I suck at this game, I'm just terrible!.
My joystick works, the only problem is that no button works! So I have to fire with my keyboard. Not a big deal, but switching my hand from the keyboard to the joystick just to slow down my airplane a little is uh, damn.
Are you sure you have configured it properly? My only gripe with the game is that every plane seems to have different sensitivity to the joystick, so I have to tune it for every plane individually (might be that my joystick is a bit broken, though, it fell on the floor many times, and some of the buttons don't work everytime ). Anyway what I am talking about is that I can for example tune it so the P40 flies level when I let it go, and then when I switch to the Spitfire it's suddenly diving at 15 degrees when I let the joystick go.
Anyone else have similar problems?
Actually, I think I screwed it up. When I bought it, no buttons were working. After some time, I opened it up and made a little mess inside. Strangely, when it was open, all buttons would work, but when I tried to close the thing, when I considered it "Fixed", all buttons stopped working. I think I broke a cable or something.
I'm kinda used to it, I must also switch my hands when flying on IL-2. Other than that, the joystick works OK. This Joystick was pretty cheap, I bought it like in a "Yeah, why not?" situation, it was the only one left in store... for a few coins? a fair price imo.
But anyways it's hard to fly with a joystick. I tried mouse+kb but no, no thanks.