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Some pretty significant discounts Gung Hay Fat Choy https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/69504-lunar-new-year-sale-is-on-30-85-off-select-items-feb-11th-15th-2021/?tab=comments#comment-1058868

Condolences to your pain, but i'd say it was a Pimax 8k (the adjusters wouldn't have a clue about VR headsets) and the highest level Obutto set (again, they wouldn't have a clue). If you have moral objections, remember that insurance companies are basically legalized gambling. They gamble that premiums will exceed payouts. They have screwed many claimants from the Camp fire in Paradise CA (my aunt and uncle included). All the above is said with tongue firmly in cheek.

Hi Jaus, As per your PM here are my settings. I thought I'd post it here in case anyone wants to look at it and say "What the hell are you thinking? That's ALL wrong!" My Specs: Win 10 Home 64-bit Build 19041, I7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz, ASUS Maximus IX Hero MB, 32 G RAM, Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, Monitor Asus Predator x34

I have it and have flown it a fair amount but not recently since there was not much activity in JG1. I'm game to fly it though.

Yeah, this has been hashed out a lot as far as gaming goes. Actually, Cactus didn't do too bad after the first encounters. The Japanese, on the other hand, lost many more pilots due to the long distance thay had to fly. Quite a few had to ditch due to fuel running out and damage and the Japanese weren't nearly as good as the Americans about picking up downed airmen... Bushido... After a short while the Japanese pilots were extremely worn out from 8 hour or more sorties with no rest at all. The Zero did have extreme range but pilots can only take so much. I know that I lose focus after only 3 to 4 hours of hand flying and they had to hand fly far longer... no autopilot for them... and they had to do combat to boot and come down from the adrenaline rush. "but what about the recreation of the historical experience?" That is the historical experience for the Japanese in the Solomons... but not limited to the Pacific theatre. Most combat operations in all theaters were hours upon hours of droning... then OMG... KILL, KILL, KILL... then hours more of droning. I don't think any of us want to exactly recreate that experience.

Well... it's all speculation innit? Highly doubtful that it will come to fruition this year (but there's always a possibility of surprise). I would be highly disappointed if it pushed back FC2 though. There's discussion by Jason starting about 28:00 in this vid:

Seems to me that New Guinea would be best. Large land mass, high terrain, plenty of coastline for shipping and the P38, P39 and the A20 were in use and are already in the game. Usable historical airfields are pretty sparse though, especially for the Japanese. Maybe the Philippines? Some Japanese tanks? ( Who in their right mind would take one of those?)

Thanks for turning me on to this guy Raz! Who needs more than 3 strings...

Yeah. Thas wh 'm talkn bout... Tasty bottleneck!

How about this one...

Yes, thanks Sandman! What a fine tribute to Icy. That dance of death of the P40s is hilarious!

I've posted in the IL2 forum asking the developer of Chatbox to provide the option to change keybindings in the ini file. As it stands, I don't think it's possible.

I've just tried this out and it works as advertised. Chief advantage is that your view doesn't freeze while your typing in chat. https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/68096-il-2-chatbox-improved-chat-functionality/?tab=comments#comment-1040394

Yeah, she's damn good (and the long hair in negative Gs looks cool)

Girls can't fly?! (Maybe they don't have the interest though. I've often wondered if the "sugar and spice and everything nice" is genetically inherent or induced by social training. I really wish that there were more females involved in our hobby).

Friedhof, are you aware that you will be flying both Entente and Central? Note: Blue Team and the Red Team are not affiliated with either in-game side. Rather, the Blue Team and the Red Team will often switch between Central and Entente, allowing everyone to fly all aircraft.

A new one from the site "Playing for Change"

+1... full immersion in command duties!

Sounds good

I've got buttons mapped to my HOTAS and would like to try some Hell Let Loose but I'm still pretty NOOB. Available all day today. Usual FIF time tomorrow or... ?

Another one issued today 3 hours ago, Sneaksie said: Dear friends, Another hotfix is on, hopefully it will maximize your quality of sim life in the New Year eve. 1. Saved zoom value in a cockpit snap view won't reset in multiplayer; 2. Tank commander of the free T-34 STZ tank has binoculars; 3. Damaged T-34 STZ tank tracks will be shown correctly; 4. T-34 STZ and Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.L free tanks look correctly from a distance when damaged; 5. Sturmjaeger Fw 190 A-8 modification has correctly looking cockpit side windows; 6. Sopwith Camel left aileron control wire looks correct.

Another one issued today 3 hours ago, Sneaksie said: Dear friends, Another hotfix is on, hopefully it will maximize your quality of sim life in the New Year eve. 1. Saved zoom value in a cockpit snap view won't reset in multiplayer; 2. Tank commander of the free T-34 STZ tank has binoculars; 3. Damaged T-34 STZ tank tracks will be shown correctly; 4. T-34 STZ and Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.L free tanks look correctly from a distance when damaged; 5. Sturmjaeger Fw 190 A-8 modification has correctly looking cockpit side windows; 6. Sopwith Camel left aileron control wire looks correct.

An extremely unusual mea culpa from Jason: Jason_Williams Producer 25533 3976 posts Location:Las Vegas, NV USA Report post Posted 19 minutes ago Guys, Epic fail on our side for not seeing this large bug in the DM you are reporting. Will be fixed. Everyone was distracted by pretty cockpits and Christmas apparently. Will be fixed asap. Jason

Interesting that the colors change between National, Flight, Squadron, etc. Was that historical? Or an adjustment to the template mapping?