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Now that I ve had a day with the new TIE Fighter and X-Wing re-releases on GOG, there are a few issues that I ve encountered and a few things I ve learned about the editions available on GOG.

Most importantly, I had an odd and frustrating joystick issue that took me a few minutes to solve.

In order to play the 1998 versions of X-Wing and TIE Fighter, you absolutely have to have a joystick. There are supposedly some workaround out there to fake it with a mouse and keyboard or a 360 controller, but the particular problem I had was that the game did not recognize my perfectly good Saitek X-52. Every time I launched the game, I got an error message telling me to make sure my joystick was connected.

My first thought was that the GOG editions were having trouble with USB joysticks, and that I d have to find some kind of emulator to trick the program into thinking I had a serial port joystick.

But actually, it turns out the advanced tab in the USB game controllers offers an option about which of your USB devices you d like to use for older games. For some reason, Windows had decided my USB webcam was also a joystick, and that is what it was trying to use for TIE Fighter.

So, if you have a USB joystick and it s not behaving with TIE Fighter or X-Wing, just make sure you have the right device selected in the Set up USB Game Controllers menu. Once I d taken care of that, both the 1998 and original 1994 editions worked with my joystick.

Oh man, do I NEED a joystick to enjoy these games.

To play the more modern versions, you do. But the original versions worked quite well with mouse and keyboard, though it can be hard following more maneuverable craft by throwing your mouse around.

What surprised me, honestly, was just how good the joystick controls are for X-Wing and TIE Fighter. After years of playing games like MechWarrior Online, in which the joystick controls are simply not competitive with mouse and keyboard, or War Thunder and World of Warplanes, which require tons of tuning in order to get an adequate joystick experience, I d started to lose faith in my trusty flight stick. Maybe joysticks weren t as good as I remembered.

Nope. They re amazing. It s just that developers stopped viewing them as a primary control input, and started optimizing for other control schemes at the expense of the joystick and throttle. TIE Fighter and X-Wing offer about as much precision with a stick as with a mouse, and a hell of a lot better maneuverability. It s been ages since I played a twitchy game that was so perfectly tuned for a flight stick, and it s proving to be a revelation.

So you probably want a joystick.

OK, but what joystick should I get.

Good question, and one I m trying to answer for myself.

See, my Saitek X-52 perished after just one afternoon of TIE Fighter. It s about seven years old, so it was probably due for retirement. But that leaves me with a dilemma about what stick I m going to buy to replace it.

If you re just dipping your toe in the water of space sims, and want something that makes you feel like you re Wedge Antilles without breaking the bank, then the answer is pretty straightforward: the Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X. It s a stick that gives you just enough control and versatility to enjoy flight sims and other space games, but it s only about 50. It wouldn t please a serious sim enthusiast, but it s probably the best and most versatile entry-level stick out there. Plus, Thrustmaster have been making these things for ages and their build quality is some of the best around.

Above that level, things get more complicated.

Saitek s replacement for the X-52 model is the X-55 Rhino, and at 200 with a dual-throttle control and an attractive military-style flight stick, it looks like the perfect purchase. The problem is, this stick has also been dogged by complaints about manufacturing quality. Across a number of sites and threads, it looks like a significant portion of X-55s have either been defective or dead-on-arrival.

Since it comes with a warranty, that may not be a deal-breaker. If you have the time, you can pester Saitek / Mad Catz until you get one that performs up to spec.

But based on my own X-52, which always had issues with calibration and a weirdly loose flight-stick, I m not so sure that s good enough. It s certainly not a stick I could ever recommend without a lot of caveats, and the X-55 sounds like it has some of those same issues. The poor build-quality complaints don t inspire much confidence.

The thing is, the king of the flight sticks right now is 450. Thrustmaster s Warthog controller is basically ripped out of an A-10 cockpit and planted on your desktop. I have yet to hear a bad word spoken against this stick but 450. This is a stick you buy if sims are going to be playing a big part in your life. But if you just want to bust some X-Wings, it s overkill.

