Good, fairly cheap HOTAS?

[Jón]

I've been using keyboard and mouse exclusively since I bought the game, but I'd like to try something new. Suggesstions?

[Draktok]

I bought a logitech 3d pro - 30$ at best buy. Works great for me. The game allows you to set 'dead zones' ie if your stick wobbles a little bit the game won't recognize it as input, and the joystick comes with a little flipper that works well for thrust. Obviously it's not as great as HOTAS flight stick / throttle, but for 30$ i think it's the best bang for your buck.

[Wrathschild]

Saitek X-52 works pretty well for me for this and SC. (I don't have a steam copy of E:D but I backed in alpha)

[Draktok]

Saitek x52 and up are obviously the best choices, but he said fairly cheap - i wouldn't consider anything over 100$ fairly cheap

[Jón]

I'm considering the Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS X- so anything around that price range.

[Slopey]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thrustmaster-T-Flight-Hotas-Joystick-PS3/dp/B001CXYMFS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428021601&sr=8-1&keywords=thrustmaster

This is surprisingly good for the money. One of the most notorious (and skilled) pirates in Alpha/Beta - Cmdr Snuffler, used one of these exclusively for many months.

[Wrathschild]

for HOTAS the HOTAS-X is the cheapest, X-52 is like 100$ more. I have to admit though, if it weren't for the lack of buttons on the Logitech 3D pro, I'd use that becuase it had the best precision AFAIC. **EDIT lack of buttons on the stick itself, that is. Plenty on the base of the 3D pro but I'm on the KB with the other hand..

[Draktok]

Well i'll provide input from my current joystick and hopefully help you choose your stick;

I have 15 buttons on my joy stick (4 of those are a direction pad that clicks up down left and right - i use it for power distrubution) - 2 for firing my guns, the flipper for scaling my thrust, the others for different things such as entering hyper cruise, super cruise, etc.

Currently I have no issue throttling on just the flipper - for me, it works best, mostly because i can't fit all my keybinds on the joystick. I have about 7 or 8 (not including when i have to type of course) still bound to my keyboard.

to move something like this purely to a HOTAS set up would have to support a minimum of 25 keybinds in my opinion, so keep your keyboard availalbe if you can't fit that many keybinds onto the joystick. Something like a thrustmaster i'm sure works great - but from a space perspective of my hands, it looks like my hand controlling the stick hanging hard left would hit my hand controlling the thrust. Can those pieces be seperated?

Hope this helps in your decision :)

[RFC_812]

Yes, the Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS X can be separated. You just turn it over and use the included Allen wrench to loosen the connecting tabs, then you can pull it apart as much as the cable connecting them will allow. If you have a keyboard that doesn't have programmable keys on one side like mine does (just a normal keyboard), then you should be able to run the cable beneath your keyboard (if the front legs of your keyboard are in the open position) and place the throttle on the left side and the stick on the right.

[Reese]

Thrustmaster T flight hotas... $40

[Twelvefield]

The Thrustmaster HOTAS X is an excellent low-budget stick. Not a ton of buttons, nor is it super accurate, but the price is good, and it's durable and easy to use.

[Julius Sebastus]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

The Thrustmaster HOTAS X is an excellent low-budget stick. Not a ton of buttons, nor is it super accurate, but the price is good, and it's durable and easy to use.

I don't know how many buttons you need but I have 15 already that can be combine with 3 other buttons for a total of 45, thats plenty for me.

[Jón]

It's been a year. I don't really play anymore, but thanks.

[Julius Sebastus]

Originally posted by Exonical:

It's been a year. I don't really play anymore, but thanks.

Lol I didnt saw the thread was raised from the dead ^^

[Draktok]

Me either :D

[Twelvefield]

I did. I was just testing you guys. Yay! You passed the test.