Joystick support

[snoid815]

Call me old fashioned, but I learned racing games on a joystick and can't find out whether this game supports them. In this case I'm using a logitech extreme 3D pro.

Has anyone here tested this games mapping and gameplay on a similar stick?

[Holden_Mcgroin]

snoid815 - I've played AC with a logitech stick, it is fine if sticks are your thing.
I have boxes of joysticks etc from flightsims and I know where you are coming from.

Actually its great with an Xbox controller, better than a stick imho. It took a while to get used to the controller but I am now a convert. I happily use a controller for all my driving sims and flight sims and even GP500 motorbike sim is improved with a controller.

I was surprised how good flight sims were with a controller too, particularly helicopters. It takes a bit of getting used to, but its well worth an akward couple of hours until you get used to it.

[frostie]

hi lol is this better than project cars

[Slim]

I added a Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS X stick to my config only last night, snoid815.

Firstly, it does work – but at least for me, it's going to need a little more tweaking in the same way that my 360 controller did. I sampled it with AC and Stock Car Extreme and the only 'problem' was that it needed some set-up and time to become accustomed to using a large analogue joystick again. That's a personal thing though and the same configuration could be fine from the beginning for someone else.

I'm another player that's lived and raced through every hardware generation, using all possible control methods along the way. These days, I use each control option as a matter of necessity as I can't always use the wheel and pedals. I now have a wheel, 360 pad, various computer and console controllers via adaptors, keyboard and the new stick with an option to use a throttle arm.

Especially with its central 'zero' point, the T.Flight's throttle is weird to use at the moment for acceleration and braking but it's only a matter of practice and I'll keep moving to another piece of hardware before I stop racing or playing games, whether they're modern sims or ones that are showing their years. Even with this T.Flight, I'll change between using both parts (throttle for accelerator/brake, joystick for steering) and the old stick-only style. Digital or analogue, switching between the many devices is rarely a problem beyond the few laps it sometimes takes to get used to the feel and layout again. It's no different to returning to a game after a long time away, really.

Mouse too, of course! I almost forgot that one!

[snoid815]

Thank you for your replies after all this time. Good to know the game is compatable with a joy stick. I'm just getting into Fallout4 at the moment, but I am getting a hankering for another good racer. looks like it be between AC and the up coming Dirt.

[harf4ng]

I know this is a one year old thread, but I'm currently using a thrustmaster warthog HOTAS to play AC. I have program TARGET so that I have combined the right throttle to be accelerate (top half) and brake (bottom half) as I do not have pedals yet.
It works though I have to tweak the X axis a bit to be more precise around the center. Soon I'll have a 10cm extension for the warthog, guess it will be better to be precise this way.

There is no reason it could not work. After all, what is a wheel, if not just a controller that moves around the X axis?

And this is fun to drive with a warthog HOTAS, it feels like I'm driving a plane, or flying a car :)

[lottalava]

I have this game, its very beautiful, but i still trying to setup my logitec joystick properly. I have i wheel, a thrustmaster, but for some brief race at night i cant mount the wheel to play.

[lottalava]

Hello folks, i tried some settings which i found around internet and them improved a lot the car control!

Speed sensibility:..10%
Steering speed: ....20%
Gamma: ...............1.8
Filter: ....................0.7
Deadzone: ...........0
Intensity: ..............0

[Toquita]

I raced with the same Joystick (Logitech Extreme 3D Pro) on Race07/GTR2/ETS2 for years, but on Assetto it's just not possible to do good with it.This joystick's precision is terrible, and it's not possible to be precise on the heel-and-toe techniche on turns becase when you brake (pull back on the stick) you also deflect the wheel a little bit because you can't pull precisely backwards.

Assetto is a very good sim, but with a wheel and pedals. I started doing 7 mins on the Nordschleife with a wheel (I couldn't even complete the track with the joystick) and now I'm doing 6:20 on the tourist layout with my G27. And let me tell you, there's nothing like driving with a wheel, you'll be in a whole different world coming from a joystick even if you do well with it in other sims.

[Toquita]

Oh, and good luck configuring the clutch on that joystick. I tried, with no success.

[Goritude]

How about buying an xbox pad ? Only 20 bucks and it suits many games.

[Toquita]

Messaggio originale di Goritude:

How about buying an xbox pad ? Only 20 bucks and it suits many games.

The precision is even worse considering the travel of the little stick and the size of the potentiometer. Of course, Assetto could have bricked the handling of the car to suit such joystick so it behaves more "arcady".

[Goritude]

Gamepad worse than joystick for sim driving ? lol if I may.

Anyway device is secondary to skill. I remember the old time of NR 2003 season. 1 guy was among the best with keyboard cuz he couldnt affort a wheel.

[milf muncher]

barely works has twist works fine but x axis doesn't work as there is only left and right in assetto corsa since it is meant to be used with a steering wheel

[XIII]

Messaggio originale di biglooping:

Hi guys, I didn't imagine that some of you can say so much about joystick, wheel and ...

Now, I'm 45 years old, and I used to play simulation cars and planes from my 14 years old. I was one with a serial wheel but now i can't only have a USB joystick.

Maybe I will buy a USB wheel because it will much more easier to play long time compare the joystick.

BUT I don't think that add button to do throttle and brakes with joystick's buttons will be hard for the software team. ALL OTHER GAMES DO IT.

GRID , DIRT, COLLIN, F1 2013, ... and so on.

And I not so bad with my joystick on the race ;)

I agree its possible, but theres some issues. Like, if you press a button to accelerate and the throttle goes to 100%, you just gonna spin your wheels without max TC control or so. Devs would to put a lot of thought into how to implement it like that. And it probably wouldnt be worth it to most people anyway.

Youre just asking for a very niche thing, but you can do it yourself it with Vjoy or so, creating a virtual joystick for throttle/etc on button press.

Otherwise why not just get a gamepad? Thatll work in so many games and give you a lot.

[ling.speed]

Messaggio originale di XIII:

Otherwise why not just get a gamepad? Thatll work in so many games and give you a lot.

Bro, thats near decade old necro. He does not drive pad because there were no pads when he was a kid to learn them. And starting from scratch a joystick is superior to pad if one has to choose.