Aapje

Something is wrong with your system if you get worse performance.

Despite being in Spanish, there are English subtitles. The most interesting part to me was the comparison to the Rhino (is this the first person to have both?), but even more that he's talked to Winwing and they feel that their upcoming offering will bury the competition.

Wow, that is...interesting. It's not like a warranty can actually be out of stock, so this doesn't speak to a lot of confidence in the longevity of the product.

It would be an upgrade, but a bit questionable with regard to how much you gain vs how much you spend. At the very least, I would wait a bit to hopefully see the prices decrease.

The gearboxes are connected to the motors, and they don't sell them separately, since they are worried about people messing up the install. There is an option for people with the old motors to either send in their old motors for a refurb, or to simply buy the new motor+gearbox combo (none of this is on the site, one has to contact them directly for this). Given the high shipping costs, the latter is probably the only one that makes sense. But if you are buying new for flight simming, then you should simply get the rig with the new motor+gearbox combo. And pretty much every testimony I've seen about the buttkicker has been extremely positive. The main downside is that the vibrations can travel to the rest of the room. For that reason, you should put the rig on anti-vibration legs that they sell for washing machines and such. And you might want to join the DOF Reality discord for better help. That's where the real experts are.

The seat is always an option for extra cost. OpenXR is the future and not getting discontinued. You are probably being confused with OpenVR (the SteamVR API). Keep in mind that shipping is extra and can be quite costly. For motion compensation there are different options, also depending on what headset you have. A Withmotion sensor coupled with a monthly SRS subscription is one way. They regularly have sales and apparently you can stack partner codes (5%) with the sales. The gearboxes matter most for slow movements and how sensitive you are to cogging differs per person, and having Buttkickers makes you feel it less. But I would just get the one with the gearboxes for flying.

24H4

It shouldn't require a youtube-video that goes out to 5k people before one gets good customer service. Too many tech-companies already provide much better service to people that can or do generate PR-damage to the company, rather than all of their customers, including those who don't make a scene.

You know that this is not the VKB forum, right?

@HansPeter1981 1% lows is the average of the slowest 1% of frames. It tends to be a very useful metric to measure consistency, a lack of which tends to be visible as (micro-)stutters, which is very grating. Capping the frame rate is one way to reduce the gap between the average frame rate and the 1% lows, but the higher the 1% lows is in the first place, the less stutters you have without capping and the less you have to cap to lessen the stutters.

Someone with a 3D-printer could probably make a decent amount of money making those for people. Shipping should be relatively cheap, since it can be sent in a padded envelope.

On Reddit.

They already said that it is not possible to make the buttons swappable.

Like I said in the second part of the paragraph you quoted, both the negativity and positivity is probably exaggerated, with the reality being in between. But the level of negativity is a lot higher than I see for a lot of other software. I see it as a sign of significant unrest. As for the fog update, my opinion is that DCS needs both visuals and things to do in the game, and it is more lacking with the latter than the former. But of course that doesn't mean that a fog/cloud update is bad.

According to the hotas reddit, it should be released in time for Black Friday. I would also suggest to VKB to make the 5-way hat available for people to buy, as it would probably be quite popular and relatively cheap to ship.

@AeroGator That's great news, as I was holding off on the purchase for a while hoping for exactly this change. But just to be sure, the Black Friday/Week purchases will be the new variant, right?

The new cards are so close by that I would suggest just waiting.

The last "DCS 202x and beyond" video is almost a year old, before the Razbam conflict and before the Kola/Afghanistan/Iraq map releases that also seem to have been poorly received. If I look at the most recent video, on the Iraq map, then there are a huge number of negative comments, and those get a huge number of upvotes as well. Of course, with these things you often see that a certain sentiment becomes dominant, and people don't dare to go against it, but that goes both ways.

There is a way to figure out what most people want to get fixed first, by having a public database of bugs where people can vote for their 'favorite' bugs.

It's not a fair comparison to find fault in the Quest 3 for having a wireless option that the G2 doesn't have. With a powered USB hub, the Quest 2 lasts a very, very long time indeed.

