When DeviceLink was added to IL2, it was heralded as a really great advance for cockpit builders. Then we found out some idiot decided it should be disabled in multi-player mode.
This essentially rendered the feature pointless unless the only time you wanted to use your simulator cockpit was for single player mode. I think the kids these days call that EPIC FAIL.
I discovered today that that astonishingly poor decision had been rectified by the IL2 modding community.
The mod to IL2 can be found here:
http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13257&highlight=devicelink\o/
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