Help Required for a new player with Thrustmaster Hotas X joystick?
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Rebound everything personally. Joystick was mostly default, cept the far right button was target-on screen. Trigger, middle and stickpad thing was left alone.
But the throttle.. that was hell.
The throttle's top back key is boost for me (the one facing you), below that I set to upper thrust, then lower thrust with the lowest key being a modifier that while pressed causes the joystick directional tab to be left for landing gear, up for hardpoints, right for cargo. Big left and right tabs are left and right thrusters, while the front top key is flight assist, front bottom key is a outright modifier again, with holding that + pressing the back top key (boost) being frame jump, trigger being chaff, secondary fire being shield boost, and the targeting key now EMS charge; with the stickpad all doing.. something. I believe I set that for wingman 1-2-3 & wingman target.
Eg.. TLDR: Make your preference set of keys on the throttle 'modifiers' just don't make my mistake and say, bind your frame jump button as a modifier and think it'll work cause.. no, you'll just attempt frame jumps every time you use it. :3
This is just me personally though. Can't say it's the best, just my preference.
Edit; "Oh yeah" moment, the keys on the bottom of the throttle, yeah, I set that to ditch all cargo and ship lights cause.. why not. But those could easily also be modifiers, I also have no clue what I set drop heatsink or silent running to but it's another modifier somewhere in the mix up. Hope this helps regardless as modifiers are about the only way your going to make it work without using a keyboard or setting up Voice Attack to cover the lack of buttons.
But the throttle.. that was hell.
The throttle's top back key is boost for me (the one facing you), below that I set to upper thrust, then lower thrust with the lowest key being a modifier that while pressed causes the joystick directional tab to be left for landing gear, up for hardpoints, right for cargo. Big left and right tabs are left and right thrusters, while the front top key is flight assist, front bottom key is a outright modifier again, with holding that + pressing the back top key (boost) being frame jump, trigger being chaff, secondary fire being shield boost, and the targeting key now EMS charge; with the stickpad all doing.. something. I believe I set that for wingman 1-2-3 & wingman target.
Eg.. TLDR: Make your preference set of keys on the throttle 'modifiers' just don't make my mistake and say, bind your frame jump button as a modifier and think it'll work cause.. no, you'll just attempt frame jumps every time you use it. :3
This is just me personally though. Can't say it's the best, just my preference.
Edit; "Oh yeah" moment, the keys on the bottom of the throttle, yeah, I set that to ditch all cargo and ship lights cause.. why not. But those could easily also be modifiers, I also have no clue what I set drop heatsink or silent running to but it's another modifier somewhere in the mix up. Hope this helps regardless as modifiers are about the only way your going to make it work without using a keyboard or setting up Voice Attack to cover the lack of buttons.
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I dont think there is a "best" config.
I map directional thrust to the sliding Hat button on my stick. This lets me thrust side to side and up/down simply by sliding my thumb.
Twisting the stick turns my ship left and right. Roll is mapped to simply moving the stick intuitively left or right.
Also remember: You can map an "Alt" button of sorts. Leave a button open with nothing assigned to it. I use the Index finder button on my Throttle. Then map less crucial, less time sensitive commands, to a combination of that button and another button that is already used for a function. This essentially doubles the buttons you have available in your HOTAS setup.
Honestly, though, the best thing to do is simply play around with various setups. In time you will find one that works for you.
Hope this helps some Commander.
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That's interesting. I went full Battlestar Galactica" and mapped Boost to L3 on my stick. The Thumb button my throttle lowers landing gear. That same button, in conjunction with my Index Finger throttle button (modifier button) toggles the Cargo Hatch.
Just goes to show that this is an incredibly flexible setup. The flight model and controls in Elite are amazing.
