Pilot Archive

Man I need to rmemeber people can't read my mind.
By bouncing I mean, I feel like I'm throwing my crosshairs across the room and then I just violently turn. Should I turn my sensitivity down?

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KaylBreinhar wrote:
I just like the precision granted by the mouse - no joystick gives me up to 2000dpi.

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True.

I used a joystick for my first week in this game and would too in any other but....I don't knwo what it is but for this game only, I prefer the mouse by far and feel completely alien with a joystick. I wouldn't say mouse > joystick though because this really is somthing which falls down to amatter of oppinion.

Flying as a gunner, I actually ended up using both mouse and joystick ... I'm just too used to the various buttons I've programmed.

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FilanVader wrote:
i have trouble getting used to twisting the stick to roll, its just unnatural to my hand. i wish i could config it like X-Wing and have it be when i hold down a top button and push it to the side it would roll.

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irpants wrote:
Man I need to rmemeber people can't read my mind.
By bouncing I mean, I feel like I'm throwing my crosshairs across the room and then I just violently turn. Should I turn my sensitivity down?

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Yes, sensitivity is a factor. Also, the size of the control "box" and how fast yourpointer moves and how far.

Took me about a week to adjust things to the way I like 'em.

Although, to be honest, the first time I tried flying in this game (I don't read manuals as a rule), Iended uplooking in the back of my ship as I was getting pounded by an RSF T1.

SO, I read the manual.

personaly i like my saitek st90 joystick. cheap and works well

I like the immersion of being in first person and using the joystick. The functionality seems to work well for me. When I'm in a turret, I use a mouse though. I can't hit a thing if I use a joystick in a turret.

Every now and then, I fly in 3rd person just for a bit of variety. There seems to be some advantages to this as you've got a bit more vision in close fights. The joystick doesn't work as well for me in 3rd person for some reason. I think if I were to totally switch to 3rd person, I would have to start using a mouse. For now, I'm "sticking" (pardon the pun) to the joystick and 1st person.

IMHO, being able to adjust speed, level and rotation fast is more important than extra dpi on a mouse... Although I admit you do get beter precision with mouse being able to perform more complex maneuvers is more important to me. As someone said it's very personal... I guess you have to try it yourself (recommend to try it for at least 3 days to get used to it before rejecting something you dont feel usual).

5 Buttons on my mouse, and a generic usb throttle FTW!

Mouse and keyboard all the way.

im only mouse/KB because of planetside, nowdays it has joystick support but when it came out even flight was KB/Mouse. you still catch me in SWG trying to use my "Climb" and "Descend" keys.

in PS all fighters/bombers/transports where basicly some form of scifi VTOL in which not only could you climb in the traditional airplane sense of pulling up but through the use of the climb and desecend keys you could move up and down without tilting the nose. basicly Helicopter meets Jet Fighter. i wish my Xwing could do some of the things my reaver did lol.

my personal pref is a joystick, but i bought mine at the exact same time as JTL, so ive never used a mouse. (until today, lent my JS to a friend, tried a mouse, i'm 3323, couldnt hit a tier 1)