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The issue is more that we start with a NORMAL view and the sim make us doing this stupid unzoom... What i do is press zoom + or - before it start and then hit the numpad Enter key for back to a more normal zoom. What i hate the most while looking video of DCS is people that play with that ridiculously ugly negative zoom (just cause they are too lazy to turn the camera down for view instrument, they do it by unzooming) it give a really bad effect, the scale effect are already false and everything is already too small in DCS, and it just make it worst, and the side of the cockpit are in a really ugly way bend... The difference in this video : Check the difference at 0:30 and 1:25 Damn ugly...Please people STOP doing this, it is ugly, you can't see instrument better cause they are too small doing this, you can't judge distances, its ugly and its ugly...Ho and, its ugly. Hit the Enter button on the numpad for NORMAL default view !

In fact DCS 2.0.0 is apparently closer than we think http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=125969

@Scrim Fun how you run away on the defensive, its always like this when those who say that they wait for proof react when we show them proof, and they they still say the same thing all over again... Personally if someone show me a REAL proof that UFO don't exist, if this is a REAL proof of course, i'll conciser changing my mind. @Flagrum & Ericoh Except that this is just an example, we know already several way to pass through the speed of the light... And the most commonly accepted after space distortion is a relative mass gravity system... And that exactly the same technology that permit to accelerate at ridiculous amount of G without feet anything inside, cause you become relativist to yourself and not to the planet you are over in the time where you accelerate, and you probably need to compensate Earth's rotation by doing this. And you can pass over the speed of the light, cause the speed of the light is RELATIVE to the closest and strongest gravitational source, but if you are relative to yourself you can in fact pass over the speed of the light, this is not exactly the same technique that make you goes at high G acceleration/turn which look more like a damper than a fully active one, its the same technology but not the same mode/technique... But yeah its fun how people that don't believe (and mainly don't WANT to believe) try using every single little thing they find for discredit the whole thing even if its just 1% of what was behind say, in a simple example and focus on it while forgotten all the rest which is pretty correct. I don't invent it : the Defense minister of the Canada have clearly say that Alien are among us. And anyway, the fact that this technology is still for the moment a simple concept/speculation DON'T mean that this is not a possible future working technology which will be used in the future, and its just an example i have stated about THE MOST ADMITTED (for the non "ultra advanced tech" believer) FTL technology, such as VASIMR which is far the be the best but which is mediatized and this one work.

