Battlefield Tri-hard

**Amit** · October 10th, 2011 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Freelancer

I never used a joystick, so I don't know if the hat key is auto-bound to that. If you hold down Ctrl while in the cockpit view your mouse movements turn into a hat-look style view. I did it in the beginning of my jets video.

The only problem I had with mouse/keyboard is that when you're turning/pulling up you'll eventually run your mouse off the surface it's on. Need a joystick to compensate for that. I have a Saitek joystick that I'll have to try when the game is released.

I tried Ctrl+Mouse since that's how it works in most game that has the function. I got nothing.

Originally Posted by Warsaw

Mouse + Keyboard != Hat switch.

Good to know there is support for looking, but actual hat-switch support is spotty outside of real sims, and even in some sims it is implemented terribly (see: IL2: Wings of Prey).

That's all a hat switch is, except the hat is less controllable since it swings in whatever direction to desire to look, but quickly and not precisely. On a joystick the hat switch is just assignments of which direction to look. I plugged in my Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB to try it out with the beta, but I forgot to check if it works and the beta ended.

Originally Posted by Warsaw

After the bollocks that was heli circle-strafing on Atacama, can you honestly blame them for nerfing the helicopters?

There's so much other shit to take down air vehicles now, though. They don't need to be nerfed.

Also, Battlefield 3 to have day one patch, maplist:

Battlefield 3 maps