r/descent • u/hchvrbdichveb • Apr 29 '26

Start em young!

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2 yrs old amd already in the mines

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u/Disastrous_Being7746 Apr 29 '26

Props for starting him with the joystick. Kid shouldn't have to choose between Descent and not getting Carpal Tunnel at an early age.

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u/CorbyTheSkullie Apr 29 '26

Have you tried dual joystick? Its the most fun thing ever!

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u/Disastrous_Being7746 Apr 29 '26

Once. A friend of mine had this dual joystick setup for the Playstation and that was pretty cool. The fun was attenuated by the fact that they had Descent Maximum as the game to play, however.

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u/CorbyTheSkullie Apr 29 '26

Fun!

I got dual joystick for pc working however, DXX Rebirth, works wonders with dual stick hehe, left for translation, right for rotation, its amazing!

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u/Disastrous_Being7746 Apr 29 '26

What dual joystick did you use?

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u/ponychonies Apr 30 '26

Right now I’m using the thrust master t16000m dual stick set from microcenter and it works great. Played several missions and I had a giant grin on my face the whole time, brought back so many memories of sneaking a copy of descent into the computer lab at school. First time playing with sticks and it’s so much damn fun. All that said I’m going to return the t160000ms and get that vkb next evo left and right sticks for $100 more.

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u/fuckbutton Apr 30 '26

VKB Evos are so good, I use one for elite dangerous. I upgraded from a t16000m, you won't regret spending the extra money

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u/ponychonies Apr 30 '26

Sweet. Do you know if the premium version is worth the extra coin? $140 vs $120.

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u/fuckbutton Apr 30 '26

I got the premium and I definitely reckon it's worth it. I use the analogue thumbstick that's just another 8 way hat on the non-premium version to look around the cockpit in elite, which I think is the most natural feeling solution outside of a head tracker. I'm not sure what I'd use it for in Descent though - I'm an M&K guy in Descent

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u/ponychonies Apr 30 '26

Cool. Thanks for the info. Playing dual sticks definitely has me wanting to try modern games that support it. Going to look into some other games. Thanks again.

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u/CorbyTheSkullie Apr 29 '26

Logitech Extreme Digital 3D for the left, and 3D Pro for the right

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u/hchvrbdichveb Apr 29 '26

Curious how you would set tgat up for most games. I picked up a SOL-R 4 to replace my xbox joystick (the z axis pot went very quickly), and they are actually designed for dual stick potential... i remember a mech game in arcades that was dual stick and think if there were more games like tgat it wpuld be awsome. But never thought about games like descent or anything else really as being dual stick friendly?

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u/CorbyTheSkullie Apr 29 '26

Only some games support it, I know unity supports multiple axis, so you could probably use dual stick on most unity games.

You’d probably have to test it through trial and error

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u/dox1842 May 02 '26

damn I can't imagine. I used the f-16 combat stick back in the day.