Hi community,

Call me a wuss if you like....LOL

recently trying to ease myself into DCS world, after watching a few videos on Youtube, I have to admit, I have it looking pretty outstanding. BUT......for somebody like me who is just getting into it, it seems like the easy mode is not an easy mode as such.

At the moment, I am having some troubles getting my head around weapons firing. Not sure what is going on here, I have mapped and re-mapped keys to my X52 Pro over and over again, but it just don't seem to be behaving. For example, the main trigger on my device it sees as 2 inputs. I've never seen this in a sim before.
I purchased some add on modules (not cheap!) and I can do everything except fire weapons. I especially downloaded the A-10A, but even that seems like it has reversed some of the mappings. Really weird. A little disappointed that there are no included tutorials either.

Has anybody else had similar issues? I did not purchase this as a free flight sim.

Thanks,

Andrew.

The Saitek X52 Pro has a two stage trigger... that is to say, there are two buttons associated with the trigger. They can be assigned to different weapons, or you can do clever things where the first stage controls something else(Perhaps change a reticle, hud or radar mode) before the second stage triggers something.

1st thing to get settled... are you mapping functions using the Saitek software, or the key assignments menu in DCS? You can go either way, or even use both together, but the bottom line is you want to make sure they are not conflicting. If you are assigning your trigger functions in the Saitek software, then make sure the DCS key assignments menu has nothing being assigned to the trigger as well, or vice-versa. Same thing for the rest of the X52 Pro controls.

I have been away from using the Saitek X52Pro, for years. Same thing for DCS, actually. The Saitek software has some nice capabilities... but DCS has a lot of different aircraft with varying control assignments needed per aircraft. You may find it easiest to use the built-in DCS key assignment menu system in the long run.

If you are not yet writing down your mappings, and then checking both the Saitek software and the DCS menus for each button assignment... that would be a good practice to start.

Good luck!

You can also try going to the DCS forums or searching online for some X52 profiles for the A-10A and start with that. See if one of those works for you and maybe modify one of those if it's not perfect.

Thanks so much to everybody again. Managed to get my first kill today; MiG-29S dispatched by my F-15C. Not easy at all!

Get Chuck's guides, they are the best thing to help you with new planes.
I recently got the P-47 on release, and without Chuck's guide I was a bit lost, clicking random things to start it up.