I was browsing around on the DCS site earlier. I knew you had to buy aircraft, but JEEZ. $75 for a plane? Do they run deals periodically, or how does that work? (not complaining, just expressing my surprise)
Yeah. Don't be dumb like me.
Sales are pretty frequent and with free mods and trial periods there is no reason to not wait a month or two for the next sale.
Get the free client DCS World, free mod Blackhawk, free mod A-4, maybe this free OH-6 mod and just get started with those while waiting for the next sale. Maybe trial what you are seriously considering buying first while you are waiting.
They seem ridiculous in price until you look at the detail and depth of some of the models. It's a different approach than a survey-sim. I think of it like the old days when you'd buy Falcon 3.0. A study-sim. You were pretty much buying a single highly detailed airframe with a sim built around it. The difference is in DCS, each of these study-sims can be hooked together in a common\shared simulation platform (i.e. DCS World).
Not necessarily the best approach for everyone. It also requires more effort and focus per airframe to learn than a more casually modeled survey-sim of several airframes. Depth vs breadth. Pros and cons either way, but different approaches.
