The thread I found it in had progress posts with "Elite Dangerous" on the primary monitor before that area of the image was drawn and completed. Will add the tag
No, this isn't elite. She is playing Star Citizen. That's the map Dying Star. Just look at the hud for comparison. You can see that her ship is that of a hornet.
Who needs Hands-on-Throttle-and-Stick when you can have Hands-on-Stick-and-Other-Stick? Though that solves the "what the hell do I map the strafe to" problem; I always used the mini-hat on my X52's throttle back when I played X3. Can't wait to have a computer decent enough to play modern space sims.
Who needs Hands-on-Throttle-and-Stick when you can have Hands-on-Stick-and-Other-Stick? Though that solves the "what the hell do I map the strafe to" problem; I always used the mini-hat on my X52's throttle back when I played X3. Can't wait to have a computer decent enough to play modern space sims.
I honestly found X3 easiest to play with a PS2 controller and adapter. I could fly with just the left hand (analogue stick to steer, d-pad for targeting functions, select to fast forward, and L-buttons for throttle) and use the right hand for the mouse/keyboard. Using the right stick to strafe and the standard buttons to open menus, which turns the d-pad into menu navigation seemed much easier to me. D-pad navigation of the menus was far easier than having to aim with the mouse. (Just memorize mashing out o-down-right-x-down-down-x-down-x-x or whatever.)
It was definitely a game that took three hands to play no matter what (unless you got foot pedals for throttle and steering...) but I'm more capable of using a monkey grip on a PS2 controller than anything else. Unlike mouse-steering, I can use left stick steering and have the pinky on the throttle, with my index finger mashing the d-pad so I can issue orders through the menu and evade at the same time, while mouse is just for precision aim. (I strafe using my chin to control the right stick if I have to!)
The only time I ever really used my mouse in X3 was to select something from an extremely long list; the "paint" is worn off the top and bottom of my main hat switch from menu navigation, using the trigger to select. I definitely had just about every menu combination memorized too; just about every time I'd start using a new script with a ship command I'd get lost for a while. The X52's twist rudder-axis is handy albeit inaccurate in tense situations; the joystick itself is probably a bit overkill for the X series, but it's a leftover from my flightsim days.
The reason I stopped playing X/2/3 after spending over 1,000 hours in them was due to losing my desktop computer...the laptop I have handles the games fine, but I just cannot get used to using a gamepad with no dedicated "rudder" (though I got a few hours in with a 360 controller before getting fed up) and plugging the laptop into all of the desktop's old stuff is too much effort to bother with. I tried to find a smaller joystick to use with it, but anything small enough might as well be a gamepad.
Who needs Hands-on-Throttle-and-Stick when you can have Hands-on-Stick-and-Other-Stick? Though that solves the "what the hell do I map the strafe to" problem; I always used the mini-hat on my X52's throttle back when I played X3. Can't wait to have a computer decent enough to play modern space sims.
i would play descent 3 with two joysticks, but still used a hat for sliding up/down/left/righ. 360 degrees of freedom is a happy medium for dualies. :) glorious buttons, everywhere! i shall give star citizen a try. also, a successor to the descent series is in the works. look up "sol contingency."
Who needs Hands-on-Throttle-and-Stick when you can have Hands-on-Stick-and-Other-Stick? Though that solves the "what the hell do I map the strafe to" problem; I always used the mini-hat on my X52's throttle back when I played X3. Can't wait to have a computer decent enough to play modern space sims.
it's actually worth noting that dual HOS is the typical layout for real spacecraft. I wonder how she's using them though, since the stick on the x52 only has a composite plug for connecting to the throttle.
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