Tank controls

[83_Gen_Jeroen]

Just tried out operating the tank on a server.

 

Somehow Ralt . and Ralt ; are not responding to elevate the gun on the german tank.

 

Do I need now different keys for that?

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Jeroen.

[Dakpilot]

Work fine for me with German and Russian tanks, sounds like an interesting bug

 

Try assigning the range elevation to throttle on joystick or quadrant, works quite well, and I imagine it was on a wheel/handle IRL so no worries (but shhh ...don't tell anyone else) 

 

Can be a bit tricky when using bombsight on aircraft though  better to disable if not in a 'tanking session'

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[69th_chuter]

Those controls are for setting range in the GERMAN (not RUSSIAN) gunsight.  My mouse traverses and elevates the gun and I believe that is default.  Good Luck.

 

On a related note ... I'd be willing to trade a dozen Panzer III's of any version for just one StuG III F8.  Hek, I'd even take a regular old F - lol.

Edited January 31, 2016 by chuter

[83_Gen_Jeroen]

Thx for reply.

 

I put all key mappings back to default and now it works OK.

 

Is there a way to use joystick with tank?

[Dakpilot]

You can assign the controls for forward/backwards/left/right to joystick axis no problem, but unless your joystick has a very 'accurate' zero point or set big deadzones it does not seem that intuitive

 

for example on MSFFB2 with no 'zero' detent, however other joysticks may work better,  the keys you need to bind are at the bottom in SETTINGS/KEY MAPPING/MAIN CONTROLS

 

Cheers Dakpilot 

[Sokol1]

(IMO) The best tank control setup  is:

 

Set acceleration/brake (move forward/stop) in joystick or HOTAS throttle axis, in that way you don't need hold a key or joy to move forward continuos.

 

Steering right/left with rudder pedal/joy "twist" axis

 

Mouse control aim and

- mouse left fire gun/mg

- mouse middle center the aim (admissible in a "gamey" way, but who cares...) 

- mouse right turn off/on the gun movement - to allow the commander look around freely whit mouse/headtrack

 

Set keys for left hand for adjust gunsight range and cycle ammo, and toggle between driver/gunsight/hatch.

Edited February 1, 2016 by Sokol1

[-TBC-AeroAce]

can someone make a link here to all the standard tank controls please

[Sokol1]

They are in Uriah thread in this forum