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I still suck at flying and I'm putting it down to not having a joystick, whether that be true or not. So does anyone use a joystick for flying, if so which one?

i found joysticks to be far too sensitive in battlefield.

mostly i use WASD and the mouse (default settings) it's pretty difficult to get the hang of, but once you've got it, you've got it.

i tend to find that using mouse tends to make me over correct, when flying gunships, and just right when flying the transports.

i normally use wads for collective and rudder, and cursors for cyclic control.

oh yeah, and the ground/trees/water to stop wherever i need

cheers, I'll stick with the keyboard and mouse then, I'll have to tweak my config and practice on an empty server

and find out what cyclic control is ...

collective is how much power is going into the rotors (go up/go down)

cyclic is which way the chopper turns/pitches (goes left/right/forward/backward)
/boring ex-sierra driver

Thanks mate, I'll have to try that out.

you think a sierra is boring, I have a laguna estate!

I tried my Dad's joystick in BF2142 (thought someone might as well play my copy) and it was really good for flying the hover-chopper thing.

It's an MS one that has a throttle handle in the base that works great for the "rotor" speed, and you can twist the stick to control the "rudder" (ie: turn without flipping upside down).

By pushing forwards a bit and keeping a hand on the throttle I was able to fly all around the map while still looking at the ground and shooting - something I could never do normally, I always used to do divebombs to shoot then have to pull up to regain height like in a plane.

In Battlefield 2 you can always beat a mouse-pilot by turning in tight circles, they either run out of mouse mat, get arm ache, or knock a drink all over themselves. I also find the gun is deadly with a joystick, you can take helicopters and boats out from miles away. I can barely hit a chopper with a mouse using the guns.

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I find flying in future beef to be far easier than in beef, the attack chopper is very manouverable, upside down under bridges and nudging walkers over etc, in beef I mainly crash.

Yes, I use a Logitech Wingman.

Throttle on it, and twist for yaw left and right.

Also lots of buttons.


I never got the hang of using keyb and mouse because I always had a joystick on hand at home.

i use a joystick too, and although flying choppers is pretty hard, planes are easer to handle with a joystick.

in BF2, I use a joystick to fly the jets, on the rare occasion I do. I don't even bother in Future Beef because I generally don't bother flying in it, but it's also rather easy to fly the gunship with a mouse anyways.