xbo elite controller

[EvilestKhan]

hi all just a quick question

I have friends who play via the xbox and would like to join them; so was wondering if you can map the extra buttons with an elite controller..? assist off/on etc.

many thanks

 

[Psych0 Pigeon]

Hi m8,

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/299870-Elite-controller-setup?p=4668592#post4668592

This is an old thread of mine that had some good suggestions on it from back in the day. I tried a few and I found mapping the throttle to the top to paddles worked enough for me. Anyways, hope it helps.

 

[NewBlacksmurf]

In short no

i bought it thinking you could but those paddles are only to mimic 4 existing buttons

also you can’t program any macros

 

[ThomasWJames]

In short no

i bought it thinking you could but those paddles are only to mimic 4 existing buttons

also you can’t program any macros

that being said though it still makes the game and other games so much easier to play. I enjoy mine and we’ll worth the price. I also have the chat pad attached makes it even better.

 

[lemon cup]

that being said though it still makes the game and other games so much easier to play. I enjoy mine and we’ll worth the price. I also have the chat pad attached makes it even better.

You can also get the Xbox phone app. This allows you to use you’re phone’s keypad when you select a text box in-game.

 

[Stiehl9s]

Hi m8,

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/299870-Elite-controller-setup?p=4668592#post4668592

This is an old thread of mine that had some good suggestions on it from back in the day. I tried a few and I found mapping the throttle to the top to paddles worked enough for me. Anyways, hope it helps.

I did the same and it makes a huge difference in combat.

I also mapped switching fire groups to the lower paddles.

 

[CMDR Exorcist]

The Elite Controller is nice but the Hotas X flight controller is cheaper and it does allow you to map some extra commands. It takes a little getting used to but has definitely made a difference for me in my ability to control my ship. Just a thought.

CMDR Ex

 

[ThomasWJames]

You can also get the Xbox phone app. This allows you to use you’re phone’s keypad when you select a text box in-game.

I did have Smartglass installed on my iPad but I found that it would phase in and out at times and wouldn't work, so I just use the chat pad now. Both work alright, I'm sure Smartglass has been updated since last I used it.

 

[Rebel Yell]

One of the small green levers (the one who sets the trigger pressure lenght) is not working anymore... since I hear some "rattle" inside the pad I guess one or more screws did mess up or may be some plastic stuff was broken.

I'll open it up and see what can I do... that's the only one thing I really use on the pad (for shooters).

 

[UnhappyDev]

The Elite Controller is nice but the Hotas X flight controller is cheaper and it does allow you to map some extra commands. It takes a little getting used to but has definitely made a difference for me in my ability to control my ship.

This was my experience as well, I much prefer the HOTAS for ED. Added to that, the Elite Controller is expensive and mine broke.

 

[Clifra Jones]

hi all just a quick question

I have friends who play via the xbox and would like to join them; so was wondering if you can map the extra buttons with an elite controller..? assist off/on etc.

many thanks

You can do a whole lot with Elite Controller. ED allows many kinds of combinations like pressing both stick clicks simultaneously. One other player sent me his controller settings and I used most of them, not all. I cannot find the PM with the mappings.

On the XBOX I set the paddles to:

Left Front=Left Bumper
Right Front=Right Bumper
Left Back=Left Stick Click
Right Back=Right Stick Click

Here are my settings for the paddles in ED

Left Front Paddle=Throttle down
Right Front Paddle=Throttle up
Left Back Paddle = Left thrust
Right Back Paddle = Right Thrust

Left Front Paddle + Right Front Paddle = 100% throttle
Left Back Paddle + Right Back Paddle = 0% Throttle
Left Front Paddle + Left Back Paddle = 50% Throttle
Right Front Paddle + Right Back Paddle = 100% Reverse Throttle

Right Front Paddle + Left Back Paddle = Forward Thrust (not throttle)
Left Front Paddle + Right Back Paddle = Reverse Thrust

What this also lets you do is any context action that uses the bumpers can be done with the 2 front paddles like switching your fire groups. This allows you to not have to take you ringer of the triggers

For me it was the best investment I've made for playing ED on XBOX.

 

[Clifra Jones]

The Elite Controller is nice but the Hotas X flight controller is cheaper and it does allow you to map some extra commands. It takes a little getting used to but has definitely made a difference for me in my ability to control my ship. Just a thought.

CMDR Ex

But the whole point of Elite Dangerous on XBOX is I can play from my Couch!

 

[Clifra Jones]

In short no

i bought it thinking you could but those paddles are only to mimic 4 existing buttons

also you can’t program any macros

In short, yes you can! They don't just mimic the 4 existing buttons you can assign any button on you controller to them.

