Hotas setup for the upcoming Cliffs of Dover

[blampars]

I just broke down a few days ago and ordered a full ch setup.
Fighterstick
Throttle
Pedals

I read reviews and user comments on all the popular hotas setups, and going ch was a no brainer after a comparison. The following is just my observations after reading many forums and user comments on items.

X52/Pro - Low quality, modding almost required to get a decent functional set.

G940 - really promising, but reversal bugs in the pedals and throttle leave much to be desired. Radio silence on the logitech forum makes you wonder if those issues will ever be fixed at this point. This is what I was looking to get. (full setup on amazon for $239.00)

CH Products - Pricey, but durable. Lasts a long time and no major issues with the hardware. Big modding community to make your gear even better than it (hopefully!) already is. No need to mod the items out of the box.

Now if Amazon and TigerDirect will just get on the ball and SHIP my stuff to me I should be all set to do some real flying by next weekend. I've had IL2 since release in 2001 and have always been a Joystick/Keyboard/Mouse player. This is going to be great

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by blampars

I just broke down a few days ago and ordered a full ch setup.
Fighterstick
Throttle
Pedals

I read reviews and user comments on all the popular hotas setups, and going ch was a no brainer after a comparison. The following is just my observations after reading many forums and user comments on items.

X52/Pro - Low quality, modding almost required to get a decent functional set.

G940 - really promising, but reversal bugs in the pedals and throttle leave much to be desired. Radio silence on the logitech forum makes you wonder if those issues will ever be fixed at this point. This is what I was looking to get. (full setup on amazon for $239.00)

CH Products - Pricey, but durable. Lasts a long time and no major issues with the hardware. Big modding community to make your gear even better than it (hopefully!) already is. No need to mod the items out of the box.

Now if Amazon and TigerDirect will just get on the ball and SHIP my stuff to me I should be all set to do some real flying by next weekend. I've had IL2 since release in 2001 and have always been a Joystick/Keyboard/Mouse player. This is going to be great

Well I bought the whole CH hotas from Tigerdirect about a week ago, they havent been shippiped.From what I understood CH Products would then process the order and ship the items directly.

[blampars]

Originally Posted by Royraiden

Well I bought the whole CH hotas from Tigerdirect about a week ago, they havent been shippiped.From what I understood CH Products would then process the order and ship the items directly.

ah bugger! My fighterstick is from tigerdirect and it's said to be handed to a third party for processing and shipping. Wait 7-10 days for that. That's probably CH, then. Looks like I'll be waiting a while for this stuff then. Amazon hasn't shipped the throttle or pedals yet either, probably same situation.

thanks for that, will keep me from growing impatient and pulling my hair out

[Royraiden]

The waiting game continues.The shipping method for me is UPS worldwide so I guess I will wait even longer.When I bought the parts for my pc I got them shipped with with UPS ground and it took 2 weeks to get here.

[blampars]

Oh wow that's bad. Reminds me of sending away for things through the mail. Mail out the order form, wait 8 weeks to recieve item. C'mon interwebs!

btw just watched your WoP dogfight video using freetrack (reading your headtracking thread now, I'm thinking about TrackIR 5...) Good stuff. Would you recommend WoP?

[Royraiden]

Well I got into ww2 combat sims because of Wop.The graphics are amazing but the gameplay is sub-par.I went from begginer to simulator in less than a month and even at the hardest difficulty you can see on my video that it is farily easy.Well it wasnt meant to be a simulator after all.Its a great starting point for new pilots though.I played Il-2 after Wop and even with the outdated graphics I noticed right away that it was miles ahead.I couldnt even take off the first time I tried Il-2.As for the head tracking you cant go wrong with TrackIR but it is really expensive.Ill be forced to get it if Freetrack is not supported so I need to wait.Theres a lot of non-sense on that other thread people dont know what is relevant and what is not.

[blampars]

Originally Posted by Royraiden

Well I got into ww2 combat sims because of Wop.The graphics are amazing but the gameplay is sub-par.I went from begginer to simulator in less than a month and even at the hardest difficulty you can see on my video that it is farily easy.Well it wasnt mean to be a simulator after all.Its a great starting point for new pilots though.I played Il-2 after Wop and even with the outdated graphics I noticed right away that it was miles ahead.I couldnt even take off the first time I tried Il-2.As for the head tracking you cant go wrong with TrackIR but it is really expensive.Ill be force to get it if Freetrack is not supported so I need to wait.

Ah gotcha. I'm no master pilot, and quite frankly I suck at dogfights (hope to improve with new gear!). The graphics in WoP look really good, which is why I was wondering about it. I beefed up my system with 2 gtx 460's in SLI back in september and have been itching to get a sim with some major eye candy. I love IL2, don't get me wrong, but I also love sexy visuals.

As for head tracking I've been using FacetrackNoIR. I've got it working reasonably well but it's still slightly slower and not super precise. I get a lot of drifting or bobbing when I look around. I could probably fine tune it more but documentation is scarce and I don't understand what the different settings do really. It's all experimentation If I can't get it down pat I'll probably whip out the charge for Track IR and hope the fiance doesn't notice. I still havn't figured out how I'm going to explain the full CH Hotas setup yet hehe...