NEW DCS Kola Map: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly & FIRST IMPRESSIONS!

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Hey guys! It is super exciting to finally have the DCS Kola Map from Orbx in our hands and you are probably wondering if you should spend some of your hard earned money on this new addition to our favorite game.

The DCS Kola Map spans the northern tip of Scandinavia and encompasses all of the Kola Peninsula. Due to the Northern Fleet's home base at Murmansk and the Submarine Pens at Polyarny, this area would be ground zero for a fictional World War 3 scenario where the Cold War has gone hot as the Soviet and or Russian Northern Fleet's submarines dash to the North Sea and the Northern Atlantic to interdict American Supply convoys shipping war material to Europe.

DCS Kola is everything that DCS World players have been asking for, its a green map that pits the East and West against each other in a pivotal and strategic area of the world. Coincidentally this area of the World factors heavily into two fantastic Tom Clancy Novels, The Hunt For Red October and Red Storm Rising.

While DCS Kola has a couple of rough edges due to releasing into early access I believe it has the best roadmap of coming single player content and updates we have ever seen with the release of a DCS World map from a Third Party Developer.

I cannot wait for the coming updates and additions to the map and I hope we see more DCS World projects from new third party developer Orbx!

So lets explore the Good, The Bad and the Ugly of DCS: Kola Map:
0:00:00 - Intro & Overview
0:01:30 - The Good
0:06:00 - The Bad & The Ugly
0:09:30 - Upcoming Campaigns & Should You Buy It?

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[Spudknocker]

Hey guys! I hope this video helps you guys figure out if this map is for you and its worth your hard earned dollars! (Or Pounds, Rubles, Euros or Canadian Rubles, etc)!
**Correction, I said Ugra Media developed Sinai Map When in Reality it was OnReTech**

[matts]

Kind of over the early access model. Gonna start buying modules when they are complete and on sale.

[columbar]

No coniferous trees? The map seems to me to be on the same graphic level as an x years old Caucasus. The textures of the ground cannot be compared to a map of the South Atlantic... The whole map looks plastic and unbelievable to me. I don't need precision but I need to believe that I'm flying over real ground, not a mesh of terrain.

[Audfile]

Ah, my youth on F19 Stealth Fighter, Commodore 64, it lives again!

[Red-Magic]

Im at least glad we get a map that is finally green. I'm so tired of the same-same dirt maps, we already have had enough of them for a few years now. Maps like this, of east Europe, Vietnam, Korea, and Alaska are some of the the more variety we need now

[madaxe]

Orbx has a great rep for making maps... but honestly this doesn't look like anything to get excited over. I was expecting to be blown away, and this doesn't look substantially better than Caucasus. It looks like it's years away from completion.

[hhubert]

One thing I did notice that isn't mentioned anywhere is that the asphalt could use a bit more texture. In real life, that piece of Road 4, where the base is located, has cracks along the right and left, and the roads are rough from the snowplow. The same goes for the taxiways at Rovaniemi, but the runways have really nice textures already. However, this is nitpicking and should not be a priority on the development road map.

[ImpendingJoker]

As one that has been with Orbx since the FS9/FSX/P3D days, I can tell you that this Kola map is not on par with the high standard of the PNW region in FSX/P3D, and that was $100 15 years ago and it was worth it. This however is not worth the $52 they are asking.

[mro]

50 euros is stip for a map, especially without any new asset

[RaXXha]

I find it a bit strange that they haven't included the Swedish Airforce base in Luleå (F 21), even though it is located within the maps boundaries. It's the main Swedish airforce base in the area, Kiruna and Vidsel are more like auxiliary bases to F 21. 🤔

[RaisinBran]

A video that’s not an hour and a half?! Now this is the content I like 😂

[Guyman]

I bought South Atlantic with it first came out. Empty but i loved flying around while a carrier fleet cruised in bay.

Bought Sinai immediately. One of the best vr experiences flying in the black hawk at sunset with the pilot door open with the silhouette of the pyramids in the background.

Sometimes, these things are worth it to enjoy the art. But, i don't see the appeal of this map

[rpersen]

I am from the north of Norway, so bought it just for that. Will see if I recognize my home town.

EDIT: Found it and it resembles quite well, especially the airport. Great stuff.
EDIT 2: it is Lakselv (BNK)

[masons]

I'm anxious to see how they continue to populate the map. The massive expanse of flat nothing that is the center just feels like mindless void for now.

However, I'm super excited to see servers implement more targets and strike missions amongst the mountains. Don't get that enough on Caucasus.

[caixanegra]

Buying it, but for the first time feeling like I shouldn’t.

[MrChaosProf]

I was soooo excited for this map and would have bought it day 1. But the fact that - even after weeks - I still don't know if or when the F-15E will be finished, makes me not want to buy anything in early access anymore. Sorry, OrbX, i know it is not your fault.

[whatisx]

Looks pretty damn good to me, already.

[ytdlder]

What a beautiful map!
And great review, thx!

[gwalker]

It’s not finished, I’m not bothering with DCS early access anymore until I see proper reviews. I was stupid and assumed that winter would be included as default due to the location, but what do I know 😢…

[TheMack]

I'm gonna fly low in the Viggen! :)