Mistermann

Absolutely. Amen, Devil. As the newcomer to the group all I can say is Zipper will be missed greatly. The missing man formation takes on a whole new meaning for me. He welcomed me to the group some 2 years ago and made me feel part of the team immediately. So happy my work travels allowed us to meet in person. RIP, brother Zipper.

And modern jets only. No cold war, no WW2.

As the guy who creates this stuff, No.

Not just incomplete, but broken. I have a small group of friends that play on my private server and VOIP hasn't worked for a number of us since its release. I honestly don't understand how a single guy (ciribob) can code, test, release and maintain a custom solution (SRS) for all these years and ED cannot (or won't). As far as I'm concerned, it's a choice. Like many "features" they release, VOIP is an MVP (minimally viable product) with emphasis on Minimal. This approach creates technical and feature debt that often never gets addressed. In the case of VOIP, at least we have a working, feature rich solution called SRS. Save yourself a headache. Install SRS from GitHub and don't look back.

It IS possible. There are some excellent MP(1+ player) campaigns out there in files area that rival any paid content available. These aren't "dumbed down" at all. I'm aware of content for Hornet, Apache and Kiowa. My group of friends has enjoyed this content immensely. As far as someone releasing payware campaigns geared for multiple players, I don't see it happening. There are many triggers that either won't work in a MP environment or must be changed to accommodate the possibility of a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th player. Multicrew adds another wrinkle.... As someone who's written more than one MP campaign, I can attest it isn't easy. I just don't see any mainstream payware campaign creators signing up for the exponential level of effort without exploring a significant increase in campaign price.

I thought ED already announced the DC was a single player experience - period. That it was never intended for MP and would never support a co-op MP experience. Am I remembering this incorrectly?

Absolutely. We do it all the time in "Into The Jungle". I think you may need to select start from ground.

Save yourself the headache and install SRS. DCS VOIP has been broken since release in one way or another. Has never worked properly for me. Amazing that SRS, created and maintained by a single individual, simply "works" and ED can't or won't fix theirs. Waste of ED dev talent as far as I'm concerned.

Taz hasn't been on the forum in more than a year.

You can undo it now that ED rolled the API change back in today's patch.

Thank you for considering the community perspective. I hope you guys consider involving @cfrag and some of the other vocal community members on next steps. The decision to roll this back gives me hope you want to do this the right way. Thank you.

Well a hotfix was just announced. Hopefully they roll back this ridiculous approach and take some advice from @cfrag.

Totally understand. EDs ponzi scheme is approaching the cliff every ponzi scheme hits. Sorry to read this, ch. Lots of us are in VERY similar headspaces. EDs end is approaching and it appears they are blissfully unaware or simply don't care. Heck, I just installed that other sim and am getting the hotas and VR setup.

Based on how m3 responded in the main f4u folder to my inquiry there, I'd suggest they feel the "professional recordings" they have are adequate and only need some gain and volume tweaks to properly represent the Corsair. They also seemed a little chippy about having to pay for sound engineering experts. At least that's how I interpreted the response.

I personally think that's the healthy way of thinking about the Super carrier and a whole slew of unfulfilled/unfinished content across all of DCS.