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9:20 So that's telling you that you have an incoming message, turn the knob to line up the indicator with the blinking light, and you send/receive messages with the red buttons at the top. Certain missions will require you to receive and acknowledge orders from command before you can complete the objective .
turning the dedicated "comms" knob in a lockpicking minigame to acknowledge your orders lol
Always thought this game looked cool, but never owned an original Xbox and was a broke teenager who couldn't drop that amount of money on one game. A local game store actually had it in a display case and it'd be worth much more today
It's so ludicrous that this is a flight sim tier controller meant for one game. In a good way, wish big gaming companies had this kind of creativity today.