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Project WingmanNeed HOTAS to play, or enjoy (no kidding) without?(5 posts)(5 posts)
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Posted December 07, 2020
LOVE !!! flying games - racing games too - but find them either a shadow of themselves or completely unplayable without equipment. By which I mean the HOTAS stuff you need to play them even half-arsed, to say it the most generous and genteel way, you used to be able find in every even half-arsed store but can't find now in even the best-equipped. I had all the HOTAS stuff in different iterations but gave it up because nobody was doing that anymore,

So is this game good with or without the extra 60 bucks I used to pay for garbage HOTAS stuff that got well-reviewed in bought-off magazines or good with something that costs less than $250 to $500 or more USD? I know by the nature of the genre that this couldn't possibly make any sense -- reasonably comfortably -- with a mouse.
Posted December 07, 2020
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Blarg: LOVE !!! flying games - racing games too - but find them either a shadow of themselves or completely unplayable without equipment. By which I mean the HOTAS stuff you need to play them even half-arsed, to say it the most generous and genteel way, you used to be able find in every even half-arsed store but can't find now in even the best-equipped. I had all the HOTAS stuff in different iterations but gave it up because nobody was doing that anymore,

So is this game good with or without the extra 60 bucks I used to pay for garbage HOTAS stuff that got well-reviewed in bought-off magazines or good with something that costs less than $250 to $500 or more USD? I know by the nature of the genre that this couldn't possibly make any sense -- reasonably comfortably -- with a mouse.
If it's just for this and similar games you don't need an expensive setup.
A low end Thrustmaster (HOTAS 4, HOTAS X, T-16000 stick only version) or Logitech (Extreme 3D Pro).
If anything some expensive setups have issues because of the way axes values work in those.
Posted December 07, 2020
You can use a gamepad. Like an Xbox controller. It doesn't have the drawbacks that a mouse would. It won't be any harder to control than a HOTAS setup is. Its just going to be less immersive, but even that is going to depend on the person.
Posted December 09, 2020
The game plays fine without a fancy HOTAS setup or even a basic flight stick. I use a keyboard and it works great. I've flown aircraft with a mouse before a long time ago, and it can work if mouse flight is implemented properly. Sadly, Project Wingman's mouse flight has a very strange way of controlling the aircraft, and I wouldn't recommend using it.
Posted May 25, 2021
Okay thanks everyone.
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