Driving: Tank, Arcade or FPS?

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by RunawayEngineer

My personal favorite way to drive a tank drivetrain is to use 2 single axis joysticks for tank drive control scheme. The removal of the degrees of freedom of the joysticks allows you way better feedback and control. This is because if you are off straight on a double-axis joystick, your hands will feel a different travel distance than the controls are being sent.

While that may be in improvement over two 2-axis joysticks, it still doesn't deal with the difference in dexterity between the driver's two hands. They will almost always have better dexterity with one hand than the other, and a single joystick will allow them to put that dexterity to use, instead of being dragged down by their less-dominant hand's performance.

Two-stick tank drive is like drawing with an etch-a-sketch and single-stick arcade is like drawing with a pencil; yeah, the etch-a-sketch can sometimes make a good approximation of a pencil drawing, but it's never going to be quite as good.