Value bang for buck joystick/flightstick for Elite Dangerous & No Mans Sky?

I bought an X52 for Elite Dangerous.

Never did get my skill levels back close to T16000M + keyboard. Hotas will no doubt be nice for VR.

Whilst you feel like you get a heck of a lot for your money with the X52, its not really going to give you an advantage over someone with a £30 stick and keyboard. [And some people say the mouse is viable]
 
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JTrickle said:
I bought an X52 for Elite Dangerous.

Never did get my skill levels back close to T16000M + keyboard. Hotas will no doubt be nice for VR.

Whilst you feel like you get a heck of a lot for your money with the X52, its not really going to give you an advantage over someone with a £30 stick and keyboard. [And some people say the mouse is viable]
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I hate to say it Trickle but the X52 (non-pro) really isn't worth the money, the stick is one of the least accurate/enjoyable sticks to use, just look at any comparison video on youtube. I owned one for 7 years, it broke - I gave my mates T16000m a shot and was blown away by how much easier everything is especially fine touches. The throttle on the X52 is great but a CH Pro one is better by a million miles, the stick is trash though. Sadly the X55/X56 both have quality issues, I very nearly bought an X56 last week but have decided to hold off on any new HOTAS etc for a while yet.

I'm no snob when it comes to gear, anyone asking for a cheap option I'd point them to the T16000M or the Hotas-X (if they want something like a throttle as the T16000M one is useless), mid range would be the X55 or a Ch pro throttle + T16000m, upper would be full CH stick/throttle/pedals or Warthog + pedals. The X52 though is a pig in a poke, the pro was marginally better but that's because internally it differs.

Anyway just thought I'd mention the Steam controller might be decent for NMS, I'm not buying it until later in the year when it's likely to be on offer though personally.
 
Halfmad said:
The T16000M pairs nicely with a CH Pro Throttle or mouse in games like Star Citizen etc. Just requires a bit of setup.

I'd also strongly recommend having a look at Kirk's channel, he's used pretty much every stick out there and has a lot of experience in flight sims etc:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwvZzxFg2RS8Wdyl3w3rqS9aRUsrdye3z
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Awesome resource thanks :)

Anyone used any of these with the older star wars games? Do have a hankering to fly an X-Wing again :D
 
Used my Saitek FLY 5, and it does extremely well. Was about $5 from a market stall. Hell of a lot better than the X45 I had been using.

Sometimes keeping it simple it good. If the T16000M is better than that.. I would recommend it.
 
Anything Hotas will massively improve you're enjoyment with elite. Always surprised me that the things were the hottest conversation surrounding the game.

The 17 year old x35 that i'd barely used before, works fantastic. Same old Saitek design, you can probably find cheap on auction.
 
If you've got a microphone then supplement the joystick with the Voice Attack software. It really adds to the experience.
 
ttaskmaster said:
It's fun for a while... but far quicker to just key a series of buttons than speak a bunch of commands, having taken the time to set them all up as well...
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Depends is my answer.
I used voiceattack for a while whilst using an Xbox controller as it didn't have enough buttons for everything I wanted mapped, and I much preferred it to using a keyboard.
I now have a full CH setup, with enough buttons that I don't need to use VA, as otherwise, I'd still be using it. I liked the immersiveness of being able to "talk" to my ship.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Would it not just read the HOTAS as a normal controller?
Even if it's just registering as a basic input device, you could perhaps create a NMS profile and remap the HOTAS to keyboard functions...?
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Nope, no flight stick support of any kind:mad:
 
wordy said:
Nope, no flight stick support of any kind:mad:
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Oh well... Given up on NMS after the ridiculously bad responses it got from my gaming community anyway, so no love lost.

Mr_Sukebe said:
I now have a full CH setup, with enough buttons that I don't need to use VA, as otherwise, I'd still be using it. I liked the immersiveness of being able to "talk" to my ship.
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^Exactly and for gamepad use, it makes much sense.
But, as you say, with up to five buttons on each finger, with each thumb having, what, four of these available and the septuple/heptuple features of adding CTRL, Shift & ALT to the three left-hand fingers... If you can't map it to the HOTAS, you're doing summat wrong!! :D

I do still have VA, as it happens, but use it far more for out-of-game functions because it looks insanely cool when a Noob comes round and sees my Voice-Interface computer!! :D
 
ttaskmaster said:
Oh well... Given up on NMS after the ridiculously bad responses it got from my gaming community anyway, so no love lost.
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Found a way to do this, you need to download a xbox controller emulator & map the stick/hotas to that. What a joke.

 
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