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Digital Combat Simulator World is a modern combat flight simulator that is developed by Eagle Dynamics and published by The Fighter Collection & Eagle Dynamics, Inc. It was released in Russia on October 17th, 2008, Germany on March 7th, 2008, North America on April 2nd, 2009 and released on Steam on March 18th, 2013.

Summary[]

Digital Combat Simulator World (DCS World) is a free to play sandbox simulator that comes with a mission editor, full network play and more than 156 AI weapons systems, 105 ground vehicles and trains, 50 air defense systems, 19 ships and 84 AI aircraft permitting you to plan and play highly sophisticated missions. DCS World is massively extensible through additional DCS modules as well as user-made add-ons and mods which you can purchase and download from the DCS website. AI Rios also come with the F-14 and F-18. The Rio for the F-14 named “Jester” is canonically a Russian spy as an Easter egg as he constantly bails out when you enter a dogfight or try and fire a Missile.

Base game:

  • 2 free aircraft; Sukhoi Su-25T "Frogfoot" and the North American TF-51D "Mustang"
  • Mission editor
  • Full network play
  • More than 156 AI weapons systems
  • 105 ground vehicles and trains
  • 50 air defense systems
  • 19 ships and 84 AI aircraft

Related:

DLC[]

As of 2021-07-31, the number of packages available for the simulator as paid DLC is:

For a full list of DLC, see Digital Combat Simulator World/DLC.

System Requirements[]

Minimum[]

  • OS: Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 (64-bit)
  • CPU: Intel Core i3 at 2.8 GHz or AMD FX
  • RAM: 8 GB RAM (16 GB for heavy missions)
  • HDD: 60 GB available space
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / AMD R9 280X or better
  • DirectX: Version 11

Recommended[]

  • OS: Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 (64-bit)
  • CPU: Intel i5+ at 3+ GHz or AMD FX / Ryzen
  • RAM: 16 GB RAM (32 GB for heavy missions)
  • HDD: 120 GB available space
  • Graphics: GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX VEGA 56 with 8GB VRAM or better
  • DirectX: Version 11

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