a few in SE England but I suspect this is French: Gare de l'Est, again in Paris: An unidentifiable (but definitely London area) railway station - shades of Forest Hill station in the 1930's: A Liberty ship - a new (and much needed) asset perhaps...?: Finally! If you wanted Steam trains in the UK you were obliged to utilsie the German locomtive and rolling stock making it seem like the Deutsche Reichsbahn had acheived what the Luftwaffe and Heer had not! Now it appears we get an Allied locomtive; that's an Austerity class 2-8-0, often seen in the UK during and after the war and also many accompanied the Allies into France to provide rail motive power on the continent after the invasion: Finally a couple of Teaser videos. I suspect this shows our Spitfire flying Northeast over RAF Kenley airfield - the airfield layout checks out with the London-Brighton railway line appearing in a valley off the east side of the airfield... @Friar could maybe confirm as it's his manor...? Not sure where this is... stay tuned.... 1 2 Quote
1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted October 23, 2022 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted October 23, 2022 More informations: Quote Why is Normandy 2 released separately and what about Normandy 1944? Normandy 2 is a new map that is created on new technologies and includes a territory much larger than N1944, much more perfect and detailed. The developers of UM and ED are making it so that all users of Normandy1944 will have a free global update available that will allow them to get their N1944 map at the Normandy 2 technology level and make these maps compatible in online multiplayer scenarios. Brighton (UK) What happens when a player with just Normandy 1 spawns at a field on a Normandy 2 MP server that isn't on the Normandy 1 map? All obstacles and terrain for both maps will be the same after updates. Will the internal DCS map coordinates be the same as on the prior Normandy 1944, I mean the same coordinate origin and coordinate scales? Yes, the Origin and coordinate scales remain the same. How low is low detail? If I fly from one high detailed airbase to another high detailed base but pass through a low detailed area, how jarring will it be? We are currently doing a lot of work to ensure that the Normandie2 map is friendly to all DCS users. Beachy Head This is a screenshot of a highly detailed map area. Previously, this was a "low detail zone" on the 1944 Normandy map, but now it will be available to all users with this level of detail. This will be for the users of "Normandy 1944" and for the owners of "Normandy 2". I didn't understand what would happen to my Normandy 1944? The users will not lose anything, on the contrary, they will gain. The map will receive a global update: improvements to the southern part of England will become available with a detailed coastline and original airfields, there will be an update of buildings and airfields. Also, new terrain textures have been added for England. What airfields will be on the map? In addition to the 50 airfields announced, we are already working on airfields: Orly, Dreux, Stoney Cross, Thorney Island, Croydon, Odiham. By the time of release, the number of airfields will reach 65, which is more than on the map of Syria" Funtington Airfield 1 Quote
1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted November 7, 2022 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted November 7, 2022 Notre-Dame de Paris Hotel des Invalides Palais du Luxembourg Pont Alexandre III Gare-Saint-Lazare Paris Gare du Nord There are plans to add 5 more airfields (Orly, Deadland, Friston, Poix, Triqueville) and they will be in early access. They will add these 5 and continue this work so that the total number of airfields will be more than on the Syria map. Orly (original airfield) Friston (regular airfield) 1 1 Quote
1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted February 6, 2023 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted February 6, 2023 MOAR UPDATE! Quote Hi The Normandy2 map is nearing completion. The development team would like to thank the participants of the DCS Forum for their great interest in the project and for their active participation in the discussion of the first results shown last fall. On the map added the original airfield Orly and standart airfields Stoney Cross, Lymington, Odiham, Deadland, Friston, Amiens-Glisy, Poix, Ronai, which were important for this theater. The total number of airfields will be 65. In recent months, considerable effort has been devoted to the task of streamlining the project, and a great deal of work has been done to adjust the color scheme of the whitewashed component parts of the project - buildings, fields, and trees. Much attention was paid to the original objects of Paris and London, including famous historical monuments. Transport and military infrastructure have been worked out in detail. Original objects Airfields (Thanks to the guys from the forum, they made the changes that were possible) What time is it now? 1 Quote
1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted February 25, 2023 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted February 25, 2023 From Maestro on the ED Forums: Hi Today we will see what airfields we have and how many there are in total, we will take a close look at British airfields and fly over some of them. Airfields in France A1 Saint Pierre du Mont A2 Cricqueville-en-Bessin B17 Carpiquet A12 Lignerolles A14 Cretteville A15 Maupertus A16 Brucheville A20 Lessay - оригинальны A3 Cardonville A4 Deux Jumeaux A5 Chippelle A7 Azeville B9 Lantheuil A17 Meautis A21 Sainte-Laurent-sur-Mer A24 Biniville A6 Beuzeville A8 Picauville A9 Le Molay B11 Longues-sur-Mer B2 Bazenville B3 Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer B4 Beny-sur-Mer B7 Rucqueville B8 Sommervieu Beauvais-Tille Cormeilles-en-Vexin Dinan-Trelivan Fecamp_Benouville Evreux Guyancourt Villacoublay Saint-Andre de l Eure Orly Amiens_Glisy Argentan Avranches Le Val-Saint-Pere Barville Conches Creil Deauville Essay Flers Goulet Hauterive Lonrai Poix Ronai Rouen-Boos Saint-Aubin Triqueville Vrigny Broglie Beaumont-le-Roger Bernay Saint Martin Airfields in UK Chailey Farnborough Ford Funtington Gravesend Heathrow Kenley Needs Oar Point Tangmere West Malling Deanland Friston Lymington Odiham Stoney Cross Chailey Farnborough Ford Friston Funtington Gravesend Kenley Needs Oar Point Tangmere West Malling 1 2 Quote
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted February 25, 2023 1. DDz Quorum Posted February 25, 2023 Nice! Quote
2. Administrators fruitbat Posted February 26, 2023 2. Administrators Posted February 26, 2023 ahh, good old Nissen huts. Have the unique quality of being the coldest building on earth in winter, and the hottest in summer. Fun times! Quote
BluBear Posted February 26, 2023 Posted February 26, 2023 Goodness me, this is going to be something! Quote
1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted February 26, 2023 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted February 26, 2023 Hi chaps, If historical accuracy is important to you in regards to the Normandy 2.0 map please read the linked post and if you agree, like the post as the more likes/thanks the post gets the more likely it is they’ll address the issues: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/310823-dcs-normandy-20-preview/?do=findComment&comment=5161446 1 1 Quote
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted February 27, 2023 1. DDz Quorum Posted February 27, 2023 Done. Good post. 1 Quote
1. DDz Quorum DD_Fenrir Posted April 1, 2023 Author 1. DDz Quorum Posted April 1, 2023 HELLO PILOTSWelcome to Digital Train Simulator We paid attention to the production of railway lines - this is not accidental, because railways are an important part of the infrastructure. During the war, the railroad accounted for most of the cargo turnover of the participating countries. Railway stations are important targets, landmarks, and train stations in London and Paris are real architectural treasures. London Victoria London Waterloo London Liverpool Street Paris-Est Paris-Nord Paris-Saint-Lazare Paris-Montparnasse 1 Quote
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