IL-2 1946 Question

Biggles · 06-21-07, 04:17 PM

Joystick is a must for 1946. Belive me. You won't survive for long with just the keyboard.

I've had one for many years now. It's a good one, but for some reason or another the planes (most notably in 1946) are banking to the right all the time, so you have to keep the stick steady with your hand all the time......

Chock · 06-21-07, 05:40 PM

If you really don't want a joystick, you might - just possibly - get away with playing it with a 'playstation-style' joypad, but flight sims without a stick are not easy. Certainly not impossible to play, but you'd be making life uneccessarily difficult for yourself.

The reason a real aircraft has a joystick in it, is because that's the easiest way to control the thing, and if it were possible to fly a plane as well with a mouse or a keyboard, you could be damn sure Airbus would have tried it in real life!

Bite the bullet and get a stick.

Chock

06-21-07, 04:17 PM	#1
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Joystick is a must for 1946. Belive me. You won't survive for long with just the keyboard. I've had one for many years now. It's a good one, but for some reason or another the planes (most notably in 1946) are banking to the right all the time, so you have to keep the stick steady with your hand all the time...... __________________

06-21-07, 05:40 PM	#2
Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	If you really don't want a joystick, you might - just possibly - get away with playing it with a 'playstation-style' joypad, but flight sims without a stick are not easy. Certainly not impossible to play, but you'd be making life uneccessarily difficult for yourself. The reason a real aircraft has a joystick in it, is because that's the easiest way to control the thing, and if it were possible to fly a plane as well with a mouse or a keyboard, you could be damn sure Airbus would have tried it in real life! Bite the bullet and get a stick. Chock