thinking about getting a quadstick gaming controller

Megahurtz400 · 2025-01-06T14:29:57+0000

Wasn’t there a charity out there that helped less able gamers?

There was also a member who was maybe paralysed from the neck down who had something similar and was better than me at all the games I saw him play :cry:

Dano · 2025-01-06T14:32:59+0000

Megahurtz400 said:
Wasn’t there a charity out there that helped less able gamers?

There was also a member who was maybe paralysed from the neck down who had something similar and was better than me at all the games I saw him play

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about them! Special Effect, they did quite a lot with Elite Dangerous for Frontier Developments a while back: https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/

mountaincow · 2025-01-06T16:18:36+0000

Threepwood said:
Pretty neat, but how would I use it? oh I see, eyes to replace mouse, and that controller to replace wasd in right hand!

It's quite early in development so really anything could change. It's going to have a few gyros in it for very precise mouse emulation and a thumb stick, so you have wasd and mouse sorted in one hand.
Other inputs are unknown.

I have the Alpakka and the gyro control is second to none. Extremely responsive and accurate.

Threepwood · 2025-01-07T00:39:06+0000

Megahurtz400 said:
Wasn’t there a charity out there that helped less able gamers?

There was also a member who was maybe paralysed from the neck down who had something similar and was better than me at all the games I saw him play

yes, I've already been through them, they gave me a razer mouse that had a lot of buttons that had zero tactile feedback to diffentiate between them all, and it broke a couple of months later, the great thing about it was the mousewheel could be tilted left and right to give an extra two easy buttons , I had to replace it, but that version of the mouse was no longer available, so I had to give up the cool left/right wheel mouse buttons, and just be left with a bunch of unidentifiable buttons on the side!
they gave a a bunch of plug in buttons too, but I don't have much to press them with, so that was a none starter, I tried using my right foot but it felt like I was going to break the cheap plastic!
some company out there needs to design a mouse that has an extra 3 easily identifiable buttons on the side, but with the tilt mouse wheel left/right as a button too
I think that I will end up getting a pedal though
today, I bought a tobii eyetracker 5, and a flight stick, I'm going to have a mess with those and then introduce a/some pedals, along with voice attack, elite dangerous was also on sale today, so I nabbed the deluxe version too

Megahurtz400 · 2025-01-07T08:13:01+0000

Threepwood said:
yes, I've already been through them, they gave me a razer mouse that had a lot of buttons that had zero tactile feedback to diffentiate between them all, and it broke a couple of months later, the great thing about it was the mousewheel could be tilted left and right to give an extra two easy buttons , I had to replace it, but that version of the mouse was no longer available, so I had to give up the cool left/right wheel mouse buttons, and just be left with a bunch of unidentifiable buttons on the side!
they gave a a bunch of plug in buttons too, but I don't have much to press them with, so that was a none starter, I tried using my right foot but it felt like I was going to break the cheap plastic!
some company out there needs to design a mouse that has an extra 3 easily identifiable buttons on the side, but with the tilt mouse wheel left/right as a button too
I think that I will end up getting a pedal though
today, I bought a tobii eyetracker 5, and a flight stick, I'm going to have a mess with those and then introduce a/some pedals, along with voice attack, elite dangerous was also on sale today, so I nabbed the deluxe version too

Ah sorry you didn't have that much luck with them!

Hopefully your new set up works well though!

Dano · 2025-01-07T09:31:27+0000

Threepwood said:
yes, I've already been through them, they gave me a razer mouse that had a lot of buttons that had zero tactile feedback to diffentiate between them all, and it broke a couple of months later, the great thing about it was the mousewheel could be tilted left and right to give an extra two easy buttons , I had to replace it, but that version of the mouse was no longer available, so I had to give up the cool left/right wheel mouse buttons, and just be left with a bunch of unidentifiable buttons on the side!
they gave a a bunch of plug in buttons too, but I don't have much to press them with, so that was a none starter, I tried using my right foot but it felt like I was going to break the cheap plastic!
some company out there needs to design a mouse that has an extra 3 easily identifiable buttons on the side, but with the tilt mouse wheel left/right as a button too
I think that I will end up getting a pedal though
today, I bought a tobii eyetracker 5, and a flight stick, I'm going to have a mess with those and then introduce a/some pedals, along with voice attack, elite dangerous was also on sale today, so I nabbed the deluxe version too

When you are messing around with Elite controls there are options for overrides (Flight landing overrides and alternate flight controls in the menu) which should make mapping controls a lot easier as you can shift the entire functionality of the stick with a single button, so for instance you can swap the stick from pitch/roll to strafe left/right/up/down.