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Not necessarily, since the newsletter said "current and future regional maps". (emphasis mine.) There's nothing to indicate any actual work has begun yet.

If it includes NAS Meridian and NAS Pensacola you've got my vote.

I'd really love either the T-2 or TA-4 for jet trainers, and the T-34 or T-28 for turboprops. All the advantages of the T-38 and T-6, plus compatibility with the Supercarrier module. The T-45 is too modern for my taste. The A-4 community mod is fantastic, but the makers are pretty adamant that they won't consider doing any additional variants.

Even if you're right, I don't want to miss out on Pimax's trade-in offer, which means I need to buy the 8KX this year. Also, while my current fps isn't great, I can live with it, but the scuba-mask FoV frustrates me every time I wipe out my rudder and elevators.

Maybe I've got it wrong, but my understanding is that a 4.0 card in a 3.0 slot would be bottlenecked by the 3.0 architecture's slower maximum speed. It would work, in the sense that the PC would still boot up, but there wouldn't be any improvement in performance. If I've got that wrong, yay, because that makes upgrading cheaper. Although I kinda wanna find the money somehow to do this upgrade anyway, because the motherboard I've found looks freakin rad.

This I disagree with. I think they would very much like to bring it out, they just can't get some part or resource they need. They've all but said as much in their forums. They'll bring it out as soon as they possibly can.

Hmmm... based on that thread it sounds like there's at least a chance it'll give me some performance gain. Unlike most of the people in that thread, my current experience of DCS is GPU-bottlenecked. My CPU is an i9-9900KF overclocked to 5.0Ghz, and it's usually running at ~35% according to fpsVR, while my GPU, a 2080 Super, is always maxed out. I've tried overclocking the GPU using 2 different programs, and didn't see any performance gains. And I expect switching from my current Index to an 8KX is only going to make that worse. Upgrading the graphics card isn't an option. AFAICT I wouldn't be able to get a faster card without also upgrading my motherboard and CPU, thanks to the change from PCIe 3.0 to 4.0. I can just barely afford the Pimax, I can't afford that. So I need to get the best performance I can out of the current card, hence my interest in the eye-tracking module.

At this point I don't think even VKB knows. Reading between the lines, I think supply chain problems have them stymied.

I am going to pull the trigger on an 8KX this spring. Is it worth getting the eye-tracking module? Does that do anything for DCS in particular? ETA: if it's relevant, I use SteamVR.

None that I could find. I've seen various commenters say that Magnitude is working on an AI Zero to go with the Corsair, but I've been unable to find anything from Magnitude themselves confirming that. And that strikes me as a weird omission. Whether they're doing a Zero or not, either way I'd expect them to mention that they're doing it or not doing it. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions, but between the odd radio silence and that interview with BigNewy back in October (@33:49) where he said, "We're gonna go east, we're gonna go Japan" for the next warbird after the Mossie--all of a sudden I wonder if ED is doing a Zero, and that's why Magnitude is not even mentioning an AI, because of an NDA or something.

All reasons this'll be a day-one buy for me even though I have no interest in the Falklands in particular.

And the counter-argument is also as old as time: resources are finite, and time spend on one thing means time not spent on another. Of course people can and should say they want X, and other people can and should say "I don't want resources spend on X, do Y or Z instead". Both are lobbying for what they want, and neither are doing anything wrong. It's a competition, because both sides can't get what they want, but it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be an antagonistic one, on either side. I'd rather ED not spend resources on a '17, because another company is already making one ('24 too) and there are other things I want ED to do instead. ETA: now a B-25, on the other hand, I could get behind that.

Ditto. All my TF-51 tutorial missions were counted as failures even though I completed them, and I had no idea why.

I think that was it. There were two "vjoy" columns that also had the axes mapped to them. Once I deleted them the aircraft handled noticeably different. I'm still having some trouble, but I think that just comes down to inexperience.

Given we're getting the WWII Marianas map next year, and the CEO has reportedly said he wants one, I'm putting my quatloos on the reveal being a Hellcat.