Yup, currently bugged for player targets. Personally I find using a HOTAS gives me much better control, I use an X52 Pro, recently upgraded from an X36. Mouse and keyboard is just way too sensitive, but probably suits the diehard PvP twitchers. As others have said, you are always going to meet players way better and way worse than you. The trick is not to get too discouraged when some nasty little ganker with the reflexes of a mongoose hands you your ass on a plate.
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Yup, currently bugged for player targets. Personally I find using a HOTAS gives me much better control, I use an X52 Pro, recently upgraded from an X36. Mouse and keyboard is just way too sensitive, but probably suits the diehard PvP twitchers. As others have said, you are always going to meet players way better and way worse than you. The trick is not to get too discouraged when some nasty little ganker with the reflexes of a mongoose hands you your ass on a plate.
I have never felt much of an urge to upgrade my trusty MS Sidewinder 2
As well as binding the u/d/l/r thrusters to the hat switch, on any joystick you can bind the head look directions to the same hat switch.
When you are in 'head-look mode' the thrusters do not fire, giving your hat switch duel purpose.
Not only this, you can bind secondary keyboard thruster keys on the keyboard just in case you want to thrust about while in head-look mode.
I've had it set up like this since Alpha (even asked Frontier to prevent the thrusters from firing in head-look mode, and they fixed it)
Well thank goodness I am rubbish, because to be good, means one must be nasty and/or a ganker! Good to know.
This is why smart PvP players pack big burst damage guns. Shield cells take a little time to kick in, so if you shields go down quickly due to, I dunno, 2xClass 2 rail guns hitting you, things can get tricky quickly.
Every online combat flight sim has had this problem. A Darwinian selection takes place, as the sharks kill all the fish off, and start eating each other.
See: World Of Warplanes, with an NA server population of less than a thousand. They killed off all the prey (among other issues).
There is no "I Win" equipment to address this. Even RL experience and training can do little when you are pitted against the best twitch players.
Trust me. I know.
Ralph, CPT, USAF, 429th TFS.
See: World Of Warplanes, with an NA server population of less than a thousand. They killed off all the prey (among other issues).
There is no "I Win" equipment to address this. Even RL experience and training can do little when you are pitted against the best twitch players.
Trust me. I know.
Ralph, CPT, USAF, 429th TFS.
War Thunder?
To me UI is super important. I use a T-flight HOTAS (http://www.amazon.com/Thrustmaster-T-Flight-Hotas-Flight-Playstation-3/dp/B001CXYMFS). Very entry-level but works great. You see the little on the left top of the stick? You can use that for throttle (both vertical and lateral, both possible at the same time). It means you can now do what you do with one hand less.
It frees it up for the throttle. On the throttle your thumb is on three little knobs, so you can use your power distributor without having to move your hand. So you dont have to look at your fingers, you can keep looking at the screen while having more control than you do now.Even more brutal, but with a better flight physics model, and larger playerbase. Prettier, too.
I'm old, have arthritis, and just don't enjoy "hassling" (as we called it) very much anymore. I want a game that I can use my brains and experience, and a better social environment. I'm a space geek as well.
PvP combat sims eventually enter a Darwinian death-spiral, where the most skilled/equipped players drive off the rest of the players. That is why I play in solo mode. If the NPC AI's are scaled up to meet the best of the open mode players, and are shared with the solo environment, I will welcome our new Thargoid Overlords.
I envy you.
Skill only gets you so far, and luck always runs out. Against the best twitch players, with maxed ships, the TTK will be short. Better have insurance.
You shouldn't aim to be the best PvP player but to get the most fun out of the game.
Players with DK2 and X52 Pro have a natural advantage over others. I am one of those lucky and i can't imagine to play this game without this 2 tools anymore and not because i want to be good in PvP but because this 2 Tools makes this game THE GAME.
All I still use the keyboard for is to exit the game or to answer a comander which is a bit tricky and the negative point but really worth to pay as price.
So if you really want to get more out of the Game I recomment to get one or both of this Tools and enter another world.
Players with DK2 and X52 Pro have a natural advantage over others. I am one of those lucky and i can't imagine to play this game without this 2 tools anymore and not because i want to be good in PvP but because this 2 Tools makes this game THE GAME.
All I still use the keyboard for is to exit the game or to answer a comander which is a bit tricky and the negative point but really worth to pay as price.
So if you really want to get more out of the Game I recomment to get one or both of this Tools and enter another world.
i boughtt a black widow HOTAS specifically for e-d
its great. was only 28 quid.
its great. was only 28 quid.
BlackReign
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I fly with a Warthog and can't imagine using anything else. The precision of this system is incredible. Where do you think your weaknesses lie:
- Can you get on an enemies six?
- Can you get an enemy off your six?
- Do you use thrust in combination with other axis moves?
- Are you using your weapons correctly (Lasers vs sheilds, cannons vs hull)?
- Can you turn with the enemy?
Dog fighting does take practice, mining in the early going really helped me as much as bounty hunting.
Ah, I see. Hell of a bug - I never noticed though. I guess I've always judged player pilots by their physical reaction to my Kill Warrant Scanner rather than check their rating. Funny.
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