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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.

I'm having a real hard time with seemingly simple things like maintaining a particular altitude, or consistently flying in the same direction. Seems like the lightest touch on the stick and I'm going north instead of west, or 2500 feet higher. If I so much as touch the rudder pedals, the ball in the slip indicator is pegged. Is this is just because I'm brand new, is this just something I need practice on, or do my controls need recalibrating? I'm using VKB's Gunfighter Mk III stick and Mk IV rudder pedals. In DCS I followed the setup instructions from Chuck's Guide for the P-51. In VKB's own calibration software, AFAIK I haven't changed anything from the defaults, but despite poring over the manual I can't make heads or tails of what all this means:

Is there a non-paywalled version?

Every other company in the field is willing to settle for selling a scuba mask. Whatever faults Pimax has, they're the only one pushing the envelope on FoV. I've had the same doubts and concerns about Pimax as a company, which is why I've been waiting and hoping for someone else--anyone else--in the industry to step up, and I'm pissed as hell that no one has. HP, Vive, Varjo, every few weeks it seems they have a new headset or leaked patents or whatever, and every one is yet another fucking scuba mask. If I scrimp and save I can probably buy an 8KX next spring. Worst case, it does suck after all and I return it for a refund. Best case, I can get the 12K for more than half-off a year later. It doesn't matter if the release date gets pushed a couple quarters, since I couldn't afford it before then anyway, and the credit offer is good for 1 year after the 12K's release.

1. Arctic/northern Scandinavia/Barents Sea, or the GIUK or BALTAP exercise areas: for all the reasons given upthread. Provides a home to several existing modules like Viggen that currently don't have one, new and different (and gorgeous) terrain, easy to repurpose to different eras due to being relatively uninhabited, what everybody else said. Plus I would add that Heatblur's newly-released USS Forrestal was up in that neighborhood for Ocean Safari '87. ETA: also, I like snow. 2. North Adriatic/Balkans/Yugoslavia: again, suits a lot of existing modules, novel and beautiful terrain, and although it would be harder to switch eras here than in the Arctic, northern Italy would make a nice mid-to-late WWII environment. 3. Anything that is not another desert. I personally would also like a 1980s southeastern US map with the major USN training centers like NAS Meridian and Pensacola, but I know that's not going to happen, I'm the only one who wants that.

Who's "they"? Eagle Dynamics?

That looks like quite a setup!

If you ordered through the website then your name is not on that list, that list is all the people who ordered before there WAS a website. And none of the website orders will ship until that list is finished. It's at 425 now, so there's 127 to go before website orders begin shipping.

How did you get 3 buttkickers to work at the same time? I can't even get my PC to let me use one and my mic at the same time. What version of Windows are you running?

I had not, because I'm dumb. I had gotten it into my head somehow that the Tucano was a jet. I'll look into it, thanks!

My #1 wish right now is for a USN primary flight trainer. The T-34 Mentor, T-28 Trojan, or T-6 Texan II, in about that order of preference. Something simple, stable and easy to fly, with the same multiplayer instructor-in-the-back-seat feature as VNAO's T-45.