><<I have tried and tried and _tried_ (boy have I tried) to play with >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
(ref: willdayj)