That you are probably close to the kind of people that have rejected Galileo when he state that the Earth was not flat. A lot of people are smart and still not believe, the issue is more that people that not believe just make fun to those who believe and they think normal to ridiculous them why believer don't even have the right to state their opinion, that make Galileo almost killed and what make others people before him who state that Earth was not the center of the universe and was not flat killed. A dangerous comportment driven by fear. What you should mainly concider is that, do all the most talentuous, smart people and those who are in the highest rank of the world Elite such as president that believe in UFO wear a tinfoil hats ? http://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2013/10/ufos-aliens-20-of-most-famous-people-who-believe-in-extraterrestrials-2458186.html Or if finally exactly like people have rejected the idea that radio wave exist for decades was just wrong ? Even the man who was conciser by many as the most smartest guy in the world, Stephan Hawking believe in UFO. Mainly when those who are the most well placed for know if their is or not believe in it and even state it publicly... Simple fact : Universe is CLEARLY here for life, everything he does actually in all possible action everywhere drive to the same process which consist to planetary nebula which create star such as our sun and which give birth to planet such as Earth Mars and Venus (both Mars and Venus was probably habitable in the past) which in their formation process clearly do the best thing possible to make life appear. Earth is NOT UNIQUE AT ALL, and based on the process for formation of planets, it is just IMPOSSIBLE that we are the only evolved life form in the universe. Our universe is 12.7/8 billions year old, our sun are 5. (4,57) And will life another 5 billions years. It is made from a nebula which is not clearly know if it is a planetary or a bigger one, but in away way, big star that make planetary nebula never live longer than 100 millions years, bigger they are, shorter they life. After the big band (whatever the even 12.7 billions year ago was) it don't take too long for the first star to exist. They appear something like 100 millions year after the big bang. Which mean less than 2 billion year after but big bang, star like the sun was possible. Imagine 10 billions year ago, 2,7 after the B.B, a star like our sun start to form with several planet and one have pass through the same process than our one. It mean, ONLY BASED on OUR development time, we have need 5 billions year after our star for going to the space... Which mean, 5 BILLIONS year ago, somewhere a race (only supposing they don't learn faster than us and that they are not the first race on their planet like us with dinosaurs and other human-less period) have maybe archive to go to their first manned first vehicle like we with Vostok 1. Just look at how in 100 year we have progress, from an age where computer was only a dream and planes hardly exist and that we still not have figure if we can really go to the space to now where computer are ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE, they are small, smart and do a lot of task, where aircraft flight over the speed of the sound on the stratosphere (we initially just wanted to flight like bird) and have a space station contently orbiting over Earth since decades, have send unmanned probe to mars (Curiosity for the last one) and start planned to colonizes mars after some manned expedition. And you know what ? We already have planned realistic project for a faster than light space ship, and yes it come from scientist and from NASA http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/12/tech/innovation/warp-speed-spaceship/ We archive plasma engine : http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VASIMR And we already know antigravity : http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/antigravity.htm And the UFO admitted technology we now all know they use, the MHD/EMAD (Magnetohydrodynamics & ElectromagnetoAerodynamic) are both NOT fantasy thing that we dream about, they are scientific fact that was in fact use in many application (the Vasimr engine work based on this). Now realize that we don't talk about possible 100 or 1000 year old more than us, but possible 5 BILLIONS year old more advanced than use races... So HO THE HELL aliens can't be on Earth if in 100 year we will probably be the one that will go to another planet and probably if their is intelligent race not yet in space age, BE the aliens and the UFO on the sky... So yes we don't have communications from them cause they probably use quantum entanglement technology for communicate, we already find out how to archive this, and even if we don't mastering correctly it, we will.

http://cf.chucklesnetwork.com/items/8/3/9/6/7/original/what-if-the-people-saying-tinfoil-hats-are-actually-the-ones-wea.jpg That fun how ignorance driven by fear and weak conscience of what the world really is can make people arrogant... Except if you are just jocking, but if this is a real scorn, i seriously have pity for you to think that the world is just simple as what you first see, what comfort your afraid mind think it is or what people that want you to be a standardized sheep told you it is... I really hope you are just kidding and not another septic that prefer scorn rather than just open, even slightly your eyes... Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell

Yes, and the most funny part is mainly all the credible people that have see them, all the non fake video, all the wave of ufo, even military video that show them, radar + pilot observations, even some member of government have clearly told that they are present, presidents, prime minister and defense minister... Like this : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535698/Aliens-walk-theyre-refusing-share-technology-change-warring-polluting-ways-claims-former-Canadian-defense-minister.html Or even this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8wFmtr05Ko And a lot of others things, including Vimanas and others thousand year old pain that clearly show ufo... But people still say : "I don't believe it"...Or "I'll believe only of you show me proof" or "I'll believe it only if i see it"... They are no proof, their are clear evidences... Mainly when we know that US government spend tons of money for try hide it and others OFFICIALS US government programs like project Blue Book, Majestic 12 and tons of things... But yeah, some people still think that the Area 51 itself don't exist, so how they can believe in UFO... But by the way even if Aliens Craft themselves are not a good idea mainly cause they are mind controlled... Ho and YES this is possible cause even with our pity technology we can archive this : http://www.cnet.com/news/mind-pilots-steer-a-plane-with-thoughts-alone/ HUMAN top secret hyper advanced vehicle can be really nice ! Such as the triangle shape kind ufo, i talk about man made one, but that still have MHD/EMAD technology, capability to run away really fast, flight supersonic without sonic bang and air resistance and more things like this such as no G feel inside. MAINLY with the Nevada map that coming soon in DCS... But for those things i think we will need way more than a simple map like this, even the whole USA is hardly enough, after all even in the whole USA an aircraft like the SR-71 is hard to fit, but not imagine something that can flight 3 time faster...And those craft are able to go into orbit, so in fact we NEED global map before we can have those craft in DCS. It can look like this (Yes of course this video is a fake) : But the video is really nicely done !

maybe he talk about multiplayer cause SP have key mapping but MP don't have yet, maybe for the next patch who know...

