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welcome , cant wait...

VKB has been aces for me. I bought a right hand VKB Gladiator NXT EVO Premium because I didn't have a lot of money. When I hit the purchase button I resigned myself to thinking that I'd deal with the 'sh!tty plastic' stick until I could afford to put real money into my sim pit Very happy to have been completely wrong about VKB's plastic stick. As Enigma mentions they are meant to be opened and adjusted, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to do it. I removed the springs on mine after I bought the AH-64 on DCS Removing the springs and tightening up the clutches gave me the ability to make precise inputs that would also hold position. To say this is useful to mastering hover in the Apache is an understatement. I've put it back to standard after I got my Apache fix, and now move back and forth between DCS and Star Citizen. The Gladiator keeps on kicking. No muss, no fuss, just reliable service. I've only had one issue... a screw backed out inside the base and jammed up motion and cause an in game crash of my aircraft, but after I took it apart and reseated it and put a minute amount of torque on it, it has not fallen out since. That issue was in the first 3 months of ownership, and I've had this beast 3 years. I get the argument about metal over plastic, but again... 3 years later and it's as good as when I bought it. All switches, Hats, and buttons are just as crisp as when I bought it. It came with replacement springs but I've yet to need to do that. No cracks, no decline in performance, not even any discernable wear... it's borderline suspect - Are VKB gnomes sneaking into my house at night and replacing my stick while I sleep? (Also..with regard to Metal vs Plastic.... how much torque are we really going to throw on these sticks while maneuvering in a sim?) It is my intent to get a STECS (I've been making due with a Thrustmeter TWCS), and I will also be purchasing a Left-handed Gladiator NXT EVO for HOSAS in Star Citizen. I have no need to 'upgrade' to anything not from VKB A+ product.

nah honestly nothing better than modern jet a good bvr fight like nowadays and maybe Cold War for fun point and shoot

Il2 VEF circa 2000-2003 was PEAK Il2

Yes, and Falcon 4.0's DCE (modded by the BMS team) is like a monastery preserving the light of knowledge amidst the ruin of Sim Gaming civilization.

i mean nowdays its more realistic to bvr than dogfight

0:17 did he just... go-go-gadget legs?

Like I'd ever leave me little friend behind

Yep, this needs to be addressed by ED.

So I tried to install this, and with dcs on my hard drive people said to put a copy of it on my C drive so should so I test the combinations of it being on my C drive and hard drive and it never gave me authorization, So do I need to put the whole community folder in instead of just the part that says A-4E-C or is it something else?

Clickable doesn't automatically make it "full fidelity", it just make it interactible with a mouse, easy and convenient, no need for extra button mappings or keyboard shortcuts. We have clickable cockpits not only in DCS but also MSFS, BMS, even IL-2 CLOD/Tobruk. Still not clear, wether cockpits will be clickable or not? "Will be possible to make them clickable" is good, but they better be clickable, it's good for convenience. I see that they also plan to make it "mouse free VR", that can mean proper hand and/or controller support, but that also may mean that they don't want to make actually "clickable" cockpits.

As someone with a baseline HOTAS, I think a clickable cockpit, for the essential or standard stuff anyway, is pretty important. For context, I do feel that the F-4E in DCS is an impressive piece of simulation but that it does a lot more than it needs to. I don’t care about simulated electrical circuits or hydraulic actuators. In fact, when that becomes launched, I hope it can be switched off. For one thing, it will eat into my CPU/GPU budget. For another, I prefer my simulation to be a sim of a mission where little things don’t go wrong like in real life so I can concentrate on the flying and fighting rather than the admin. I do learn startup sequences in DCS just to see what’s involved but after a while I drop back to autostart and usually forget the procedure - often letting me do something else while the gyros or nav computer align, or the engine warm up. But I would love it if stuff in the IL2 cockpit was clickable. I imagine it’s not an issue for someone with a HOTAS where they don’t have to use maybe half or more of the actions through command/shift/control keys, but on mine, I tend to use my limited buttons for the main stuff, assign a bunch of shifted buttons for the rest and then scratch my head or look through the key commands window to remind myself which combination of CTRL, ALT and Shift I need to use. In DCS this fiddling is reduced as I can click in the cockpit. In IL2, not so much.

U have to decide, sims are a problem and a threat to the LGBT community

They did DEI DEM them

43:43 I am that guy, just start a crowd fund/donation (no return obligation) system and I will commence throwing Jason

Can they add more airports on multiplayer?

Can you elaborate on what they mean by being able to calculate turbulence models?

With Jason gone it's hard to see things improving in the long run.

Unfortunately, it has become monotonous. With the combination of il2 having spotting issues and planes disappearing from plane sight has broken the server. Maps need to be and stay historical. No 262's in Kerch for example. Gunners on bombers or attackers shouldn't always be novices. I stopped playing seriously since tactics are useless. With OP'ed planes defeying the laws of physics to UP'ed bombs. But i believe that's a mixture of game mechanics and Server settings. I'd love to see certain scenarios like with T.A.W., Ai convoys and or bases being discovered while on missions.

Any contact details for the developers? Ex Aeronautical Engineer/3D Artist/Military History buff that would love to help with this project...

My biggest issue is that they do not have a learn at your pace system like sims that came before it, and has the sink or swim mentality. The other issue which is related is people have to have expensive setups to map the complex controls. Which also screws over VR, again they went with all or nothing on it too, either you use your motion controls period to press the buttons, flick switches and control throttle and stick. If you want to use VR with your Hotas, it's half baked, you can't use your motion tracking to track your hands to push the buttons and flick switches because of how it's implemented. ED needs to really take a step out of their box and look at the whole picture.

