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[Capriel]

...The Razor Artemis?

When MWO founders packages were new and shiny, there were adverts everywhere for a unique stick/throttle/ancillary display combo designed specifically for MWO by Razor, called the Artemis.

I recall pictures of the gadget, where the real selling point was the game's battlegrid display on a tablet-sized (touch?) screen between the stick and throttle yoke.

This seemed an awesome idea, especially if the screen could be used as a live commander's Interface (back then there was a design pillar for a Commander role).

Obviously the game as it is now is suicidal for stick-sim players, and the whole no-skill aiming thing offered by mouse is the only way to play the game (funny that... pinpoint convergence and perfect aim seem to be a problem in the game... because we mouse aim?).

So what happened to the Artemis? did it ever go into production? Do PGI ever intend to support it (or other stick controllers) properly anyway?

I for one had been looking forward to this game being a proper mech sim - for which stick is the only way to fly. Instead we have a shooter and a bucketful of balance issues related to mouse aiming. /shrug

[EyeDie I]

i read very recently that it was scapped, somewhere on these boards.i use a joystick and am waiting for better joystick support.

Edited by EyeDie I, 23 August 2013 - 10:56 AM.

[Bloodshed Romance]

it wasn't practical for MWO... razer has since taken it off of their site...

[Citizen Erased]

Razer did the same for the Switchblade. It was only a concept. No more. Like a ConceptCar that never enter in production, only for technological show off.

[Sagedabluemage]

ya i remember it and since they no wanna do it.
i cant wait till i get my 3d printer im making all sorts of concepts for controllers atm
i wouldnt mind making one since they arent.
anyone remember the Mek-fu concept controller havent heard anything about it.

currently im working on a controller that spilts off so u could switch either left handed or right handed for the artimis concept for me own personal use XD

but ya i hear ya i would have bought one D: