doctorpirate

I wouldn't call this derailed at all; this is all discussing ways to improve the input controls... and I'm fairly accustomed to tweaking around with this stuff, so this makes good reading :) I have a set of pedals also so the rudder axis is covered (I actually can't stand the handle twist axis, it makes the joystick feel loose and hard to control precisely), and so put everything on the controller over to "real life" control mappings with the exception of unmapping the mic hat and using it as my POV hat. Spent every available moment since running through the training missions. The HOTAS controls are quite cool, quite a kick locking onto a moving target with the LITENING and dropping guided bombs on it's arse. It's a little bit annoying that the freelook modifier (alt+c) can't be natively bound to any mouse button, and I can see what you mean about needing to use it for cockpit controls - however having the full HOTAS setup I'm yet to see anything I can't access through the HOTAS menus that can't be set up pre-flight, and I just made a macro for one of my side mouse buttons to hit the key combo... so that solves my immediate problems. I'm considering the TIR setup, however I was wondering about latency, and other people have mentioned that it is a noticeable thing which requires some software smoothing to perfect... how much latency are we talking here? I'm a big hater of any sort of input lag; being a life-long gaming addict this is my checkpoint for a system upgrade actually - the second I notice input lag on standard graphical detail settings in new games. :) Unrelated question, the training missions keep referencing a flight manual... Is there any such thing available for download with the Steam version of the game? Alternatively is it freely available on the net?

That makes perfect sense; I mean it's the POV hat as far as Windows is concerned. I usually set freelook to mouse in games like this (is this possible - ie to have mouse-look always on?) I imagine there are plenty of control assignments, are there any other tweaks to get the most out of my controller? or is remapping trim the only thing to do? Really looking forward to playing with an A10C computer/avionics system using a replica controller :D

I do not have TIR, no. I've been thinking about it for a while actually, as I can use it in ArmA and FSX too. People I know from ArmA who have it say it's worth getting... What's a good package to get for that? Is it also plug-n-play?

Hi there fellow simmers! Just found this game. Instantly bought it, waiting for the download to finish on Steam. How I missed DCS on my games radar, I do not know. Probably too busy playing ArmA :) Anyway I have the thrustmaster HOTAS warthog controller - too perfect for this game right - and was wondering if anyone has a control scheme set up to replicate the actual A10C controls with this thing, so I don't have to spend hours messing around in options menus... or perhaps the game detects it right off the bat? Couldn't see any info on that. Anyway, checking in, saying hi. I'm pretty sure I'll be back to ask the veterans of this game some questions :)