The 52's are on the slowest boat ever to sail from China to the UK.
Madcatz are flying in some X-55's which land at distribution tomorrow and should be at your preferred retailer by Friday.
The Joystick/Controller discussion thread
The 52's are on the slowest boat ever to sail from China to the UK.
Madcatz are flying in some X-55's which land at distribution tomorrow and should be at your preferred retailer by Friday.
Dusted off my trusty MS Sidewinder 2 Pro, hasn't been used for umm 10 years or so. Seems to work a treat though. Names quite appropriate too.
Quite a few people are using it, myself included. I'm very happy with it in ED
On these kind of regular old non HOTAS sticks you can now bind head-look to the hat positions as well as u/d/l/r thrust. This means you can look about using the hat when in 'head look' mode, but thrust about using the hat when in regular 'fixed head' flight.
Couldn't find a 52 pro or 55 rhino in the UK at all. Found out a colleague was coming over from the states and he has kindly bought me a gift...
never thought of doing that with the FLY5. d'oh.
Yeah, during the Alpha the thrusters would continue to fire when you were in head-look mode so it wasn't very practical as you'd end up thrusting into the asteroid you were looking at. I bounced the issue back and forth with Frontier and they fixed it. Now I can happily use this (I also use numeric keypad as secondary lateral thruster control bindings so I can still use them when in head-look mode in the rare case that might be useful)
Saitek x55 rhino "in stock" at http://store.gameshark.net/Saitek_P..._on_Throttle_and_Stick_System_for_PC/5733/173
just for anyone who is struggling to find them.
just for anyone who is struggling to find them.
Dusted off my trusty MS Sidewinder 2 Pro, hasn't been used for umm 10 years or so. Seems to work a treat though. Names quite appropriate too.
I have its older sibling - the MS SideWinder 3D Pro Plus. I got the joystick about two years ago practically unused for a song on that auction site. This model is so old (18-20 years) that it doesn't even have USB, so I had to build an adapter for it.
This is the only analog joystick I remember using, and it feels good, but I have a feeling I'm missing out on something. Does anyone know how these compare with the T.16000M? Or the x52? I mean the only the stick, of course, not the throttle or the buttons.
Thank you!
Bit the bullet last week and bought a TM:Warthog
I.... HAVE..... NO..... WORDS..............
The quality is outstanding, coming from my x52, this thing is on a another level entirely. Even some of my co-workers who are not really 'gamers' as such, had a quick look/feel when i unpacked the thing and said, 'wow you can really tell this thing is high quality and worth the price tag'
Hurry up 5PM want to go home and play PB2
I.... HAVE..... NO..... WORDS..............
The quality is outstanding, coming from my x52, this thing is on a another level entirely. Even some of my co-workers who are not really 'gamers' as such, had a quick look/feel when i unpacked the thing and said, 'wow you can really tell this thing is high quality and worth the price tag'
Hurry up 5PM want to go home and play PB2
AutoHotKey script to activate game window when you move the joystick while Alt-Tabbed
I know this is a little niche, but hear me out.
I have a dual monitor setup and sometime I like to Alt-Tab to my second monitor while in-game. Usually to look something up, edit market price database, whatever.
Sometimes though, I just get bored in supercruise and tab over to read reddit or whatever. Suddenly the proximity alert starts blaring and I'm heading right into a star or something, or overshooting my target by miles (or millions of miles, because space).
I frantically grab the stick and pull back on throttle but nothing happens. Still tabbed out....
Checking something while docked. Click back to the Elite window. What? No I didn't want to deploy hardpoints! Why is the station shooting at me? etc, etc...
So I made an AHK script. If the Elite window isn't active, moving any axis on the joystick will activate it so you can just straight into the action. This includes pitch and roll (X and Y), throttle (Z), yaw (R) or the POV hat, which I use for lateral thrust.
I know it may seem silly, but it's made my experience just that little bit more awesome. Plus it helps the "immersion". It's like I'm browsing /gonewild on the monitor IN MY EAGLE. Because why wouldn't I?
Anyway, you can copy the code below into a AHK script and away you go. If anyone doesn't know how to use AutoHotKey yell out and I'll run you through it, it's really simple. If anyone does know how to AHK and can see a way to improve the script please let me know, it's my first one.
Also, I'm using a Thrustmaster T16000M, let me know if the script doesn't work for your joystick.
I know this is a little niche, but hear me out.
I have a dual monitor setup and sometime I like to Alt-Tab to my second monitor while in-game. Usually to look something up, edit market price database, whatever.
Sometimes though, I just get bored in supercruise and tab over to read reddit or whatever. Suddenly the proximity alert starts blaring and I'm heading right into a star or something, or overshooting my target by miles (or millions of miles, because space).
I frantically grab the stick and pull back on throttle but nothing happens. Still tabbed out....
