I got the pedals in Janurary, the no longer work today (June). Nothing is broken off of it, it just dosen't work in-game anymore. I'd be flying around normal, and then I'd notice I'm starting to slid right. I look back and I'm flying with full right rudder, and I'm not even touching the pedals (in fact my feet aren't even on the pedals). I figure it needs calibrating, so I do a quick calibrate. Fine for about 2 minutes before the problem occurs again, but this time it's full left rudder. This goes on through each sortie, rudder left, rudder right, and even sometimes I get no rudder responce whatsoever. Just today I got into a fight with Mensa (maybe Shuffler or Fringe, they were flying around causing chaos too
). I knew I had more E, so I went vertical and waited for him to stall. About 1000 off me he stalled, so I tried to kicked my rudder left so I could come down on him to try and get a shot in. However, my rudder seems to have stopped working, and no matter which way I turn my rudder pedals I get no response. So I had to wait till I stalled out, and by that time my window of opportunity was gone. He ended up shooting me down, but I may have gotten a lucky shot if my rudder worked for me.
Anyways. I've re-calibrated it many times over (ingame and desktop), tried unplugging it then plugging it back in then calibrate, tried other USB ports, etc etc. Anything that could possibly be wrong, I've checked. I think that the pedals are just worn out too much. I kinda do beat on them a bit more than I should (but who doesn't jam full rudder when they notice a niki 800 off their six?
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