Haha i know that this was a joke :thumbup: And yeah the Hornet is my favorite jet fighter ! And thanks, but in fact she just look at aircraft pictures yesterday, just probably for please me, and she have see the Mig-29 and say that he is so beautiful, and she is damn right ! Convert your girlfriend !!! haha Imagine how fun it will be if guy start to learn their girlfriend to flight and we make all our girlfriend dogfight haha Anyway i think the Mig29 will have 3D cockpit pretty soon, but sadly it look like it will be the last one to have AFM/PFM, actually F-15, next the SU-27 and probably after (heavily) tweaking the flight model the SU-33 will have too and finally the Mig29 will come last, sad but anyway he will come step by step closer and closer of the full realism high fidelity such as the A10C !

Whuuuut ? Fox two on TOYKILLA !!! FA-18C & E from Coretex Design are both my only way to surviving in this cruel world :cry: Seriously yeah DCS Mig29 will be awesome, but if only...Mig35...Yeah i know too recent to be reproduced :joystick: The Mig29 its the favorite aircraft of my girlfriend :D Damn good aircraft, if a high fidelity version can be made it will be awesome !

It is very surprising and bad for a game like this to not have even a simple VOIP system such as the basic Arma 2/3 channel like a LOT of game and software have, i don't understand why their is not one. Some people that defend the fact that ED miss a lot of features and prefer adding more polygons to useless object rather than making vapor on wings... They say that it will take more bandswitch and blablabla, well that the worst excuse i have ever hear, some game can share 100 time more data than what DCS can do and don't have issue, voice take a so low ridiculously amount of banswitch, its not even over 20ko/s for skype and i'm really over exaggerated it, i have already see 7kbps with 3 people talking... But VOIP that work with radio on DCS is not a eyescandy or useless thing, i think its even a necessity, a lot of people DON'T want or CAN'T use teamspeak, a lot of people don't use TARS, and a lot of features can't work, such as the radio encrypting system. And if its really supposed to be a simulator, i don't see the point to need to use a third party SOFTWARE for access to the MOST BASIC and one of the most important aspect of military plane : communication. Look at this : With the "radio voice" effect it is both realistic and immersible, and it avoid to hear random noise from people, cause they will look like simple parasites. Even DayZ do it with walkie talkies that need batteries and set to the correct channel to work. So NO VOIP WON'T affect quality of the multiplayer, not more than using teamspeak/skype, it will be better and we will not need to deal to find the server, deal with group, have to back to desktop for anything and have to deal with unrealistic TS or bugged/boring and not complete TARS. This is ridiculous to having to use a third party VOIP and have to put a mods on it...

The issue is that CA vehicle use health bar system. If you shoot one time on the front right with a weapon that 2 shoot to penetrate/Destroy the vehicle, another shoot in a totally different position, such as front left this time will still destroy the unit, like Flagrum say their is no frag modeled and they balance by overpowering weapons. And in the other hand damage system in DCS is far to be the best. Like aircraft that always broke for almost nothing, missile shoot sometimes don't do that much damage, but a simple small touch (not a collision but a touch) between an aircraft and a wall on the ground while moving slower than someone walking can cause the aircraft to broke, same for two aircraft that touch (don't talk about collide but touch) in flight, their is real life report of aircraft pushing others, such as Spitfire that push NAZI's V1 flying bombs or a fighter pilot during Vietnam war that push his friend that have loose his engine... In fact in DCS you can kill vehicle by landing on them with your helicopter, look at this : The damage model in not that good as we think, in fact it is sometimes disastrous, NEVER a car will explode cause of an helicopter land on it, be damaged yes, but explode... ? No way, only in movies, i was trying one day to land on a car for fun, and it destroy my helicopter by exploding. Cause DCS use a health bar system and when it reach 0 it explode, nothing more complexes than this. Tanks have area such as rear, front, top, sides, but i don't even sure if the angle really matter from aircraft to vehicle and by extensions vehicle to vehicle... Aircraft are the most realistic ever modeled, but vehicle are a joke in CA, Red Orchestra 2 or even World of Tanks is probably 100 time more realistic than DCS World for ground vehicles. This is sad, maybe/lets hope that after Nevada/EDGE and other actually planed aircraft such as all the WW2 one and the Hornet got release, ED team will focus on ground forces/vehicles.

