Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Here battles rage, governments fall, and humanity’s frontier expands – and you can impact it all. Welcome to the definitive massively multiplayer space epic. Elite Dangerous allows you to use dual key combos to perform tasks so instead of being limited to 12 buttons, you can change a 12 button stick easily into a 22 button stick, and that is by only designating 1 key as a designated /shift/ key. Assigning two keys as shift keys allows you 30 key combos. Testing the Joystick in Elite Dangerous. After setting up and calibrating your joystick for Elite Dangerous, it’s time to put it to the test and see how well it performs in the game. Testing the joystick will allow you to ensure that all the controls are functioning correctly and that you have a smooth and immersive gaming experience. 4. Thrustmaster VG T16000 View. 5. Thrustmaster. T.Flight HOTAS X. Check Price. Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X (Image credit: Rich Edmonds / Windows Central) Mouse and keyboard is the preference A lot of players swear by HOSAS (what you call dual stick, Hands on Stick and Stick); each has advantages and disadvantages. In my setup, the throttle has a control stick like you’d find on an Xbox controller, so I can control vertical/ lateral thrusters with that, then use pitch/ yaw/ roll on the stick… so all axes covered (using the Change mode small left thumb button on top. Up on top pad is select target ahead. Right on top pad is select target firing at me. Down on top pad is clear targets. Left on top pad is cycle targets. Deploy hardpoints is large right thumb button on top. Enter supercruise is small right button on top. Hope this helps! What you want is a HOSAS setup (dual joystick), and for 100$ you wont be able to afford ONE recommended joystick. You can get a cheap set of T16000 (aptly called T16000 duo) for about 130, but they are known to have issues and require a bit of work to make them work well for long. You may want a HOTAS setup too. If Elite is reconizing your joystick I believe the game has a default setup for that joystick. And you can at least make your own costumize setup for it, in options/controls here you can setup all activities for both you joystick as well as the Keyboard/mouse and your 360 controller if you wish just make sure they are all plucked in before starting the game Plug & Play for ultra-simple and fast installation. Weighted base for greater stability. $96.03. VIEW AMAZON. Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X is the best HOTAS for elite dangerous. Foremost, it comes with plug & play for simple installations and easy-to-use functions that eliminate the need for technical configurations. The result is : when you move forward just a bit your joystick, nothing happen even if you have dead zone setup at 0%. You have to really move forward your joystick to get the action without any slow curve. In the end, it is unplayable because every axis is too sensitive, in particular for roll and yaw. HBWXH.