With the Gladiator NXT Evo I was flying at 100% all 3 settings and it was super responsive yet precise. I'm currently flying with all these at 100% but asking someone to do that with out any practice is simply asking too much. I cant emphasize this enough, these are training wheel settings. You can always lower it later but for getting started it helps with stability. This isnt because your stick isnt in calibrated, its simply to give you a little wiggle room for when you use twist axis since you inherently add some Y or X axis usually, it minimizes the bleed over if that makes any sense. This will smooth out your smaller inputs making fine adjustments easier, this is probably by far the most important. Set non linearity for all axis X,Y,Z to 2.0 to 2.3:ĭouble click on the axis to make the menu option pop up. The following goal will be stability with a minimal impact to responsiveness, with the eventual goal of increasing responsivness over time: These are going to be just gettings started settings but they should get you close to where you want to be starting out. Once youve done a simple calibration lets move on to the game itself. This isnt going to happen over night but you will get better, Ive noticed it takes about a week for me to adjust to new flight sticks or settings and then its like something just clicks.įirst things first, the Gladiator with a simple calibration is simply amazing for war thunder. The wobble is there but its due to settings not being set up correctly regardless of joystick. I started with a logitech 3dpro, then Gladiator NXT Evo, and as of yesterday I've been using a gunfighter3 mcg ultimate. I actually play realistic battles with joystick and have been since 2014 so I might be in a unique position to help you with this. It's just way easier to aim with a mouse then a joystick in War Thunder and unless you're playing the sim mode and want as much of an immersive experience as you can get in this game you're better off just sticking with keyboard and mouse if you want to do well. Ideally I'd like to be able to fly with a joystick but also have mouse aim active so I could have the immersion but switch to a mouse when I needed it for better aim, but last time I tried you can't do that, or it's janky enough that I didn't feel it was usable. So you have to use a hat on the stick or take your hand off the stick and look around with the mouse. Then you have the issue of looking around which is absolutely necessary to always be looking around and not super easy to do with just the joystick unless you also have something like Track IR. Changing the sensitivity in game can help but it's still not easy to aim at least compared to how easy it is in mouse aim mode. The planes just tend to bounce around a lot making it hard to get on or stay on target. Aiming at ground targets is fairly difficult, but A2A is a bit better.

So yeah sorry this is more of a rant post then real help.īack when I first started playing the game like 7-8 years ago I made quite an effort to fly with my MS Sidewinder I was using at the time.

It's been a long time since I've put any effort into using a joystick with War Thunder so It might be a bit different now but I doubt it.

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