Nice done ! But, i think they just use a simplification with the closest full/half number 5,10,15,20,25 etc I also don't think it is exactly 115L exactly, it can be 2l more or less.

MSI 7970 Lightning Boost Edition here and i plan to sell it to buy a R9 290 Tri-X OC (my card is powerful enough but for some stuff i need the 1Go vram in plus of the R9 290) So my actual and every card i'll plan to buy anyway in the future will certainly do. Don't know if it worth to point this detail but in the future i'll also maybe buy a old GTX card and use it as a physic card for have ATI + PhysX and this old one will probably not support Dx11.

I think it is cause it was probably initially expected to release something like F-15C with AFM for 1.2.8 and probably some new stuff for 1.2.9 just before Edge, like the SU-27 with AFM, or any third party aircraft such as F86 Sabre/Mig21 or their own FW190, but they have maybe reconsider it and think about release a lot of things at once, not really good idea for them cause rather than slowly fix bug during a period of two updates, they will have a bench to fix at once, but from customer point of view it can be a good new and it can be a huge auto marketing attractive solution. But Edge its up to a new version, so they can't call it 1.2.9 for a lot of reason, Look at X Rebirth (ok this game is a shame) for they new (big thing) they have call it 2.0, and a lot of others game do the same. The EDGE technology can be released without Nevada cause Georgia apparently will benefit from it, but i'm sure that the Georgia terrain support will come after or only partially at first. And the terrain itself is done since maybe a while now, importing the terrain itself is not a big deal, but importing new terrain rendering (graphic ?) engine is quite a huge thing to do. So their is no real reason to release EDGE without Nevada, mainly cause Nevada terrain will really use the EDGE engine the way it have to work unless Georgia who will only take some part of the engine. This is only a theory i can be wrong but i'm sure its something close to this. I'm sure they want the release of EDGE to be great, and they will probably bombing us with features/aircraft/3D models and maybe lot of new/newletters for future project around EDGE, including third party and DCS F/A-18C ! So they will probably want to skip 1.2.9 also for this reason, give us a huge surprise with a lot of content that i can't even imagine, maybe a new FC aircraft or anything else like a huge list of new AI units for example. And also i think it can be a good new that 1.2.9 is skip, not cause we will have EDGE sooner, but cause if they skip an update, it mean that they don't need much more time for working on EDGE, which mean that it will probably be less buggy than what we can expect from a new technology like this at this first release ! Also i don't think they will release a Beta variant, who will seriously wait until the final release before testing EDGE, and maybe the new updater have something to do with this and will permit to install the new 1.3.0 while keeping our 1.2.8 if for any reason we can't use the 1.3.0 But again it was only my theory... But if they find the need to release a new patch before, or if they ran into issue that make them need more time to work on 1.3.0, then maybe 1.2.9 will be release, and they maybe already plan it as a safety patch.

