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If you ever played Battlefield, War Thunder, or many other new Battleground Games / Sims, you know how retarted "Combined Arms'" Map is. In comparison, CA is at least ten years behind! On the other hand, no one can yet surpass DCS air supremacy in its accuracy; it is still the number one! Besides the Map, there are also so many extra side effects of how vehicles explode and many environmental objects are damaged CA has to catch up with. So far no one can surpass combined arms in the accuracy of physical properties, and I miss CA beautiful vehicle cockpit's details that are not available in all those games! I'm aware a completely new engine is needed, so it must be a separate DCS CA.EXE that can be embedded in the DCS User Interface to start with. For enjoying this mixture of DCS physics combined with those contemporary Terrains mentioned above, I'll gladly pay 99$! (Terrain Map Pics attached are from in Battlefield 2042 )

You still did not quite respond to Kappa's remark: "we had a pilot body on BS2 before" The point is not how many times we paid for this module, but when you sell a product with a Pilot, you cannot just delete the pilot later without being in breach of facing refund claims from everyone who once bought the item including a Pilot! It is like buying a Mercedes Benz with an Air Conditioner and after an inspection, you get your car back without an Air Conditioner! What do you call that? Sorry for the tough language, but it used to be my favorite Heli, and I hate flying in an empty cockpit, the reason why I lost interest in flying IL-2 Sturmovik. I can not stress enough how important it is NOT to neglect this 16-year-old product. The pilot in the cockpit is its spirit! Give the Black-Shark back its soul again!

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There must be two settings for the head limitation: 1. When the canopy is closed, the left-right head movements are limited within the canopy glass. 2. When the canopy is open, a new algorithm releases the limitations and the left-right head activity can move beyond the canopy arc, which is necessary for Taxiing.

I have the Black Shark 2 and I was just about to purchase the Black Shark 3 thinking for that extra money they've finally managed to embed a Pilot Body... To my bitter disappointment, the pilot's chair remains unoccupied. So as an act of complaint, I will delay the purchase of Black Shark 3 until DCS finally decides to sew in a pilot body in that chair, where I can realistically check down the Map placed on his leg, which enhances the simulation realism instead of constantly clicking a button for a 2D Map over-screen that ruins the moment. Believe it or not, constantly flying in an empty cockpit without visual awareness of the presence of one's own body, could lead to having a negative psychosomatic side effect, like dreaming of being out of control, trapped flying in a pilotless aircraft remotely controlled to crush into the oblivion of somebody else's nightmare... No Hull-Body in the cockpit is like a paralyzed strapped-in pilot snapped with paraplegia, analog to the mental pilot castration of having a Joy-Stick between his legs, but without the balls bearing being able to touch it...

I'm in the process of expanding the drive and need to replace the 1TB SSD with a 4TB. Will the certificates of my modules be affected? What do I have to do beforehand? Many Thanks in Advance

Hey Phantomas - I think you'll have to order this ET 8K eight Headsets ! Thanks goodness he wont need the 12K...

Three weeks ago at the VR Berlin Pimax Roadshow, I tried the new Pimax CRYSTAL HMD. It has 2 x UHD Displays. (< 4K) Pimax might label it as an 8K, but objectively speaking, it has a GPU total performance of a 5K+. Climbing the 4K to 8K Scala should be multiplied by 4. (4x4 and NOT by adding 4+4) IN COMPARISON TO THE 12K Pimax CRYSTAL Display per Eye: 2.880 x 2.880 = 8.294.400 Pixels Total performance: 5.760 x 2.880 = 16.588.800 Pixels < 6K (or 8.294.400 x 2) Pimax 12K Display per Eye: 5.620 x 2.720 = 15.286.400 Pixels Total performance: 11.240 x 2.720 = 30.572.800 Pixels < 8K (or 15.286.400 x 2) I assume when Pimax says CRYSTAL HMD is based on the same Platform as the 12K, that its display tec has the same PPI density, (Pixel Per Inch) but with a 120° FOV instead of 210°. It could be extended though to 140°, but with a PPD loss (Pixel Per Degree); let alone the Hz Refresh Rate topic, when a FPS discussion is required. CRYSTAL has indeed the best clear and crystal view between all other Pimax HMD I have tried before! This is due to its Aspheric lenses instead of the common Fresnel lenses. I flew the F/A-18C Hornet and I could read trouble-free all small details in its display without having to zoom or to lean forward. Therefore, for all Pimax Fans who prefer clarity in favor of FPS and FOV; this is IT! PS. Do not get misguided on the resolution perception subject, by comparing the HMD total resolution 5K, 8K or 12K etc. Always check the characteristics of the one Eye PPI display and its PPD distance watching! Adding the sum of two eyes displays DOES NOT ENHANCE the optical resolution perception, it only extend the 2D FOV in 3D Field Of View. Yet stereo display view does boost the Display brightness and contrast level. In other words: The resolution remains the same, if you are watching a 4K display with one or two eyes, or watching two 4K displays appropriately in stereo with two eyes. Even watching 8 separate displays with 8 separate eyes like our terrestrial spiders does not maximize the 4K resolution perception of them all; IT REMAINS 4K! Only the dimension differs from 2D > 3D. (I’m not sure if by having 4 eyes, like some other alien biological entities out there, it would boost us into the fourth dimension?!) I guess we'll have to ask ET

