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Full fidelity is harder to use, yes, and far more tedious. FC3 has far less systems to deal with. Only the necessary ones remain (radar, flaps, gear, weapons, etc.), and none of the lame stuff (stores selection, aligning INS, adjusting ADI, selecting fuel flow sources). I find it very immersion breaking to have to precision click tiny switches in the cockpit all the time while keeping my head absolutely still so my head tracking doesn't move and make me click the wrong thing. I'm not interested in dealing with fuel balancing issues or running through checklists in my head for cold starts. Trying to fire rockets during a mission in the F5-E, but not being able to because the select jettison switch was set to "select position" instead of "off". I want everything great about DCS minus the distracting 'systems'. I can't go back to full fidelity after trying the FC3 planes. They've been so much fun because I can focus on the parts of military aviation I love.

Pretty sure MAC is no more, we haven't had any updates for like... over 2 years lol. They're focusing on DCS, and from what I've seen looking around, they have no intentions of making any more low fidelity modules. Very big missed opportunity imo. We need a middle ground between Ace Combat and high fidelity DCS modules, and none exists other than FC3.

Completely agree with you. I don't have any interest in waiting 10 minutes for INS to align, or precision mouse clicking tiny switches in the cockpit that don't directly relate to flying or combat. I want to practice FLYING, not systems management. How to read my radar screen and do BVR combat. How to nail landings. How to dogfight. How to evade missiles. How to fly formation. I can appreciate the high fidelity aircrafts and all the work that goes into them, but I'd really love to see more low fidelity models (not at the sacrifice of high fidelity ones of course). Give new players an easier way into DCS, and more casual / Sunday simmers an option other than cosplaying Maverick every night of the week.