IL-2 Sturmovik HOTAS Keybinds For Dummies 

You had me at "welcome back phukers"...

I've had IL2 for over a year and never took to the time to figure this stuff out so i stuck to DCS. thank you for this, feels like i can finally jump in.

This video helped out a lot. I needed a video that was a little more in-depth like DCS World but not 30+ minutes long and going thru EVERY single command when some are useless. Thank you !!

This was brilliant, GrowlingSidewinder has me looking at IL-2 Sturmovik and your tutorial helps a LOT. Awesome way to help us.

We're on the same sine wave. When I got liberation your vids were there exactly on time. I decided to get back into IL-2 after a two year break and realized I forgot how to set it up again this video was there. Coming from DCS what I wish IL2 had was modifiers. I have two buttons right at my thumb on the throttle I use as modifiers in DCS which can turn a single hat into three. IL2 especially for VR is a nightmare trying to bind everything functional and avoiding the keyboard. With my setup I don't think it's even possible.

Thanks for the video. Just getting back into this game and this was helpful. They have added so much content since I last played that I am waiting for the dlc to go on sale again. Would really love to see the Pacific Theater in this game.

Thanks Torny, this games always throws me around everytime I come back to it. Hopefully the custom binds that are supposed to come makes this better. We can only hope 😄

Nice vid, helped me alot. Setting up the controls are usually a litte wall I need to get through to enjoy these games. Thx for this :)

Thank you!!! Extremely helpful and straight to the point. Cheers!

Dude, thanks for this! Made life a lot easier setting up. Cheers!

I'm new to flight sims, with particular focus on WW II. Definitely more informed now, compared to before watching your vid. Thank you m8!

"WELCOME BACK, FUCKERS" So bold, also thanks for the tutorial lol

This game really needs a feature that automatically highlights your keybind when you press the button on your hotas. It's impossible to know wtf joy0 button 8 is by memory. Can't believe they haven't added this yet.

Brilliant video! Just what I needed to get sorted in the game. If it wasn't for your vid, I'd be a basket case by now... Thanks a bunch!

Great sim but setting up controls is not easy for beginners, so your guide is much appreciated. Thank you.

Awesome video Torniquet, helpful as always. Fridge

fkn BRILLIANT ty so much friend ... .i bought ace combat7 and found out i have a love for combat flight sims....and now here i am lol months later...in 6 more months ill prob have a $500 set up maybe hopefully or not

You ever considered doing a similar video to this but explaining each plane's peculiarities?

Thanks. Very helpful

oh mate thanks alot , i suppose you know how frustrating working out the meaning of everything, this helps alot!!!!

Thank you for your time, great video mate! I was in a fence for a refund. Coming from DCS, flying in VR and having to reach the keyboard (no clickable cockpit either!) is a pain. If you say this game is worth it, I’ll stay :)

This keyboard binding experience seems SHOCKINGLY bad. My flying buddies (on DCS) talked me into picking this up for some relaxed flying when compared to DCS. I wasn't prepared for the keybind fiasco that is IL-2. Having said that, THANK YOU for taking the time to net out what's needed - especially relating it to the Warthog. While I don't have a warthog HOTAS, your usage of DMS/CMS/BOAT etc. helps me visualize the process. Is there a way to associate modifier keys with the joystick commands like we can in DCS? I have modifier keys on my HOTAS because I don't have enough buttons. Based on what I've seen, I think the answer in NO.

Where do i close the cockpit again? I do not know how, and i'm hoping you can help me with that.

Many thanks, I was flying without trim

On my X56 il2 picks it up as cursor left and right for the yaw and do you make it a axis.

Complete newb to IL-2 and flight sims in general, but LONG time space sim player. First thing I do in any game with a buttload of keybinds is create a profile "freshstart" or something similar that makes all the basic changes to the default settings before going in and tweaking. In the case of your example, I started by deleting everything in the mouse and joystick columns before creating freshstart and then started tweaking re your guide. This is so if I get to a point where something is phuked (lol) and I can't find it, I can revert to this and star over without having to get the controls back to a starting point again. VERY glad I found this guide, btw and thanks. I was ready to find someone on one of the IL2 discords and offer to venmo them to hold my dumbass hand! I still might...

Ty so much

Thanks!

Great and helpful video, thank you for your time and all of the effort what you spent on it.

