Can you share some details on how you came to the current balance between mouse and other controls?Like what does the team believe are the current pros and cons between the control schemes?Is there perhaps something that the general user base has missed?asked by Blaznee
TL;DRThe team has no single preferred control scheme and isn't happy with mouse control yet; they're improving joystick/HOTAS and possibly decoupling mouse look from movement so no scheme dominates.
Well, see this goes to the conversation and debate about the control schemes, which I think I was mentioning on a previous question.Like I said, everyone here flies on a whole bunch of different set-ups. Some people fly on keyboard and mouse, some people fly on HOTAS, some people fly on gamepad, some people fly on joystick. So there isn't any one, it's not like everyone says "this one control method is the best." Like I said, I myself don't like flying mouse at all, but some other people do like playing mouse. I guess it falls into are you a Freelancer player or a Wing Commander player? But we're still wanting to refine it.We're not happy with the mouse control, I don't actually like the fact that you sort of fly and look at the same time, but we do recognize that on small precision stuff, having the mouse is easier for some of the gimbaling weapons. So we're trying to balance it.We've got, like I said on the previous question, there's some stuff that's gonna come online for the joystick and HOTAS that will make that better for that side of it. Then there's also some stuff that we'll do on the mouse side that will maybe decouple the movement from the look.But it's still early days, we're still working on it, we're still thinking about different ways of doing it. That's kind of why I wanted to get it out there, to feel what worked and what didn't work for people.I know there are always camps, right. There's the keyboard & mouse FPS crowd verses the old school "get off my lawn, I've got a joystick and I've been playing that game since 1980" crowd, which would be pretty much me.But my goal is to balance it in a way that you have advantages with any one of the control interfaces so there won't be one that will be dominant. Anyway, we're not quite there yet, but we're definitely working on it.