@Icer
Unfortunately, I’m stateside…southeastern US. I admittedly breezed over the User Manual, have not looked at the Training Manual until just now. I prefer reading these materials while in bed and presently I need to order another ink cartridge. We’ve had usually cold weather here and the light bills have dampened my play money. In the last 3 months total, my lightbills come to $1200+ dollars US.
Meanwhile, what trips me up is the language that the controller settings impose to the user/reader. In my attempt to decipher what I’m actually looking at and looking for…TRIGGER never came to mind. I tried Guns, Cannon, Fire, Missile, Weapon, Release…etc,etc.
I want to make a list of 5 main operations to use with my joystick and I would need someone to point me to the exact Key Binding Abbreviation column to that I can map 5 functions to the stick. I’d also like to use the hat switch for view scrolling and I’ll always prefer to use Padlock when things get in a tight.
I bought a TLC 65 inch monitor during the Black Friday sales…and it presents an issue with setting up my TrackIR transceiver.
Not to forget that I have 8 (Eight) cats that make it a habit of getting behind the monitor…so-
My Logitech Wingman has 7 buttons, a Hat switch, throttle and rudder. If I could bind the stick with 5 of the most important offensive modes, I feel that I can handle the rest of the story (over time)…
For example…I needed to bind the trigger…why didn’t they call the bind label “Trigger” instead of First Detent…Second Detent…etc-etc. Over the decades of enjoying military flight simulators, I’ve never…never ever ever seen a product key binding option where the producers and/or programmers elected to call a key sequence “First Detent”…
They called it was it was for FFS- Guns or Cannon(s).
God Help us if Microprose keeps this idea of key labeling. We didn’t suffer this kind of issue with the Falcon 3.0 and its spinoffs- MiG-29, FA-18, Falcon 4.0, Falcon Allied Force…
speaking of which BMS is rooted with/from the leaked Falcon 4.0 coding. Why on earth would a coder take a perfectly good product and bastardize it for the elite class of simmers is way way beyond me. And if Microprose want to increase sales, they’ll take heed to what they have and what BMS programmers did.
Too many simmers today, both young and old, complain about the setup of BMS and that’s the driving point of losing potential customers. I distinctly remember sending BMS $50 US for their 4.31 or 4.32 release as a token of my appreciation. Then came 4.33 and I was forever dumbfounded. I took it off the drive and never looked back. Once I stumbled on the rumor that Microprose was back in business, had re-acquired the rights to the Falcon series, I downloaded the latest variant. I agree that the alternate setup app is easier for setting up keys and stick functions, but alas, they still lean hard on the expensive throttle product lines and pseudo abbreviations not used in life’s everyday vocabulary.
Having a 3rd back surgery just this last Friday, and the diabetes affecting my eyesight nowadays, owning and maintaining 3 vehicles, I can’t justify blowing money from a fixed income to the wife on a entirely new throttle/flightstick HOTAS setup. That kind of nonsense will not fly very long here and in fact could lead to divorce proceedings.
So ICER, if you would be so kind, I’ll name off 5 functions to bind to the joystick and you could point me to the correct labeling on the Key Mapping page…If I can not figure it out for myself.
You’re a Gentleman and a Scholar Good Sir-
RuBARB
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