Thank you for the praise, glad it was so informative.
The gun firing fibration/etc can be set to whatever level one prefers. The default in IL-2 is very subtle, and after hearing more about it (another sim veteran commented on it last night on a server) I'm personally going to tweak down that particular effect, which I had raised overall.
It can be set both by the basic G940 force setup page - it is covered under the general effects slider. And also by either removing all together, or editing the "machinegun.ffe" and "cannon.ffe" files in the forcefeedback folder, using the directX force editor.
This is beneficial for me as, those effects are by far the 'noisiest' and I prefer to keep a low profile as far as my environment goes.
