I write to congratulate you on the performance of your X52 pro HOTAS system. It worked faithfully for me and gave me absolutely no problems right up to the pico-second at which the warranty ran out. Firstly, one of the buttons on the throttle started to only work when the the throttle was below 50%. Then, it stopped working at all. Still, I thought. No worries. There are plenty more to use.
What I'd failed to take into consideration, however, was the herd mentality which you had somehow managed to instill into all facets of the controller. The button next to it soon followed suit and by then, the writing was on the wall.
Not being the type of person who simply throws something away without trying to fix it first (I'm a bit old school when it comes to binning something I can still remember paying over £200 for), I thought I'd have a go at taking the errant controller apart to possibly effect repairs. I enjoy a game as much as anyone and loved the game of "find the screws under the stickers" which you'd clearly gone to great lengths to prepare. Speaking of lengths, I must give you credit for your recycling ethos. Something shown by the fact that the screws used to hold the thing together were of all different sizes - waste not want not, indeed.
I easily identified the cause of the problems, as I saw straight away that some of the wires (which were thinner than a gnat's ) had broken or had become detatched from the actual buttons. These buttons are of course completely inaccessible to the likes of me. I contacted my local hospital in case they were able to do the microsurgery required, but was told that their consultant nuerosurgeon was busy playing EVE online and was, therefore, unavailable.
All in all, my gaming experience has been made more realistic when using your hardware, especially my attempt to recreate the Apollo 13 mission.
If I may be so bold, however, as to make one tiny suggestion. How about making the ing thing work for longer than ten bloody minutes?
I thank you in anticipation of absolutely sod all.
What I'd failed to take into consideration, however, was the herd mentality which you had somehow managed to instill into all facets of the controller. The button next to it soon followed suit and by then, the writing was on the wall.
Not being the type of person who simply throws something away without trying to fix it first (I'm a bit old school when it comes to binning something I can still remember paying over £200 for), I thought I'd have a go at taking the errant controller apart to possibly effect repairs. I enjoy a game as much as anyone and loved the game of "find the screws under the stickers" which you'd clearly gone to great lengths to prepare. Speaking of lengths, I must give you credit for your recycling ethos. Something shown by the fact that the screws used to hold the thing together were of all different sizes - waste not want not, indeed.
I easily identified the cause of the problems, as I saw straight away that some of the wires (which were thinner than a gnat's ) had broken or had become detatched from the actual buttons. These buttons are of course completely inaccessible to the likes of me. I contacted my local hospital in case they were able to do the microsurgery required, but was told that their consultant nuerosurgeon was busy playing EVE online and was, therefore, unavailable.
All in all, my gaming experience has been made more realistic when using your hardware, especially my attempt to recreate the Apollo 13 mission.
If I may be so bold, however, as to make one tiny suggestion. How about making the ing thing work for longer than ten bloody minutes?
I thank you in anticipation of absolutely sod all.