Do not worry about this alleged 75 million pixels The so-called PIMAX 12K QLED real resolutions performance is in fact less than a real 8K! Pimax data per eye display: 5,620 x 2,720 = 15,286,400 Pixels (> 5k / <5K+) X 2 = 30,572,800 < HUXGA 30,720,000 = HUXGA 33,177,600 = FUHD 35,389,440 = 8K 79,626,240 = 12K PIMAX 12K QLED is: 4,816,640 Pixels less than 8K and 49,053,440 Pixels less than 12K

Pimax Crystal Launch along with all sorts of technical details and some updated news regarding the 12K QLED development progress

The Italian Piaggio P.108 carries the BIGGEST 102 mm Cannon for Airplane! Shooting Tanks with it will be fun

The Key-Command "Show Pilot Body" (R-Shift+P) is there but that damn Body never shows up... It's about time a pilot should fill that Cockpit!

A very elaborated feedback! Thanks... On the other hand, talking about the CPU 1 core Engine DCS is using: Isn't it about time DCS gets its CPU an extension! With all the modules, assets, mods, etc, it's a miracle and a great achievement how with one core DCS manages to get the job done. I fear soon the DCS One-Piston-Engine will soon crash against the digital sound barrier and won't keep pace with the complexities of the future sixth-generation digital fighters.

How right you are! The normal consumer is being fooled again and again! Starting with how Ultra High Definition been soled as 4K: UHD* = 8.294.400 Million Pixels ...but the real 4K = 8.847.360 Million Pixels (difference = 552.96 MP) Pimax Specs on their own 8K X are: 3840*2160*2 = 8.294.400 MP (*UHD) *2 = 16.588.800 MP and they sell you this as 8K, which is in fact less than the half of 8K! real 8K = 35.389.440 MP! Again the same propaganda for 12K, where the Pimax estimated 18.6 MP per-eye (5.760 x 3.240) *2 = 37.324.800 MP But 12K = 79.626.240 MP So the Pimax 12K is in fact slightly above the real 8K! Running a Benchmark Test for my NVIDIA 2080 Ti with an 8K Gameplay delivers an average of 42 FPS. So we don't have to worry if your GPU (above the 2080 Ti series) can cope with the Pimax's alleged 12K, when it suffices the 8Ks. Everything above the NVIDIA 2080 Ti will handle this Pimax "alleged 12K", (in fact 8K+) with an average of > 44 FPS. I presume the RTX 3090 Ti can reach the 60 FPS. I made the following Excel sheet with all needed Info on Display Resolution from 2K to 16K:

Intriguing stuff indeed! Here's a good Flight Sim News article about the NOR platform. Also Jabbers' Video "WHAT I KNOW ... and don't know | Meta Immersive Synthetics | The NOR Platform Preview" summarises it well.

Any news on the pushback mechanism for parking on deck?

Yeppp, forgot about that... Isn't it about time DCS gets its CPU an extension! With all the modules, assets, mods, etc, it's a miracle how with one core they manage to get the job done. I fear soon the DCS One Piston Engine will soon crash against the digital sound barrier and won't keep pace with the complexities of the future sixth-generation digital fighters.

AMD Ryzen 9_5950X might do the job: Clock frequency: 3,40 GHz CPU Cores: 16 Turbo: 4,90 GHz CPU Threads: 32 ...and as dburne mentioned: By the time Pimax 12k headset comes out probably there will be at least 24 Cores CPU's.

...just due to the fact UE has been neglecting VR support, I've already put this thing on ice... Nevertheless LucShep Link is worth to see!

Wooo, that's definitely bad news! Didn't know that. Neglecting VR support is a wrong policy. Seems like I have to withdraw my UE5 recommendation to the bench until they reconsider focusing on VR. Till then, to be held on standby...

Well I guess my CPU Intel-i9-9900K and GPU RTX-2080Ti are too humble to cope with that... I think I'll be needing a brand new High-End PC to shake hands with this Pimax innovation! Question: Can the current NVIDEA RTX 3090 handle the 12K @ 200Hz?

If an IT programmer is lektionning, I will advocate for more pragmatically applied evidence to back up these arguments, otherwise we're just keep on randomally stalling in love of contradiction, because that's the name of the game: a trolling redundant mechanism in the system for the sole purpose of own self-preservation...

If that's a Prophecy, I won't say amen to that because I'm confident ED is evolving in the best interest to make DCS a better place for flying... So it's not about guessing if the Oracle will overdue the Matrix, but shier if UE5 keeps what it is promising for.

Good Info