Keyboard or Joystick?

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What control method do you use?

Combination of keyboard and joystick
11
24%
Keyboard only
32
71%
Keyboard and mouse
2
4%
 
Total votes: 45

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Keyboard or Joystick?

Post by LowLife »

Currently I play Oolite solely using the keyboard, but I'm debating whether or not to buy a joystick.
I'd be interested to know how many of you use each.
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Post by JensAyton »

You’re missing by far the best option: keyboard and mouse.
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Post by LowLife »

Keyboard and Mouse? Hmm - never tried that combination.
I would edit the poll to include this choice but I'm afraid I don't know how. :?
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Post by JensAyton »

It’s quite simple: edit the first post in the thread and add an option. Well, it’s simple for me… I’m assuming normal users can do it, too. Anyway, I’ve done it. :-)
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Post by reills »

I've got myself a Saitek Flight Control System that has lots of programmable buttons. I really like the proportional control that the joystck provides.
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Post by LowLife »

Ahruman wrote:
It’s quite simple: edit the first post in the thread and add an option. Well, it’s simple for me… I’m assuming normal users can do it, too. Anyway, I’ve done it. :-)
Cheers Ahuman, I could edit the post but there was no way to add another option.
Interesting to see the majority favouring keyboard only.
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Post by Commander McLane »

Very simple answer: I don't have a joystick. And as I'm playing on a laptop I don't have a mouse, too. So it's keyboard.

And even on the C64 and later on the ST I preferred the keyboard-only controlling over the joystick. It always felt like giving me a better control.
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Commander McLane wrote:
And even on the C64 and later on the ST I preferred the keyboard-only controlling over the joystick. It always felt like giving me a better control.
That doesn’t really compare, though. Those joysticks were binary; modern ones are analogue. Still, I feel the mouse provides better accuracy… I prefer it for flight sims, too.
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Post by Ragz »

Mouse? I never saw any option for using a mouse (in the pc version).
How do i select the mouse for use?

I'd use a joystick but you lose out on control. The keyboard seems to move you faster in dives and climbs than a gamepad/joystick does. Like a sort of accelerated move. Where as with the stick, it just continues to move at the same pace regardless without accelerating it.
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keyboard!
I should also note that this game as well as Starsiege:Tribes are the main reason for me not playing around with the Dvorak keyboard setup...haha
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Post by JensAyton »

Ragz wrote:
Mouse? I never saw any option for using a mouse (in the pc version).
How do i select the mouse for use?
In full-screen mode, press Shift-M.
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aah full screen mode.
i play in windowed mode so i can read this forum while i'm playing lol
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Post by Iskander Novena »

I love to play it with the joystick, gives me much preciser control.

One thing I find odd, though. With keyboard when you roll or pitch it goes all out max. With joystick it never goed further than halfways any direction with pitch and roll.... Do any of you have the same experience?

I'm playing 1.69.1 test-version with a (bought for this game) Saitek Cyborg Evo. (great joystick!!)

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Never mind the halfway pitch/roll-thing. Welcome to the precision-toggle... (never knew I pressed the damn buton... but nice, makes docking more easy)

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