Please can someone explain DCS to me.

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  • vJoy

    Virtual Joystick

    The "keyboard joystick" in this game is above all praise and is implemented head and shoulders better than any other counterpart. There's no controlling the aircraft with a mouse implemented, so that would require a virtual joystick emulator (like vJoy) with a proper mouse joystick feeder (like cemu) for it.

  • dcs-scratchpad

    Resizable and movable DCS World ingame Scratchpad for quick notes - especially useful in VR.

    For things like changing a radio frequency or turning on/off datalink or TACAN, it's about even. If I'm doing things like manually entering in target coordinates for JDAMs or plugging in my own flight plan on an MP server, it makes life much easier. (For the second scenario I also recommend using DCS Scratchpad.) It's also nice in that it supports various panels multiple aircraft, and the only other thing that I know of which offers even close to equivalent functionality costs several hundred dollars.

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  • opentrack

    Head tracking software for MS Windows, Linux, and Apple OSX

    In terms of controls, a stick of some kind comes highly recommended, but there are keyboard players out there with decent skills, so it's not an absolute must (look up dcs keyboard on youtube). If you have a webcam, try OpenTrack with the Aruco tracking option for head tracking. It will make your life 10x easier in the sim.

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