Oh noooo! My Thrustmaster Cougar is history!

[Viking]

Some guys in Holland are reinventing joystick feedback.
Se; http://www.guru3d.com/article/paccus...ick-interview/

A bit expensive but it might (probably) be my next joystick.

From the interview;

“We assume your interface is managed through DirectX, but how do you control and replicate something like a force feedback ?
Although we can enable all kinds of keystrokes to the stick, for some features to work we still need input from the game designers.”

I do hope that 1C are providing that input.

[Chivas]

Thanks for the info Viking, this looks very interesting indeed.

~Salute~
Chivas

[flyingbullseye]

The concept is cool but the price is much to be desired. 250-400 euros! Wow.

Flyingbullseye

[Thunderbolt56]

250-400 euros would be o.k. by me if it is as good as they hope and is as precise and durable as well.

Oh, it would have to be lefty-compatible too. Given that single parameter, I assume I'll have to stick with my custom CH Lefty-Hotas_Franken-potato.

[AA_Absolute]

Oleg dont like force feedback, but i wait this joy (in two weeks, as SOW:BOB)

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

250-400 euros would be o.k. by me if it is as good as they hope and is as precise and durable as well.

Oh, it would have to be lefty-compatible too. Given that single parameter, I assume I'll have to stick with my custom CH Lefty-Hotas_Franken-potato.

Well, find a real plane that is possible to fly with the stick in your left hand without dangerous "cross hand gripping" (F16 being the prime example naturally )... Being left handed - I had to learn flying with my right hand 20 years ago - or I would be expelled from flying school It took a few lessons but today it's impossible for me to use my left hand for flying in any form, virtual or real. I use it for everything else though

Anyway - the stick looks great, and I agree with you that the price is fine if it lives up to the design goals they have set up!

/Mazex

[engadin]

Originally Posted by AA_Absolute

Oleg dont like force feedback, but i wait this joy (in two weeks, as SOW:BOB)

Come on, Abso, this time it looks so serious Oleg, I'm sure, will give a try to these really cool and wet [hidraulic] concept from a couple of FFB fan engineers like him [engineers I mean].

From my humble point of view, no other FFB joystick comes near to what this new prototipe means: a further and critical step - the hidraulic one - has been taken by these guys, rising FFB and inmersion-through-joystick to new heights. I am really excited about this and cross my fingers for these guys and their fabulous brand new joy to enter the production line, alone [like many others did at first] or in partnership with another company.

I really feel the time to say 'Goodby ol' fella' to my faithful Sidewinder FFB2 and get in a new era of inmersion is closer than ever.

engadin.

[VMF-214_HaVoK]

Originally Posted by AA_Absolute

(in two weeks, as SOW:BOB)

After all these years I am amazed there are still people out there who find any kind of humor in the 2 weeks comment. I find none whatsoever...its not funny. Must be comical to the new guys who were not even around when it all started or something. I guess I just dont get it. Fact is Oleg has only ever used that comment one time and even then it was taken out of context. And he most certainly never made it regarding the shipment of SoW. Why does he have issues with FFB? It works fine in IL2.

[engadin]

Well HaVoK, there is nothing wrong about FFB right now, but as anything in life it is suitable to be improved and this is the very case. If this reason is not enough for you, Oleg is very far from being an FFB enthusiast from the beginning, and from my PoV this is a nice chance to change his mind towards this very inmersive (isn't it?) feature. And if that finally happens, for you and me that would be very good news.

And it's just a matter of what sort of sense of humour you have. I find it funny, Absolute - who, by the way, was around from the very first milisecond, so this is not the point at all - finds it funny as well. But you don't. OK. We enjoy it, you don't. OK. Read it the way you want, but you cannot deny humour helps to enjoy the painful wait till SOW is out. And it is painful for us because we are around from the first whisper of the existence of the project SoW. Perhaps you don't feel it would be nicer if we all already had SoW in our shelves, because we feel, as thousands of other people in the Il-2 community, the wait is lasting way too long.

engadin.

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by mazex

Well, find a real plane that is possible to fly with the stick in your left hand without dangerous "cross hand gripping" (F16 being the prime example naturally )... Being left handed - I had to learn flying with my right hand 20 years ago - or I would be expelled from flying school It took a few lessons but today it's impossible for me to use my left hand for flying in any form, virtual or real. I use it for everything else though

Well, at 45, I have no delusions about becoming an Air Force pilot any longer (though I had a Congressional appointment and an academic scholarship to the Air Force Academy). At the time I was over 85% ambidextrous and could throw and write with both hands and kick with both feet. I played golf right handed AND left-handed and bowled with both hands. Then I was in an auto accident that severed my right arm just above the elbow. So I fly left-handed now.

You still think I should try to do it right-handed "because that's what they do in real life"?

I swear, I've had this conversation so many times, and as a forced southpaw for the last 26 years (and an expert at conforming), I take offense when other people, either directly or passively, attempt to force it on me again under the mask of ignorance. It's not too much separated from someone who has quit smoking and becomes the poster child for anti-smoking to toot their own horn.

I'm left-handed...and I smoke...mkay?

where's brando when I need him...

I am a pilot in real life. I just don't fly modern jet fighters. But the point is, this is a game that attempts to simulate flight in some form or another. To get the most enjoyment from it as I can, it requires me to use specially-made controllers. Luckily the only individual out there with the desire and werewithall to do it uses CH.