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[Duck Hunt]

I played for the first time in a few weeks and my pilot is playing with his joystick!

[Kobold]

Who doesn't?

[von Pilsner]

Doesn't he know that kb+mouse is superior... ??!
Actually I play with mine too....

[Chavette]

o_O

Whut

[Retu81]

Part of the startup checklist. He checks that the controls respond and are free to move. It's just something the devs borrowed from a real aircraft startup procedure.

Edited by Retu81, 28 January 2013 - 02:32 AM.

[Sable Dove]

Spider doesn't do it. Is that why they suck?

[smokefield]

what setup is that von pilsner ? i see you have to sticks and pedals...how do you have them configured ?

[Escef]

smokefield, on 28 January 2013 - 02:52 AM, said:

what setup is that von pilsner ? i see you have to sticks and pedals...how do you have them configured ?

Unless I'm mistaken that's a Steel Battalion controller.

[Inertiaman]

10/10 for dedication. 0/10 for KD.

[Circles End]

Escef, on 28 January 2013 - 02:57 AM, said:

Unless I'm mistaken that's a Steel Battalion controller.

I agree.

I always wanted one of those. I always wondered if one could get it to work on a pc as well or if it would require custom drivers.

[Jakob Knight]

Duck Hunt, on 28 January 2013 - 02:19 AM, said:

I played for the first time in a few weeks and my pilot is playing with his joystick!

Well, aside from the fact that you are assuming that's a guy in the cockpit.....

It's standard proceedure to do that when starting up military aircraft, as you are testing both that the control surfaces aren't locked up and that the controller itself is free to move. It doesn't benefit either the plane or the pilot if they find out the controller won't allow a climb just as they are coming up on the end of the runway .

In MWO, this is just as true, as you want to ensure the controls are moving freely and that the system is reading it properly -before- you try to move that multi-ton slab of metal. Falling flat on your face (or your cockpit) is a bad way to react to an emergency combat situation, and -will- get you noticed by Regimental later on, especially if you were kind enough to crit your ammo in the process.

Edited by Jakob Knight, 28 January 2013 - 05:20 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

his parents didn't tell him he will go blind?

[Vassago Rain]

It's a manthing.

[Corralis]

Well considering it's a sim game and he is the pilot then he should be asking 'why do I keep playing with my joystick'?

Well we all do it, some just pretend they don't and there the ones that do it more than the rest of us.

Also your making sure your mech works, it's simple and doesn't deserve a forum thread.

[von Pilsner]

smokefield, on 28 January 2013 - 02:52 AM, said:

what setup is that von pilsner ? i see you have to sticks and pedals...how do you have them configured ?

Steel Battalion controller. HackNFly wrote a Win7 driver and we came up with a pretty good profile for MWO.

http://mwomercs.com/...64-bit-drivers/

There is an XP driver too, but I am not updating the profile anymore (no longer have XP installed).