Recommend me a joystick controller for IL2 Flight Combat game

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I've just bought the game for a mates birthday present, but he'll need a joystick to play it properly won't he?

Any decent cheapish recommendations ilgors can give me?

(for PC btw)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, can't help - I haven't had a PC Joystaff since... TIE-Fighter. Do you still have to do the calibration with analogue sticks, or have we evolved beyond that now?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

haha same here, loved tie fighter!, the last thing i played though was xwing alliance which was also fucking brilliant. rubbish with no joystick though.

also are there actually any multiplayer flight sims out there?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Again, I'm SO out of touch - last one I played was Air Warrior. Long live 1997!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Air Warrior!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

well, thanks anyway. ive gone with the quantra evo or something. i refuse to buy the 'Thrustmaster', purely because of the name.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

right i just read the back of the game box and it says you can play this online, so why isn't this advertised on Amazon? and why did my mate say it wasn't an online game?

great though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

well i just played it with the new joystick, its' superb. game looks a little dated but plays great fun. the joystick is amazing, so many buttons and a 'view stick' on the stick too. the throttle stick doesn't seem to do anything tho.

i'll try the online play tonight

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

nineteen years pass...

I'm asking here because trying to work it out from Reddit or the general internet is giving me a nervous breakdown, but if I want a controller that works on

- A Switch 1
- A Macbook Pro (for streaming games and Steam)
- An iPAd (for streaming games and apps)

...is there one that covers those bases? I'm thinking the old Switch Pro controller seems the most likely. But it's hard to tell!

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 4 December 2025 12:39 (three weeks ago)

I hear that Switch controllers are finicky with apple systems and only work well when wired.

― adam t (dat), Friday, 5 December 2025 00:00 (two weeks ago)

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