u/SoupTime43

(Not posting in thread, that goes no where and you tubs know it)

Using VKB EVO/STECS

I wanna use a POV analog stick for looking around, I dont have TrackIR or VR

why is DCS's keybind system so poorly made UI wise and very slow and incompatable with most modern ways of binding

There has to be a way to bind this 2 way axis to my view WITHOUT using absolute, absolute is stupid, you gotta hold the stick and it makes reading ANYTHING on your panels a nightmare

fix game honestly or give me some workaround please

I really wanna get into the nitty gritty aviation and mil aviation stuff for DCS servers, call signs, procedures, phrases, where can I learn all that (ideally for free, like youtube) best?

Stuff like how to properly announce takeoffs and landings, talking to ATC, and how to use and how it works for more civ stuff like radios, TACAN (not civ but), Guard all that

even if there isnt any servers for more larp style people like me I wanna learn it anyway

started playing DCS and got the F-16

I have a shitty $80 hotas with not nearly enough buttons or dials, as DCS’s bind system seems to hate a hat with modifiers and I hate using 1 hat for 20 things!

I am semi entry into the sim gear game and I love having tactile and accurate set ups

Conveniently timed, the F-16 ViperAce HOTAS combo just released and is half off… 500$ still

so…500$ And it’s almost entirely plastic?!? Where the fuck is my money going 😂

Ignoring the most god-awful English on their website it’s clearly some Chinese sweat shop cobbling it together considering how much I hear their quality support is terrible

So is there anything justifying spending $500 on a really nice looking tub of plastic?

there is a F-18 winctrl HOTAS used I found for 250ish$ in mint condition

So far the only solution I have heard from Reddit is “buy simsolutions or xyz because you want real FFB (I dont care about that right now) its the best!!”””

and its like 1200$ just for the stick without the base?!?

I’m looking to spend like 500 at and I expect some good quality to come from that

Anyone got solutions? I get that it’s not an entry-level hobby but dropping rent for 20% of a decent set up is ridiculous

started playing DCS and got the F-16

I have a shitty $80 hotas with not nearly enough buttons or dials, as DCS’s bind system seems to hate a hat with modifiers and I hate using 1 hat for 20 things!

I am semi entry into the sim gear game and I love having tactile and accurate set ups

Conveniently timed, the F-16 ViperAce HOTAS combo just released and is half off… 500$ still

so…500$ And it’s almost entirely plastic?!? Where the fuck is my money going 😂

Ignoring the most god-awful English on their website it’s clearly some Chinese sweat shop cobbling it together considering how much I hear their quality support is terrible

So is there anything justifying spending $500 on a really nice looking tub of plastic?

there is a F-18 winctrl HOTAS used I found for 250ish$ in mint condition

So far the only solution I have heard from Reddit is “buy simsolutions or xyz because you want real FFB (I dont care about that right now) its the best!!”””

and its like 1200$ just for the stick without the base?!?

I’m looking to spend like 500 at and I expect some good quality to come from that

Anyone got solutions? I get that it’s not an entry-level hobby but dropping rent for 20% of a decent set up is ridiculous

i’m trying to learn how to fly the F-16 with my TM Hotas X

It only has one hat switch, which typically I looking around, and I have other buttons as modifiers to alterinate it from camera, TMS, DMS, RDR slewing

However, I find when I hold down the modifier button, sometimes it doesn’t register the inputs, and when I release it I have to press it again for it to return to looking, otherwise looking will only work when I mash the look center button a bunch of times… and I also find that it has trouble when I try to put multiple inputs in with the hat

No other game I have used this with has had these troubles and knowing how junkie DCS key bind management is I’m guessing that’s my culprit?

also I have no idea how to post in a thread I don’t see any kind of option for that on my phone So suck it mods

Just got the F-16C for DCS and wanna get started buying sim gear

I have no VR, and a old Hotas X (Worked a charm for WT)

I dont wanna drop something stupid like 600-800$ on a good HOTAS yet, so I an either gonna get the stick or throttle first

what do yall recommend?

I see the a Navy F18 Throttle/Stick WinWing combo for 200 but obviously I wanna get F-16 style setups in the future

would it be better to drop some money on the Winctrl F-16 Throttle Quadtrant or Stick?