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Well, my disc arrived this morning. I had just pretty much given up on it due to the floods and all that,but it showed. Right now I have Uncleal's excellent tips up and am downloading the superpatch. wish me luck.

Yes, the sheer size of the flooding is unbelievable...difficult to picture,unless you could see it. I expect there are some satellite pictures around somewhere. My own area, that is the suburb I live in, is not under water but we are pretty well cut off at the moment. Supplies in the shops are dwindling and we have been unable to get bread or milk for a couple of days... Bloody post office managed to get a credit card bill to me today though...bastards. This area is pretty hilly here,but neighbouring suburbs have been evacuated. Oh, and Kangaroos can swim, in fact they will lure dogs into water so they can stand on them and drown them. It's all the snakes I worry about, if you live on dry land at the moment, the chances are you will meet a very frightened and angry snake at some point.

I guess the old post office credo of "neither rain nor snow etc" means anything these days.. What with insurance, sick days,unions and the inability of little postie bikes to function under 9.5 meters of thick, brown rushing water... I dont know where the motivation has gone...

Good one Olham... I am over my little tantrum from yesterday now. The reality here is that my city is experiencing some pretty devastating flooding right now and there is no unnecessary travel going on. That is pretty certain to slow things up. Also the Avangate people are "looking into it" and have said that if anything has gone wrong at that end then they will do a reorder... So, I wait... Til the flood subsides.

Thanks for the kind words, and what I hope will be the voice of reason. I think my problem is that I have ordered other things through ebay, after my order for BHaH, which have all come through already, despite the holiday madness...and they have come halfway 'round the world also. I have been playing a lot, and I mean a lot of iL2 using the trackir. The thing is genius. I am still messing about with profiles, but that is half the fun I think. The iL2 is fine...I have it patched to 4.09, with ultra pack 2.1. It's good, but my heart really wants WW1 goodness.

Well... It has been one month to the day since I paid for BHaH, I have the confirmation emails and all that... Some time ago I requested a tracking number which was provided in short order, unfortunately it told me nothing useful..When I spoke to an actual person in the mail service I was told that the code means it is a small, under 1kg, package which means they have no obligation to post details about it's whereabouts. I seriously doubt at this time that the disc will arrive at all. I am clearly going to have to investigate the complaints procedures and hopefully be refunded.. It is a damn shame, I really wanted to experience this sim, and be part of this excellent community. But it appears that is not to be. If anyone else has had a similar experience, unlikely since you all seem to be playing happily, then I would greatly appreciate any advice from more experienced hands at this point. Thanking you in advance.

Very nice RAF_ Thank you for putting that together so quickly for our reading pleasure... I could almost feel the cold and hear the singing...

Yes Olham, it is very wet over here at the moment. I am in Brisbane, we have not suffered the worst of it here by any means. Those north of us are having a very tough time right now. A lot of aid and help is happening at the moment, and people here do tend to band together in times of crisis. A great example of this is the group of pub patrons who built a huge earth wall around their local to stop the water getting in...great stuff really. I am on the road every day with my work and even now it is raining and the danger of flash flooding is high... My thoughts go out to all those cut off from their homes and those whose crops and businesses have been ruined. we will survive though.

Agreed Olham... It simply comes down to supporting the people who do the work to bring fine products... If they stop doing it what will we have? I am against piracy of all sorts, except in the movies...then I am all for it. I found the subject of micro transactions to be an interesting one...I personally feel that a basic game relaese, and then well supported with patches (free), and extra vehicles,aircraft etc for a small fee could be the way of the future.. But, the initial release has to be good enough as a stand alone product... I could imagine a bit of an arguement against the trend as wll though...I think it would all come down to the ethics of the developers and their business partners in the long run.

I managed to get a promotion at work...I work in Mental Health. And enjoyed my 4th year with my beautiful partner.. we got a puppy, a Boxer.. named cricket. As far as OFF goes...I discovered it,paid for it and have been given the opportunity to engage some paience skills whilst still waiting for it to arrive. I think if phase 4 is released this year I might just get it before Between Heaven and Hell is delivered... Plus I have found this forum, it is just a pleasure to visit here each day and see the new updates and stories...

RAF_Louvert, I am sitting here absolutely gobsmacked at the way young Mr Blum's story has drawn me in. It is engaging, beautiful,sad and terrifying all at the same time exciting and inspirational. Fantastic stuff sir. The depths of character you are exploring with this 'life' is making my wait for my own disc to arrive almost bearable. I finished the last entry with the feeling that I once had when I would read a book all night simply because I had to find out what would happen next. Simply brilliant. So...what happens next?

That is some good news there Ratatat. With all the problems I have been having with my rebuild, I am glad to hear that at least one other person is having good luck running the sim. It gives me a little bit of hope.