Remember there are other buttons you may not be aware of! The stick Click buttons. See my previous post on how you can get more controls assigned to those paddles

 

[Ackley 280]

But the whole point of Elite Dangerous on XBOX is I can play from my Couch!

I use the Hotas from my favourite recliner.

i set up a small table in front and messed about a bit with the height. I have the Hotas in front of me, the elite controller with chat pad in front of my right hand and the iPad for inara, eddb, this forum or YouTube in front of my left. Note pad and Beer on the table in front and a bottle of Glenlivet or Auchentoshen down the side on the floor.

Everything is at my fingertips and sometimes I am that comfortable I fall asleep at the helm and the dog regularly curls up next to me.

while my son is up north working on cattle stations I am using his 55" 4K telly. The missus has stopped calling it the man cave and started calling it the space cave

edited to add: the elite controller was the best thing I had used for ED until I got the Hotas. For a while you could combine them and the setup was almost perfection. When I used the elite controller I mapped the front paddles to the bumpers the left rear to X and the right rear to the stick click mapped to free look.

 

[Clifra Jones]

I use the Hotas from my favourite recliner.

i set up a small table in front and messed about a bit with the height. I have the Hotas in front of me, the elite controller with chat pad in front of my right hand and the iPad for inara, eddb, this forum or YouTube in front of my left. Note pad and Beer on the table in front and a bottle of Glenlivet or Auchentoshen down the side on the floor.

Everything is at my fingertips and sometimes I am that comfortable I fall asleep at the helm and the dog regularly curls up next to me.

while my son is up north working on cattle stations I am using his 55" 4K telly. The missus has stopped calling it the man cave and started calling it the space cave

edited to add: the elite controller was the best thing I had used for ED until I got the Hotas. For a while you could combine them and the setup was almost perfection. When I used the elite controller I mapped the front paddles to the bumpers the left rear to X and the right rear to the stick click mapped to free look.

That is too cool.

I own a HOTAS but it obviously will not work with an XBOX. Plus it is all mounted to a converted office chair for when I have the desire to go back in time to to 1938-1945.

I found ED on the XBOX, if I'd have knows it was also a PC game I am sure I'd have bought the PC version. But, like I said, I enjoy ED from my couch very much.

 

[NewBlacksmurf]

that being said though it still makes the game and other games so much easier to play. I enjoy mine and we’ll worth the price. I also have the chat pad attached makes it even better.

Thing is....Its nice to have but I can not recommend to anyone spending $150 on it
Considet that’s the price of both the Xbox one controller and HOTAS one

 

[Fray]

Thing is....Its nice to have but I can not recommend to anyone spending $150 on it

I absolutely would, with the caveat that 'value for money' is a colossally subjective thing.

For me the Elite controller completely transformed my console gaming, making it a physically more comfortable/pleasant experience, as well improving my game performance. The comparison I tend to use is with a decent multi-button gaming mouse; the Elite pad gets a console experience closer to that, and the simplest example to provide is being able to keep moving and looking whilst either looting, activating, or reloading.

When vanilla pad owners are forced to remove their thumbs from either stick, Elite users can typically just keep moving, orienting the camera, and then using the paddles or bumpers/triggers all at the same time. Essentially it allows for a degree of control fluidity - ergo performance - that's impossible when restricted to using your thumbs for both sticks plus the d-pad and four face buttons.

It ideally should constitute a revolution in conventional pad design and use (i.e. all console pads start to feature paddles).

...but it won't, because Nintendo are off in the corner doing their thang, and Sony - despite functionally have a more versatile vanilla pad than MS - seem incapable of iterating away from their 'iconic' layout.

So yeah, personally I couldn't recommend it high enough. I've been gaming since the mid/late '80's, and the Elite pad's by far the best I've ever used, and it's genuinely going to be quite hard to re-adjust if the next gen (provided there is such a thing for MS) doesn't also offer a superior alternative to outdated vanilla designs. If that happens I may simply jump ship to PC gaming, as I think I'd prefer to adapt to keys'n'mouse than put up with old pad layouts.

That said, HOTAS all the way for Elite Dangerous. I deeply miss an analogue headlook, and I absolutely loathe using it for menus and outfitting, but overall it's just night and day in terms of precision as well as immersion (though the former is an objective improvement, and the latter is incredibly subjective).

...although the Elite pad will benefit every single game someone plays on Xbox (or PC, even), whereas the HOTAS is really only restricted to Elite [Dangerous] at the moment, so in that sense I'd still say the Elite pad's better value for money - so long as someone uses their Xbox for more than just flying spaceships.

