Chat Best Joystick?

Force Feedback 2 is the only joystick I think I'll ever recommend, but I think the only place to get them now is eBay, and whether or not they'll work with Windows 7...

 

I'm a big fan of the Saitek Cyborg Evo, but just because it's one of the few joysticks that accommodate my fat paws. Also, it has shiny lights in the base buttons. Mmmmm, shiny.

 

Thrustmaster t.16000m, the more I use it the more I like it. I am actually able to hit things with this stick something I have never been able to do with any other stick including the FF2. I am a mouser in JG because I could never adjust to the mechanical slop in all joysticks on the market and was always amazed at the people that were so damn good with them.

The 16000 has no mechanical slop at all and is smooth as silk. I believe that there will be 2 groups of people in JGC/E, people that use the 16000 and the rest who will get demoralized by the people that use it. Anyone that says otherwise has never tried one.

I'm not kidding here the stick is that good. If they would just make a separate throttle with the same tech it would a perfect system.

 

The Thrustmaster T-flight is the same tech with a seperate throttle. And is very cheap.

Thor

 

Are you sure it's the same tech? I didn't think it was.

I like the T-16000 a lot -- but not as much as I like the FF2.

P.S., last time I checked you could also snatch an FF2 on Amazon. But they are expensive.

 

I know the T-Flight also has optical pots and is very precise i'm reasonably sure they wouldn't make different innards for two current models.

Thor

 

I did a quick read-through on the website. They tout the Hall Effect magnetic sensors and 16k x 16x resolution on the T-16000, but nary a word about it on the T-Flight. I don't think the latter has the new tech.

 

Nope the T-Flight uses optical sensors not hall effect sensors, but it is very accurate and cheap and has a throttle.

Thor

 

Another thing with the T16000 is besides the trigger and hat, all the buttons are rubber contacts, like a TV remote control. This could be good, depending on if you like holding the buttons in hard and tend to wear out the switches in just about every other stick on the market. I seem to prefer this, seeing as I perform surgery on my FF2 to replace the switches from time to time.

 

Hi GrimGriz. I dug out my old forcfeedback 2. Used and old paint scraper to clean off years of dust and crud. Plugged it in and kicked my computer. I can confirm it works on windows 7, it took a little messing around to get a usb driver to install for it, but once the driver installed the stick works perfectly. It even has force feedback. The stick works as good as it did before MS nerfed the drivers.

Once you have installed it, go to control panel>devises and Printers(not devise manager) to set it up.

 

Wut?

 

GG is absolutely right ... my last ff2 cost cica £50 on e-bay