It has twist, which I'd assume any flight stick would have (obviously not).
In fact a real 'flight' stick doesn't come with a twist, 'cause real pilots use pedals for yaw control.
Trying to kill time 'til i can command my own ship in beta, i just watch some episodes of Firefly, again. I seriously thought about getting a yoke control, just like they used in the series (
http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/yoke.html). But then i saw it in the store and it felt pretty cheap to the touch and not very solid. So if any alpha testers have experience with it, please let me know.
So today i ordered myself a Thrustmaster Warthog. Seems to me like the perfect controller for ED, since i felt that a starships controls should feel heavy in your hand, i mean, it's a starship, not a dwarf car (like f.e. a Messerschmidt Kabinenroller or that thing Jeremy Clarkson drove through the BBC offices in Top Gear).
That's why it seems quite wrong to me to use a PS or xbox controller or any of these tiny things that so many around here prefer (might work well for them, but not for me,... immersion, you know...).
Of course there are more reasons for me to choose the Warthog, it's said to be extremly precise and with all the many buttons it should be possible to fly the ship with oculus rift goggles on, since the keyboard is not needed anymore.
Since i stil had a voucher of a local electronics warehouse left and had to spent it anyway, even the price was not so much of an issue. This is probably the last joysick i'll ever buy in my life, so it's not so much an expense, but more like an investment.
Delivery takes 4-7 days, so with a little luck i can make myself a nice christmas present. Next item i plan to get is a set of pedals, had Saitek's 'Pro Flight Combat Rudder Pedals' in mind (
http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/compedals.html?scid=SA_CP).
Equipped like that i feel confident to be able even to toast some trigger happy teenagers before they can get me.