 

[Ackley 280]

I absolutely would, with the caveat that 'value for money' is a colossally subjective thing.

For me the Elite controller completely transformed my console gaming, making it a physically more comfortable/pleasant experience, as well improving my game performance. The comparison I tend to use is with a decent multi-button gaming mouse; the Elite pad gets a console experience closer to that, and the simplest example to provide is being able to keep moving and looking whilst either looting, activating, or reloading.

When vanilla pad owners are forced to remove their thumbs from either stick, Elite users can typically just keep moving, orienting the camera, and then using the paddles or bumpers/triggers all at the same time. Essentially it allows for a degree of control fluidity - ergo performance - that's impossible when restricted to using your thumbs for both sticks plus the d-pad and four face buttons.

It ideally should constitute a revolution in conventional pad design and use (i.e. all console pads start to feature paddles).

...but it won't, because Nintendo are off in the corner doing their thang, and Sony - despite functionally have a more versatile vanilla pad than MS - seem incapable of iterating away from their 'iconic' layout.

So yeah, personally I couldn't recommend it high enough. I've been gaming since the mid/late '80's, and the Elite pad's by far the best I've ever used, and it's genuinely going to be quite hard to re-adjust if the next gen (provided there is such a thing for MS) doesn't also offer a superior alternative to outdated vanilla designs. If that happens I may simply jump ship to PC gaming, as I think I'd prefer to adapt to keys'n'mouse than put up with old pad layouts.

That said, HOTAS all the way for Elite Dangerous. I deeply miss an analogue headlook, and I absolutely loathe using it for menus and outfitting, but overall it's just night and day in terms of precision as well as immersion (though the former is an objective improvement, and the latter is incredibly subjective).

...although the Elite pad will benefit every single game someone plays on Xbox (or PC, even), whereas the HOTAS is really only restricted to Elite [Dangerous] at the moment, so in that sense I'd still say the Elite pad's better value for money - so long as someone uses their Xbox for more than just flying spaceships.

100% this. +1 rep

 

[Deleted member 110222]

I absolutely would, with the caveat that 'value for money' is a colossally subjective thing.

For me the Elite controller completely transformed my console gaming, making it a physically more comfortable/pleasant experience, as well improving my game performance. The comparison I tend to use is with a decent multi-button gaming mouse; the Elite pad gets a console experience closer to that, and the simplest example to provide is being able to keep moving and looking whilst either looting, activating, or reloading.

When vanilla pad owners are forced to remove their thumbs from either stick, Elite users can typically just keep moving, orienting the camera, and then using the paddles or bumpers/triggers all at the same time. Essentially it allows for a degree of control fluidity - ergo performance - that's impossible when restricted to using your thumbs for both sticks plus the d-pad and four face buttons.

It ideally should constitute a revolution in conventional pad design and use (i.e. all console pads start to feature paddles).

...but it won't, because Nintendo are off in the corner doing their thang, and Sony - despite functionally have a more versatile vanilla pad than MS - seem incapable of iterating away from their 'iconic' layout.

So yeah, personally I couldn't recommend it high enough. I've been gaming since the mid/late '80's, and the Elite pad's by far the best I've ever used, and it's genuinely going to be quite hard to re-adjust if the next gen (provided there is such a thing for MS) doesn't also offer a superior alternative to outdated vanilla designs. If that happens I may simply jump ship to PC gaming, as I think I'd prefer to adapt to keys'n'mouse than put up with old pad layouts.

That said, HOTAS all the way for Elite Dangerous. I deeply miss an analogue headlook, and I absolutely loathe using it for menus and outfitting, but overall it's just night and day in terms of precision as well as immersion (though the former is an objective improvement, and the latter is incredibly subjective).

...although the Elite pad will benefit every single game someone plays on Xbox (or PC, even), whereas the HOTAS is really only restricted to Elite [Dangerous] at the moment, so in that sense I'd still say the Elite pad's better value for money - so long as someone uses their Xbox for more than just flying spaceships.

Air Missions Hind.

Anyway, I agree with you. My peripheral collection on Xbox is just stupid LOL.

I've got my HOTAS, my Elite controller with a chat pad, a full sized keyboard, and a Logitech C920 for streaming.

 

[Ackley 280]

Air Missions Hind.

Anyway, I agree with you. My peripheral collection on Xbox is just stupid LOL.

I've got my HOTAS, my Elite controller with a chat pad, a full sized keyboard, and a Logitech C920 for streaming.

No wonder your all excited to be getting a bigger desk