Hello again, Just the other day my trackIr 4 arrived.....yes. It works well on my machine and I have been toying around with profiles and settings to find something I like... I put the 5.something software on it and it works a treat. So far I have only used it in iL2 to shoot down a few "Kates" in my P40...still it was a bit of fun. Still waiting on my disc though...soon I hope. Also I changed graphics card from ATI radeon 5770 to the gigabyte nvidea gtx460... That ATI was giving me nothing but grief with windows 7 and I am hoping for more luck with the gtx...clean install,complete system restore and reinstall of everything...hoping for the best.

I hear what you are saying mate...I have been 'flying' in IL2, which took a bit of installing on win7 let me say, Just getting my take-off and landing sorted...well, kind of sorted. The tech is very different though and nothing behaves like I imagine the OFF stuff will, but I think if I can get a few hours of landing anything successfully I will be better off than not having done it at all. And I always use virtual cockpit view. I just like the look of it, and I am getting pretty good with the hatstick at finding my way around. Thank you RAF_, But I did not wake to find those goodies 'neath my tree. On reflection I have been a bad boy at times this year, so I will just have to wait.

Hey again guys... I am still waiting for my disc to arrive, it has not quite been 14 days (believe me I could do an hour and minute countdown as well)...But that is ok. I understand the Christmas period will put a lot of strain on the systems for shipping stuff around the world, so I am being Mr patient. I have, however been toying around with other flight sims to get my eye in so to speak. And been doing heaps of research into the topic, plus getting used to my new computer (which appears to have a personality of its own, it doesnt lke being turned on first thing in the morning and will crash a few times until it warms up...I find this pretty funny, but I am in the process of debugging as well...) I bit the bullet a couple of days ago and ordered a Track IR 4...I just have to try one of these things out...I managed to find one locally (in Australia that is). And it was pretty cheap at $147...according to the company it was put on a plane yesterday and should be in my hot little hands very soon... I cannot wait. Anyway, I just wanted to touch base, let everyone know I am still here and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas....

Those screens look outstanding.. You guys are doing a tremendous job there... It inspires me even more to jump into this world of sims...now I just have to have my BHaH disc arrive and I will be away... A very happy christmas to you and yours...

That is a tale both terrifying and topical Olham. I have made a few upgrades to my computer recently, new motherboard, processor and graphics card. It was all for nothing I thought today after a constant barrage of blue screens. Needless to say I was very disappointed and angry. It turns out that I had downloaded some kind of corrupted file whilst messing around with CFS3 add-ons. I have learned my lesson and will not be doing that again. My Hard drive was sick and broken, unable to reinstall windows 7. I have a replacement hard drive in it now, and another on the way. Nothing will be installed on this computer until I recieve my BHaH disc. Which I hope will be coming soon. I dont think that many third party downloads will be in my future at all. I just want OFF to run.

I know about the lucky... I bloody well nearly died of shock.

Hi there everyone... I am still waiting for my disc to arrive, and have been reading everything I can find...man there are a lot of threads.. Anyway I decided that I needed to upgrade my machine in preparation... So today I bought a bunch of great stuff....and am using it now. Gigabyte 880ga-ud3h motherboard AMD Phenom II x6 processor chugging along at 3.2Ghz 8GB ram Sapphire Radeon HD5770 1GB GDDR3 graphics card. I needed a new power thingy too.... And I installed Windows 7 to go with it... This thing is running sweetly right now.... And to top the whole thing off I got the parts from a wholesaler so it was pretty cheap....The icing on the cake is that my Mrs said if it makes me happy then it is a good thing....wow.

Thanks mate...Tullamore Dew Black..good choice sir. I hear what you are saying Uncleal...I am a mod at a PS3 forum and I understand the frustration of answering the same question multiple times. Rest assured I am using my time to gather as much information as possible independantly before the disc arrives. Hey mate...great to see another Aussie in here...Boag's it is. It's definately summer today in Brissie. 2 weeks seems like a long time right now...and with the possibility of more time for Christmas I dunno if I can take it. Definately want the game now.

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I have enjoyed reading your reports from the front... As soon as I had read through just a few pages of that I knew I had found the right sim...I have always invested much of myself into my sim experience and I love the feeling of immersion that I get from reading those stories. I want my pilots to have a life and failures and successes. I balieve I may just find it with OFF. Dont get me wrong. I like a bit of eye candy, but I require something deeper to really enjoy myself. I have my PS3 for plug and play eye candy games. I am glad that it will be tougher than CFS3. I was a little disappointed in how quickly I could pick it up and get kills etc. And that was after many years away from sims. Believe me I know I am not that talented. I am definately not frightened off by a steep learning curve, and I am bursting at the seams waiting. Very glad to see your scorn at the region lock thing. And I love the idea that there are other Aussies playing. My home town is Brisbane, Queensland. Map me. Drinks all round I think....