Addressing VR concerns: several viewers have raised the issue of VR, especially around quadview and foveated viewing no longer functioning. While flying on the map, I was using the new Crystal Light, which in terms of performance was fine. I have other issues with the Crystal Light I'm trouble-shooting, but they weren't DCS related per se. I have tried to plug in the regular Crystal again to test the map, but my rig isn't recognizing the hardware. That's what I'm trouble shooting right now, once I have it up and running, I'll be able to do a more comprehensive review of the map. Please don't take my lack of VR commentary as shying away from the topic, as I said, it was working fine with the Light across three different maps I recorded for.

Good on Heatblur for continuing to upgrade the older modules to the extent they do!

Finally, a reviewer whose videos don't look and sound like a comedy TV show for kids. More of this, please.

30 minute Sunday morning hedgehog video. Absolute legend 💪 ☕️

Afghanistan map is amazing. Our group loaded it to our server and in open play, so far has been smooth from my perspective in the F16 and A10C II, but in private missions it has crashed every time, sometimes an hour in. I'm confident all issues will be resolved in time and can't wait to get more updates to the full map.

most people just want to fly about brilliant video sir

I really appreciate your work here, thanks

Thank you Sir ! I just purchased the full map. Best Regards

*Addressing Full Map Purchases* From the perspective of a full map owner, I think I would caveat this as, "Going to be..." the best map available. There is a *_lot_* of potential in this map, and it is huge.

As always a fantastic Video M8... Look forward to the next one.

The map still seems a bit early, the assets have issues like the wheels not turning on the MRAP, the gunner hovering over the base, the M1A2 having very rough polys, the SC airboss graphics issues, FC3 issues, Viper throttle bugs, along with graphics issues with the Litening pod on both the Hog and Viper having assets appearing as blocks similar to Minecraft. Hopefully a hotfix is out soon, seems like it should have been tested more before being rushed out. With that said there is still some great new features added, but seems the overall "showstopper" issues weren't really hashed out.

This has been the worst patch for breaking things iv seen lol alotnof us can't even play lol. Multiple different random problems

Thank you Prickly.

Got FC update, all OK, but just HOW did ED release this patch and not see that FC3 was broken?, is TEST too big a word for them now?. Great review.

wow this outro song is so great that I can't find it anywhere, doesn't exist

They broke the legacy FC3.

If you land at the helipad at (31.631002550445302, 65.73761780128754), you can swim at the CNS swimming pool at (31.630696969180985, 65.73651955467129)!

Hi, it seems like the graphics in your game are being oversharpened, which doesn't look very good especially on KZfaq. Good content.

Flew Afghanistan in a Ka-50 and pretty underwhelming. Smooth and stable though but no way I'm buying an Iraq map if this is the direction ED is going. Yes, more data is required with more textures but there will be too many maps and too much data to install all future maps anyway. Eventually people will have to pick or choose: they can either pick a crap load of low quality maps or a few amazing maps. Personally I prefer the latter. Perhaps ED should look at smaller high quality maps for helicopter pilots.

Thanks P

Any word on the AI versions of the A-6 and A-7? The former was promised some time ago?

So AFTER the release Wags is now telling us we can expect a detailed map like the other ones we got?! Lots of low level textures and uncorrected textures with buildings, jagged mountains, etc. Very early EA even for just the first part

As nice as this is, it would be great to see ED, revamp the Caucasus map to reflect today’s military borders and populate the Ukrainian side thus enabling more possibilities for mission content. Obviously, I don’t want to see the Crimean peninsula marked as Russian territory since the world does not recognize it as such but this would bring a lot of attention and interest back to that map, and the game.

I've had crashes of my DCS system since the new update. I wonder if that could be connected to the fact that I only have 32 gigs of ram 🤔

28:00 Did you make this song? If not, what’s it called? I like it

The update broke the damned game for me. and im not even kidding. intense stutters when moving the mouse and looking around, seems they've introduced a old bug where stutters happen because of mouse polling rate somehow...and it isn't easily changable, at least without buying an expensive branded mice. and im not gonna blow 60$ to test if it'll work... A shame as well, just bought FC3 earlier in the summer sale. sadly had to refund it because the game is litreally unplayable for me since the update.