Set tophat as alternative landing controls that way it only thrusts when landing gear is down an use it for engine management the rest of the time I have mine set up so I have very few shifts as it hard to remember them all so have most thing set up on own button and that's stuff you use all the time not rubbish like ship lights or eject cargo if you want me to list every bind I will as it's very simple setup and you won't ever have to use keyboard again all though you still can
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i based mine on this > https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=16140&page=11&p=1050207&viewfull=1#post1050207
with extra mapping for srv. lets me control pretty much everything from the hotas x
with extra mapping for srv. lets me control pretty much everything from the hotas x
I'm confused why you can't land on a planet with default settings? Ok some of the buttons are not bound and can be used. but I kept the stick direction settings as they are.
button 1 primary fire
button 2 secondary fire
button 3 subsystem target
button 4 chaff
button 5 boost
button 6 up thrust
button 7 down thrust
button 8 fsd charge
button 9 landing gear
button 10 cargo hatch
rocker left and right thrust
Hat is pip and after pressing 1 or 4 to go to side panels you can use hat for selecting request docking
I use ST for push to talk if you use TS or something.
I find this convenient for general flying and basic combat.
FOr SRV I bound the keys the same way so don't have much of a different to the controls.
button 1 primary fire
button 2 secondary fire
button 3 subsystem target
button 4 chaff
button 5 boost
button 6 up thrust
button 7 down thrust
button 8 fsd charge
button 9 landing gear
button 10 cargo hatch
rocker left and right thrust
Hat is pip and after pressing 1 or 4 to go to side panels you can use hat for selecting request docking
I use ST for push to talk if you use TS or something.
I find this convenient for general flying and basic combat.
FOr SRV I bound the keys the same way so don't have much of a different to the controls.
As mentioned above, there is no "best" setup, however the Crab Setup was popular around here for a while and is what I used to begin with, almost everything is mapped, it takes a while to learn all the combos, but after a few hours, memory muscle starts kicks in and it becomes quite intuitive.
My current setup is more or less the same, but I have tweaked a few things to suit my playstyle...for example, I have landing overrides configured (they automatically switch when you deploy landing gear)...the hat becomes fwd/rev & lateral (left/right) thrusters and the throttle becomes an analogue control for the vertical thrusters, essential for high-gravity landings.
My current setup is more or less the same, but I have tweaked a few things to suit my playstyle...for example, I have landing overrides configured (they automatically switch when you deploy landing gear)...the hat becomes fwd/rev & lateral (left/right) thrusters and the throttle becomes an analogue control for the vertical thrusters, essential for high-gravity landings.
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Op hasn't replied to anyone yet, I'm presuming it's not a T flight issue, more a game issue. He doesn't mention SRV driving at all.
OP- Are you running Horizons? (The launcher is blue and the game menu is a picture of an SRV on a planet).
If the answer is yes, make sure you have the planetary approach suite fitted (the last optional internal slot in outfitting). Then simply approach the correct type of planet (in system map there is a blue arc over the top of the planet or moon), as you get closer the lovely computer will say 'Orbital flight engaged'.
Find a flat landing area, deploy gear, move around a bit until the dot on your scanner below your ship is blue, then thrust down.
OP- Are you running Horizons? (The launcher is blue and the game menu is a picture of an SRV on a planet).
If the answer is yes, make sure you have the planetary approach suite fitted (the last optional internal slot in outfitting). Then simply approach the correct type of planet (in system map there is a blue arc over the top of the planet or moon), as you get closer the lovely computer will say 'Orbital flight engaged'.
Find a flat landing area, deploy gear, move around a bit until the dot on your scanner below your ship is blue, then thrust down.
Thank you all for wonderful suggestions. I will screw around with my joystick. Yeah I have the Horizons...I have the defualt flying pizza wedge ship I guess it's the beginner ship...each time I approach the planet when in supercruise I bounce off it...it says vector too steep...do I just follow the red carpet thingy ?
my hotas has got an inch of dust all over, lack of use. I prefer XBCP!
this is how I have mine set up
Wow Really?!!!!
I can't stand the XBox controller my hands cramp up like crazy. I am a pilot so for me a stick feels natural and it my wife and my kids off something nasty since all of my Y dimensions are inverted...even in first person shooters.