Originally Posted by Capt.Scarlet

So I was thinking, "yeah it's ok for you, fancy flyboys just zipping around the friendly skies clocking up loads of kills"

So, I got hold of one of these flying machines of death, and guess what it was a bitch to fly.
SO, I invested in a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick, cos thats what the difference must be, mouse bad, joystick good.

And you know what, it's a doddle to fly, but its a bitch to hit anything, unless it's the ground with my nose.

So here's to you, a new found respect......but I still get a warm glow when I bring you down with my MBT main gun.....sometimes

I know what you mean dude. Like most aspects of 2142, I just don't even have half a natural talent for it, but because you can't avoid walking and shooting in this game, I guess I've picked up my skills from poor to sub-par, which is sweet . I've put a few minutes into it, but countless frustrations just leave me to spawn into somewhere and just start shooting with my AR. I had a decent round with Brutus a while back when I was playing around Christmas time on a low pop server, he was in the main seat and I was gunner, but after a while I just got so frustrated with not being able to shoot anything with the machine guns, even when Brutus had just hovered over a group of guys who were taking a silo I should have easily stopped, I podded out and went on a knifing and owning spree of about 4 or 5 people, ending with the a statement "now thats my specialty dude."

I've now accepted I cannot use a gunship.

Originally Posted by Lyramion

The Keyboard owns the Joystick for tight maneuvers since you can go 100% into one direction isntantly instead of having to move your stíck.


For me I actually switch my controls:


AIR to GROUND combat: Nothing beats the mouse for smooth controls and lining up your gunner

AIR to AIR comat: Using Keyboard keys to fly the tightest loops and curves possbile

Lyra owns with the gunship, just look at the hours and kills he's clocked with it on his stats.

Keyboards you say...hmmm...may just try it...put it will probably end up...



P.S. Can you change your controls between keyboard and mouse in mid-air? Or am I being a complete idiot and you're just saying that you use the arrow keys as secondary buttons and then switch.