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[Jadel Blade]

Hi.

Many years ago I had a sidewinder force feedback. I remember being so excited to try it on mechwarrior .. i dont remember which one now. Fired it up and .. ugh. Horrible. Each step of the mech swayed the joystick side to side, back and forth .. it had powerful motors and it was next to impossible to maintain it in the center .. it was absolutely impossible to aim in any way shape or form.

Anyway .. I returned that joystick and never tried force feedback again. Outside of rumble/vibration packs on controllers.

So the point is this. The logitech G940 looks great but I have this fear of force feedback. I currently have a Saitek X52 HOTAS. Its not bad I guess. The joystick is nice the throttle is pretty average. I would like something better. Has anyone had any positive experience with force feedback .. in a mech game.

What would be perfect for me would be a setup that had vibration motors in both the throttle and the joystick to provide console style feedback when firing and getting hit. Possibly a low rumble to emulate movement. Rather than the over the top full on force feedback I experienced with sidewinder. I guess that doest exist but it sort of surprises me that it doesnt. Would be cheap and i think very enjoyable.

Thoughts/comments/suggestions

[Basselope]

I'm using the original force feedback on mw4, and while it does sway the stick from side to side. I've never had an issue with controlling the mech. I used to be able to do pretty decent in multi-player games. Now i cannot speak on the force of the 2nd gen version of that joystick, as i do not have that one either, and never had the chance to use one.

I can tell you though, that neither of the Microsoft forcefeedback joysticks will work in Win7, either 32 or 64 bit. Microsofts own stupidity on that part for alienating the old school gamers, or not making an adapter that would bring them into the right interface for the code to work.

Just like how the Older VR equipment, when used on a machine that can run them and the game Kick-***. But no one has yet to try to revive them and bring them up to date for the immersion gamers for games such as this one.