[Star Dragon]

You can have my joystick when you pry it from my cold dead hand! I do ok with my Wingman Extream digital... I do use the keyboard for thrust/afterburners but mostly i use VOICE!!! ahahahhaahahahaahha..

*comm*all*destroy*
"Yes sir engaging your target."

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Star Dragon
You can have my joystick when you pry it from my cold dead hand! I do ok with my Wingman Extream digital... I do use the keyboard for thrust/afterburners but mostly i use VOICE!!! ahahahhaahahahaahha..

*comm*all*destroy*
"Yes sir engaging your target."

you use a wingman... good man

you use "voice"?  explain

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Well I use Logitech Extreme digital, but I use the windows drivers,as whenever I install the ones that came with the stick, it stops my sound card working. also, it's plugged into the USB, and I dont use the rudder, cos its FUBARed, windows 98 does not do joysticks.

[Star Dragon]

I told you guys 2 months ago about game commander and how I programmed it for FS2 (hell no one even commented on my first render)... *Hides in corner* "Centrurions...Destroy"

"By your command" Destroys everyone...

[mikhael]

Man, voice command combined with a HOTAS setup and I'd be in heaven!

I almost never use the Comm controls (and there are some really advanced wingman commands, more than any other space combat game) but they take up buttons used by other things, or require me to keep looking up in the upper right hand corner.

If I could just give voice commands... wow. I'd be all over that. "Alpha. Disable my Target."

[Star Dragon]

I'm MUCH too busy dogfighting (rt hand on joystick/ lf hand on throttle) to be messing around with comms and other silliness. It's much easier to give battle orders like for real over the radio than punching keys. (Though I have to be careful NOT to talk unless I'm giving orders...F**k often gets confused for "Jump!" and them my team goes bye bye and I'm all alone..F**K!!!!!
"copy that sir, we're outta here..."

"NO!!!"

[Galemp]

I wish I had my Panther DX back...

[Knight Templar]

i don't see how anyone can fly with a pad, but i know i could beat you in a dogfight with a keyboard, joystick, or yes... even a pad

You using a pad? Naw.. i've played with them regularly for too long. Sticks and Keys ya, not pads though.

I must say, going from two hands to on one on the pad to one on the keyboard is cumbersome at best.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Knight Templar


You using a pad? Naw.. i've played with them regularly for too long. Sticks and Keys ya, not pads though.

I must say, going from two hands to on one on the pad to one on the keyboard is cumbersome at best.

i use 100% keyboard... no pad, joystick, etc.

[Corhellion]

I'm a "Board Warrior" also

I beat FS1 and FS2 using only the keyboard!

Cor

[Knight Templar]

Yes I know stealth, but you were dropping a line speaking of the amount of controlling variety you couldbe me in a dogfight with... hence the response.

[Raptor]

Personally, I sit on the fence.  Joystick for flight, guns, targeting and other important functions (countermeasures!:D), with the keyboard handling speed, comm and power levels.

Me use Saitek Cyborg 3D Digital.  Lovely piece of kit. Trigger, 9 button, 3 of which are thumb triggers, HAT (which acts like 4 buttons), trottle and rudder as stick twist.

However, I can't use the last two: Throttle dosn't do anything, and having the Rudder enabled causes my craft to be in a permant barrel roll.

[kasperl]

i just use a logitech wingman extreme force digital (that's what it's called, really!) with shooting and weapons controls on the stick. everything else is on my keyboard, inlcuing targeting. in most dogfights i just set auto match and shoot away! comm works fine by the board, but voice command would be great.

[beatspete]

I use an MS Sidewinder with Force Feedback, which is nice... although for some reason the throttle control doesnt agree with freespace so i just hold A.... gets me from a to b.  Plus who needs a constant throttle setting, if you are in combat you should be using the boost a lot.

i tried the mouse once but it sucked big time, too hard to turn in a full circle.

[Falcon X]

Logitech Extreme yaddy yadda yadda...

I use the hat for view points... always check your six.  After that I use z axis and the 5 buttons on the stick itself, not the base.  Basically my fire controls: primary, secondary, changing, doubling, and countermeasures.  It's my fire controls.  After that my left hand flies around on my keyboard.  Most often it's around tab and q.

[Stealth]

we all use Logitech

good for us

[Grunt]

Believe me, you can't do it right without a Thrustmaster Top Gun Afterburner !

I wish TM could at last release a decent driver for it ...

[Sesquipedalian]

I don't believe you.

J'utilise le Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D aussi.  Hat switch for shield augment control, and other remappings done so long ago I forget what the originals were.  Keyboard heavily remapped to place all the most commonly used functions directly under my fingertips when the hand is sitting in a comfortable position over the keyboard.

[EdrickV]

This is the Saitek X45:

http://store.yahoo.com/saitekusa/x45digjoyand.html

The Thrustmaster Top Gun Afterburner:

http://us.thrustmaster.com/products/lookproduct.php3?productid=70&skin=Joysticks

The Afterburner has one nice thing the X45 doesn't: The ability to attach the throttle unit to the stick base. On the other hand, the X45 has 4 8-way hat switches. (One of which is a bit oddly designed for a hat switch, but is useful in emulating a mouse.)

[Grunt]

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
I don't believe you.

J'utilise le Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D aussi.  Hat switch for shield augment control, and other remappings done so long ago I forget what the originals were.  Keyboard heavily remapped to place all the most commonly used functions directly under my fingertips when the hand is sitting in a comfortable position over the keyboard.

Or so.

EdrickV:
It actually disturbes me to have the stick and throttle too close to each other.
For flight sims more functionality is really an asset.
I also liked the Saitek Cyborg 3D but it broke down too soon.