Aces High 2 style Mouse controls?

[MASTER]

I just found this game today and was very excited, I used to play a lot of Aces High II back in the day. The thing I cant seem to get over is the weird war thunder style controls. Where the plane follows the mouse. How can I set it so that it acts like Aces High 2? I literally can not even look up with he mouse, (Sit in the cockpit, try to look up to gauge the airspace above you, Literally cant)

How can I turn off all the weird camera and VR stuff? I would like to get rid of the orange circle in the middle of my screen and i want to be able to freely look up and down. Basically just have the mouse act more like a flight stick instead of what ever its set to now.

Thanks

[HiTech]

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[Gil---]

I have another problem but it matches the name of the topic perfectly.
Can I fly using mouse as joystick like in AH2? With mouse not trying to move camera but moving ailerons and elevator and activating cursor when you press esc? To set deadzones invert and adjust sensitivity curves for main axes controlled by mouse?
It was very intuitive in AH2 and now I couldn't even end the sortie and had to close game with ctrl+alt+del.

[maddogjoe]

You can fly with the mouse as your controller. How, Im not sure as I couldn't live with out my joystick setup :)

Here is where I would start to setup the mouse http://www.hitechcreations.com/getting-started/how-to-configure-your-joystick-or-mouse

To end a sortie, hit the "/" (slash) key to open the radio bar and type ".ef" without the quotes. It is a "dot command" to "End Flight". There are a lot of useful dot commands. here is a good list of them, tho not complete http://www.hitechcreations.com/aircraft-preflight/text-dot-commands

[Gil---]

Thx for the answer! But still now idea about way or even possibility of switching to joystick emulation via mouse. What AH tries now by default when you choose mouse as control looks like weird attempt of wt-style arcade mouse control and it is completely useless. Mouse-joystick in AH2 was so good, someone pls tell me its possible to get it back.

[kZ]

I would LOVE to see an option to completely turn this point-and-go arcade style mouse control off. For one it makes making bomb runs a disaster. One little mistake that makes this control turn on and your alignment is f'd, the plane is sideways, you'll be lucky if you won't break your wings.

Try not getting frustrated when you've been gaining altitude for the past 30 minutes with your Lancasters, you just wanna take a look at the clipboard map of the field you're about to hit within the next 3-4 minutes and all of a sudden your planes are sideways, losing altitude at a hopeless rate, nearly blacked out. Essentially the situation turns from "about to hit these hangars / ords /
whatever" to "lets see if I can roll my plane back around, level it out and survive (and evade these very quickly approaching P51s)". Flying ANY serious bomber using that style of control is a disaster anyways. I mean, you can fly it but the chances of executing a successful bomb run is basically 1% if that.

I've played Aces High II my fair share (with a mouse) and couldnt get enough of it but this just ruins it. Maybe it really is a hint by the devs saying 'get a joystick you poor **** and play it like it's supposed to', I don't know, but I think an option to fly with one or the other (without it ever being turned on) should be implemented, for the players that are used to playing like AH2 was.

[Markster]

I seem to recall there was some way to toggle it to old-style mouse handling. I don't fly with a mouse so I didn't make a mental note of the key. I think there is a way, though.