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Anyway, I updated the firmware. Headset still works. 
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Oh yes … It would be great if we could do a mosquito night … 
… Of course hinds would be better…
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They are sending a replacement cable. No ETA.
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I was told the cable is on backorder up too 2 months… We wait… 
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I got my G2 on Friday and have fought it everyday since. Error 7-14 to start. Then Error 4-1, then Steam and WMR crashing at any hint of switching to VR.
When it works it is pretty darn nice, but I’ve spent probably 20 hours troubleshooting and 2 hours actually enjoying it.
Granted, I don’t know squat about VR and the last computer I had I built and pre-ordered the Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz…
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That is a real bummer. I’m relieved that mine has been working well since I took it out of the box…but nervous that any moment it will quit. Fingers crossed. Hopefully a competitor with the same or better resolution will push a product to market soon.
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This might be observation bias at work, am I noticing a lot more European problems with this headset than US? Transport issues possibly? Maybe sub contractor construction QC?
I’d love to know the failure numbers across the world
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Still beats not being sold in Europe like the SO+.
But something is for sure funky. That’s not good PR for VR in general. 
Yes, mine has been trouble-free other than some occasional wonkiness with the mouse in DCS, which admittedly was software related and hasn’t happened in months.
Could it be a wonky voltage thing - or does a PC plugged into European outlets smooth all that out? Honestly I never even thought about PCs, PSUs, and all that until you mentioned it…
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Could be, but if they are running off usb-3 I can’t imagine the invertors being that much different internally. Wall sockets…not sure. If there is a “brick” between it and the plug it acts as a transformer anyway so again I wouldn’t imagine so but this is total guesswork.
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That’s something I reacted to when I got my G2… There sure wasn’t much energy absorbing packing material in there.
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It could be just that. A pallet has a hell of a lot of pressure and shock at the bottom. I’ve seen tins of paint bent out of shape during transit
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You are not kidding… my dad was a lorry driver, the firm he worked for specialized delivering for the big supermarkets in the UK … Well the amount of slightly dented tins of food and coffee I saw as a kid … Now how many of those pallets were damaged by “accident” and how many were really accident I don’t know
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And even if the box wasn’t crushed, any sudden impacts would transfer more or less directly into the headset. No cushioning in there…
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It happened at the egg packing plant I was transport manager at regular as clockwork
“Ace, we had another one over I’m so sorry”
“I’ll get my %^*&ING wellies”
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And I bet you lived on scrambled,fryed,poached,boiled egg for the next month… 
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