Falcon questions

[Commanding Officer]

Hey everyone! After seeing the amazing discount ego was offering on the falcon, I bought one. But some people said some things that confused me. So I wanted to ask you guys a few questions I have.

1) can I play INS with a falcon? (and how well does it work if it does work)
2) I'm a little confused on how you use it. Do you still need a keyboard if you use a falcon.
3 ) can I use it as a mouse in all programs?

Thanks novints site is very hard to understand.

 

[Viktum]

You can Not play INS with the Falcon just yet..Once they come out with an updated version for the Falcon, we will be able to play INS with it. You will need the computer to use the Falcon as well, ist just like using a Mouse but only in game. Now using with other programs as a mouse, im not to sure, we'll just have to see once we get it delieved to us. Cant wait for mine.

 

[Ice hearted killer]

not usable in INS, how ever you could try use it as a joy stick which ins does allow and see if that works at all. i have no idea other than that. have fun with it. it plays with all other source games and quite a few others as well

 

[Commanding Officer]

You can Not play INS with the Falcon just yet..Once they come out with an updated version for the Falcon, we will be able to play INS with it. You will need the computer to use the Falcon as well, ist just like using a Mouse but only in game. Now using with other programs as a mouse, im not to sure, we'll just have to see once we get it delieved to us. Cant wait for mine.

What confused me is, I thought we had a contest a few weeks ago where we had to play against a Novint employee using a falcon. Did he have beta drivers or something?

 

[Ice hearted killer]

What confused me is, I thought we had a contest a few weeks ago where we had to play against a Novint employee using a falcon. Did he have beta drivers or something?

that was on a TF2 server

 

[The Yeti]

Some CAD programs allow the use of the Falcon. Really, it's a joystick, trackball mutant on steroids.

 

[Passerby]

ins can be played with it useing genric drivers but it will be missing a lot of things.

 

[air_nith]

Really, it's a joystick, trackball mutant on steroids.

Lol that is an intersting way to put it.

 

[Ice hearted killer]

Really, it's a joystick, trackball mutant on steroids.

i love you yet you come out with all the best lines

 

[mr.dude]

Some CAD programs allow the use of the Falcon. Really, it's a joystick, trackball mutant on steroids.

:lol: That's going in my sig!

 

[Viktum]

We sure do have a Special Bunch of people on this Division...hahaha. We're all one BIG happy Family with Un4Gvn as our Long Haired hippy Side Burned Daddy!

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Hahah! Yeah eGO rocks the socks WAY off!

 

[The Yeti]

lmao, glad you guys enjoyed that

And I concur with what the Pimp Daddy and Viktum said.

 

[Un4Gvn]

That's how I look at it.

When BF2 came out, I HAD to run out and buy a new joystick. You play a game that's got something to fly in it, you have to use a joystick.
Well, way I see it is that the Falcon is the "joystick of FPS's". It's like I've been playing my favorite kind of game with the wrong kind of controller this whole time. I'm looking forward to testing one out.
And trust me, soon enough I'll be pwning some booties in the servers with it.

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

So I had ordered my Falcon a couple days back (can't wait til it arrives) and since then I have been thinking of a whole bunch of random questions.

First question being, does anyone know when your using the Falcon do you have to keep your arm up or can you rest it on the desk without it messing up the way you move/function?

Also when did y'all receive y'alls Falcon in the mail, did it take 3-4 days or sooner/later?

I'm going to hold off on more questions til I get an answer, I'm just really paranoid about the UPS or whoever is going to drop it off, how and where are they going to drop it... I ordered a new mic/headphones and I came home after work to find it just sitting there in plain daylight waiting for someone to take it. :angry: :glare:

 

[The Yeti]

I've done quite a bit of warehousing work in my days and I've gotta say UPS is the worst postal service. At least it's that way in Colorado.

From my experience:

FedEx
DHL/USPS
UPS

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

I've done quite a bit of warehousing work in my days and I've gotta say UPS is the worst postal service. At least it's that way in Colorado.
From my experience:
FedEx
DHL/USPS
UPS

Wow... Thanks Yeti that makes me feel so much better now... :mellow: :crying:
So being as bad as it is would there be an alternative shipping company or someone that I don't have to be so damn worried about? :blink: :huh:

 

[Commanding Officer]

My falcon arrives tomorrow, il post a review!

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Well I finally got my falcon in today and I must say it is quite amazing. They have a tutorial to take and it gives you these giant spheres of different textures that you can feel, absolutely amazing. There is a honey one and you can actually feel the stickiness of it... Right now I'm kind of speechless, all that I need now is a driver for INS

I'm having a bit of mouse trouble now though... I'll be able to click on a few things and then it goes to me just being able to move the cursor around, can't click on anything... Argh!

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

My falcon arrives tomorrow, il post a review!

Right on, I was amazed by just the tutorial, but then again I am easily entertained so... :blush: I'm also not a big electronics person so I don't really know much about if something is good or not.