The title asks the question, but in all that I have read to date there seems either nothing at all or nothing definitive. With the availability of new FFB devices, this is a subject of renewed interest but for those (many actually) who still soldier on with earlier generations of FFB sticks in the hope of a better experience, the interest is as strong as ever.
Alternatively, if anybody hears of more of the sim being exposed via simconnect or the SDK, passing that on here will help a great deal. FFB developers, both of hardware and software would find this really useful in the absence of a native solution from Asobo, MS or other interested parties.
They are aware, but it’s mostly parked on the top shelf, so they can’t reach it just yet… but it feels more like none of the team knows how to write the code for it to work proper? So, anyone of you out there who does ffb coding? I dont know… just guessing here.
I too have been looking forwards to fully functioning ffb, yet so far a couple of developers have been tuning into some of the telemetry from the sim to get things to work, but it’s just not there yet without dedicated support from the sim itself. The moza ffbstick looks like my new upgrade though. (G940 here)
Personally, i’m hoping before the end of 2025… it would just have been lovely to have it already integrated into the sim itself from 2020… but so far the devs are concentrating on the digital twin and the flightmodels… next step would be how to control those flightmodels in the digital twin… so for me, ffb would be step 3… hoping step 3 will soon be taken. But i’m guessing from the footage i’ve seen so far, that the Step 1, will be the biggest issue… how do you stream data, to a user who will change course, altitude and airspeed at a moments notice without the user noticing we’re struggling to keep up (yeah, sorry, i saw a lot more of the popping of scenery… hope they get that sorted without motionblurring the ** out of the transitions.)
2 spare G940s now as I have gone for the Flitesim CLS60 FFB yoke. The software there has great potential even now, but more info from the sim itself can only help further, not just for me but everyone.
It concerns me as always that the resources can be found to put effort into non flight sim related features when basic fundamentals such as this (or maybe more accurate engine modelling for instance) are left on the back burner with a “maybe” or “one day” when there is evidently something of a renaissance for the hardware side and concept of the FFB equation.
A similar thing could have been said to exist before now as well as now, when A2A decided to create an external environment for their products to run within. The decision that they made pays dividends as the popularity of the Comanche confirms and I see the future of FFB at least here, possibly being on a similar trajectory.
So. If Asobo could release more back into the sim through Simconnect, those hardware developers could run with the ball even if for whatever reason, Asobo cant.
MAYDAY !
I’ve just installed the Alpha tech version of 2024. My MS Force Feedback joystick appears in the settings page, but no action assigned to it ! I cannot assign anything because fields to assign something to joystick are not “alive”, impossible to change anything so that I can use FFB joystick !
Any solution ? Many thanks !!!
If the above is true, then I am afraid to say that it is pretty much inline with what I expected.
Dont worry though. If you go for FFB the hardware supplier will also provide software and that would probably be leaps and bounds ahead of anything Asobo. It would have to be, as their business is to move FFB hardware and they will concentrate on that more than redesigning some cartoon android to sit next to you as you fly. I would still look very hard at the software rather than any bells and whistles on the device itself as a first stop though.
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