HOTAS in a subsim

Donkey-Shot · 10-04-09, 02:58 PM

It's true: there is no wooden steering weel etc on a U-boot. But then again neither is there a keyboard and a mouse. I mean how realistic is that?

"Kaleun, please what are your orders?" Kaleun: "hang on, hang-on! I'm typing them in as we speak. Now where's the damm keycard?!"

A HOTAS, keyboard, mouse and what have you are just means of controlling the game (yes, however realistic, it's still a game). To me HOTAS is a very convenient means of controlling just about any game: because of the huge progammabilty of these things. I actualy have a profile for SH3 for my X52 Pro.

How's this for realism, on my x52 pro I have six toggle switches wich you can toggle up/down. I use one for the attack scope, one for the OBS. Push the switch up, the scope goes and vica versa.

I find it very convenient to have all controls under my finger tips and not have to go over the keyboard. Wich for me is extra important given that I have arthritis in both hands (and nearly every other joint in my body).

Besides that, what realy got me to thinking this might be a good idea is that there's a bunch of HOTAS sets comming out with dual throttles. Wich you can use for dual telegraphs. How many post are there on this site, saying how great it would be to have individual control over the engines? I haven't counted them, but willing to bet there's more than one.

All the dev's gotta do is make SH5 recognize axis. you the player got to do the programming on the HOTAS of your choice, if you choose to use it in the first place.

Track IR makes even more sense to me. Imagine looking around in the control room, leaning over the read gauges. Imagine you're on deck behing the gun, leaning to the side to spot the target, then lean back to look into the gun scope. Imagine sitting behind the attack scope and lean forward to look into it, lean back and to the side so you can see your gauges, the tdc dials in the tower, any crew member there to wich you can give orders.

Lets say you're on the conning tower, a plane attacks or you're attacking a merchent but it shoots back with machine gun/AA fire and you duck down behind the tower's railing.

I don't want to offend anybody, but: not being able to see any use for a HOTAS (or other controller devices) and/or Track IR, seems to me a lack of imagination. And aren't good subcommanders, or any leaders for that matter, supposed to be able to think creativly and (way) out of the box?

We all have our -personal- preferences. You don't like the idea of using any of these things? Fair enough, who says you have to? But I could defenitly see a, very practical, use for them.

10-04-09, 02:58 PM	#8
Donkey-Shot Watch Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 15 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It's true: there is no wooden steering weel etc on a U-boot. But then again neither is there a keyboard and a mouse. I mean how realistic is that? "Kaleun, please what are your orders?" Kaleun: "hang on, hang-on! I'm typing them in as we speak. Now where's the damm keycard?!" A HOTAS, keyboard, mouse and what have you are just means of controlling the game (yes, however realistic, it's still a game). To me HOTAS is a very convenient means of controlling just about any game: because of the huge progammabilty of these things. I actualy have a profile for SH3 for my X52 Pro. How's this for realism, on my x52 pro I have six toggle switches wich you can toggle up/down. I use one for the attack scope, one for the OBS. Push the switch up, the scope goes and vica versa. I find it very convenient to have all controls under my finger tips and not have to go over the keyboard. Wich for me is extra important given that I have arthritis in both hands (and nearly every other joint in my body). Besides that, what realy got me to thinking this might be a good idea is that there's a bunch of HOTAS sets comming out with dual throttles. Wich you can use for dual telegraphs. How many post are there on this site, saying how great it would be to have individual control over the engines? I haven't counted them, but willing to bet there's more than one. All the dev's gotta do is make SH5 recognize axis. you the player got to do the programming on the HOTAS of your choice, if you choose to use it in the first place. Track IR makes even more sense to me. Imagine looking around in the control room, leaning over the read gauges. Imagine you're on deck behing the gun, leaning to the side to spot the target, then lean back to look into the gun scope. Imagine sitting behind the attack scope and lean forward to look into it, lean back and to the side so you can see your gauges, the tdc dials in the tower, any crew member there to wich you can give orders. Lets say you're on the conning tower, a plane attacks or you're attacking a merchent but it shoots back with machine gun/AA fire and you duck down behind the tower's railing. I don't want to offend anybody, but: not being able to see any use for a HOTAS (or other controller devices) and/or Track IR, seems to me a lack of imagination. And aren't good subcommanders, or any leaders for that matter, supposed to be able to think creativly and (way) out of the box? We all have our -personal- preferences. You don't like the idea of using any of these things? Fair enough, who says you have to? But I could defenitly see a, very practical, use for them.