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GV's just started building mine and he had the parts in hand for two as of close last night. GVL224 game devices to order

I'd see if the lenses are swappable.

I can offer input only on what I own (a buttload of Virpil stuff) and what I've heard about WinWing (atrocious customer support). Virpil kit is stellar, both the hardware and the software. I guess it costs more because it's made in Europe, not china, but you get what you pay for. Oh, nearly forgot to mention a comment I read under a YT video a few hours ago, some guy had a board blow, well out of warranty; Virpil sent him a new board, free of charge. THAT's customer service.

Rk, please check your PMs dude, I messaged you a few days ago.

If it does turn up I'll tell them and ask for a pre-paid shipping label and collection from home. Failing that I'll give it away.

Well, two different depts have emailed me to say the refund has been issued, so I'm not sweating it.

Refund has been issued.

I don't want it to.

As mentioned above, I tried OBS-Studio but it also trashed stuff (in VR). The best solution I've found is to save the track after a mission and then record the playback (so far with Bandicam).

They got me back into my account and in there it still says the order is "processing". They've ignored my refund request so far though.

Still no heat test unfortunately.

Hi Virus. What motors does your FFBeast have in it? 35nm or 45nm?

I have two LFEs running from a 750w amp and they are superb. Crown XLS 2502 amp. I don't know if there are other ways to set them up but I run mine from a dedicated soundcard (CL Fatality). Audio runs from the mobo.

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The best takeaway from the latest video was Vaal's promise that all the support staff will be trained to regard the customer's best interests as the primary concern. It'll be interesting to see how that manifests in the coming months (and most likely put to the test when the Super reaches the shelves).

Oh, and their website support-page has now been down "for maintenance" since yesterday morning.

Simple observation/calculation, born of long hard experience over decades: NEVER assume anything a company does is for the benefit of its customers. And that in spades when a company has behaved as badly as this one has. Too cynical? Allow me to quote the great Bertrand Russel: "The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who do not have it". Pimax, to be regarded as a Great White in a swimming-pool. Lol.

As I understand it, they're doing it as a way of getting around people doing credit-card charge-backs. In my opinion this is the water-shed moment at which this company needs to go under, for the protection of all potential consumers. The very idea that a paid or unpaid membership is required in order to own a discrete material object is patently absurd. There is absolutely ZERO upside, benefit or advantage for the consumer, only the opposite.

I'd like to believe that if their component quality (and QC thereof) was largely sound, their support would be too, on account of not being overwhelmed by more units being RMAd than kept. But this seems to be where everything has broken down. Support is overwhelmed (probably at the financial level) and the response has been to resort to chicanery instead of transparency. Yes, we get it, transparency would cost sales too but so does chicanery and almost certainly MORE so. For those that stick with it, trust is everything. Lose that, lose the whole shebang.

I went beast-hunting (lol), only to discover I'd already pre-ordered it some time ago (not a clue when). I've updated the order but there is no indication how long the wait-list is for pre-assembled units. Anyone know? Oh, just to chime in on the force debate...makes obvious sense to me, get the biggest and strongest of anything, even if your use-case won't demand full-fat performance. Hence The Beast.

*Sigh*. Is there any let-up from this kind of experience? I put my order in on the 1st November and it did say "4 to 6 weeks until shipment". No problemo, until I began reading reports of people who had ordered AFTER me already having their gear, explained as a result of them having chased-up their order. So, of course, I chased up mine. I got a reply, apologising for the delay but explaining it as due to a shipment of parts at their end having been delayed, with a promise my stuff would be shipped on the 25th (yesterday). I went to have a look at my account yesterday, only to be unable to login due to "wrong password". I know for an absolute fact my password was correct but hey, glitches happen. So, I hit the "forgotten password" button, message given of "link sent to your email" but it never came. Two more attempts, nada. Not in the spam folder either. Emailed them, no reply but I did get an email this morning from their ecommerce dept with a discount code for future purchases and hoping everything on my previous order had gone well. No, it hasn't. No base, no grip, no extension and no mounting-plate. I've emailed with a request for a full refund, failure of which by tomorrow morning will lead to a card charge-back. I used to have a lot more patience with this kind of crap behaviour but those days are long gone.

No, none of that is right. The only time the stick should be in any way 'floppy' is parked on the ground or at the top of a vertical climb and static in the air. But is it hardware or software or user-error? Best advice, engage with their support and see if they can provide a solution before giving up.

More corporate waffle. Jaap posted a hand-wringing apology in the comments there, "not how we're supposed to be, internal communication error yada yada", only for some guy to comment how he was threatened in PMs on your Discord by Jaap because he advised somebody else to cut his losses and get a refund. The general consensus now is that this behaviour is most certainly company policy and when we see a line like the one above, that absolutely REEKS of insincerity..."we want to express our sincere gratitude to Mark for his honesty" we know exactly how not-wrong we are. Lol. Gratitude? Say what? For getting angry enough to speak his mind in a video? Like he was doing you an intentional service? And "being honest"? Did you go on a corporate training jolly to learn how to produce sentences like that? Why don't you go through all the comments under that video, identify the large number of other Pimax customers who are reporting how they've been screwed over too and make them whole as well? Or is the soothing grease only for the VERY squeaky wheels?

If you read the blurb for each of the models you'll see the new motors and gearboxes specifically mentioned for the Flight and Heli ones. That goes for both H and P versions.

F4, hold right mouse button and WASD (that's default on my install, I've never messed with them before). Talk about a hidden feature.