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Amazing Feature Slipped In By ED - Thank You! - Comms Menu Controlled By HAT


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You may continue to read this post and say "well, duh..." but yesterday was very much a light-bulb moment for myself and members of my squad. Thanks to one of our guys finding the below information, almost as a throw away comment in a thread he was reading, the "Quality of Life" using DCS has been massively improved.

This feature, and I wonder how many of you reading this were not aware of it like we were, is simple but very effective.

The function relates to the Communication Menu and gives you the ability to map a hat switch to select the options. It does not matter which HAT you use because when the menu is displayed the controls over-ride your other binding. When the menu is down the original bindings are back.

For me I have an X56 and have mapped the large POV hat on the Stick as follows

  • Down - Next
  • Up - Previous
  • Right - Select
  • Left - Return

This means no more reaching for the mouse and having to take my hand off the joystick.

Apparently this feature was introduced a few patches ago without so much as a trumpet being blown or a drum being hit, but will now make such a difference to how I control my planes and helicopters and mission options available via the Comms menu.

Thank you ED.

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47 minutes ago, Vakarian said:

This was introduced many patches ago

Perhaps a lesson learned to READ THE PATCH NOTES a bit more carefully on my part 🙂

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Perhaps a lesson learned to READ THE PATCH NOTES a bit more carefully on my part
Not just "many patches ago". Must be at least a year.

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