[Wobble73]

Joystick FTW!!

I tried a gamepad and didn't last 10 seconds in Freespace or any game for that matter. Half the reason i don't play console games.

I started out on consoles as I couldn't afford a decent PC at the time so a gamepad is almost second nature to me now! Even when I played on consoles I knew that the PC was the superior games machine!  I still have a PS1 and PS2 lying around somewhere, (actually the PS2 is used regularly by wife who plays The Sims on it  and ever since she got that game I have not been able to get near the thing!  )

[Hades]

  In fact My mom likes the sims.She has like 3 games of it for her computer.

[colecampbell666]

I have the numpad feature on my laptop but for those of you with one, I would suggest getting a keyboard, preferably wireless. My wireless keyboard has the Insert, End, PGup, PGdown buttons messed up, though, in a different configuration.

[Stormkeeper]

I fail any game using my tiny little d-pad, and yea, my laptop needs to fn to get numlock. Kinda irritating when FREDing.

[haloboy100]

my keyboard may be an old HP peice of crap but it works like brand new. all the buttons work great and even the numpad since i use it excessively from all the FPS gaming (i use the numpad for movements, but that just means i can use all the buttons besides numbers 8, 5, 4, 6, and 2 for utilities. Quite useful!)

[CP5670]

I use the numpad in practically every game too. The only disadvantage is that I have to push the keyboard to one side when I load up something, but I would much rather do that than use WASD (misaligned) or the arrow keys (not enough extra keys around it).

[haloboy100]

another disadvantage is that if you don't bind your keypaths right you can hit the numlock key by accident and everything screws up

[Wobble73]

I prefer WASD myself but then I was a heavy FPS player until I re-found FreeSpace2 and the wonderful SCP  

[CP5670]

I'm still primarily an FPS player, but I started off with Descent and had always used the numpad in that, so I continued to use that later on.

[Hades]

My first video game ever was Fs1.

[CP5670]

My first was Crystal Quest in 1990.

[Colonol Dekker]

My first was Asteroids on the Atari 7800, i forget what year, but it was bought from Argos in Woolwich.............

[haloboy100]

my first is descent

[colecampbell666]

Use...a...JOYSTICK... GODDAMMIT!!!

Really, though, you can get a half-good joystick for 30$ and my Saitek EvoForce was only 80$Cdn. The best joystick I ever bought.

[haloboy100]

well i use numpad for FPS games, like i said in my last post. I use joysticks for flying aircraft in those games (go figure ), and of course for space-sims.

[Polpolion]

Cheats < Feces

[Colonol Dekker]

Cheats < Faeces

 


Anyhoo, keyboard pure, = best method of FS control

[Stormkeeper]

my first game was a dos heli copter shooter which i never figured out what i was supposed to do.

[jr2]

On the Transcend topic, it's basically you vs everyone else, no re-inforcements, no re-arming, no changing weapons loadouts (you have Prom R + Subach HL-7, Interceptor missiles + Hornet Missiles), and you are stuck with the same ship type (the crappiest fighter evar, the Herc II... They took the Herc, neutered it by removing a pair of gunmounts, and it's got 55 max speed, which is like +5 from the original.)

All this makes me

[haloboy100]

(you have Prom R + Subach HL-7, Harpoon missiles + Hornet Missiles)

What's with everybody (by everybody i mean all the enemy AIs and the game loads you out like this by default) using this combo anyways? I'd choose dual subachs over Prom R + subby any day, and IMO the hornet is a horrible interceptor missile, even in fs1. so i only use it for capital ships, but it became a liability more then once in the transcend campaign.