Slight bimp for a kind of weird question.
I got my joystick working adequately, though I still want to get a new one. I got some zip ties and worked them under the spring, forced it all the way down so the stick has no inclination to be in any place. It's not jerking around anymore which I think has helped me a lot.
Anyway, my issue is I've noticed I almost never use rudder and I'm not really clear on how it's supposed to be used. I pretty much only use rudder to correct for stalls and Tokyo Drift in my Fokker Dr.1. I dunno if it's a similar issue to my other problems with the stick (I haven't done anything to the twist-axis spring) but I was kind of turned off from using the rudder early on because I feel like it makes the plane jerk around. I don't really know how or when I should be using the rudder.
What am I supposed to do with that thing?
Here's an idea, if anybody's got the time and feels like helping a novice figure shit out.
Here's a random example of a mission I did in dynamic campaign. As some background and such, it was an early war eastern front mission to escort a Fw 189. I was in a 109 E-4 I think. We got sidetracked with the MiGs early on and the 189 got ahead of us and got shot down.
The important part I guess comes later on when I decide to break off and follow the 189. I spent a few minutes alone against three Ishaks making passes on them, if I'd been against something more formidable I probably wouldn't have done the overt looping right in front of them. Eventually the other three ishaks came in as well as my comrades and I got chased off. Past this point there's some latency issues I guess with the replay file, what actually happened was my engine got damaged and as I was gliding away the ishak chasing me strafed my plane from 3:00 and killed me. What happens in the replay file with me bouncing off the ground and such is weird and didn't happen.
If somebody more experienced than me has some tiem and wants to look at it and tell me what kinds of things I did right and wrong and what to improve on it'd help a lot, I'm kind of lost when it comes to actually figuring out what I need to do.
Also I feel like I'm the only person affected by G-forces. Every opponent can turn way tighter than I can without any noticeable problems, but I can barely turn at all without blacking out for like 30 seconds. It's tempting me to turn off G forces on difficulty settings. I don't want to play with crutches like that but at the same time I feel like I'm the only person it's affecting.