First Strike Forums — Flying with a joystick

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (S-Guy) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:31:41 +0000

RSF Angel wrote:

It is risky only because a less skilled player may jump in the pilot seat and kill everyone involved.

I despise the people that steal my shuttles once I've already flown them somewhere...especially when they don't even know how to fly them.

Just throwing it out there.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (Twigs) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:13:07 +0000

I don't actually mind flying the speeder bikes with the stick. Much better than those who glitch in vehicles by mapping it to mouse wheel and spnning to perform stupid turns.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (TIEpilot234) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:52:20 +0000

Gwynzer wrote:

TIEpilot234 wrote:
I tried hooking up my joystick, but then is you have to use it for speeders too, since they're treated as 'air' vehicles.
You don't have to. Just map it to your secondary key choice, instead of overwriting the primary.

I tried that, I think. But for some reason or another it didn't work.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (Gwynzer) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:50:45 +0000

TIEpilot234 wrote:

I tried hooking up my joystick, but then is you have to use it for speeders too, since they're treated as 'air' vehicles.

You don't have to. Just map it to your secondary key choice, instead of overwriting the primary.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (TIEpilot234) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:48:59 +0000

I tried hooking up my joystick, but then is you have to use it for speeders too, since they're treated as 'air' vehicles.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (RSF Angel) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:16:11 +0000

When available, switching to a different seat cuts the engines. It is risky only because a less skilled player may jump in the pilot seat and kill everyone involved.
A joystick offers much more fluid movement than kb and is useful when turning T9 avoid fire and jinking . A mouse offers more precision but at the cost of practical turning speed.
I used to switch to mouse for long distance sniping until i got good enough with js that the the accuracy benefits were small enough to be outweighed by the benefits of a quick course change.

I currently fly with js for direction and wasd for engine and yaw

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (S-Guy) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:12:57 +0000

And when I do, I feel obligated to say, "Wheeeeeeeeeeeee..." in global chat.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (Twigs) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:26:22 +0000

A shutdown button you say? But there already is one! Decide where you want to land, come in low over the area and scout it out. Make sure there are enemy troopers there holding demp guns. Roll round and come back in, moving throttle to reverse as you do so. Eventually you will find your vehicle covered in blue light and floating gently to the floor.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (S-Guy) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:49:59 +0000

I didn't say it was impossible.

Its just a matter of getting the two ticks on the throttle indicator to line up so that its not on repulsors or thrusters. Of course, doing that quickly takes a bit of practice, often requiring a bit of a slide, maybe even a slight arc, to slow the aircraft, after which you have to jump out of the pilot's seat to turn off the engines entirely.

I'm basically speaking from the perspective of a shuttle pilot, however; I recall landing Y-Wings and speeders being a fair bit easier, especially considering you don't have to be careful about leaving the wings half-deployed.

Anywho, something I would greatly appreciate would be a 'shut down' button, not unlike the one found in the Mechwarrior series. That way, you could just get reasonably close to the ground, then shut off the engines without jumping out and endangering yourself. Now, as usual, I haven't the slightest idea of whether or not this can be done on the engine, but it would be wonderful nonetheless.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (Twigs) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:45:04 +0000

Hmmm? Landing is fairy easy If you've ever watched the First Strike Jundland video, you may have noticed a lambda do a fast combat landing on the sandcrawler. All done by joystick I promise, for I was that pilot.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (S-Guy) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:59:45 +0000

CAAM wrote:

I much prefer a Joystick to Mouse/Keyboard when flying.

What he said. The only issue I have is that flying with a joystick makes landing a bit tricky, what with our fancy VTOL capabilities, but aside from that everything's solid.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (Benu_Kenobi) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:00:26 +0000

I prefer using a joystick, although flying with the mouse works quite well.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (CAAM) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:47:33 +0000

I much prefer a Joystick to Mouse/Keyboard when flying.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (DUKE815) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:08:01 +0000

I fly and fight on the ground with a Saitek P880 gamepad.

Re: Flying with a joystick

null@example.com (Twigs) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:46:31 +0000

yup.