This is a OOOOOLD requested so many time feature with a lot of things like canopy fog, rain on canopy, ice on aircraft, vapor on wings, 3D encyclopedia, contrail don't come from inside the engine but a little after it like in real and other things like this. Sadly immersion or not this is conciser like eyes candy that's why this is not implemented even if this was asked since decades... It can't be long to be done if we just talk about vehicle and soldier just get here and don't do any animated things but only spend time next to our aircraft. But their is two reason why it can't happen now. First, well actual DCS World have huge performance issue, and sometimes adding a single aircraft in plus can drive to a serious fps drop, for multiplayer it will be really hard to don't get headache from low ips (images per seconds) and in solo it will take on some missions too much performances with all others objects, statics or not. And second reason, they actually work on something that will probably make this happen, but it take huge manpower, this is EDGE, and the Nevada map ! They already focus on EDGE, next aircraft such as FW190, AFM for SU-27, F/A-18C Hornet and bugfixing in plus, i think they are too much in rush now for think about it... BUT !!! Nevada map with EDGE already include a bench of statics vehicles and objects which will improves immersion AND more important, if this is done its cause EDGE can handle so many objects on map without many performance hit as actual graphic engine have. Look at Nevada screenshots ! http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=115306 or this http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=113708 And since EDGE will also work with actual Georgia map : http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2067392&postcount=8 We will probably get from this improvement the possibility to handle more statics object and get possibility to use ground crew, and maybe after this rush period with a lot of main thing to do will be over in few month, with less manpower from 3D artist team to work on the map, maybe new animations will be done while codders do bug fixing and it can hopefully drive to all this requested features and maybe things like fully animated ground crew with guy really do fluid and nice movement (like ejection from Mustang or for example like the torpedo loading animation from Silent Hunter) for loading weapons or connect truck and others ground crew stuff can be added ! For the moment i can understand why they don't yet have done this with this actual period where a lot of things are planed, but we will soon (month) get maybe better than what you ask for !

The Cobra maneuver was disabled since many patch ago, i'm surprised that you still be able to use it on 1.2.7, maybe they have only remove the key for this and your keys mapping profile still have it since a while. But you should not be able to use it in 1.2.7, this is strange... But don't worry, if you have buy FC3 you will get the SU-27 with new flight model like the F-15 have and they have success to perform Cobra Manoeuver with him, and without using a scripted but a real time calculated one, and maybe the 27 with PFM will come on the next update 1.2.9, and if we are lucky they will maybe see if with adjustment they can make the SU-33 able to use PFM (who know). Anyway we will see but the Cobra maneuver, at least for one aircraft will be back !

SU-34 which is half bomber, half attack and half fighter yes i know 3 half but you understand what i mean :D Or, the B-1B !!! God damn beautiful B-1B ! Fast, agile, but carry a lot of bombs and have a nice advanced avionic !

Intruder damn it ! Ho hell yeah i want this aircraft, old variant hard to target and operate http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j321/tonythornborough/A-6ARobertGeorge.jpg Or newest A6E with build in optical sensors http://www.warbirdphotos.net/aviapix/PostWW2/Attack/A6-Intruder/a6e.jpg I don't care, both will be great, carrier operation, no afterburner but a lot of kick ass brute power and a lot of air ground possibility, no gun, no AA missile for defense, fight against dangerous and deadly SAM, you need to know how to really fight for survive ! AGM 45 and damn it Mk82 Snake Eyes under a true chariot of bomb ! http://mofak.com/A6with30D-2s.jpg True old school where you carry a lot of bombs cause you have a lot of objectives and cause you don't have PGM that almost never miss. Flight low and fast to avoid detection, strike fast and prey ! How could eventually anyone don't want this ?

I will be really happy to see the SU-34, this is an incredible aircraft. Design around the SU-27 it become a bomber but keep most of the agility of the fighter, way more agile and faster than a lot of others aircraft. Supersonic and long range. Air refueling capability. Large payload with basically 12 pylons and can carry almost 2 time heavier payload than the A10. Really nice avionic apparently with great autopilot. Two seater aircraft which can provide both multiple possible role for single player like Huey and MI8 do, or for latter multiplayer multiple crew. And even if its not modeled, fun cause he have kitchen a toilets, and lateral two seater configuration are interesting. Able to carry large AA and AG payload including Air-Sea weapons. A radar in the tail ! And in plus of modern avionic such as MFCD, he also permit a lot of various missions, and its a god damn incredible Russian aircraft ! And it can be a great opportunity to start getting heavy aircraft such as bombers, for a transition and maybe a B-1B will be possible someday for compensate this monster, and its also a great opportunity for introducing guided bombs.

