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Originally Posted by QBlackDeathQ (Post 298991)

Forget about zoom don't really use that, but i cant look behind me while using the flight stick. i can only look 90 degrees up, right and left. its a big draw back!

Im using the AV8R-02 ans using the hat switch i can only looks around me but not behind.

But using the great big stick thing at the bottom of the joystick (between the LSB and RSB buttons) i can look left,right,above,below and more importantly behind. In external view also.

I dont find it to much of an issue.

The issue i DO have with zoom though sometimes....

If im killed whilst zooming in, when i respawn im automatically zoomed in without me having to press anything to enable it. Can be a little disoriantating sometimes.

I do use zoom a bit.i liken it to squinting your eyes to see a distant object more clearly .i know your eyes arent zooming.but i'll bet pilots do alot of squinting.

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Originally Posted by hurricane (Post 299125)

I'm do use zoom a bit.i liken it to squinting your eyes to see a distant object more clearly .i know your eyes arent zooming.but i'll bet pilots do alot of squinting.

:o You have been cheating all this time! Cheap shot! ;)

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Originally Posted by FOZ_1983 (Post 299046)

Foz I think he ment that he can only look in those exact directions because the hat is digital on that stick not analog. So thats like us having to use the d-pad to look around the cockpit. I play 1946 like that (although even that is 45 degree movements not 90) and its really anoying. Thats why most people get head tracking.

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Originally Posted by FOZ_1983 (Post 299046)

The issue i DO have with zoom though sometimes....

If im killed whilst zooming in, when i respawn im automatically zoomed in without me having to press anything to enable it. Can be a little disoriantating sometimes.

Thats weird. I don't think I have ever had that happen to me.

I think this stick sensitivity issue needs to be drooped.it doesn't matter how sensitive or how big your flight stick is.the option should be a available for all players to enhance or curb their sensitivity.as the old saying goes its not how big your flight stick is ,its how you use it

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Originally Posted by StiC (Post 299024)

How do you get so many kills using the hat switch to look around? Amazing!

I use zoom to id targets at a distance. The way I figure it our eyes could pick out those colors at a greater distance than the the game allows and zoom just counters the shortcomings of 720p vision.

StiC

One on one is kinda tricky, but if you have ever played with me all I can do is really tight circles around and around because, yep you guessed it I cant look at my 6. All I can really do is hold the pickle up so I am looking about 90 degrees up in my cockpit. This is really bad because players can yo-yo up above you, and you wont see them doing so. This is when you use the map kinda not real sim like but it works you have to pay close attention. when that dot stops moving for that quick second. It gives you a hint he/she is climbing. Big games is easy, if some one is shooting at you go for the crowd and get lost in it. Then circle round and pick them off if you can.