I'm looking forward to playing IL2 and I appreciate some of the pitfalls I'll be encountering setting up the game. Could you recommend a Rig that will handle IL2 and DCS without glitches. Thanks good video

Looking for a little help on this issue I've got, so ran through the set up and every time I go to move off the aircraft pulls to the right when taxiing and it has a tendency to pull right slightly in the air too. I know my kit is fine in terms of calibration as I don't experience this issue in DCS but for whatever reason IL-2 doesn't want to play fair on this one. I'm running a TM Warthog HOTAS and TM Pedals. Part of me is wondering if I've not set something quite right on the pedals but I'm at a bit of a loss to be honest.

I was having a hell of a time setting my radiators, watched this, went into settings and had to barely move the switch for it it register, then barely the other way(boat switch on TM Warthog throttle) I was doing it to slow to get it to register open/close

One thing I've noticed about IL-2 keybinds that I haven't noticed anywhere else is that there seems to be a couple of seconds before the game registers the button/axis/whatever you want to set. For instance, if I want to set pitch, normally I'd click on the binding to set, then pull backward and push forwards. I noticed that it doesn't see the backward but it does the forward. It does this with just about anything that has a positive and negative setting. To get around this, I found that clicking on the keybind to set it, and waiting a couple of seconds after the input window comes up before moving anything works. If I do that in the above-mentioned example, it sees movements as I intend to use them. Weird...

DCS is so much easier !the only keybinds in il-2 that are the same are the obvious ones pitch ,roll ,rudder and throttle

hello, great video. ¿What tracker do you use?

Thx.

thanks!

...or just dump this shit and go back to DCS! :D Thanks mate, you really helped me out with these bloody settings!

Why don’t you just unlock your 2 throttles on the Warthog and use your right throttle to control the throttle and use your left throttle to control mixture?

Is it possible to just use TrackIR to do the zooming instead of the hotas? So moving your head forward would zoom in.

You spoke about the camera zoom which is usually bound to the slider on the warthog throttle. I’ve never been able to get it to work in either this game or DCS, any idea why? Is it supposed to zoom inside the cockpit or outside as well? Excuse my ignorance but I’m new to flight sim

im about to buy this game since im getting really tired of predatory developer tactics in Warthunder and since DSC seems way too expensive(and complicated) this guide really helps since i just want a "realistic casual" experience, thanks a lot!

For some reason I can’t get my hotus to be recognized … when trying to bind and the joystick icon is white meaning it recognizes a stick…. Need some help

Can you do a keyboarding for mouse players? I don't have a joystick.

What version of IL2 is this ? I play older version and dont see anything like this.

i can't get my radiators to work in game even after turning on manual control, the mappings read my virpil knobs but in game nothings happens i cant figure out why

Cant get my pilot view to be center of the seat, my view is ace ventura style from the cockpit, ive set up my vr properly, works fine in other games, but i cannot for life of me get the view center for il2..

Jesus, I could not figure out why my trims weren't working for the life of me. Seems like such a simple thing. Nice video, mate. Thanks!

what's the control for sirens on ju 87?

They seem to have made this game as obtuse as possible. getting planes trimmed so they don't just want to roll over left all the time has probably put more people off than the complexity of DCS ever did.

I’m moving my joystick but nothings assigning

Lol welcome back f***ers. Hilarious.

What joystick did you use for this video?

I do left and right it says axis X Instesd of Z

I much prefer the DCS way of binding stuff. In almost all aspects. But even in basic ones... IL doesn't see my joystick base. I mean, really?

This game is absolutely infuriating me. I set an axis up, it start’s inverted, i press invert, it inverts, i then leave the menu, the axis inverts the inverted control and makes it go the opposite direction.

i come from dcs and consider myself a dummy. So here I am. 12$ for deluxe right now.

I can't believe this game has no custom profiles you can save within the game. I am so done with this garbage. With so many aircrafts, a single keybinding for all is inexcusable. If they want people to adopt the game, buy more planes, etc., it is completely counter-productive to make their life miserable when switching planes because they can't make the most of their controllers. This is a known issue that people have requested since 2017 and they don't care. They keep pumping out new planes though, like every other flight sim company. DCS world's input mapping is like a work of art compared to this, how are they not embarrassed at this? This is the kind of setup I would expect in a flight simulator from the early 2000's, not on a modern game.