I thoroughly love practicing my guitar while watching hours of GB stuff. Please dont take that away from me, my practicing would take a severe hit. And im not even joking. The few people saying they'd prefer shorter vids makes not sense to me. Just fast forward, watch it piece for piece or watch only half the video. Us enjoying the long form videos on the other hand, we cannot un-edit anything and get all that tasty guitar practicing video content back.
Please, please, please, dont cut up your vids GB crew. We(my guitars and me) love you just the way you are.
I've never found a control layout for a flight stick that makes sense in Descent-style games.
Flight sticks make sense in games where you have constant forward motion and you're primarily controlling the pitch and yaw (i.e. aim) of your craft. Here you need to control both your aim while making very quick changes in movement in 6 directions.
I've tried mapping forward and back to throttle and sliding/strafing (both vertical and horizontal) to hat switch, but it just never feels natural or usable at the speed these games demand.
Twin stick gamepads are a slightly better fit, but I don't even find them to be ideal, because there's never any good way to map vertical strafing on them as Jeff and Drew discussed. I always end up using WASD + mouse, and then putting vertical strafing on space and control (i.e. typical controls for jump and crouch [vertical movement] in first person shooters).
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