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AFAIK, Virpil stated that they won´t produce the original CM50 anymore and the restock in, i think, November 2019 was the last chance to get some of them.

I don´t need... i want.

IMO the question is not what you prefer, but what you are willing to do. If you choose the open beta, you should be aware that you accept the fact of beeing a paying beta tester, instead of a targeted customer in the first place. This means you should be willing to report bugs and provide trackfiles if needed to help developing the game and speed up the release of patches to the stable version. So if you´re willing to do so and/or prefer MP, go for open beta. If not and you just want to fly and enjoy the sim, you should go for stable.

F-117A Nighthawk May not be enjoyed by everyone as a pure ground pounder with very limited loadout, but propably the only Stealth aircraft old enough (and out of service) to have a least a tiny small chance to be represented in DCS in the next few years. And i´d love to try that thing out in SAM flooded envroinments on a study level sim...

Ok, thanks for the answer. I just thought that the AN/APG-73 may not be able to handle the D... or at least unable to use it´s full potential, related to limitations compared to the AN/APG-79 of the Super Hornets...

Yes, getting in and out of the cockpit would be great for immersion. Maybe some additional animations for pre-flight check on the ground as well.

Is the D-Model even beeing implemented to Legacy Hornets in RL, or is it Super Hornet exclusive?

I´m running open beta since the Hornet started EA and my game rarely crashes. And if, mostly in the mission editor. Don´t wanna lie, but i´d say it didn´t crash more than 2 or 3 times during flight in 2019, wich is absolutely acceptable for open beta. This may be system related and there are of course more bugs in general, but for me the open beta is still a enjoyable game experience. The point about using open beta is, that ppl should be aware they agree with beeing a paying beta tester helping to develope the game in the first place, instead of beeing a targeted customer. Therefore ppl should be willing to report bugs and deliver trackfiles if needed in order to help the devs fixing these. Besides MP servers, if you´re willing to do so and supply the devs with bug reports you should go for open beta. If not, go for stable.

The Hornet is more polished and very much mission capable, while the Viper still needs to catch up. I own both and fly the Hornet in 99% of the time, it´s a great aircraft and a module well worth to purchase. The Vipers developement stage may lead to negative training, wich is why i avoid flying it at this point. I´d suggest getting the Hornet first and the Viper in 5-7 months. If you don´t own the persian gulf map, go for the Hornet+PG bundle and then pre-purchase the supercarrier with a 50% "Hornet owner" discount. This way you´ll get most out of your money.

Glad i could help you out. Good luck with your project! Cheers

I don´t think so. Maybe via some kind of script, but afaik Target does only detect TM devices.

Yes, that´s correct. You can place the base plate on a flat surface without any issues. You can also use the original TM screws, they fit perfectly. I for myself purchased new screws that are slightly longer but still fit, as i find the TM screws a little bit short. The screws i used are M4 x 7 mm and need a hex key instead of a screwdriver, as you can see on the attached pictures. edit: Well yes, Virpils shipping costs are horrible. Especially overseas, but even to germany (wich is around the corner compared to north america) they take 20€ for shipping. I made sure to have at least items for 60-80€ in the cart everytime i ordered something from them, so it´s worth the shipping costs. But if you don´t need anything else than a 10 or 20€ item it´s realy a pain to order from Virpil. But their products are state of the art, no doubt.

What you could do instead is mount your TM base to the universal baseplate i mentioned above, then mount it to your flight sim pit. Drill 4 holes that a slightly bigger than the holes on the plate to have some tolerance. 3/4" is about 19mm, the base plate has about 3mm. 25 or 30mm screws will match and should be pretty easy to get on your local hardware store.

The SC is originally around 50€. I assume ED made it ~32€ for pre-purchase without the Hornet because Steam does not allow a discount on pre-purchase. The 20% discount in your inventory is for the Hornet. So in fact, you got the full discount at ~26€ while it´s just splitted to a Hornet discount voucher and a 30% lower pre-purchase price compared to the ED shop. That´s my interpretation...

Nevermind, things can happen...

Uhm nope, read the comments again. I´m a Steam user and he came over here to troll around.

My fault. I feed the troll...

Correction, not yet in the F-16. The F/A-18 does already have that feature.

