Saitek X55 Pre-order

[IonicRipper]

It seems the new Saitek X55 is available for pre-order. 

 

What are your thoughts on this new stick?

 

http://store.madcatz.com/brands/saitek/Saitek-Pro-Flight-X-55-Rhino-H-O-T-A-S-System-for-PC.html

 

EDIT: Just noticed there already was a thread about the X55... Sorry about that.

Edited January 7, 2014 by IonicRipper

[CreepiJim]

I won't pre-order a joystick which predecessor had to be modded to meet the expectations. I will wait for unbiased community reviews AND disassemblies before I even consider looking at buying a new Saitek.

[Bearcat]

You must be talking about a Cougar..

[Grifter]

Looks fairly promising for the price, but the collar and ring setup for the spring area looks plastic, not metal. I think I would wait on this one as Blechbohrer said.

[Emgy]

The replaceable springs does directly address the spring tension complaints on the X52 regular&pro. Nice that they are responding to the community on that. (I actually like the soft spring, though.)

But I agree with Blechborer and it will be interesting to see screens/vids using joytester2 to test deadzones and the diamond nonlinearity.

[FuriousMeow]

Pre-ordered. I didn't mind the two mods to the X-52 Pro I had made to get it to function better. Hopefully with knowledge of the deadzone issues and the magnet mod, this stick won't have it - but if it does I'll have no problem modding it.

 

Has way more buttons and switches than the X52Pro, and dual throttle. I'm also interested in seeing if I can mod another stick's FFB into it, but won't know that until I receive the stick.

 

Although it is a little annoying that I signed up for the pre-order announcement back when it was first announced that pre-orders would be available and unsurprisingly I never recieved the notification. Madcatz support is pretty crappy, took them three weeks to respond to an inquiry with my pedals to which they said I would have to RMA but they would not provide a replacement and the RMA would take up to a month. Turns out a powered USB hub was what I needed, the motherboard USB ports didn't provide quite enough consistent juice for the pedals and the stick where the pedals would cause a short and all devices would reset/disconnect/reconnect when rapidly moving the pedals.

Edited January 8, 2014 by FuriousMeow