What we had before was an analog throttle/brake giving you fine control and immediate response; except for the annoying auto acceleration if you centered the stick. Analog control is responsive: you can quickly make big changes or small changes.
What we have now is exactly like a cruise control- push a button to accelerate, hold it down and wait until you reach the desired speed, push another button to reduce speed, hold it down until you slow down to the new desired speed. Excellent for unattended cross country traveling, not so responsive for maneuvering in town or to take up a hull down position.
What I'd want would be to be able to map the right toe brake as an analog vehicle throttle and the left toe brake as an analog brake (the twisty stick would then be the differential clutch/brake steering). That'll never come to pass because then one would have to keep ones foot down on the throttle to keep moving. So I'll continue to run into things and get killed when I overshoot my chosen hull down position.
Boy I must not have been doing it right with the old system.
I'd start the engine, shift through the gears while holding my stick forward until I got to maximum speed in whatever gear I was in, usually the gear I could go fastest in. To slow down, I downshifted and ended up going max speed in the next lowest gear. No fine adjustment. Only immediate because I was slamming the gears lower. To stop, yank back on the stick until you roll to a stop.
Fine control adjustments are much easier now. Tap W, or whatever button you've mapped, until you are going the exact speed you want.
Want to creep forward from a stop? Tap W, Tap W.
Want to stop? Shift + S. Slow down a bit? Tap on S.
Seems pretty straight forward to me, but I'm no experten.
You can kind of set your toe brakes as accelerator and brake, just when you let off the "accelerator, you don't slow down. You need to "brake".
Map W to the right toe and S to the left toe in your gv mode.
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