Can be dimmed or turned off in the software. The system has absolutely no way of calibrating. I do wish the toggles on the joystick's base were positioned on the throttle (and that the two encoders and push buttons on the throttle were programmable in the factory software), but that is a minor niggle. This set is very comfortable and all buttons are in good locations but I still cant give it a positive review. Most are only reachable by the thumb or index finger. The X52's throttle could have accommodated more inputs, or distributed them better. The Thrustmaster T.16000M + TWCS runs it close, but offers less inputs on the stick's grip, but more on the throttle. For its price it is unbeatable in input combinations (282 max, with 3 modes and a pinky shift for each), but you need to invest time in either the factory standard software, or Joystick Gremlin, to get the most out of it. The throttle is easily gripable and has decent, if not great, button placement. The stick has excellent button placement and the adjustable handle has a purpose. Personally I have not encountered any QC problems as of yet with the unit I bought only a few weeks ago, but some buyers (still) report problems now and then.Įrgonomics. Some tuning of dead zones (Windows Control Panel) and mouse axes sensitivity (Programming Software) might be in order to make it usable as a "mouse" or reconfigured as a Hat-button. This gives a square grid of 225 positions the mouse can assume. Each having 8 positions between "off" (mouse center) and maximum depression. The mouse is actually compromised out of 4 3-bit buttons. The programming software is fiddly and the window for it weirdly has a fixed size, thus cannot be scaled to fullscreen in WIN 10. ![]() It is a gamble buying one in terms of QC, so if you decide to buy one, be prepared to test it thoroughly and return it, in the worst case scenario. If money is tight but your operational demands are fixed it's very hard to beat an X52 in price per command input. There must be a large number of them out there which functioned fine, or at least well enough not to provoke people to register for forums like reddit or simhq and complain about it. Overall we have to assume the odds are pretty good because people only come online to complain and argue. I know people whose stick didn't work out of the box as recently as two years ago. Mine, a silver/blue saitek unit from way, way back in the day, still functions (albeit not well on modern computers because of driver problems). It has more buttons in considerably more user friendly places than its price competitor, the Thrustmaster T16000m set.īuying one is a lottery. ![]() It is not a high quality stick or throttle, but it is a full featured HOTAS for less. It's ~$150 of plastic engineered more than twenty years ago and given a little love a few years back when Logitech bought Saitek (though the Pro version is often marked up simply for having a dark casing). People have mixed opinions because it's a mixed blessing. There aren't going to be any new or different opinions here.
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