I can be wrong about it but. Every bomb get influence on wing, the sensor fuzed get just more effect since it use parachute to slow down and stay longer in the air. But CBU 87 still get influenced by the wing, the CBU 97 get more influence than the 87 cause of the parachute decent. For both 103 and 105 its the same as 87 and 105 but with inertial navigation system that make them able to auto correct their course from wind effect. The CBU 103 will probably be the bomb that get the less affected by the wind cause of corrected bomb and small (but not light) and fast bomblets. The CBU 105 i think will get effect from the wind cause even if the main bomb get correction from the wind, the small sensor fuzed projectiles (the BLU-108) will still get deviation from wind. I have not read it yet but i have found this : http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/wcmd.htm

Yes, absolutely it can be done. But first, make sure your joystick is correctly calibrate (in case of) And then launch DCS Go to Options -> Controls -> Take the aircraft you want and then "Axis commands" And then choose the axis you want to adjust and then click on the "Axis Tune" button down here Then from here you can choose the settings of axis sensitivity and more. About your issue, you want to change the curvature. 0 = linear and when you add positive value it will make your joystick have less effect, the red dot represent the position of your joystick and the black square represent where in the game the aircraft input is. Be careful, while changing curvature, most of the time while doing small joystick movement from the center it will be easy cause way less sensitive and add more precision, but at somewhere over 50% of the joystick movement you will see a area of high sensibility (its here to compensate the fact that you have a area of low sensitivity at short movements). Don't at too much curvature, and negative curvature value have the opposite effect. Deadzone is your friend if you need a...deadzone, which mean, in case you don't know, permit to have an area on your joystick where when you move it under a certain amount of movement, it don't get handle by the sim, nice for old joystick that flicker or if you have a joystick like Logitech G940 which have cause of the force feedback a huge bank angle with no resistance. For me, with my Hotas Warthog i use 20 curve and other settings standard for Pitch and Roll. The Saturation is more complex to explain. It permit to make the end of the course of your joystick sooner or opposite (can be useful for old joystick that can't reach max angle or modified one with big extension for example where you need to set a max position based on the new course that your joystick travel). Slider option permit to have a slider, which mean, unlike axis where the 0 is on the center, a slider can be the throttle or collective for helicopters where 0 = lower. Useful for setting deadzone and/or saturation. Invert, well you understand it ! And user curve make you able to use curvature but handmade, hard to find a nice fluid setting if you don't know what you do. DCS Keys settings are nice, sadly we don't have any options for set afterburner on axis to fit with the one we have on our real physical joystick, which make the afterburner slow useless on Hotas Warthog or X52 Pro for example. If only we can have AB settings, hot plug detection like Arma 2/3 and access to options on Multiplayer (actually since few month its available on Singleplayer) it will be perfect. Hope it help you !

If you have both DCS World from ED website and Steam version installed, just install BS2 upgrade on your regular DCS World variant, go to "DCSWorld\Mods\aircrafts", copy Ka-50 folder and paste it to "DCSWorld\Mods\aircrafts" on your Steam install "Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common". It work fine. I think Steam won't update it, but you can probably use the install .exe from ED website http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/modules/dcs_black_shark_2_upgrade/ and install it inside your DCS World from Steam. It mean need to manually update but at least it work. ________________________________________________ I have do it, and for those who want to know why even with the regular DCS World already installed i have installed the one from Steam. First cause i have huge HDD drive and i don't have any issue with free size on my computer. Also cause of the ridiculously slow update speed from non steam variant compare to the ultra high speed from Steam. Their is also the fact that i don't like vanilla sim and i put a lot of mods to make it better, but the repair function (for those who have after a mystic quest of the ultimate knowledge know that their is a repair function that work through cmd...now even a single button for this) don't work for me, it just don't do anything, even update through CMD don't work, but Steam do. Which mean that the Steam version provide a way better support than the non Steam one. And then i don't really care if ED are happy or not about it, the sim with all addons is already ridiculously expensive, and i have buy ALL of them, from LOMAC to LOFC to Black Shark (all 3 in box variant) and then all product/modules from DCS even CA and FC2... So yes i estimate that i have the right to get the Steam support quality without need buy AGAIN the Black Shark. After FC2 we get FC3 and after Black Shark we get Black Shark 2 where rather than upgrade product quality from BS1 to DCS World standard like it was done for DCS A10C, they make us pay it two time, and then for those who ran out of money or buy the upgrade which is supposed to be here for avoid to paid two time full price for the same thing...For get it work on steam we are supposed to buy BS2 after get BS1 and BS2 upgrade ? Sorry but no, we have already paid more than someone who have just buy BS2 himself, we should get the same service quality. And by the way BS1 is available on Steam, i have take my old BS1 box key and successfully activate BS1 on Steam, it mean that they can handle support for activate BS2 upgrade owned, but they don't... And BS2 Upgrade is not cheaper and don't make them loose any money at all next to BS2 since it need to buy another game which have no more support and get old and passed now. I'll buy BS2 and support devs the day that the ridiculous limited number of activation will be removed like every others game of the universe and stop to add bench of new bugs each patch. And with Nevada and EDGE no one can be sure that we don't will get a FC4 (without even a single new aircraft like it was for FC2 and FC3 even if we all will wanted to see F-16 or F-18) BS3, A10C 2 and so one... So if dev block the ability for user to install exe variant into Steam variant, we will get a clear answer of what they really want from us. And if they handle support on steam or update through exe installed on steam, i'll encourage people to thanks them for this. I hope it will help you, for now enjoy BS2 upgrade on Steam !

