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Hate driver slot, because tapping is bad at lower speeds? Have a joystick? Try this.

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If you don't have racing pedals/wheel, but you have some other form of analog control, like a joystick throttle, you can achieve smooth driving/speed dynamics at lower speeds as explained in the video.

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Part of the solution would be to have semi-manual gears...

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I use G27 and the pedals. But I find many vehicles, especially tracked vehicles, are quite buggy when trying to drive slowly. Some appear to have a kind of minimum speed of approx 15 kph and are difficult to hold at low values. Others vehicles seem to have this weird cruise control affect where when you get above, say, 19kph they seem to keep going by themselves. It works perfectly for me in Arma2 and is very useful when creeping through a town supporting infantry.

I must test out that A3 APC in your vid and see if I can drive it smoothly with my pedals.

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That is interesting -=seany=-. I thought there was a pretty good pedal support in this game. One thing that is really good with the joystick throttle is that unlike some other forms of analog control, you can have it "locked" in a specific position and therefore keep the specific speed.

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I went into the G27 Controllers configuration section in Arma3 and found that there was a small dead zone set for the accelerator and brake. I also reduced the "sensitivity" to 0 for the Accelerator and Brake. The sensitivity setting seemed to make the biggest difference and I can now drive that APC(Marshall) at 4kph. 0-4kph is still quite buggy though, it needs fixing by bis I think. Tanks are a bit better too, but again, the Slammer for example is very hard to drive at slower than 15 kph, the minimum I could do was 5-6 and that was very hard. It seems to keep wanting to run away after a certain percentage of throttle. And again, 0-5 kph is really unnatural and jerky, like a big hole in the Physx engine where it doest know what to do!

How is the Slammer for you? Also, how is reversing vehicles slowly for you?

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Thats great to hear. For some joystick the dead zones have to be checked (basically people need to make sure that the engine turns on immediately, not at 50% in or something like that. Ya Slammer is basically like you described it. The arma 2 M1A1 and the other armor behave nicer at lower speeds. but the slammer doesn't. With the joystick I only use the axis for forward movement, for reversing or braking I can just simply hit S on the keyboard.

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