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I hear a lot of jokes about my name. None of them are funny.
My fiancee Gina plans events for World Travel Meetings and Incentives. We live in a loft in San Francisco, and can occasionally be found flying kites at various spots around the city. If you're on Xbox Live, look me up. My gamertag is Willski.
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August 13, 2003
Galactic Conquest, Xbox controllers, and Planetside
First, I need to say that the Xbox controller USB adapter is really handy. I ordered mine from these guys and am using their drivers too. There’s analog support for all the buttons, the two triggers, and of course both analog sticks. Everything is fully configurable, just like a real Windows controller. I used it with Midnight Club 2 and Battlefield for quite a few hours this weekend, and had no crashes or other problems. As C. Montgomery Burns says, “Excellent”.
Galactic Conquest is a little different story. It pretty uniformly sucks right now. The only map that’s available is Hoth, and the imperials have about twice as far to travel to the flags as the Rebels do. The scout walkers are pretty weak, and the first person camera is jittery enough to make you barf in your stormtrooper helmet. Hopefully it will get better, the current iteration should never have been released.
I’m still splitting my gaming time between Planetside and Knights of the Old Republic. I recently picked up a two-man tank certification in Planetside, so I’ve been cruising around the continent with a buddy picking off enemies. The tanks last a LONG time, and are quite effective at squishing other people too.
KOTOR is KOTOR. I’m playing it, but taking my time. Every moment of a game this good should be cherished. Right now I’m really enjoying mixing up the characters I bring on missions to get the best dialog.
///Will | Games | Email this entryNot that I'm aware of so you can still play games. Microsoft has repeatedly stated that there will be no mouse or keyboard support for the Xbox, which I think is unnaturally limiting.
Maybe it's so that the gimpy console only FPS players won't get so spanked online.
Posted by: ///Will at January 25, 2004 10:57 PMIs there any way I can get a mouse style controller for X-box? I have been playing counter strike for more than a year now on PC and I love the mousing element of the game, but I want to be able to carry that precision over to the x-box for Halo and the new CS for x-box, thanks
Roqua
Posted by: Roqua at January 23, 2004 11:52 PMHrmm.. You probably need to do it from within the game you're using. You should be able to bind one axis of one of the sticks to look up/down, and the other axis of the same stick to look left/right. I'd assume that that will work in most first person shooters that support joysticks.
Why not just use a mouse though?
Posted by: ///Will at September 13, 2003 03:57 PMHOW THE HECK did you get the "look" feature to work for the xbox controller. I've got it plugged in at this point, Win XP see's it, the setup window in Control panel sees everything I'm doing correctly.
But no matter what I do, I can't "look" around. I can map things to walk forward, backward, strafe right and left.. but I've NEVER gotten it to allow me to "LOOK" basically mimic the actions of the mouse. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance man... you're my only hope. LOL