Groan
Yeah…
Dunno, I will probably delete some stuff.
I wanted to make a shortcut to the new launcher but ahh… I can’t find it!
And just as the thing is done sucking down 200gigs of update, I want to take a peek at Afghanistan too of course, and anouther 80 gigs start coming down the pipe…
Oh boy, 820 GB install folder. I reckon I can get to 900 by the end of the year.
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Launched DCS after update and was greeted with this, WTF ED?
All my FC3 aircraft have been deauthorized?!?
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Oh dear, guess not every bug was caught. Upgrade to FC 2024 is but a tenner though… 
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Wasn’t the update free to FC3 owners (sans the 3 new aircraft)?
Should be, right? Whelp, guess it’s another bug that needs sorting then…
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Make sure to always keep some spare space. SSDs that are 90% full or more are slower and age much faster than those with 20-25% room. (They like shuffling their data around. If they can’t do that, they get bored, then slow, then sick.)
The huge changelog sort of explains the delay and the need for more testing. So many core and AI things being improved every patch 
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With my fiber connection, I should really get used to removing and re-installing terrains.
How many weeks does it take until you fly each and every one of: NTTR, PG, Caucasus, Marianas, Normandy, Kola and Syria?
Could be months for me. Makes no sense to always keep them all installed when space gets scarce.
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It’s funny how ED sticks with the Flaming Cliffs brand. I know we all got so used to it we don’t put too much thought into it. But take a step back for a moment and look at it again: “Flaming Cliffs”. This got to be the dumbest name for a flight sim I have ever seen 
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Il-2 Korea? Where the Il-2 isn’t in, but it’s descendant the Il-10 is?
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I’m quite curious to see the new Kola winter textures. After playing desert maps for so long having 4 seasons again would be great.
Also curious to see the modeling and texture updates to the Mirage F1
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At least an Il-2 is an aircraft But where are those cliffs? And why the hell are they flaming? At some point there must have been a person that said, “yes, that is the name we are going to use and its a great idea” It’s simply hilarious.
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Isn’t flaming cliffs a kind of lost in translation thing from the original Russian name for the game?
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The only reason I can make it fit is because I don’t have South Atlantic, Afghanistan, the F-15E, the Chinook, the Jeff, the Apache,
and the Kiowa.
The hills, they are burning (read in thick russian accent). The battle, it was hard.
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Being a Debbie Downer again:
The launcher is really nifty, but did we really need it? I think addressing issues would’ve been a better use of time and resource.
BUT! I’m not a VR User and I did notice you can launch in VR mode, so this could just be something I’m missing entirely.
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Is there somewhere to toggle MT? Never mind 
Just use the appropriate EXE. Duh!
It was the name of the Caucuses campaign that came with the update from Flanker 2.? (2.5 maybe?)
EDIT: no not Flanker but LOMAC.
Oh boy, the Supercarrier Air Boss Deck is super laggy for me (the game overall runs fine), the Kola winter textures feel rather underwhelming. It actually looks like old Il-2 Sturmovik winter maps.
When you get down low over populated area it looks a bit better.
Also there are some graphical glitches, like mirrors rendering some artifacts and it’s not aircraft specific, here’s F-14.
and here’s F-15E
I also noticed some weird smoke textures:
at least F-14 got some sounds upgrade, it’s pretty sweet I have to admit.
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