From willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu Tue Aug 1 09:31:03 EDT 1995 Article: 35175 of rec.games.mecha Path: gt-news!not-for-mail From: willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu (Will Day) Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha Subject: Re: Tim & Activision. MWII Joystick problem. PATCH soon? Date: 1 Aug 1995 09:30:58 -0400 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, OIT Tech Support Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3vlaai$8dk@rom.oit.gatech.edu> References: <3vemhm$rp7@ni1.ni.net> <3vgh18$rr1@rom.oit.gatech.edu> <3vk93f$7ar@chaos.dac.neu.edu> Reply-To: willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: rom.oit.gatech.edu Status: RO A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far, away, Yi Sun wrote: >>the issue. I love the game, but am continually frustrated with the >>joystick-torso auto-centering. > >Hmm, this seems to be a problem with some joystick configurations. >I originally had this problem when I used the keyboard and mouse, >then I had my TM F16 FLCS setup for turret turning, and the autocentering >effect was gone! Yup, with one of the hats on the stick I can rotate >my torso to a particular position and leave it there. Sure, I can define one of my FLCS hats to do torso twisting, but that's sending regular keyboard presses, not using the joystick axes to control the torso. In this case it's just an "on/off" - the torso only moves at one speed, and if you hold it down too long, it goes too far. And then you have to do "press..press..press.." to get precise aiming. As opposed to, if the joystick was done correctly, the farther you move the joystick in the direction, the faster the torso moves. With the joystick only a short distance from center, the torso moves slowly, making it smooth and easy to track an enemy as he passes and you circle around him. >Since the FLCS has >very precise movements, I left the Y direction torso movement to the default >up/down movement of the joystick. So far I have had no problem aiming with >this setup, it works great for me. But you still have forced centering on the y-axis controlling torso elevation right? Hard to keep aimed at an enemies legs. I usually end up either aiming at his chest, or the ground in front of him. In fact, my aiming in general tends to do a wild sweep - if I'm trying for an aim point vertically off-center, I end up doing an up-and-down-and-up-and-down sweep, hoping to successfully hit the fire button at the right moment to get a precise hit. Never happens though. :) Best hope is to have a rapidly-recharging weapon, and just hold the button down. You just can't hold a joystick, even a Thrustmaster FLCS with ACM card, off-center very consistently and achieve any kind of precise aim. ______________________________________________________________________________ Will Day OIT, Georgia Tech, Atlanta 30332-0715 willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu http://rom.oit.gatech.edu/~willday/ =-> Opinions expressed are mine alone and do not reflect OIT policy <-= Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Assembly, Nov. 11, 1755