Great, thanks for the info. I'll put BOS & Flying Circus on my wishlist as they're pretty expensive. Halloween is coming up so there's a good chance of nabbing them cheaper.

KA-50 is my all time favorite DCS module. System wise it really isn't too difficult to learn, and it gave me the best feeling of flying I've had in any sim.

As someone else mentioned, I have (too) many modules, most of which I've done little flying in, but the ones I keep coming back to are the Harrier, the Hornet, the Shark, and the Hog.

I had the original standalone Blackshark sim, which I got reasonably proficient at, but which now some 15 years or so later I've almost completely forgotten I stopped playing it when I realised that trees provide no cover or obstruction and were invisible to the AI. I believe now it is different. (Incidentally, it looks to me like that original standalone game is now free to download from ED's website. Good deal )

I had the feeling, in VR, that the Gazelle was too small. I thought maybe the scale was off, but the stick looked about the right size, it just seemed very... cramped. When I looked to my right, the handle the pilot uses to help get in & out of the pit seemed very close to my head, making me think it was all too small. But, when I jumped into the Blackshark in VR, it felt more like I was sitting in a large bathtub lined with switches & gauges so the scale is probably perfectly OK, the Gazelle is just really, really small & tight.

Heads up!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/307960/IL2_Sturmovik_Battle_of_Stalingrad/?

Yep, just got the email, bought and currently downloading

Great find F4Dash4!!

I checked a couple of days ago and I believe the price was 50 or 60 USD. So I selected to wait, which was smart.
Downloading now. Looking forward to recieve Reverb G2.

I have my eye on that too. Currently with my Pimax 4K I have to use in 3DoF mode, which is OK most of the time but I can't lean around cockpit struts to acquire visual on something, except in a small way by rolling my head. I'm hoping my new graphics card will be enough to get a decent performance from it, as my CPU is quite old now. I haven't actually pulled the trigger on it yet, the only place I've seen it available to buy in Europe is the Spanish Amazon site and that's as a preorder, and it's quite expensive to throw money at something not released, not reliably reviewed in it's release state, and with no information to whether I would be at the back of a very long queue. I have confidence that it will be a huge improvement, but the other factors stop me.

I`ve been on the fence with regards to VR now so when I saw some early reviews on Youtube I decided to buy it.
I have a GTX2080 Super card and hope it will run good on that.
As always I pulled the trigger too early with regards to the timing of a PC upgrade and I hope I will not regret ending up wit a I7 9700K, GTX2080 Suoer and 32GB of RAM.

Grr. Not getting any joy from IL-2 at the moment, constant crashes.

Freeze on first start, but will boot to game interface on subsequent starts. Can get as far as sitting in the cockpit but about 2 or 3 seconds into the action I get a freeze and have to shut down the app. 53 minutes logged so far, I have just over an hour app-time to fix it before my refund window closes.

Just a heads up.
Battle of Bodenplatte is on 50% sale on Steam until Nov. 3.

Did you get it sorted?

Not so far no. I can get it to work on the monitor with TrackIR, but no deal with the VR. I've read some forum fixes but they're either irrelevant to me or didn't work.

That's a shame, it's great on Oculus Rift

I just got tired of ED and there Forum and there product, so I simply uninstalled it. Someday I may revisit as I have never even flow my P47 from the WWII start up. Is there any word on the Me262? I am glad some are enjoying it anyway.

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Since you are into WW 2 have you tried the new IL-2 series? That has both the P-47 and the ME 262. In my opinion I wouldn't waste time with the WW 2 stuff from DCS at this point.

My rule is DCS for jets / IL-2 for WWII.

Update?

Unfortunately I went for the refund I just couldn't get it to work in VR. I shaved it as close to the 2 hours as possible but no luck. I have plenty in the way of flight sims and I figured I didn't have need/time for one that was as complex as this without the draw of a compelling VR experience. I will probably look at it again if & when I upgrade my headset to a more modern and capable solution.

Probably will be the HP Reverb G2 but I also have my eye on the recently announced DecaGear system. Early days for it but it looks mighty interesting.

Yeah I just saw the DecaGear recently, does look promising!

Keeping in line with the topic heading. There is a newly released F-105d mod which is still in beta but being able to fly complex multiplayer strikes in the Thud and Weasel is something I am great full for.

Los