And if you re a lefty who has trouble with right-handed sticks, Thrustmaster has you covered. But unfortunately, most every throttle-and-stick combination is built for right-handed pilots.

So which version of TIE Fighter and X-Wing should I play.

So, in my original post I was a bit disdainful toward the 1998 versions. But having spent some time with both editions of TIE Fighter, I find myself gravitating towards the 1998 version rather than the original.

It s not just about the graphics, although there s no denying that the old VGA graphics look pretty godawful on a 27 inch 16:9 monitor. I m also having a slight but noticeable framerate hitch playing the 1994 edition. Most of the time it s perfectly smooth, but every thirty seconds or so, there s a jump. It s the pretty annoying in the middle of a tense dogfight, I have to say.

The main issue, however, is that the One True Version of TIE Fighter was the Collector s CD-ROM version that came out a year or so after the original. It offered a much higher resolution, an extra campaign, and a lot of good voice acting for various Imperial officers. The original version, which was published on 3.5 floppy disks, had no such luxuries.

So as things stand now, you face a pretty stark choice between the original version, which has almost no flashy bells-and-whistles whatsoever, or the 1998 edition, which employs a slightly different flight model but also has a lot of the elements that gave TIE Fighter such a distinctive flavor. Since I consider that flavor an indispensable part of TIE Fighter, I m playing the 1998 version.

For X-Wing, those difference are less important, since the X-Wing Collector s Edition was a less impressive package. But that game needs all the help it can get, as I ll explain below.

Should I play TIE Fighter or X-Wing first.

X-Wing really is more like a prototype next to TIE Fighter. The missions design is nowhere near as sophisticated, and there s a bare handful of units next to TIE Fighter. TIE Fighter is the masterpiece, and X-Wing is really just its predecessor. Even if you do think X-Wings and A-Wings are cooler, they just don t star in nearly as good a game.

BUT: you might want to start with X-Wing if you don t have that frame of reference. Going from TIE Fighter to X-Wing is a big comedown, so you might get more use out of these re-releases if you start with X-Wing.

This game seems really complicated. I just want to shoot down enemy spaceships.

It s really not complicated, but the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games definitely come from more of a sim tradition than an arcade tradition.

However, you don t NEED to know all the commands. In fact, there s only a handful you ll need for most of the game.

Targeting is probably the trickiest part of the game, especially as battles get more and more chaotic. Still, these basic commands cover 95 of your needs.

R: target nearest enemy fighter.

U: target newest ship frequently, the new arrivals are important to your mission

At their heart, both X-Wing and TIE Fighter are about energy management. By default, your weapons don t recharge and you can basically run out of power for your lasers. But setting those systems to recharge reduces power to the engine, slowing you down. And in a dogfight, speed is life.

I recommend keeping your power at normal and only recharging when you are safe or you are low on power. Most of the time, you ll want that extra speed.

F9: change weapon recharge rate.

F10: change shield recharge rate.

Enter: Match speed to target critical, especially when engaging slower targets

Your wingmen are terrible. Still, they are good for catching laser shots and keeping the bad guys distracted. Here is what they are best at.

Shift-C: Tell wingman to protect you

Shift-A: Tell wingman to attack current target

Some ships have missile launchers in addition to lasers. You might also want to sacrifice fire-rate for larger salvos of multiple shots at a time.

And that s basically it. Twelve commands and you re mostly ready to do battle.

I feel bad playing the Empire.

Don t. TIE Fighter makes a persuasive case for the Galactic Empire. Yes, they wiped out Alderaan to make a point and to threaten a teenage princess. But under the Rebels governance, the New Republic lost a planet full of people about once every two or three years.

Vader and Tarkin obliterated a planet full of enemies in the face of an existential threat to the Empire.

The New Republic lost cities, planets, and even solar systems the way moms and dads always lose their car keys about five minutes before they have to take the kids to school. Except that every time the New Republic had to deal with responsibilities before it had its morning coffee, a billion people died.

Who, then, is the real monster.

And don t even get me started on the Jedi.

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