Speedlink BLACK WIDOW Flightstick
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Haha, thanks for the heads up. I was planning on doing the training sims once I got one anyway, now I know I made a good call there - don't want to lose my progress.
I'm planning on Voice Attack'ing anything I can't program on the buttons; so that's a minor niggle for me.
Reviews help, but it's always nice to hear from people who actually use it every day.
Thanks. As much as I like the Hotas, it's extremely scare here in South Africa for some reason; I don't know if it's because the market sucks, it's incredibly sort-after or old or what what. Finding one is very difficult. I really like the design of it. Can the throttle and the stick separate, or does it just look like it can?
I'd go for the Hotas if I could; but nobody has stock and nobody seems to know when they'll get more.
Haha, thanks for the heads up. I was planning on doing the training sims once I got one anyway, now I know I made a good call there - don't want to lose my progress.
I also found docking much easier, was strange to fly without pressing keys. Will say one this bad about the trust master, the non-adjustable hand rest makes having small hand players struggle a little, but perfect for larger handed players.
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I'd go for the Hotas if I could; but nobody has stock and nobody seems to know when they'll get more.
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The Thrustmaster a solid stick for the price (I paid £40), and has plenty of buttons if you take time to map them:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108839
This is the result of 10 months of ED with the stick.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108839
This is the result of 10 months of ED with the stick.
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I got the black widow on Sunday and after a few hours of concentrated tutorial work re-mapping buttons and testing them out it was fine. I will say I do not do the fighting bits - simple trader/explorer for me thank you. Having worked in open for a couple of days I did go back and try the basic combat tutorial again and I did have more control than with X box controller previously used and I see no problems for me in combat other than those caused by the fact that I am useless at it which is not the black widows fault. I know the thrustmaster has more buttons and also apparently the twist for z axis but I have not used one so cannot compare. All I can say is the black widow is working fine for me.
A B-B-Blackwidow baby? I'd go with something else.
Admittedly, I'm comparing it with the £150 X-55 I bought as a replacement, but I really didn't get along with the Blackwidow. I felt the stick only wanted to move in four directions, it lacked the buttons and hats ED needs for thrusters, power allocation, and targeting, and it broke after a month of heavy use. I've seen Youtube videos of players who are awesome with the BW, so some people must like it, but how good would they be with a proper stick?!
Standard suggestions in the budget range are the T-Flight Hotas and the T-16000m, you don't get a separate throttle with the T-16000m, but I think it makes up for it with the Hall effect sensors, and you could always buy a separate throttle later. Also can the T-16000m use programming software, does any one know? As that can be useful for programming pre-set power allocation macros.
Admittedly, I'm comparing it with the £150 X-55 I bought as a replacement, but I really didn't get along with the Blackwidow. I felt the stick only wanted to move in four directions, it lacked the buttons and hats ED needs for thrusters, power allocation, and targeting, and it broke after a month of heavy use. I've seen Youtube videos of players who are awesome with the BW, so some people must like it, but how good would they be with a proper stick?!
Standard suggestions in the budget range are the T-Flight Hotas and the T-16000m, you don't get a separate throttle with the T-16000m, but I think it makes up for it with the Hall effect sensors, and you could always buy a separate throttle later. Also can the T-16000m use programming software, does any one know? As that can be useful for programming pre-set power allocation macros.
+1 rep for the Avatar. Reminds me of a Santana album
They use delivery that ships to my country; but just fiddling with the prices on the delivery site made it extremely financially untenable. Likely I entered the wrong information, but they wanted 400 quid delivery fee; that was with UPS on a 10kg box. I'm in South Africa so shipping is expensive, as are our import duties. :<
Thanks though.
I do like it, but I'm not going to hunt around for it too much; it's just very rare here and shipping from outside the country isn't really an option due to how far I am from the rest of the world, lol.
I don't even know what the z-axis would be used for, LOL - as long as I can fly my ship and what not, I'll be happy. I can worry about a more expensive stick much further down the line, hehe
I've been looking at the X55 or a while, also a very rare piece here with the only places selling them right now being second-hand forums for the same price or slightly less than a new one.A B-B-Blackwidow baby? I'd go with something else.
Admittedly, I'm comparing it with the £150 X-55 I bought as a replacement, but I really didn't get along with the Blackwidow. I felt the stick only wanted to move in four directions, it lacked the buttons and hats ED needs for thrusters, power allocation, and targeting, and it broke after a month of heavy use. I've seen Youtube videos of players who are awesome with the BW, so some people must like it, but how good would they be with a proper stick?!
Standard suggestions in the budget range are the T-Flight Hotas and the T-16000m, you don't get a separate throttle with the T-16000m, but I think it makes up for it with the Hall effect sensors, and you could always buy a separate throttle later. Also can the T-16000m use programming software, does any one know? As that can be useful for programming pre-set power allocation macros.
It's a gorgeous looking stick and throttle though; Elite is the only game I'd use it in for now, so not much using spending a lot of money (and those are considered a lot of money over here).
Thanks for your feedback.
Glad to hear it.I use a black widow with VA and am happy with it. That said it will be upgraded at some point.
But yes, with VA it's perfectly useable
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I guess the mighty Amazon have not yet arrived in your part of the world but even so I suggest reading the customer reviews (quite mixed, reliability does not look good) and Q&A before purchase:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Speedlink-S...-1&keywords=speedlink+black+widow+flightstick
I considered this HOTAS but personally I would find the stick and throttle too close together. You could always get two sticks and use one for throttle. Logitech 3D is another alternative.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Speedlink-S...-1&keywords=speedlink+black+widow+flightstick
I considered this HOTAS but personally I would find the stick and throttle too close together. You could always get two sticks and use one for throttle. Logitech 3D is another alternative.