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Offline Leeko

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So, I'm wondering, how many of you use joysticks? I've always used joysticks for MechWarrior, Descent, and FreeSpace. I can't imagine playing without one!
Mine's a Microsoft Force Feedback 2. Though the Z axis recently broke... no more barrel rolls. :(

 

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Technically it's the Rx axis. :nervous:

I'm one of them, and I use the good ol' Saitek X52 FCS. I've mapped all the controls you really need and I still have 5 separate modes left over. :D
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Offline Leeko

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The calibration screen labels it Z. :doubt:

 

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Huh. Throttle's usually Z, unless it's different between different calibration screens and certain games.
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I use a Saitek Cyborg Evo for FS, by virtue of its additional buttons, but I stick to my trusty old gameport (backed up by community-made USB converter) MS Sidewinder 3D Pro for Descent.  I love that thing. :)

 
Joystick got me into freespace, rather than visa-versa. The Collossus demo came with my wingman force 3d. Unfortunately that stick broke two months ago, so I've paid my respects and moved on to a cyborg evo force.

I couldn't play without a joystick and I couldn't play without force feedback :3

 
I use for now a x52 that begin to have some problem (bad contact beetwen the stick and the throttle cable)
I plan to waste my money in a logitech g940 hotas ffb with rudder pedals  :


 I just hope that the whole system will be recognize as a unique peripherals by windows7, it would permit to use rudder in freespace  ;7
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Oh dude that one's hot. though I once did something like that. I borrowed this thing for driving for computers with pedals and so on.

I mapped pedals for rolling, and this thing we use for gears.... well, every position had it's own (1/3, 2/3, full, zero)

That was fun. Though the friend who've lent me it, already took it back
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I'm using old, but really good Logitech's Wingman Force 3D, it has 7 buttons, POW Hat which I ussualy map to side thrusters, four axis and force feedback, which works great with FS2. 
I think Force Feedback system in FS2_Open can use some upgrades (for example enegy weapons have recoil that can be felt on handle).

 

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Ever since X-Wing I cannot imagine playing a SCS without a joystick...
I'm using a Saitek Cyborg Evo since four years or so... by now it has slight movement to the left on the Rx-axis
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Offline Dilmah G

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I originally played with a Sidewinder Precision Pro, but upgraded to a Saitek Cyborg Evo a few years ago. My trigger broke a few weeks ago however, avoid firing for extended periods of time using the trigger on the Evo, it'll start sticking and eventually give in.

 

Offline Leeko

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My friend just borrowed my joystick and is now out of town for a week. He forgot to return it before he left.
Help! :shaking:

 

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Use a mouse; or if you're awesome, use the keyboard. :D
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I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

  

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I originally played with a Sidewinder Precision Pro, but upgraded to a Saitek Cyborg Evo a few years ago. My trigger broke a few weeks ago however, avoid firing for extended periods of time using the trigger on the Evo, it'll start sticking and eventually give in.
I've got mine for around 2 years and the trigger doesn't stick and is as responsive as it ever was, me and my brother use it both for Combat Flight Sims (IL-2, to be precise) and FS2, and we never had a problem with it... It's starting to be unprecise for small aim adjustments, though.
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I've had some problems with the primary trigger on the Evo as well. I probably should just believe that the rounds won't go faster, no matter how hard I squeeze the trigger... :p

Although, I personally find it better to use the middle thumb button as the primary trigger. Somehow I get better results that way in IL-2.
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I use either joystick or just keyboard+mouse, depending on what I feel like using at the moment.

Most of the time I just use keyboard and the mouse with sensitivity turned up fairly high.

I have a joystick and I do use it sometimes, but most of the time I'm too lazy to set it up just for a quick game.  :P

 

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anyone get a generic PS2 style non ff controller to work in FS2, i can never get mine to for some reason :mad:
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Try going into the game controllers screen, select your joystick, click advanced, then see if your joystick is there in the drop-down, then click OK.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 

Offline Dilmah G

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I originally played with a Sidewinder Precision Pro, but upgraded to a Saitek Cyborg Evo a few years ago. My trigger broke a few weeks ago however, avoid firing for extended periods of time using the trigger on the Evo, it'll start sticking and eventually give in.
I've got mine for around 2 years and the trigger doesn't stick and is as responsive as it ever was, me and my brother use it both for Combat Flight Sims (IL-2, to be precise) and FS2, and we never had a problem with it... It's starting to be unprecise for small aim adjustments, though.
Yeah, you can fix the aiming thing by using a tissue and wiping dust off the "Ball" off the joystick.
Although, I personally find it better to use the middle thumb button as the primary trigger. Somehow I get better results that way in IL-2.
I haven't really got a choice now :P.

 

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Actually, you can make the Cyborg Evo a lot better for flight simulators by removing the springs, both from the twist handle mechanism and the main gimbal spring. You'll be surprised at what a difference it makes for flying. Basically it removes the need for trim, at the cost of requiring a good button layout that lets you keep your right hand at the stick at all times - but that's where it should be anyway, right? ;7

I myself would prefer a friction lock joystick rather than one that returns into more or less (usually less) clearly defined center position. And what I mean by friction lock is the same kind of mechanism that is on Cyborg Evo's throttle; you can move the handle smoothly around the range of motion and when you leave it, it stays where you put it. That would be rather awesome.

...Also, the trigger can be fixed with some effort; you need to open the handle and fix the plastic piece that holds the trigger switch in place, and then reinforce it with some padding. It tends to cave in after prolonged heavy-handed use. Duct tape seemed to do the trick for me. I also made sort of packers with layers of duct tape on each other that would prevent the trigger from being pressed too deep, and it seemed to work fine. :lol:
« Last Edit: August 02, 2009, 06:05:08 am by Herra Tohtori »
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