>I'll have to try out
>the WT air tutorial sometime soon, now that I've dug out my old
>WingMan Extreme 3D for Elite: Dangerous, and let you know how
>that goes as well.

This just in: War Thunder's joystick control configuration is... odd. For instance: roll and pitch authority and up-down/left-right directional control are listed separately (and in the latter case, somewhat obscurely) in the control-binding menu, and by default the latter were unbound for me. Which means if I moved the stick in the intuitive ways, the airplane would roll or pitch... but kept flying in exactly the same direction in an utterly bizarre, physically impossible manner. Only when I bound both items to the same axes did the aircraft actually start handling, well, like an aircraft. Presumably I could go and UNbind pitch and roll, and just make the airplane maneuver without changing attitude, like the F-15 in the "arcade" mode of F-15 Strike Eagle? Maybe I should try that later, I didn't think of it at the time.

(Also, the tutorial lies. I totally missed the airfield with my bombs, but like a teacher who would rather eat gravel than have the slow kid in his class again the following year, the tutorial passed me anyway. :)

Anyway, between that and the great multitude of button functions being unbound (so that the tutorial kept saying unhelpful things like "press UNDEFINED to drop bombs"), it was a bit... weird. But not all that surprising. Heck, Elite: Dangerous claims to have an Extreme 3D preset (despite the joystick being well over 10 years old), but it lies; virtually everything was unset in that, as well, forcing me to spend 20 minutes or so futzing endlessly with the control bind menu and occasionally guessing as to what some of the more obscurely-named functions even did.

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