Joystick

[Kadrush]

Which kinds and models of joysticks do you guys recomend for playing this game?

[The Fifth Horseman]

None. It was not designed for joysticks. If you try to play it with a joystick, your aim will suffer and since it's purely PVP... yeah, that way madness lies.

[Dipperly]

What he said, you won`t only suffer aiming with it but you will also be lacking from a lot of buttons you need to use if you want to play on pair with the rest of pc players.

[Alrik]

I don't recomend a Joystick for aiming, i recomend it for moving.
A Joystick in your left Hand (if you are right handed) to move your mech gives you at least 4 Thumb Buttons, a 4 way ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Hat and a Trigger for Weapon Groups, Jump Jets and Vison.

I use a Mad Catz / Saitek Fly 1:
Triggger: Jump Jets
Thumb Buttons 1 - 3: Fire Weapon Group 3 - 5
Thumb Buttons 4 & 5: Target Overlay, Com Rose
♥♥♥♥♥♥ Hat: Score Board, Battlegrid, Heat Vision, Night Vision
Joystick Forward/Backward for Throttle
Joystick Left/Right for turing
Don't use the twist axis.

The Mad Catz / Saitek Fly 1 is out of production, but the Thrusmaster T 16 000 M is also good.

[Kadrush]

My aim is already terrible with the mouse, not sure if I am doing anthing wrong. Aim at long range is a nightmare

[HighPlains Drifter]

Originally posted by Kadrush:

My aim is already terrible with the mouse, not sure if I am doing anthing wrong. Aim at long range is a nightmare

Try turning the mouse sensitivity down, if you haven't yet. I'm at 35 or 40.

[Dipperly]

need to get a mouse that has dpi button change, I can set mine to different sensitivity by just pressing a button on it, can use 2 different dpi settings or even 5 if I want to. I am not even talking about an expensive mouse, 15/20 u$d should do it. You will use this in almost every game once you try it.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally posted by Kadrush:

My aim is already terrible with the mouse, not sure if I am doing anthing wrong. Aim at long range is a nightmare

Tweaking mouse sensitivity in in-game options will help. You will almost certainly want to drop it down below the default value.

[PoohPus]

I just tried using both joystick and throttle for a couple of days now. They both perform rather poorly.

One would think a joystick would be preferable with a fast-moving mech, but in my experience it's just not so. It's something about the pacing and timing due game-mechanics that seem to suit the mouse better. Also the joystick controls seem to be somewhat unoptimized for MWO, with the targeting being very hard to control (especially when unlocking your arms). It's plausible that controller-software like T.A.R.G.E.T. can be used to make the joystick work better, if you have the skill and time. In all, the joystick worked far worse than a mouse for me, and it was a frustrating experience.

The throttle works alot better than the joystick in my experience. However, the game is twitchy enough that the range and motion of both the throttle and legtwisting mini-joystick gained me very little. The keybords 3 throttle-functions "max fwd", "stop", and "max bck" makes for both more precise mech-control and lower reaction times.

In my experience the game-mechanics makes it more of a shooter than a sim what controllers are concerned.