Installation is pretty straightforward though. In all honesty, I’m not exactly new to DCS and I have the A-10C module which kinda prepared me to what I had ahead. You’ll have to excuse my lack of installation screenshots. So things will be broken and your experience might not be that good. Just remember that it IS an alpha version, not even a beta. You can even grab the open alpha for their 2.0 version. Just head out to the downloads page, download it and install it. DCS World, that is, which is the base of everything concerning DCS.
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How to get DCSįun fact: you can actually get DCS for free. Especially concerning the amount of aircraft available and the area in which you can fly. Once you install DCS World, you’ll get 2 free modules: The SU-25T and the P-51.īear in mind though: this is a military simulator, not your regular flight simulator and it does have its shortcomings. Unfortunately, only 3 helicopters are available: the Mi-8, the Ka-50 and the venerable UH-1 Huey. Over 20 modules are available nowadays, ranging from WWII aircraft like the P-51 and the Bf-109, Korean-war aircraft like the MiG-15 and F-86, Vietnam (MiG-21) and modern aircraft like the F-15 and the A-10.
DCS is the child of Eagle Dynamics which are the creators of other great combat flight simulators such as SU-27 Flanker (1995) and Lock-On: Modern Air Combat (2003) as well as other variations of Lock On that, finally culminated with DCS – which, by the way, stands for Digital Combat Simulator.ĭCS is basically a framework on top of which other modules, such as the Mi-8 one I tried (developed by Belsimtek, which are also the ones behind the UH-1H, MiG-15bis and F-86F), may be built upon.