From willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu Wed Aug 2 13:25:04 EDT 1995 Article: 35378 of rec.games.mecha Path: gt-news!not-for-mail From: willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu (Will Day) Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha,alt.games.mechwarrior2 Subject: Re: Tim & Activision. MWII Joystick problem. PATCH soon? Date: 2 Aug 1995 13:24:12 -0400 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, OIT Tech Support Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3vocbs$gv3@rom.oit.gatech.edu> References: <3vn2eq$khp@ni1.ni.net> <3vo6c5$c4s@newsbf02.news.aol.com> 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, RDClark wrote: ><my FLCS and it is (without any exaggeration) _impossible_ to aim with! >> > >Your points and requests seem reasonable, but aren't you going a bit over >the top with this? Well, no, I don't think so. :) If I didn't think it was that important I wouldn't keep posting about it. >I mean, if it's impossible (without exaggeration) to >aim, nobody would be able to win any missions and succeed in the game. Yet It's difficult to _aim_, but it's not difficult to _score hits_. As long as you don't care where you hit, and that it wasn't where you WOULD have hit were you able to aim smoothly. You just have to keep your joystick waving back and forth over the target a lot and hope for the best. >many have. I've completed the Wolf Clan missions and am nearly through the >JF series, playing alternately with keyboard/mouse or keyboard/dual >sticks, and I'm not having any trouble aiming my weapons -- even on a What baffles me is the number of people who post and say they prefer using the mouse to the joystick. Wonder why? :) Because the joystick is more difficult to aim. If the joystick were done correctly, we wouldn't HAVE to use the mouse, and we'd get the same great aiming accuracy. That's all I want. >DX2/66 with a sub-optimal framerate. It just takes some practice, which is >worth the effort to enjoy this excellent game. It IS worth the practice, because otherwise I'd be wasting a great game. However, it's also worth posting and complaining about, and trying to get it fixed, because (1) I think this is an obvious oversight, and (2) it would improve the game tremendously, and it would then be TRULY a dream to play. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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