Does it matter if you are not training to actually fly one of these aircraft? I would personally suggest focusing on what feels good. If feeling the undercarriage, flaps, air brakes being deployed puts a smile on your face and makes you feel more connected to the plane, then does it matter that in a real plane it would feel a bit different?

That's actually not true. Typically for every person who complains, there are a lot of people with the same issue who don't bother complaining. And the people who abandon the game will pretty much never complain on the forum, because they have moved on. Of course a company shouldn't make the mistake of trying to solve every complaint, but it's also a mistake to only listen to those who are satisfied. That's one way to look at it. Another way is that a better job might be possible at setting expectations and convincing people that the right decisions are being made. And with the latter, the issue doesn't have to be that the communication is poor, but the decisions can be poor as well, of course. I personally think that flight sim games have been doing a poor job at providing the players with a good single player experience where they have fun things to do. As a result, a lot of players buy games, but not play them as much, or never get into the game in the first place. By growing the consumer base, you can actually have more things (lower prices, more bug fixes and/or more improvements), because more money comes in. I'm seeing some sims respond to this user demand to have more things to do, which at least according to Asobo, is the main thing their players ask for, so the question is whether sims that don't improve on this front, get left behind. What I would do if I was in charge of DCS, would be to invest heavily in a dynamic campaign and somewhat unpredictable AI (in the good way), even if it doesn't get the best return on investment in the short term, but as a way to add value to all modules, and to grow the player base. And I would focus development more on creating a coherent set of aircraft and matching map(s) that fit well together for a certain time period. And I would plan for obsolescence, where either the game engine, or preferably just the plane API's, get frozen and an incompatible game engine or API is introduced. So at that point, one can fix the major outstanding bugs, and then planes should keep working in the same way, albeit without getting improvements. So that would prevent having more and more modules to maintain over time, which doesn't seem sustainable, while players can still enjoy what they bought. But of course ED gets to do what they deem the best and consumers get to choose whether to buy it or not.

This reminds me of the people who paid €3000 for a 3080 during the mining boom, and then expected top dollar on the 2nd hand market later on because they paid so much themselves, completely ignoring how their price compares to other options that buyers have. Ultimately, it doesn't matter how much work you put in. What matters is how much value that product provides to customers compared to other ways they can spend their money. There is never any free dev time. There are only choices what to spend dev time on. You act as if it is out of your hands, but you clearly have a choice to spend more (or less) time on bug fixing versus implementing new features or new modules. What I see a lot of people remark is that they can accept that older modules are built to worse standards, but that there are significant bugs that severely hamper their enjoyment or even cause them to bench the module. In the latter case, those are effectively module-breaking bugs that reduce the value of the module to €0 for them, since they consider it unusable. $50 is a lot of money for new buyers as well, if they discover that they will quickly toss the module aside. Now, I understand that it is probably financially not very rewarding to fix old modules, since the people who complain typically already bought it and won't rebuy it, and you get relatively few new buyers (especially if the price/value proposition is not great anyway). However, I think that you are causing significant harm to your reputation, which seems to typically don't show so much in short term sales, but impact the general willingness of customers to buy things. For example, see the unwillingness by MiG21bisFishbedL to buy WW II modules or the general unwillingness of nessuno0505 to buy new modules. In my view, the best companies make sure that their products match or exceed the expectations caused by the marketing and the price point. From the DCS fanbase I see a lot of disappointment, which at the very least suggests that the expectations are not managed, but also that certain choices may not match what a lot of people want.

Like I said, the option to disable updates doesn't actually disable updates. Microsoft decides what updates they consider critical and they will push them on you regardless of the setting. I would suggest to install the InControl software and locking the windows version to 23H2. Then you can enable automatic updates and let it install all the updates for 23H2. They will continu providing security patches for that version and possibly other fixes until the end of next year. Then once you get the Pimax, you can unlock the version in InControl and let Windows install 24H2 or whatever newer version is then available.

No, automatic updates has not been disabled on your machine. Windows will still do automatic updates even if you choose the setting that pretends to disable them. But for now, these automatic updates should only be security updates, not 24H2. And you should still install those security updates. But Windows will probably get increasingly aggressive over time in forcing 24h2 onto you. You can try modifying registry keys or use Gibson's InControl application to try to prevent 24H2 from installing, while still getting the security updates that you should install.