Im planning on buying a new joystick (its about damn time too). Im looking for a nice twist rudder kind of stick. Ive been to places like best buy but they were either too generic looking or they had more buttons and switches than I care to deal with.
Id say my budget is about 150 USD.
if you guys convince me i may just go all out and get a regular stick and some rudder pedals.
My advice is for the rudder pedals, it helps your aim considerably and feels right when turning the plane. It also frees up your hands from having to turn while trying to aim or CEM. Look for CH pedals or saitek, I have CH pedals and have had them for over 5 years and they still work great, not one problem. The immersion and feeling is a must in my humble opinion.
Toss in another $50 USD and grab a CH Fighterstick and some CH Pro Pedals. For this sim, you will NEVER regret that purchase. You can always add a CH Pro Throttle later if you desire, but the CH fighterstick+pedals combo is the absolute best...period.
Oh, and as far as "too many buttons" is concerned, you don't have to program anything you don't want. But once you get used to the convenience of having a few more obscure functions mapped to your controllers, you'll never go back. Having CEM at your fingertips without having to look at the keyboard will also exponentially increase your situational awareness and improve your dogfighting skills.
Originally posted by TgD Thunderbolt56:
Toss in another $50 USD and grab a CH Fighterstick and some CH Pro Pedals. For this sim, you will NEVER regret that purchase. You can always add a CH Pro Throttle later if you desire, but the CH fighterstick+pedals combo is the absolute best...period.
Oh, and as far as "too many buttons" is concerned, you don't have to program anything you don't want. But once you get used to the convenience of having a few more obscure functions mapped to your controllers, you'll never go back. Having CEM at your fingertips without having to look at the keyboard will also exponentially increase your situational awareness and improve your dogfighting skills.
BUUUUUUUMMMPPPPPPPPP - this is spot on! Get TrackIR too if you haven't got it already!
Can anyone tell me if the CH sticks (Fighterstick and Combatstick) have a built in throttle control?
I use a Logitech 3D Pro right now which has a handy little lever for precision throttle control. I'd like to upgrade and get a non-twist stick and rudder pedals, but can't afford a separate throttle control anytime soon. The Logitech does alright but the twist responds to a lot of unintended motion. However having the throttle control on the joystick base is very handy. Does the CH stick have a throttle control on the base as well or do you have to use the keyboard or a separate piece of equipment with the CH sticks? Thank you very much for any information.
Cheers
By the way:
How many devices at once can IL2 detect and use for controls?
For example, can it detect and use this at once:
Saitek X52 pro
Saitek Pedals
2x saitek Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant
and a usb chip to connect 32 buttons like this one:
http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836X/
so beside usb keyboard and usb mouse i then would have 5 usb controlers connected.
I also play race simulation games like GTR2 and race07 and i know those race sims can only take 3 usb controlers beside keyboard and mouse.
It can detect lots, it just takes a lot of messing around with configOriginally posted by Black_Ops7:
By the way:
How many devices at once can IL2 detect and use for controls?
For example, can it detect and use this at once:
Saitek X52 pro
Saitek Pedals
2x saitek Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant
and a usb chip to connect 32 buttons like this one:
http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836X/
so beside usb keyboard and usb mouse i then would have 5 usb controlers connected.
I also play race simulation games like GTR2 and race07 and i know those race sims can only take 3 usb controlers beside keyboard and mouse.
I cant quite remember how I did it![]()
IIRC Windows is limited to 3 (or 4?) USB-gamecontrollers.Originally posted by Black_Ops7:
By the way:
How many devices at once can IL2 detect and use for controls?
For example, can it detect and use this at once:
Saitek X52 pro
Saitek Pedals
2x saitek Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant
and a usb chip to connect 32 buttons like this one:
http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836X/
so beside usb keyboard and usb mouse i then would have 5 usb controlers connected.
I also play race simulation games like GTR2 and race07 and i know those race sims can only take 3 usb controlers beside keyboard and mouse.
You can assign all the rotaries ingame without any problem. You should take notice, though, that with this sort of setup you have almost 3 times as many rotaries than functions to map it to![]()
IL2 notes the rotaries as Controller ID1,2, 3 or whatever and then the according axis.
As you can program the buttons of the other hardware you mentioned, there won't be a problem either.