Force feedback Joystick from Moza

[Tea-Pig]

14 hours ago, Polar-eX said:

DCS should integrate native FFB per aircraft, So should FS 2020/ 2024 with the upcoming FFB market for flight. Are there any plans at DCS for implementation? 

DCS (and IL2) already supports native FFB via the old Microsoft protocol, although not all mod developers have bothered to use it. If you have an old stick like a Sidewinder2 it works very well on the warbirds and helicopters and some jets. These old sticks just take the FFB data from the game and that's what you feel. There's no fancy driver software to let you tweek and fiddle, and if the game doesn't provide good or any FFB data (I'm looking at you MSFS) then your experience is going to be disappointing.

The Moza stick tries to overcome this limitation by not only reading native FFB data, but also reading general telemetry so that it can create its own effects at appropriate points in the flight envelope. It can make the stick vibrate when the guns are fired, or make it kick if the plane hits turbulence (or the ground) etc. Most of these effects are just a bit of candyfloss really, but they can add something when added to the native FFB. Unfortunately the Moza software just isn't very good at any of this. It's telemetry generated effects are generally just crude buzzing or robotic wobbles and its rendering of native effects is just far too weak. I don't understand why they made such a lovely stick with beefy, powerful motors and then made so many of the effects so weak and feeble. And of course the effects disappear completely when the software crashes or disconnects in the middle of a flight.

I think the best thing Moza could do would be to open source the protocol for driving the stick and allow Github to do its stuff, but I don't think that's going to happen. Most of the discussion on the Moza Discord and most of the development effort seems to revolve around just auto matching profiles to aircraft rather than improving the reliability or effects quality. I would suggest that anyone considering buying an AB9 has a good read through the Discord channel first.