The full fidelity only obsession also creates a cost barrier for many players. FF modules take longer to make get any return on investment for the studio therefore they need to make each sale generate more revenue. Increasing the cost reduces the number of people willing to buy it and a feedback loop begins. Why cant we have at least SOME new projects relase with a realistic flight model and then have the ultra "umm ahckthually" fidelity stuff added over the life of the module? Frequently theres a module we want to buy but we're not as obsessed with the aircraft in question as our favorites and cant justify the cost for a "sometimes" plane. Some days I feel like im surrounded by stitch nazis with the amount of shit talk I hear about each modules minor imperfections.

Thank you.

Oh hell yes

MIG29 so undertalked i ain even realize it was in the game 😭

This didn't age well...

Dang, man, you will be missed. I hope you find what you are looking for

I’m so glad I watched this I just got back into dcs and was about to by the m2000k I usually do not watch dcs videos so I whole heartedly agree if they do not plan on keeping them up to date they must be removed from the store

"Be patient, let them cook!" Is not something I would've ever expected to hear from Enigma

The only reason to play DCS is for full fidelity or FC3 like fidelity. Otherwise Warthunder exists

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Thank you for your dedication to making our dreams come true, we trust in your decisions.

Unreal Engine is a bummer for me, since it's VR performance is shite (even compared to DCS). Let's see how good it works, in the meantime there is IL2 Korea which should work great in VR

Don't get me wrong; I have supported your points of view in the past and I watch your videos with interest. I once even said you are one of the most important voices in the community and took a lot of flack for it - which proved I was right because you only take flack when you are over the target! But sometimes, you also come across as having an axe to grind. For example, you don't seem to allow for the possibility that someone might disagree with you without being "upset". With all due respect, I think you should allow for the possibility that people might have a rational alternative position, even the folks at Eagle Dynamics. I'm sure their dynamic campaign will appear soon, and I suspect much will change for the better when it does. Also, as someone who has been playing flight sims since the days of the BBC Micro and the Amiga, I've got to be honest: the idea that we are in a sim dark age right now strikes me as preposterous and possibly a statement calculated to be provocative for reasons I don't know.

WWII ONLINE MENTIONED RAHHHH

Water looks great

You had me at, "dynamic campaign"

so i just started playing sim, not new to game just sim, some reason, i have absolutely now audio related to missel locks etc, is there a setting i am missing somehwere?

Somebody else has the problem that the joysticks loose connection ingame? They work perfectly fine, but WT turns them off after a time. Windows settings are made and drivers are actual. It's just in WT where they disconnect after a while of playing. I use thrustmaster warthog Hotas with thrustmaster trp peddals and 2 thrustmaster mfd's.

The fidelity of the late 90s sims like Jane's F-15 & F/A-18 or Falcon 4.0 (original, not BMS) was prolly enough.. at least for me personally. In DCS, I currently only own 3 modules, the standalone FC3 F-15, FC3 Su-27 and the Razbam F-15E.. and guess what? I'm still enjoying my time with the FC3 Eagle & Flanker. The F-15E has so many keybinds needed to operate, that I can't even freakin play it.. because I'm running on a single joystick and that my room is small.. thus i cant have a HOTAS setup. Back in the days of Jane's F/A-18, I was able to play it properly and finished the campaigns.. I think we've come to the point now where every sim has to be as highly realistic as possible that I just felt like, we need to actually get paid just for "flying" it... Ironically, because of the RB-ED Impasse.. I'm trying to refund the F-15E and exchange it for another map instead... since the module is now a dead investment for me.

I would hold my breath on this... They have too many cards against them.

When I was younger I was always playing Il2 1946. That mission editor was great!

Thank you for reporting on this! I have to admit I'm a fanboy of jets but even I can understand how important such projects are for the *whole* (combat) flightsim world.

The irony of a game that dosent have photorealistic graphics, or a plethora of points earning and spending on skills mechanics. I can just pick it up, and get into the meat of the game, and its the most fun ive had in years.

From what I can see, they are capable of delivering most of what they promise. My only point of concern here is that developing a flight sim in the West is going to be more expensive than in Russia. So unless they attract new people to the genre and only compete for the same pool of players, their long term financial viability is in question. They could get extra funds from their tools, but then there's a risk of it becoming an Unreal Engine or Steam situation, when the 2nd thing becomes the main thing and they basically stop making games. So fidelity is nice and all, but they need all the pop appeal they can produce.

A big waiting time for me: for RTX 5090 to get full benefits from my PC to fly VR in DCS, for IL-2 Korea and for Combat Pilot, can't wait for this all😁

Appreciated information sharing! A flyable Zero means it can bloom. But my only complaint would be the flight settings! Is it gonna be stick or M+K exclusive or is it gonna be possible to play on a modern controller with the keyboard for shortcuts in mind? Setting up a flight setting for a controller at il 2 is a nightmare and in WT it's a UI headache.

Finally, someone gets it. I always have gotten shit for playing sim, especially at the cold war brs (8.0-11.0~) because everyone thinks it's just e8ther props or top tier.

Thank you.

2:59 - Airbus because they have tons of experience in prop planes? As you mentioned "and other aerospace experience that their team has", i hope they been with Cessna or something on that line, because we already know torque does affect adverse yaw^^ Kinda kidding, fingers crossed for a great WW2 sim. EDIT: Obviously you cannot "feel" the sim from just a video - but the flight model looks actually pretty good already imho.