Hey there,
I am not only new with Elite Dangerous, but also toally new with joysticks.
Before I go into the "real game" I am doing battle scenarios to get into the controls. So the last couple of days I played with keyboard. And a couple of hours of learning later (especially of the Elite mechanics of sweet spots and so on) it actually went pretty good. So that in the Scenario "Incursion" I reach the 4th wave and once even the fifth (who then killed me with a missile).
Today I got the Thrustmaster Hotas X, I've read on PC game that this is the best thing you can get without going into the hundreds of euros.
I have to say that the las joystick I used was in '95 or so when I played Elite 2. I also competely hate console controls so the total time in my life on console controllers is probably like 5 hours.
Now there are two things which I found quite cool with the HOTAS X: With the thrust it felt easier to switch between forward and backward thrust than on the keyboard because there is no "stutter" effect when switching.
And the other thing is that the Yaw came more natural when having it combined with the same "movement" as rotating the ship (with mouse you use the one hand on the mouse to turn, and the other hand on the keyboard to yaw).
But that's about it.
To me it feels much easier to set the speed precicesly with the keyboard, hitting the "sweet spots". I continously accidently touch the "front button" which is normally for selecting the target (and unselecting it).
But the biggest problems I have with the pricise aiming, for example if you are facing each other and rushing into a almost-collision. Doing the left<->right adjustment works just fine with the jaw. But adjusting the height is a nightmare as the slightest touch of the joystick rotates me so far upwards that I am past the target, then I touch the joystick into the other direction and bam, my aim went past the target again...too high, too low, too high, too low....to late.
When using mouse controls you have the possibility to be extremely precise when moving into one direction. A precision I don't see you can have with a joystick.
Also when using a mouse (not in the game, but in generall) you have the option to use a mouse acceleration. So that if you move the mouse just a tiny bit, the cursor only moves a tine bit, and if you move it fast and hard, it accelerates. So you have 1mm real movement resulting into 2mm screen space and 1 cm of real movement resulting into 10 cm screen space if you understand what I mean.
Is there something similar I can use for the joystick to be able to aim more precisely? Are there any other tips you can give me about hotas controls?
At the moment I have a hard time believing that one can achieve better results with a hotas than with mouse+keyboard.
I am not only new with Elite Dangerous, but also toally new with joysticks.
Before I go into the "real game" I am doing battle scenarios to get into the controls. So the last couple of days I played with keyboard. And a couple of hours of learning later (especially of the Elite mechanics of sweet spots and so on) it actually went pretty good. So that in the Scenario "Incursion" I reach the 4th wave and once even the fifth (who then killed me with a missile).
Today I got the Thrustmaster Hotas X, I've read on PC game that this is the best thing you can get without going into the hundreds of euros.
I have to say that the las joystick I used was in '95 or so when I played Elite 2. I also competely hate console controls so the total time in my life on console controllers is probably like 5 hours.
Now there are two things which I found quite cool with the HOTAS X: With the thrust it felt easier to switch between forward and backward thrust than on the keyboard because there is no "stutter" effect when switching.
And the other thing is that the Yaw came more natural when having it combined with the same "movement" as rotating the ship (with mouse you use the one hand on the mouse to turn, and the other hand on the keyboard to yaw).
But that's about it.
To me it feels much easier to set the speed precicesly with the keyboard, hitting the "sweet spots". I continously accidently touch the "front button" which is normally for selecting the target (and unselecting it).
But the biggest problems I have with the pricise aiming, for example if you are facing each other and rushing into a almost-collision. Doing the left<->right adjustment works just fine with the jaw. But adjusting the height is a nightmare as the slightest touch of the joystick rotates me so far upwards that I am past the target, then I touch the joystick into the other direction and bam, my aim went past the target again...too high, too low, too high, too low....to late.
When using mouse controls you have the possibility to be extremely precise when moving into one direction. A precision I don't see you can have with a joystick.
Also when using a mouse (not in the game, but in generall) you have the option to use a mouse acceleration. So that if you move the mouse just a tiny bit, the cursor only moves a tine bit, and if you move it fast and hard, it accelerates. So you have 1mm real movement resulting into 2mm screen space and 1 cm of real movement resulting into 10 cm screen space if you understand what I mean.
Is there something similar I can use for the joystick to be able to aim more precisely? Are there any other tips you can give me about hotas controls?
At the moment I have a hard time believing that one can achieve better results with a hotas than with mouse+keyboard.
