Sweet! mine is on its way!

I can play it fine with gamepad in sim mode if I turn the sensitivity about half on the left stick. No problems shooting down bombers or fighters.

Still, I'll be getting a stick for sure.

I don't think the look-around function on the Thrustmaster works very well. Since the hat switch isn't analog you can only look up, down, left and right. I couldn't get it to look to the side and up, so there are blind spots at 3 and 9 o'clock high. Also, I could only look directly abeam to either side. There doesn't seem to be any way to look over your shoulder to check your 6.

Does anyone have the AV8R for PS3? I know the hat switch on it is analog. Are you able to look to 3 and 9 o'clock high or over your shoulder? For me this issue with the Thrustmaster is making me think I am going to return it and get the AV8R.

Hey this news is disappointing because I am going to buy one. I have the AV8R and the HAT switch works really good. You can look at 6:43 if you want:-P

Total free movement.

Really? What game mode do you prefer? I would have thought that adding more stick resistance would be better for sim mode, instead of making it looser?

Haha.

I really want the Thrustmaster for its hotas but i dont want it to stop me looking around as freely.. i think ill get a thrustmaster and see where i go from there.

Anyway i though it was an 8way hatswitch?

It is an 8-way hat switch, but only four of the directions--left, right, up and down--work and when you move it left or right, is turns to 3 or 9 o'clock respectively and stops. It doesn't turn past 90 degrees.

Nice, this is what I have been asking about..... I order the stick and now it comes out that the hat switch doesn't work....ha ha.

Whatever.....

ARGH!!! this stick palava is costing me buying this game.

i like the game, but the P-51 mission seems too hard. Sim is fun but nearly impossible to shoot fighters (or even see them) esp. without stick :/

now to the Stick, it seems Thrustmaster OWNS AV8R (or so it seems) and because i want a cheap stick seeing as i might get bored of this game (MW2 soon guys) so it came down to buying the game with the Thrustmaster X. or not buying it.

the HOTAS seems too much, and now i am wondering if the regular one will do the job and make it that much easier, and can anyone just tell me how it works without HOTAS, as in speed etc.?

thanks, Ghillie

Agreed. I am thinking about getting the t-X as well. I won't get bored of this game seeing that it has 50 missions.