Hardware & Technical New rudder pedals setup

[Dibbley247]

Hi.

I played on Xbox a when the game launched, and stayed away from it, as I found it very slow with little rewards.
Since then, I've gotten back into it, but on the PC (along with DCS)
I bought the Warthog throttle and stick, then yesterday had the thrustmaster TFRP pedals turn up.

Questions are:

When I use the pedals for Yaw, I would have expected it to be progressive, but I get to a certain point on the pedals, and it's either on or off (I know own about the dead zones) is this supposed to be progressive as I'm using the pedals more?

Also, I noticed you can actually press down each pedal, what would be useful to map those too?

Thanks.

 

[Dibbley247]

Figured out the rudder, had it set as a digital input rather than analogue!

Still interested in what to set the tilt of the pedals to though?

 

[who?]

Sounds like you have them mapped to the wrong controls. I'm not at my gaming machine now, but there should be analogue and digital inputs to map to, and you've mapped to the digital ones (on/off). Not sure exactly what the analogue one is called, might be "Yaw Axis"?

On the toe brakes, it's entirely up to you. I always map them either to Up/Down or Left/Right thrust. Though more often than not in combat things are so manic I find it hard to 'twist' the pedals and use the toe-brakes at the same time without messing something up.

 

[Dibbley247]

Sounds like you have them mapped to the wrong controls. I'm not at my gaming machine now, but there should be analogue and digital inputs to map to, and you've mapped to the digital ones (on/off). Not sure exactly what the analogue one is called, might be "Yaw Axis"?

On the toe brakes, it's entirely up to you. I always map them either to Up/Down or Left/Right thrust. Though more often than not in combat things are so manic I find it hard to 'twist' the pedals and use the toe-brakes at the same time without messing something up.

It was indeed mapped as digital. So now it's behaving as I expected.

The thrust up/down, I've got used to it being on one of the buttons behind the throttle, up,down,left,right. Only been using it for docking.

May change the toes to left & right and free up that button for something else so I take my hand off the throttle less then.

Many thanks for your advice

 

[who?]

Oops, sorry. When I replied I didn't see your 2nd message; guess I hadn't refreshed the page in a while... I did likewise, and had been wondering why rudder pedals were so awkward, when everyone else said they were superb. Changed to analogue and they're so much better if using fixed weapons. Using the stick to keep more or less in line with the target and wiggling the pedals to strafe back and forth across it. Much more fun.

You might consider mapping the toe-brakes as digital, if it helps move left/right quicker. Generally in ED, when I'm thrusting left and right I want to do it at 100% to avoid something, I'm not looking for subtlety.

You could still map them as analogue in the landing overrides, so as soon as you drop the landing gear you can use them as subtle left/right controls; while when the gear is up they're digital 0 / 100% thrusters.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Generally in ED, when I'm thrusting left and right I want to do it at 100% to avoid something

Are there ships with relevant lateral thrusters? I haven't found them all that useful on any of my ships except to fine-tune position over a landing pad, for anything else I'd much rather use vertical thrusters or just pull away "properly".

 

[who?]

Are there ships with relevant lateral thrusters? I haven't found them all that useful on any of my ships except to fine-tune position over a landing pad, for anything else I'd much rather use vertical thrusters or just pull away "properly".

Yeah, they're generally pretty weak, in my experience. I've been able to dodge incoming plasma shots with lateral thrusters, but they're not hugely useful generally.

There might be some situations where they're better - if you're every fighting low over a planet, then lateral thrust in the same direction as the planet's gravity will probably move you quite a bit. Or if you're yawing and FA off at the same time, lateral thrust will probably help you there too (in the same way that vertical thrust helps when pitching hard with FA-off).