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Marianas ww2 map isn't optimized as the modern one, at least for VR it's very heavy even for my 9800x3d cpu with 4090. I quit flying it until ED updates the textures...

I think this news letter is perfect. It highlights on what's coming, instead of regurgitating what's been released. I hope ED keeps the same cadence going forward!

It would be great if ED worked on optimizing this map for VR. The modern Mariana was also pretty sluggish when first released, then about a year later it was nicely optimized and it performs excellent nowadays. The WW2 map is .. ahem.. a stutter fest on my 9800x3d + 4090.

not with the current engine sounds implementation they won't.

The reason I switched from IL2 to DCS and stayed with DCS all these years is the sound design. No other flight sim compares to ED's in the sound department. But it pains me to finally realize that ED's standards for developing a high fidelity sound engine only applies to ED's developed aircraft. Corsair is a second ww2 module developed by a 3rd party (first being I-16), and it's just as disappointing as I-16. "Professional recording" can mean a lot of things, including a single microphone/placement recording for the whole AC. That's what we got, and it sucks donkey balls. If the upcoming La-7 features a similar gutless sound implementation then ED and the 3rd party developers will lose a customer of the 3rd party prop modules. It's just sad. edit: the least ED can do here is allow the modders to modify the engine sounds like it was possible before everything got encrypted.

Corsair!!! The F4U launch video is simply breath taking! Awesome job, @BIGNEWY and the rest of the team! Btw, what is the timeline for the PTO asset pack release? 2 weeks?

thank you, @BIGNEWY

With WW2 assets ED follows the non-standard approach of "over promise, and under deliver". When they were steadily releasing new features/assets 3-4 years ago I was fully on their side, and by "steadily" I meant once in every 6-8 months. As of today, and for the past 2 years, we haven't gotten anything new in ww2 genre from them other than the canned response of "WW2 is still in development / the team is small / we are working on something / we'll let you know as soon as we have news / Mariana ww2 is coming soon (in 2 weeks)", essentially bignewy's response above. Except for the occasional weekend influx of players the MP ww2 scene is pretty much dead. As they say - it is what it is.

I ordered the BSB2e (with eye tracking), however, initially the unit will be released without eye tracking for DFR (it'll only support Vrchat eye tracking using some game api), with fully functional eye tracking DFR support coming later in 2025. I'm getting it for night flying in DCS, can't wait for that OLED goodness (still remembering my 'wow' days from the VivePro1 time).

like SUNTSAG said you need to press the Comms key which is mapped by default to \ key on your keyboard (or you can change it in the 'assign controls'). The F10 selection will appear in there as per screenshot. Hint for the future: all maps, missions, MP servers, utilize this Comms menu and F1 through F12 for mission customization, target selection, etc. It is a seriously archaic interface and the most confusing for the newcomers, but it is for it is. Maybe one day ED will add something more modern that's actually easy to use and understand...

@SAB0T thank you for the quality cockpit, sir! It's like I'm flying a brand new module!

wait till you upgrade to FFB A bit cheaper approach: get yourself either a buttkicker or build one out. It'll give you the buffeting effects under your seat so you'll have a physical input for a pre-stall event.

this may be a speculation, but one of the complaints I've seen about bf109 is that the non-mw50 AI 109 performs just like the one equipped with the mw50 option. If there was never a track depicting this behavior then it's just a rumor, I guess.

The latest Nvidia Inspector allows you to pull the latest DLSS .dll directly from the Nvidia driver installation, i.e. you no longer need to replace the DLL inside DCS install folders. Check it out here: NVInspector Revampled link: https://github.com/xHybred/NvidiaProfileInspectorRevamped?tab=readme-ov-file

yup, had a similar experience flying last week with our squad. We were doing 420mph IAS at 20,000 ft and the altimeter arrow was trying to break the 430mph mark when we tried to climb higher... It was experienced both in my and my squadmate's p47.