This free mod will let you turn your Xbox controller into a flight stick, which is handy, helpful, and not even slightly haphazard.
Akaki Kuumeri has designed this HOTAS (hands on throttle-and-stick) mod, and has provided the files for free here. Seeing as a proper peripheral will set you back about £70, and more than ten times that for a top of the line model, this is a much more agreeable alternative. Much more.
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The mod is made up of 3D-printed parts - not everyone has one of these in the house, but you could go to your local library. When Arthur said "having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card," he didn't realise the applicability of his mantra in the modern era. Anyway. Kuumeri shows in the video that these parts just snap together, affix onto the sides of the controller, and then you're away.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is the first entry in the series to be on its way to the Xbox One and the Xbox Series X and S. We think it might just be the best-looking video game of all time, with awesome technical achievements like the volumetric clouds that rain in real columns. And, when compared to real life locations, it's tough to tell which is the simulated image which is the actual place.
Developer Asobo Studio has done a bang up job on the game, which is to be expected because it also developed the acclaimed A Plague Tale: Innocence. But, a technically intricate and impressive flight simulator is a significant departure from a horror game set in fourteenth-century France. When the game launched, some pilots found that things weren't quite as they expected.
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For example, Buckingham Palace in London was turned into an office block, and an unassuming building in Melbourne became 212 stories high after a typographical error was entered into Bing Maps. You can't win them all.
With that being said, Xbox Series X and S players will be in for a treat when Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 launches, and with this DIY peripheral, they'll be able to enjoy the preciseness and realism of flying a plane from the comfort (and relative nonresponsibility for others' lives) on their couch.
Featured Image Credit: Akaki Kuumeri, Asobo StudioTopics: Microsoft Flight Simulator, Xbox