I have played ah for maybe 15 years. had several sticks over the years, I dont remember if when I started it was as confusing as it is now, maybe it was. my x55 stick died on me about 6 7 weeks ago. ordered 2 sticks and I would set them up the way I remember, but plane would not move up down, left right or rudder. I returned both sticks, thank god they took them back. I got the itch to play again and ordered a 3d pro, the first stick i ever had. now the x55 throttle works. but when I set up the 3d pro, same problem, plane wouldnt move, took me a couple of hours to figure out the problem was you need to calibrate stick. so I did, i can fly a fighter again.
today i saw a cv, no problem, i can sink a cv at will. this time when I jumped into the bomb sight, engines would turn off and I had no control on moving the plane. had to jump back to pilot turn the engines on and try to figure out what the problem was. so I had to remove all auto set up on bombardier/gunner positions. now I went to mode 4 set up the stick for pitch, elev and rudder. fine, I never could figure out why the engines would turn off/go idle. but at least I got them to work.
so I jump to the gunner position, i cant fricking move the guns to aim. havent figured them out yet. and I still havent set up my gv positions yet.
you think after all this years I would know this. imagine what a new guy who just joined the game and perhaps has a stick cant figure out why he has no control over the plane. I think this is one of the reasons why new people dont stay long. they up a plane have no control over it, cant figure it out and then quit.
it reminds me of a game I got for free many years ago, I would start and walk 20 steps and could never figure out how to open a door. no instructions. so I deleted it and never played it again.
I think, somehow there should be instructions for new guys on how to set up their stick or keyboard and mouse online with verbal instruction, like set up your pitch it moves the nose of the plane up or down.
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