Robotic Pope
01-04-2012, 06:08 PM
Bucketman aka Hurricane asked me a few days ago what would be my perfect gamepad layout for BoS. It was a difficult question to answer at the time, So Ive thought about it and designed a setup for a advanced sim mode which I think is perfect for both PS3 and 360 gamepads.
http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab140/RoboticPope56/BirdsofSteelPerfectcontrol-1.jpg
The main points I wanted to cover was to have one analog stick dedicated to freelook (without the need to hold down the stick and to be able to control throttle and rudder at the same time as freelooking).
Secondly I wanted to get as many functions as posible on the pad without having to access the menu, and to have every control that requires analog to have analog and not waste an analog control on something that can be done digitaly (Original BoP control layout was very bad for this, wasted analog buttons on zoom, fire button and throttle).
I decided quickly that I wanted a shift key to double the functions of each button (LB or RB is ideal as every other button acessable at the same time), then I realised this could also greatly enhance the ability of the freelook stick and go some way to make up for lack of head tracking. Imagine you are looking around with the right stick like normal, then you hold LB and your view heading locks in place and the right stick now controls the position of your head in the cockpit. So if you were facing forward then held LB and moved the stick left you could look down the left side of the nose of your plane to aid taxiing, the reverse being very useful for checking your 6.
For the rest of the controls I had to make them all useable without conficting each other while stil having elements familier from BoP. Only problem I had was If you wanted to use WEP at the same time as firing all guns you would change view instead of WEP, but this could be easily solved by having LB+RB disable all other shifts. I had a bit of fun with the bailout, Anyone remember the old PS1 Final Fantasy games reset button combo?
So what do you think? :grin: Have I missed anything? can it be bettered?
Anyone else want to share their ideal control setup for BoS?
Ok Bucket now you have to do one for your Ace Edge :-P
Edit: Just got an extra function! Independent wheel brakes! hold click on left stick = left brake. Hold A button = right brake. Now you can taxi on a dime :) I will edit my picture later.
Edit 2: scratch the independant brakes. I remembered why I didn't want a brake on the down throttle, so you can throttle up the plane on the ground and hold it on the brakes.
http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab140/RoboticPope56/BirdsofSteelPerfectcontrol-1.jpg
The main points I wanted to cover was to have one analog stick dedicated to freelook (without the need to hold down the stick and to be able to control throttle and rudder at the same time as freelooking).
Secondly I wanted to get as many functions as posible on the pad without having to access the menu, and to have every control that requires analog to have analog and not waste an analog control on something that can be done digitaly (Original BoP control layout was very bad for this, wasted analog buttons on zoom, fire button and throttle).
I decided quickly that I wanted a shift key to double the functions of each button (LB or RB is ideal as every other button acessable at the same time), then I realised this could also greatly enhance the ability of the freelook stick and go some way to make up for lack of head tracking. Imagine you are looking around with the right stick like normal, then you hold LB and your view heading locks in place and the right stick now controls the position of your head in the cockpit. So if you were facing forward then held LB and moved the stick left you could look down the left side of the nose of your plane to aid taxiing, the reverse being very useful for checking your 6.
For the rest of the controls I had to make them all useable without conficting each other while stil having elements familier from BoP. Only problem I had was If you wanted to use WEP at the same time as firing all guns you would change view instead of WEP, but this could be easily solved by having LB+RB disable all other shifts. I had a bit of fun with the bailout, Anyone remember the old PS1 Final Fantasy games reset button combo?
So what do you think? :grin: Have I missed anything? can it be bettered?
Anyone else want to share their ideal control setup for BoS?
Ok Bucket now you have to do one for your Ace Edge :-P
Edit: Just got an extra function! Independent wheel brakes! hold click on left stick = left brake. Hold A button = right brake. Now you can taxi on a dime :) I will edit my picture later.
Edit 2: scratch the independant brakes. I remembered why I didn't want a brake on the down throttle, so you can throttle up the plane on the ground and hold it on the brakes.