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Demo Flight Of Nova with Headtracker and HOTAS (on Linux PC) - crash landing my spaceship again (tube.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de to c/diysimulators@discuss.tchncs.de

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I had the chance to play Flight Of Nova (https://flight-of-nova.com/) for the first time today. This was on my wishlist for quite some time now. Dived in blind and had no idea what to expect. 3 tutorial missions later: Oh boy… this is hard. I can see myself sinking many hours in this.

Anyway, as usual, my focus is on interfacing with my home cockpit (or simpit) and while there is no ship telemetry [yet?] I was able to get it running just fine via Proton and with my DIY headtracker using OpenTrack. Hats off, seldom that I see a game that detects my joystick just fine, has great ingame calibration, offers me a windowed mode and a bunch of ultra width resolutions without having to resort to hacking config files or use gamescope to resize it ❤️

Head tracking is, as usual, TrackIR only so far (I guess the native Linux PC version does not have UDP in place here but I couldn’t check due Steam refusing to download another version today). Anyway, you can see me fooling around with the buttons and do an A+ crash landing in the end – sunny side up 😆 Not too shabby considering that this was my 3rd landing at all.

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[–] Excrubulent 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Have you considered adding drag lube like Nyogel 767A to the base of the joystick and the throttle? I have some very cheap ~~Saitek~~ Thrustmaster sticks that felt like crap, but after adding that lube to them they feel like sticks that cost 600 instead of 60. It improves precision and reduces strain because you need much less muscle force to find and hold a position, not to mention just feeling more premium. You can also mod the magnets on the X52 to improve their precision.

It's a very nice setup by the way.

EDIT: I forgot the brand of my own joysticks.