[Petrarch of the VBB]

As is now well recorded, I am in a state of flux as my decent gaming machine is stuck in a warehouse some where. I am, therefore having to play games an a rather decrepit old Cyrix 133!

For a while a i played only old games liek Transport Tycoon, but then I had a thought... FREESPACE!
So I installed it, and ran it, it was amazing!
I had to turn all the detail levels down to the bottom, but it ran, ships turned into triangles when only 50 metres away, but it ran!
Believe me, you haven't lived until you've played FS1 on a machine with the following:
Cyrix 133
32Meg Ram
SiS 6326 8meg "3d" Card
1.5 gig drive
and no joystick!

[IceFire]

Bah...I played it on a 4mb card

[Stunaep]

I still play on a 4mb card.

[phreak]

i still don't use joystick

[TheVirtu]

How is it physically possible to play FS2 without a joystick? Oh yeah, you play on Very Easy with the god mode on

[adwight]

How is it physically possible to play FS2 without a joystick? Oh yeah, you play on Very Easy with the god mode on

Not really Virtu... i've beaten insane with my trusty mouse... it's difficult, but it works.  My joystick never worked for Freespace or Freespace 2, so i've been stuck with my good 'ol mouse...

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by TheVirtu
How is it physically possible to play FS2 without a joystick? Oh yeah, you play on Very Easy with the god mode on

HAH!!!  I play still with the mouse. Even multiplayer. And am good at it.

[Kamikaze]

HAHAHAHA, My X45 is Coolah then ur Mousies MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHaaaa....

sorry.... *goes to hide in a dark closet*

[phreak]

i dont even use mouse.  kb only!!!

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Keyboard only?!? HOW?

Anyway, has anyone noticed how handle twist never works for more than a month or two, Windows always buggers it up, and your ship starts spinning wildly.
Another thing, whenever I install that Logitech Wingman manager thingy, my sound card stops working, neat huh?

[Darkage]

Originally posted by PhReAk
i dont even use mouse.  kb only!!!

Finaly some one agrees whit me that FS1/2 + keyboard =l33t.
I hate flying whit the mouse, and i hate joysticks. I always thrust one my keyboard:)

[an0n]

Originally posted by PhReAk
i dont even use mouse.  kb only!!!

Amen to that. The only games I use any other peripherals with are Quake 3 (mouse+key) and Tachyon (mouse+key as much as possible).

[Reaper]

Originally posted by darkage



Finaly some one agrees whit me that FS1/2 + keyboard =l33t.
I hate flying whit the mouse, and i hate joysticks. I always thrust one my keyboard:)

Keyboard is cool...
But at "MS Combat FS" joy' is the best... It's so hard on keyboard... and all Flight sims are also the best on joy... al exept FS... FS is unplayeble with joystick i have... but i played on expencive one(that works ok, but it needs lots of buttons and force feedback)

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by TheVirtu
How is it physically possible to play FS2 without a joystick? Oh yeah, you play on Very Easy with the god mode on

uh playing with a Joystick is harder than a mouse! A mouse is more accurate.

[vadar_1]

Originally posted by Zeronet


uh playing with a Joystick is harder than a mouse! A mouse is more accurate.

but how do you evade? dodge missiles, fire, beams... you cant do that with a stupid little mouse... and my aim is godly on a joystick anyways.

I guess you just need to know how to handle your stick

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by vadar_1
I guess you just need to know how to handle your stick

hehe

In my opinion the Joystick is more versatile - it can actually steer (which I can't with a mouse) and I can actually aim, which I also can't with a  mouse... Anyway, my joystick can basically operate all the FS2 functions just on the stick and throttle.

[Tar-Palantir]

How is it physically possible to play FS2 without a joystick? Oh yeah, you play on Very Easy with the god mode on

It all depends on what your use to. Speaking as a man whose completed FS ST and FS2 on medium using solely keys (and without the cheats!) it si indeed possible to play without a joystick. If fact I'll personally hopeless in FS with jokstick and would probably get massacred if I ever did multiplayer.

And just a minor add on, the standard keyboard setting for FS in not that good (read:very bad). Change it! I own setting are:
One hand does 'left', 'right' and secondary fire, right does 'up' and 'down' and primary fire etc etc.

[CP5670]

It all depends on what your use to.

I am also a keyboard-only person and have changed around the key mappings to something I have used from the Descent days. I can beat the campaign on insane but probably would be unable to get past the first or second mission on very easy with a mouse, joystick or even a different set of keys.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by vadar_1


I guess you just need to know how to handle your stick

The weird thing is, btw, that I use joystick with every other flight/SC simulator I have (TIE Fighter, XWA, etc.). Somehow, I can't aim with it only in FS.

[Killfrenzy]

I can't play it unless I'm using a stick. Having flown an actual aircraft myself, and with the general movement (albeit with dodgy physics) of the fighter behaves in the same way, I'm used to the stick.

I still love 'pouncing!' :D:D