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Apologies if I sounded harsh. My point is that we'll never get perfection, or anything remotely close in many cases, but we will get enough to make for enjoyable flying. I'm happy with the WWII Assets pack. I think I paid about $10 and I definitely got my money's worth considering how often I use it.

Yes. Just like the rest of us. Or you could not buy it. Completely up to you. It is what it is and what you make of it. I just want to have as many enjoyable flights as possible and if that means another $10 or $15 for some PTO assets, so be it. I want as big and fat and fancy a flightsim experience as I can get and I'm well aware it's not going to happen for free.

You young'uns. Quit yer whining.

Then again the flightsim representations of the PTO, at least at this moment, are weak to non-existent. There might be other stuff on the (distant) horizon elsewhere, but DCS has the pre-existing footprint. If we get funky carrier action and Hellcats and Corsairs and even AI Japanese planes and assets in something approaching a cohesive package, that's a great big fat flightsim thing and might be very alluring to a chunk of flyers. I'm not a huge PTO guy, but there's no way I'm passing up Hellcats and Zeros with top shelf eye candy. That's some flying fun I want a piece of.

If there's one statement from ED that I trust as if it came from Heaven on High, it's when they say, regarding anything, that "it will take years". I have complete confidence in them on that issue.

Shades of Captain Sim.

And Steam accepts returns. So if you have the main site install and a Steam install, you get the free trials and the conveniences of Steam. I have no complaints. I've bought and retuned four modules, I think, and re-purchased all but one of them. That's a nice convenience to have. I don't misuse it as a substitute free trial, but I like that I can buy something just released that I want, and if I have an instant "Bleah!" reaction, I can return it.

Steam has it's own advantages. I'm sticking with it.

As stated, just have a second install from the main site and use that for the free trials. I've been doing that for years. No muss, no fuss.

Glorious!

Somewhere maybe. That was in the 90s. Now this is gratuitous banter, but since you mentioned a sense of humour... At that same airshow, people had to walk down a taxiway to get from here to there. At one point there were cables going across the taxiway covered by a piece of metal. At that spot beside the taxiway were some bleachers with some air force guys sitting on them. And being a bit of a tool, obviously I tripped on the metal thing covering the wires, and the Air Force guys started cheering and held up signs with 8.1 7.2 9.0. They were scoring everyone that tripped. Florida is funny.

Reminds of being at an airshow at the McDill AFB in Tampa years back, and the was an F-117 on display. It was roped off, there was a sign with some info, chocks on the ground, a ladder going up the cockpit...... but no plane.

I'll give a bit, and maybe see if it downloaded and I missed it somehow, and then I'll do that. I'll check the update in the game too. Thank for getting back to me. Edit: It says - "Installed content updated: Feb 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM" Must have been a small update and maybe I cleared it without knowing. Sorry about the bother.

I don't really know what that means, but I've never missed seeing an update before, even if it took a few hours to appear. No complaints. Just saying. .

Still haven't seen this update on my Steam DCS yet.

A nice RCAF skin. Please.

I have to score a 2TB NVME drive. My 1TB DCS only drive is bursting at the seams. Had to uninstall a few maps but I own them all so my sig is good. And even then I'm at 830GB. This is a rather large game. Waiting for the 2 TB Samsung drives to go below $200 again.

You're welcome.

If we are going to generalize, then it would be safe to say "most players" would like ED and RB to kiss and make up and for the F-15E to get a year's worth of updates all at once. I feel like I'm on solid ground with that one.

That's perhaps too large a brush to paint "most players" with. You have no idea how most players fly. Other than to say most players enjoy flying, the rest is guesswork at best and maybe a bit presumptuous at worst.

Yep! I've always enjoyed the Harrier. It's a ton of fun.

If you're not that bright with the tech stuff and registry edits and whatever- and that would be me - is there any real advantage to going through the rigamarole of getting DLSS 4 working?

Not sure what I'm thinking to be honest. But if DLSS works on my 4070, good.

Isn't DLSS 4 only for the 5000 series of GPUs?

I wonder if this is to help entice some of the children over at WT to come this a' way?