Johnny Dioxin

Indeed, I bought it a while ago - however it has not been released. I checked the article again last night to check I had my facts straight and they clearly state that the module was released.

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but last night I was reading the current PC Pilot, in which they said that Heatblur had announced the early access release of the F-4E phantom! At first I thought they had simply worded it wrong, by mistake, but no - they seemed to be implying that one could buy it now! Wonder if they'll clear that up in the next issue.... Of course, by then it may well be accurate!

Music to my old ears!

Since I got the 4080 my DCS experience has been transformed in VR (coming from the 2080Ti). Really up to you and want you want to shell out, but the 4080 is well up to it.

Not that small that my shoulder would stick through the cockpit wall though! Seriously, I have to lean right over to the right to even see anything on the left wall, let alone try and operate it.

Anyone else finding the cockpit is unbelievably small in VR? I've not had this issue with any other DCS modules. just bought the Mossie and P-47D - the Jug looks fine, but the Mossie is very small. If I were actually sat as displayed in VR, my shoulder would stick out the side of the cockpit! The wings and engine do look pretty small, too - having flown Mossies in other sims so having a point of comparison as well.

Just like to tell of my experience regarding the Index cable to maybe help others decide on spending that £119 for a new one. I've been putting up with noise on my screens and crackling audio for months. I was never able to convince myself to spend the £119 on that new cable in case something else was to blame. I tried cleaning up the earphone connections, checked and cleaned the plugs and sockets of the cable but these had just a minor effect on the issue. I wondered if perhaps it was the environment, with many controller cables and other semi-essential stuff laying around in addition to my music and radio kit. Was it the 'Trident' section alone? I'd had a new cable from Valve support a couple of years ago which hadn't included the 'trident' bit. However, the only Trident cables I could find were already over £60 alone. This went on for month after month and I found myself using Index less and less. I had a daily session of In Death for an hour a day(for arm exercise - helps me push my wheelchair!) and that was it. I even stopped that a month or two ago. Anyway, after a discussion with SWMBO I caved and bought a new cable - which now includes the 'trident' bit at the end. As you've probably guessed by now, it was the right thing and I should have done it last year already! The difference is gobsmacking. So my message to you is "Just Do It!" Unless there is something obviously amiss with some other part of your set-up, take the (admittedly relatively small) financial jab and buy that cable from Valve. Even if it turns out not to be the cause of your current issues, you will almost certainly need it at some point - and who knows how long new ones will be available for us (as shown by Oculus - as was- when they ditched the Rift CV1 and left many, many owners unable to get new cables). Just do it!

Has anyone found a way to stop or divert the fan airflow in the headset? In sims I generally tend to peer more intently into the lenses, which makes my eyes even more susceptible to drying than they already are with my Sjørgrens Syndrome, which makes my eyes ache and stops me using VR. Apparently there was an app to do this, but ByteDance had it shut down and removed - then I was shown to a Chinese settings app on GitHub but that didn't include the fan. I tried blocking most of the openings between the lenses in the lower section, with white tack - but this didn't seem to make any difference at all. This is very important to me if I'm to continue using the Pico 4 in DCS World. Let's face it, the graphics are better than all other headsets at a similar price.

Endless hours of fun in the area playing 2nd Fleet wargame in my early 20's. Awesome.

Probably a dead issue, pretty much, but I'd say the Med, with the outline coastline surrounding it and the entry from the Atlantic. Probably too large an area, but would cover many scenarios. Apart from that, Iceland comes to mind, for obvious reasons.

