[NO BUG] Keybind Weapon Selector Gun

[Rudel_chw]

Hello,

 

I'm programming my Hotas Cougar and found that "Weapon Selector Gun" doesn't work when binded to keyboard:

 

 

All the remaining keybinds of the Weapon Selector work fine, only "Gun" doesn't.

 

I was trying to set a toggle, so that a single button would go through all the WS positions on each press. With this bug, I was instead forced to use two buttons, one for "Selector Up" and another for "Selector Down".

 

Not an important Bug, but hopefully can be fixed :)

Best regards,

 

 

Eduardo

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Edited April 14, 2019 by IronMike

[Rudel_chw]

Hello,

 

Just wanted to report that this problem is still present, after applying the Hotfix Patch 22-03-2019.

 

Also, thanks for adding keybinds for adjusting the Tape Player's volume ... but each time I press one of the Volume keys, the player emits the "Stop" sound .. the volume is adjusted, but the repeated stop sounds are a bit annoying :)

 

Best regards

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[Rudel_chw]

Hello,

 

Just wanted to report that this problem is still present, after applying the Update of 01-Apr-2019.

 

However, I did saw a lot of new keybindings, thanks for those :)

 

Eduardo

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[IronMike]

I marked this as no bug. We tried to reproduce this on several different sticks and it always works as intended. this could simply be a cougar issue, or even a button issue with the cougar. sorry that we cannot help any further with this.

 

however, my personal recommendation: use weapon selector up and down only. it works super fast and becomes very intuitive after a while and it saves you a button. this is how I do it personally (it is also more realistic). I know this is possibly of little condolence, but at least workable.

 

best, IM

[Rudel_chw]

I marked this as no bug. We tried to reproduce this on several different sticks and it always works as intended.

 

Hello, Thanks a lot for answering this. It was a keyboard binding the one that didn't work, so it can't be reproduced with a joystick.

 

this could simply be a cougar issue, or even a button issue with the cougar.

 

I tested it with the cougar unplugged, just using the keyboard and the Gun keybind (LALT + 1)didn't work (the normal "1", not the NumPad 1). I checked that there was no other DCS command trying to use the same LALT+1

 

sorry that we cannot help any further with this.

 

No problem, as while re-cheking prior to posting this I realized that if I used a different key for this same command (I used LCTL + LSHF + 1) then it does work as intended .. If I return to LALT + 1 then it does not work .. strange, but no longer a problem since I now can just use a different key combination and get it to work :)

 

Now that I came to think of it, it's probably a conflict with a resident software, like Oculus, MSI Afterburner, nVidia Experience or similar, and not a bug of DCS or the F-14

 

however, my personal recommendation: use weapon selector up and down only. it works super fast and becomes very intuitive after a while and it saves you a button.

 

Yes, I've been using it like that all this time, but it doesnt save a button, as it needs one for UP and another for DOWN. Now that I found this workaround I can use just a single button to toggle among all the positions, the programming on the Cougar goes like this:

 

BTN S2 
/I Weapon_Selector_press  (when pressing S2 together with a Modifier)
/O /T Weapon_Selector_Gun 
  /T Weapon_Selector_Sidewinder_Missiles 
  /T Weapon_Selector_Sparrow_or_Phoenix_Missiles 
  /T Weapon_Selector_Sidewinder_Missiles 
  /T Weapon_Selector_Gun 
  /T Weapon_Selector_Off 

 

The "T" is for toggle, and I repeat some of the commands in order to get a smooth toogle, moving the WS up and then down along all its detents.

 

Anyway, I'm really happy now and thanks a lot for taking a look into this report :)

Best regards,

 

 

Eduardo

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