Controller or keyboard?

[Cowboy]

Hello all,

I am thinking about buying the game but would like to get you guys' advice first.

Could I use my Xbox 360 controller for Windows with the game to help control flight?

Many thanks in advance and have a merry Cbhristmas!

Grant.

[Gradis]

yeah controller works well

[Cowboy]

Hi Gradis,

Thanks for the speedy reply.

Grant.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Joystick.

[Natty La Ridge]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von The Muppet Surgery Special:

Joystick.

^^^THIS^^^

I've owned ED for five months. During that time I've struggled with combinations of gamepad, mouse and keyboard, and the controls never clicked for me.

Night before last I broke down and pulled my old MS Sidewinder 2 out of the attic. Plugged it in, and guess what? Suddenly ED is playable, and the controls make sense. Why? Because the joystick is the only controller that gives you six degrees of motion on a single input device.

Stick forward = pitch down
Stick back = pitch up
Lean right = roll right
Lean left = roll left
Twist right = yaw right
Twist left = yaw left

The gamepad is the next-best alternative, but it requires you to select the advanced configuration with yaw, and separates the roll and yaw movements between the two analog sticks.

I'll never go back. The cheapest joystick is better than any of the alternatives.

[bwf1975]

i use an xbox one pad, with a few alterations to button layout, is perfect for me.

[Th1AG0GG]

I used to have a TT Hotas but it was horrible to play ED,now im using KB+M and its perfect

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Shocker: Games involving flight require a joystick. Elite is no different from any flight simulator.

It is like saying a car requires a steering wheel :)

[Natty La Ridge]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von The Muppet Surgery Special:

Shocker: Games involving flight require a joystick. Elite is no different from any flight simulator.

It is like saying a car requires a steering wheel :)

No need to be snide, especially when I'm agreeing with you. Once upon a time, before gamepads were common on PCs, I would have agreed. But today, and given the large number of people proclaiming how well KB+M or controllers work for them, the point is far from obvious.

Also note that FREELANCER, one of the most beloved space sims of all time, doesn't support a joystick. Never did. Yet somehow, they managed to devise a more intuitive and enjoyable control scheme than ED, using KB+M.

[Level 3 Mage]

I never had problems with using keyboard and mouse. Considering my mouse supports 20 macro keys

[englishkernigit]

Using an xbox 360 contoller myself never had any problems so far. Also using Voice Attack makes life a little easier .

While the best meathod is probably joystick i dont have the cash to go out and buy a decent stick so xbox controller is a good cheap alternative.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Get a full body gamers bondage VR suit.

Voice control - Voice attack - Then you can share your anger with the neighbourhood and household

SteamVR - You can hide your gamers face on those high-G manouvers around the sun.

Full body suit, for body tracking, so FD support can see you squirm and wriggle on every patch.

Bio-feedback is the future of gaming

Maybe we should call it the Tron suit. Also available in plaid.

[Sandman]

Keyboard and mouse. That's the most efficient.

[Natty La Ridge]

For first-person shooters, absolutely. But for flight sims allowing 6 directions of motion, that separate roll and yaw? You're splitting your movement controls between controllers.

There's a reason helicopter control systems aren't keyboard and mouse-driven.

[Sandman]

This isn't a flight sim. It's an arcade space game.

A flight sim is like X-Plane 10 or Rise of Flight.

[Shmider]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von The Muppet Surgery Special:

Get a full body gamers bondage VR suit.

Voice control - Voice attack - Then you can share your anger with the neighbourhood and household

SteamVR - You can hide your gamers face on those high-G manouvers around the sun.

Full body suit, for body tracking, so FD support can see you squirm and wriggle on every patch.

Bio-feedback is the future of gaming

Maybe we should call it the Tron suit. Also available in plaid.

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