That would bring me to a line of thinking that may be unpopular (especially with Razbam) but: Go back to the initial announcement of a Harrier being made for DCS by Razbam. There was a possibility of either a GR.7 or an AV-8B. Now I was pretty sure from square 1 what was coming (AV-8B), but was gobsmacked when they put up a poll to see what people wanted. I was amazed (but pleased) when the GR.7 came out on top. But we got the AV-8B anyway. I was sure the AV-8B would be made from the start (before the poll) because, well it's a US aircraft and they probably make up the larger amount of customers (plus those who always go US etc) and when the poll came up, I thought we'd get that as the result. I know Razbam came up with some reasoning for making the AV-8B instead, but I've got to say I don't really buy it. Surely, any half-competent developer (which they must be) would have checked on these things before making any kind of announcement of intent or even a poll to ask if customers wanted it? I think they were expecting the AV-8B to win, hands-down, too, and so it didn't matter. Why do the poll in the first place, then? Dunno - maybe they thought there would be some backlash about it being an original British thing, really don't know. I must confess that after the GR.7 was chosen in the poll and the news came out they weren't doing it I lost interest in reading any more about it - just waited until the module was available - still day 1 buy, cos it's a Harrier! Point I'm trying to make is that a) they don't have a record of making sound "roadmap" decisions, and b) their products as a group, don't seem to follow any kind of logic. Seems to be what they want to build, rather than any kind of "let's do scenario A and build the things involved in that scenario". So pretty much what Mr Smith is saying about DCS as a whole. Now I'm heading for my bunker...

People do forget one important factor for the dev's - they have to want to do it

Not in-sim, no. You'd have to use an external utility, of which there are a few and everyone has their favourite.

People have been complaining about it for many years, I doubt anything will change. I thought it had been fixed a while back, but seems not.

As a growing lad, when I started getting into aircraft and model building in the early 70's, this was my favourite - for many years. Goes without saying it'll be a release day purchase. Looks great.

Would have been a better idea to mention that in your post - but I don't know about the Steam version as I've never used it - better off asking support on the ED shop page. edit: There's the Steam support forum right here: https://forum.dcs.world/forum/284-steam-support/ or you can ask about the shop price and sale in the same section - just go to the other support threads.

I was looking for info on the Hellcat, with the upcoming model for DCS, and found an excellent article on the Key publishing website - some of you may know the site or publisher from their PC Pilot and other publications (here's looking at you, BeachAV8R). I spotted the subscription offer and had a look and was completely gobsmacked to find that you can have a sub for online access to all of their aircraft magazines and online articles for just £5.99 a month or £64.99 per year- that's a hell of an offer! Needless to say, I subbed straight away! You get access to: Air International Aviation Air Forces Monthly Aeroplane Airliner World Combat Aircraft Flypast PC Pilot plus videos, articles, a forum etc on the site. Now I have enough bedtime & waiting room reading to last a lifetime (okay, there's not so much of that left, but still...) I'm not sure about posting links to such things and forum rules, so I'll leave you to find it - just search for Key.Aero and it will show up.

I keep DCS 1.5.8 installed in addition to the current version. I use it for flying the Hawk, for flying campaigns that have since got bugged by updates and for the great VR performance - plus I like how Caucasus looked then, compared to how it is in VR now. I just reinstalled Windows after upgrading to better hardware but am finding that my DLC campaigns are missing - and when I select them in the module manager, I get a CTD. I've kept the 1.5.8 install since 2.5 - I have it backed up externally and after each upgrade or reinstall of windows, I've simply copied across the main directory and vital bits of the User folders (missions, input, views) and it's been fine. Now my DLC campaigns are gone - previously I had all but two campaigns installed for this version, so I really don't know how this happened. I'm guessing ED aren't 'supporting' that version, which would probably in their speak mean being unable to download anything from it, but that's just a guess. This is probably why my sim is CTD when it tries (though why does it offer to do so in the first place, then?). Anyone know for sure?

How about HMS Indomitable? Learn to land on a bench top instead of a football field! Nice article - also with photo of FAA Hellcat on the Indomitable... https://www.key.aero/article/how-grumman-hellcat-proved-be-powerful-weapon

I doubt it - at $19.99 you're already getting it at well under the full module price of $69.99

I just downloaded (with Waterfox/Firefox) - all working as it should. PS - @crazyeddie I had that sort of error on other archive downloads - usually means the download is corrupted.

No - I did look for it but didn't find one, so used the 2.8 one. Thanks for the link

Seems it won't work with 2.9 - getting a crash for instant mission (cold and dark) and own mission from the editor. Hopefully get an update at some stage.

@MAXsenna - I was referring to this:

A perfect example of why I still keep 1.5.8 on my PC and occasionally fly missions and campaigns on it! Though I can't remember if this particular campaign was around then - there are definitely a few that are well bugged now but weren't then.