I was lucky enough to pick up second hand x52 marked as broken for absolute pennies and it turned out to be almost perfect (clean, no scratches but stick axis were swapped round and the that holds the palm rest on the stick broken. took 10 min to fix)
Fantastic stick for Elite, I was using default bindings for good while, but then got fed up with base buttons on the stick. It is very inconvenient to have to take the hand off the stick to deploy landing gear, toggle silent mode, etc.
My solution to that was to use the pinky modifier to move some of those functions to better locations.
For example: the middle button on throttle (above clutch) is my hold-to-reverse-throttle, however when pinky switch is held down, it deploys landing gear.
Few similar things for cycling weapon groups etc.
one other useful mapping that I use a lot is F12 on the left wheel under throttle display. it's the only button around display that Elite recognises (number 32, i guess that's the last integer it can use) and it's sooo convenient to reset Rift position without having to search blind for the real f12 key . Highly recommend this.
Can't wait to try some of the suggestions in this post. the 8way throttle hat sounds fantastic as do mode macros for landing/flight/combat.
Has anyone tried modding their sticks? There's the magnet mod and removing indents from throttle that are most popular. Would love to hear how it works for Elite.
I would also be very interested to see the configs that people use. How all the actions mapped out.
Fantastic stick for Elite, I was using default bindings for good while, but then got fed up with base buttons on the stick. It is very inconvenient to have to take the hand off the stick to deploy landing gear, toggle silent mode, etc.
My solution to that was to use the pinky modifier to move some of those functions to better locations.
For example: the middle button on throttle (above clutch) is my hold-to-reverse-throttle, however when pinky switch is held down, it deploys landing gear.
Few similar things for cycling weapon groups etc.
one other useful mapping that I use a lot is F12 on the left wheel under throttle display. it's the only button around display that Elite recognises (number 32, i guess that's the last integer it can use) and it's sooo convenient to reset Rift position without having to search blind for the real f12 key . Highly recommend this.
Can't wait to try some of the suggestions in this post. the 8way throttle hat sounds fantastic as do mode macros for landing/flight/combat.
Has anyone tried modding their sticks? There's the magnet mod and removing indents from throttle that are most popular. Would love to hear how it works for Elite.
I would also be very interested to see the configs that people use. How all the actions mapped out.
just like the 8way hat trick.