Looks great. Please realize it:worthy:

I have my TV as standard screen connected to my PC. My 5.1 sound system is plugged in my PC soundcard and my headset plugged in my TV. For the headphone (and VoIP) channel i have the TV selected as output device and for the rest have the PC soundcard selected as output device. Works great, warning sounds and radio calls on my headset, engine and other envroinment sounds on my 5.1 sound system. edit: And got the TV selected as output device for external VoIP software as well, to keep the immersion for MP

The Hornet is a great and versatile entry into full fidelity aircraft and now is the best time to get it. As stated above, get the Hornet+Persian Gulf bundle and then the supercarrier on 50% discount. If you prefer naval ops or not, you won´t regret it. Just be aware that the SC is on pre-purchase and will approximately be relased at the end of Q1. The Hornet is not finished yet and still missing some features, but it´s very much mission capable and a dream to fly.

The 30% cut is not such a big disadvantage for software developers, as some people want to make believe, since they sell way more games via Steam than they would stand alone. Otherwise EA would stay off Steam. They don´t sell cars, where they would have to sell each car for a price that exceeds the production costs of one unit in order not to loose money. Software devs sell only copies of their product and the price they take for it is pretty unimportant. They just need to sell enough of them in order to make profit. At a 50% discount for each copy, they simply need to sell double the copies and will still have profit unlike i.e. a car manufactor. There weren´t that much discounts on Steam about 10 years ago. Until Valve did a long term research about discounts and they learned, the higher the discount, the more games they sell. At a 50% discount, they sold 6 times more games making triple the money. After that, Valve started to have massive discounts in short intervalls. So the claim, discounts are bad for software developers is a myth and nothing more. The total opposite is fact. I´m downloading updates for all of my Steam games with about 40 (fourty) MB/s on a 400Mbit connection. What again is your standalone download speed for DCS updates?:lol: Calling us fanboys, because we prefer a Ferrari over a Ford Fiesta on a no speed limit highway? You´re the man sherlock, you totally got it! :megalol:

I haven´t tried 10 or 15cm with the standard spring, but with the Virpil 20cm (s-type) extension only and TM Hornet grip on top, the spring of the WH base struggles to recenter the stick and with the even heavier WH grip attached, it doesen´t recenter at all. I´m now using the WH base with Sahaj´s blue spring and Virpil 10cm extension + 5cm extension + 20cm s-type extension with Hornet grip on top and it´s okay. Sahaj offers the red spring for 10-20cm extensions and i would highly recommend that for you. And if switching springs anyways, Sahaj´s silicone rings are also worth a look. Can only recommend them, the original rubber ring wears out relatively fast and silicone has a much longer lifetime...

I´d suggest the universal base plate from Virpil. I use two of them, one for my WarBRD base and one for my TM base

100% agree with that. Also Steam provides fast download servers, sales with up to 90% discount, formidable community and modding support (i.e. Steam-Workshop), easy swap from stable to alpha/beta versions and a lot more, most stand alone game users can only dream of. This can only come from someone who never touched Steam. Plain and simple. Back in the very first days when Valve released Half-Life 2, i remember Steam to be horrible. But the platform evolved greatly over the years and i don´t wanna miss it anymore. I strictly stopped purchasing PC games outside of steam years ago and this won´t change. I realy don´t care about if it would be better for the devs (sorry for that, but i´m not Mother Theresa and at least i´m honest), because Steam is better for me. And that´s what counts in the end of the day. If ED or any other dev/publisher would not massivly benefit from Steam, no one would pay the 30% cut Valve takes from them. Electronic Arts (wich is by far bigger than ED) left Steam behind in 2012 because of the 30% cut and is now coming back to Steam with all of their games, admitting that their own platform (Origin) cannot compete with Steam and that it was one of their worst decisions to leave. EA had to learn it the hard way. According to steamspy, all Steam users together have a complete playtime in 2019 of 92 million years. This prooves Steam to be by far the most important games marketplace in the world and that every dev/publisher very much benefits from Steam, while Steam beeing at the same time highly customer friendly. edit: Another thing i realy love is the fact, that i can just copy/paste my complete Steam folder to another SSD or even a different PC and all the games will perfectly run without reinstall. This feature is steam exclusive afaik.