Living in Italy when the update camed out I was sleeping! so I had the chance to see first comments when I actually was at work..seeing that the quadviews was broken (being a Pimax Crystal owner since a couple of weeks) I definitely skipped the update, even if I know that there's a workaround for that (there's an unofficial DLL that fix the problem) I won't update until ED fix this thing... I know U're a Crystal user too and I'm curios to know your opinion bout that!

My group decided to get back into doing missions after months away from DCS (with the exception of carrier traps to keep proficient). Our sortie out all 3 of us crashed due to either arming or dropping LGBs..... even after multiple delays the patch is pretty bad. I think maybe they tried pushing too much out at once.

Did ED by any chance fix the FC3 authing issues yet? I don't like having to wait for half an hour to get the thing booted because of that issue...

This patch gave me ED

This patch is good but it broke a lot of online play. Greyflag and others are just impossible to get in due to the new systems.

Struggling a lot with the new slotting system on PVE servers.😤

You said ED will use Phantom's AI instead of ED's in house AI. Does this mean that the Hind and Apache will get the Phantom's AI instead of the AI they currently have? thanks

This patch completely broke Combined Arms, and the spawn system on servers is clunky and unnecessary.

RIght after i said i wished for a shorter videos ... 31 minutes 😭😭

thought it was a bond film

Afghan is one of the best maps we've got in a long time. Its not a 30,000 foot map like Kola or SA. I found Sinai to be a quality map but is boring (no fault of the devs). However Afghan has tons of variety every 2 minutes its like flying over a different map almost. the terrain and color variety is really nice. There are plenty of issues with textures not being placed right. If ED can get these solved and get them to blend right this map has the potential to take the crown from Syria. If you were new to DCS and could only buy 1 map it was Syria everything else was a far distant 2nd place. This is still true but Afghan is not a far distant 2nd... it is right on the heels of Syria if it gets some love and dedication I could see it taking the crown in a year.

only saw 1 car driving no people all in the UK HA CRAZY

Downloaded the patch...got the Afghanistan map.....flew 30 min of Kandahar.....all stable so far but i too notice a slight stottering...flying in VR

lets go

The map is great but there’s not even a handful of MP servers utilizing it, so it’s just sitting there for me. Kinda disappointing but I hope it will change.

Who cares about Data Storage Space today? In a time when a 4TB M.2 costs around 150$! Flying with coppers there needs a high res texture.

Well, I am disappointed with the map, this looks like something from Falcon BMS. and the reason why I don't fly Falcon BMS.I should have bought the Kola map instead. Even after all the delays, they released the update with a real wonkiness, large bugs that make it unstable, I have gotten some blinking screens that just doesn't cut it. I have patience but I do think Big updates don't seem to work for ED. They had the perfect storm of updates converging all at once and it's a bit rough. That would be okay - BUT, the update affected everything which is not good.

It’s amazing to me how much people who have no idea what they/re talking about are complaining. “Just optimize it so you can use higher res textures”. What an idiotic take.

Hell no, it's a mess even with DCS fully maxed out

What about the elephant in the room? This update broke quad view VR and VR controllers that made it unplayable for so many users? Omitting such a large elephant makes you appear biased. Noted.

My copy of SW Afghanistan looks terrible. Much lower res than Caucasus or any other terrain. What a disappointment! It is actually unplayable!!

Imho... u have your contrast way to high.

Its all very low res. no tech to support high fidelity

Afghanistan looks so strange, they havent even made an attempt to match the colours of the landscape, furthermore, In Xplane, we have had autho scenery for years where you can choose the detail level of ground textures, ED saying they couldnt do that is just lazy. Overall a piss poor effort.

Freeze and stutter like hell. Terrible patch.

adverts ruin the channel

I wonder if DCS would ever consider going to the MSFS model and stream the imagery. You can get terabytes of imagery.

Sorry mang but it is not absolutely amazing. It will be, but it's not that yet. Tame it brother. Call it when it is. Fan boy. I say this as a friend and someone that enjoys your content. But please. Be real.