It look like everyone having the shacking issue with FC3. The real issue, and what make this game hard to modding, is the fact that every patch you need to change the way mods work cause ED change the way the sim work almost every times and their is no real way to mods yet... So i can understand why PeterP don't fix its mods every updates. The real solution will be if PeterP or anyone can told us how to disabled the legs position for kneeboard for FC3 aircraft and just put them on the screen right bottom corner like vanilla. Personally i only use this mods for having custom page, not for put it to our knee, i really wish to get just the custom pages aspect of this mod but vanilla position, which are more readable than the one on the knee who are too far to be read (fault of bad scale from the sim) ! Sadly its really easy to broke DCS installation so i don't want to mess around to try do mods myself...

I don't get why ED not yet add the AFM from the A10C to the A10A, the next DCS aircraft will be the F/1-18C Hornet and the F-15C (and maybe the F-15C from FC3 will having new feature and AFM) and they also planed a SU-27 so maybe the SU-27 will having the AFM, but i don't think so, you will have to paid for having the SAME aircraft with AFM and advanced avionic, and the only aircraft who will ever get an AFM will still be Su-25A and Su-25T and i'm sure they both have the AFM cause with Flaming Cliff ED have try to implement a new AFM and for testing it before they do KA-50 and A10C they have just test it with a new aircraft, that's why bith SU-25 have AFM and why no other aircraft from FC will have an AFM.

The view distance excuse in flight sims always make me laugh. First, who really need it ? it mean its not vital, when you dogfight you only look enemy plane and sometime your hud for speed and altitude and certainly not mountain, in BVR same, you don't have the time, you look hud, radar and RWR and in both situation, look something else can be disastrous or mortal, navigation is done with instruments and no civil aircraft are yet in DCS (and that mean no VFR flight) and even in the P51D we use navigation system, and you only look far away distance for enjoy it, and to be honest their is almost nothing to enjoy visually in DCS. But the excuse also make me laugh when we have several game who handle BIG rendering distance and big company who do tweak for long distance view, like dynamic background (and i said dynamic, who change depending of our altitude and our position) or some other tweak who can permit to having really huge draw distance without any problems. Look at this video : focus on the begin and think about the fact that it was not optimized for long distance (but he still be able to show it without problems) think about the fact that it was real time with a standard computer and also think about the fact that it have maybe 100 time more polygons than the whole DCS game with every units and it have better performance for way better rendering... Look at this and look at the mountain/ground complexity, a single and simple (but a big one) mountain of Outerra have i'm sure more polygon than the whole DCS terrain. DCS have trouble for rendering a whole country with correct performance, Outerra rendering the whole earth and over this autogenerate the scenery in real time. DCS are not able to do this : https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ujpH0cGPqb0/UV8vI7Z4zII/AAAAAAAAAc8/A9ssVOFnvJg/w1253-h705/screen_1365192342.jpg