Checking something while docked. Click back to the Elite window. What? No I didn't want to deploy hardpoints! Why is the station shooting at me? etc, etc...
So I made an AHK script. If the Elite window isn't active, moving any axis on the joystick will activate it so you can just straight into the action. This includes pitch and roll (X and Y), throttle (Z), yaw (R) or the POV hat, which I use for lateral thrust.
I know it may seem silly, but it's made my experience just that little bit more awesome. Plus it helps the "immersion". It's like I'm browsing /gonewild on the monitor IN MY EAGLE. Because why wouldn't I?
Anyway, you can copy the code below into a AHK script and away you go. If anyone doesn't know how to use AutoHotKey yell out and I'll run you through it, it's really simple. If anyone does know how to AHK and can see a way to improve the script please let me know, it's my first one.
Also, I'm using a Thrustmaster T16000M, let me know if the script doesn't work for your joystick.
Code:
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
;#Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
;This script will activate your game window whenever
;any joystick axis changes. Handy for when you're
;Alt-Tabbed out of the game on your second monitor.
#SingleInstance force
SetFormat, float, 03 ;remove decimals from joystick values
IfWinExist, Elite - Dangerous
{
Loop
{
IfWinActive, Elite - Dangerous
{
;store the throttle axis value
throttle_active := GetKeyState("joyz")
}
IfWinNotActive, Elite - Dangerous
{
Loop
{
;get axis values
GetKeyState, joyx, 1JoyX
GetKeyState, joyy, 1JoyY
GetKeyState, joyr, 1JoyR
GetKeyState, joyp, 1JoyPOV
throttle_notActive := GetKeyState("joyz")
;if any axis changes, activate game window
;joystick X, Y and R axes 'rest' at 50
;joystive POV axis 'rests' at -1
if joyx != 50
{
WinActivate
break
}
if joyy != 50
{
WinActivate
break
}
if joyr != 50
{
WinActivate
break
}
if joyp != -1
{
WinActivate
break
}
if (throttle_active != throttle_notActive)
{
WinActivate
break
}
}
}
}
}
else
MsgBox, Elite - Dangerous window not detected.
returnT.16000M as well here, and I did not pay for a separate thrust option but am using the mouse for looking around. (No Occulus either, obviously.)
As for bindings, I use the obvious roll / pitch / yaw on the joystick axis, trigger for primary fire, left button for secondary, bottom button for "target ahead", and haven't decided on the right button yet. The hat is for UI navigation (together with left / right button for switching tabs and trigger for select), with the obvious lateral and up/down thrust override for landing. Left hand for thrust (forward only so zeroing is easy) and the base buttons (which are currently UI focus, gear, boost, scoop, supercruise and reverse thrust toggle from top left to bottom right).
Still using the arrow keys on the nearby keyboard for rearranging power, and 'J' for hyperspace / Enter for retracting hardpoints, but I am thinking of using a USB numpad I have flying around somewhere to combine all the left-hand stuff somehow.
This works fine for me at the moment, but then I'm not doing much combat ATM and focussing on cargo / scavenger runs to get the creds for a Cobra so everything is basically for maximum lazyness instead of maximum efficiency.
(Yes I'm on a budget, no a seperate thrust stick is not an option at this point. Got to pay off the new gaming PC first. )
As for bindings, I use the obvious roll / pitch / yaw on the joystick axis, trigger for primary fire, left button for secondary, bottom button for "target ahead", and haven't decided on the right button yet. The hat is for UI navigation (together with left / right button for switching tabs and trigger for select), with the obvious lateral and up/down thrust override for landing. Left hand for thrust (forward only so zeroing is easy) and the base buttons (which are currently UI focus, gear, boost, scoop, supercruise and reverse thrust toggle from top left to bottom right).
Still using the arrow keys on the nearby keyboard for rearranging power, and 'J' for hyperspace / Enter for retracting hardpoints, but I am thinking of using a USB numpad I have flying around somewhere to combine all the left-hand stuff somehow.
This works fine for me at the moment, but then I'm not doing much combat ATM and focussing on cargo / scavenger runs to get the creds for a Cobra so everything is basically for maximum lazyness instead of maximum efficiency.
(Yes I'm on a budget, no a seperate thrust stick is not an option at this point. Got to pay off the new gaming PC first.
)
If anyone's after an X55, they have 9 left at overclockers.co.uk It was 10 but just got one myself.
More expensive at £179 and £8 for next day delivery but I'm impatient
Been eyeballing that for the last few days. How'd you get on, I heard setting it up is a ball-ache.
Will be delivered tomorrow so don't know yet
I've had loads of HOTAS' over the years and never had any problems so don't expect this to be any different.
I did a very quick check on google and just about any usb capable pc stick should work on a mac apparently.
