anton the gamepad guys need help

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Originally Posted by Anton Yudintsev

Not as hard as it seem.
For arcade players this layout is more familiar. More close to shooters.
For real hardcore - they have flightsticks.

Having in option would be sweet, but nobody will make patch _only_ for that, at least now, before D1 sells.
If it will add something else to the game, though, it can be.

Actually, this is the opposite.
Shooters move with the left stick (froward and strafe, the flight analogy would be throttle and rudder) and look around with the right one (pitch and roll analogy). So for players who play shooters (a big part of 360 players) it's not enjoyable at all!
I love fsims, I used to play IL2 all the time with my sidewinder precision 2 pro, but i don't have a descent stick for the 360. The saitek seems really bad. The Edge ace is discontinued and very expensive.
I also play shooters a lot.
It was a pain in the ass to handle the plane the first time I played the demo.
The second time also.
The third also.
In fact, it seems that each time I launch the game, I have to relearn how to handle the plane with this control layout. This is so sad because the rest of the game is perfect, the best sim on console so far imo.
Now, as a big fan, I will try to accomodate to this. But my friends who aren't big sim fans told me they wont buy it because it's to hard with that "southpaw" control, they keept crashing because the went to 0% throttle instead of pulling up. This sucks for me (because we won't be able to play multiplayer together ) and for 1C, because a large part of the mainstream audiance will lose interest in the game before they could accomodate this.

And even I you patch it like 2 month after release, the launch will suffer this and a huge part of the pie will be lost.