[TopAce]

Originally posted by Xelion

After launching a countermeasure u still want to manoeuvre out of the way using afterburners or you might be caught in the blast effect of the missile

Keyboard ...

[Cabbie]

Hi, new here! Great to see the Freespace community still alive and kicking.

As for joystick, I recommend CH.   A bit pricy up front, I got my set up around 200 bucks but saves you the hassle of buyng and setting up a new one everytime your stick breaks. I have been using a CH flightstick and Pro Throttle for about 4 years now with no problems so far . I just wish it was made of diecast metal like the cougar but you can't have everything.

[Xelion]

Some worthwhile links to check out while your here are the Source Code Project, The Wiki, the Inferno Mod and the Highlights  :thepimp:

Have a Nice Day

[Cabbie]

Originally posted by Xelion


Some worthwhile links to check out while your here are the Source Code Project, The Wiki, the Inferno Mod and the Highlights  :thepimp:

Have a Nice Day

Thanks for the welcome, I'm checking those links out. I never knew that there so much stuff to add on to good ole Freespace

Originally posted by Nico
I've had my SW precision 2 for quite a few years, still works great. Pb is, I found myself a real killer using mouse+keyboard in FS2, rather than with the stick, so she went under the table to collect dust .

Funny thing is, I finished the game several times already on with a mouse and keyboard setup before I went out and bought my HOTAS.  But it's so much more fun playing with a Flightstick and Throttle.

[Xelion]

Originally posted by Cabbie
Thanks for the welcome, I'm checking those links out. I never knew that there so much stuff to add on to good ole Freespace

actually theres quite a lot more I don't think a single person around here has manage to keep up

[Nico]

Originally posted by Cabbie
Funny thing is, I finished the game several times already on with a mouse and keyboard setup before I went out and bought my HOTAS.  But it's so much more fun playing with a Flightstick and Throttle.

I did the other way around
really, I do about everything with the keyboard ( even piloting the ship ), the mouse is used to pinpoint ( so large turns with the keyboard, and I adjust with the mouse, works during turns too ), that's deadly, FPS-like accuracy

[Cabbie]

Originally posted by Xelion

actually theres quite a lot more I don't think a single person around here has manage to keep up

Just blew 3 hours of my life checking all the stuff out, and your right,  it's overwhelming. I think I'll download the update patch first.

Originally posted by Nico


I did the other way around
really, I do about everything with the keyboard ( even piloting the ship ), the mouse is used to pinpoint ( so large turns with the keyboard, and I adjust with the mouse, works during turns too ), that's deadly, FPS-like accuracy

I hear ya. I usually steer with my mouse ala Freelancer before. It was great, you can easily follow the target rectacle whereever it goes. But with a Stick and throttle I can easily do some really nice stunts, besides I need to fulfill my geeky desire to drive my starship with a HOTASS .

[TopAce]

This mouse trick is new to me. It has never come to my mind to use the damned rodent pest.

[Cabbie]

I don't know about Nico's style but one of the problems of mousing I encounter was usually running out of mouse pad during huge turns or when trying to follow a really fast ship zipping around off screen.

[Nico]

That's why I turn with the keyboard The mouse is used for accurate moves ( or to slow down the keyborad turn rate, coz, you know, my keyboard is no analogic one , so if you counter the keyboard move with the mouse, it just turns slower -> yeah, you got it, I turn with the mouse AND the keyboard at the same time. And my mouse has enough buttons so I don't need to bring my left hand back to the keyboard at any time. I play it like a FPS, sort of ).

[Ghostavo]

Bah... after you get used to the keyboard is not that bad... you can still become very good at playing the game. This has nothing to do with the fact that I have never played FS and FS2 with a joystick or a mouse.

[mikhael]

Venom, you're a deeply scary man.

If I had the money, I'd buy you a good proper stick, throttle and rudder pedal set, just so you know what you've been missing.

[Cabbie]

Originally posted by mikhael
Venom, you're a deeply scary man.

If I had the money, I'd buy you a good proper stick, throttle and rudder pedal set, just so you know what you've been missing.

Not very knowledgeable about avionics but what does exactly rudder pedals do. I'm now thinking of getting those CH pedals just to complete my set, I just wonder what can it add to my Freespace piloting (more cool flying tricks, I'm sure but what exactly).

[mikhael]

Well, they do whatever you program them to do. By default in most jet  and space sims, they handle the roll axis. In most propeller sims, they handle turning left and right (the stick handles up/down and roll).

Of course, in good pedals, you not only have a rudder axis, but also toe brakes (either as buttons or as honest to goodness axes of their own). Those can likewise be programmed.

For me, if I had a set of pedals, they'd control my roll axis in most games, while the left toe-brake would handle afterburner and the right toe-break would handle some commonly used function like shield balancing or something.

[Cabbie]

Ah thanks, now I really want those peddals

[Thorn]

In a real airplane, the stick controls pitch and bank (rolling and nosing up and down), the pedals control yaw (the tail rudder, left and right turning)

[Nico]

Originally posted by mikhael
Venom, you're a deeply scary man.

If I had the money, I'd buy you a good proper stick, throttle and rudder pedal set, just so you know what you've been missing.

I know them, it's cool and all, but I get more kills per minute with thge mouse+keyboard combo than the joystick, so

[TopAce]

You didn't get used to playing with Joysticks.
Same here, and I don't want to get used to it, even after I manage to grab a joystick.
I believe good PXO players played with joysticks.

[Cabbie]

Talking about accuracy. I  use that thumb pointer stick on my CH throttle for those precision shots. Very nice. But I have to try mousing like what Nico suggested.

[Havock]

I've got a Thrustmaster op gun stick thingy with vibro-stuff, could be better, but it handles well and it's fairly cheap.