Question about PC touch screen support (not tablet).With PC OS such as Win8 now natively supporting touchscreen, has there been any thought put towards allowing this same support in Star Citizen directly?asked by Commander Keen
TL;DRChris Roberts says there's no touch screen support for PC yet, it's not a focus and a low priority, and might be explored later after the game is finished.
No, not yet. It would probably be something that we would consider, although everyone hates Windows 8 here.We're mostly developing on Windows 7.I have it on a few of my laptops, it's kind of cool to scroll around, but most of the things that have the touch screen don't usually have the... They're the small sort of tablet like or netbook like computers, which don't have the computing power to do Star Citizen.So that's not necessarily a focus of ours, I'm not saying that we wouldn't potentially do some exploration in support of it down the road, but I would say that would be a later task. I mean already the game's got a huge amount of stuff to get done, and there are so many features to do, that would be one of the less critical ones, and would probably fall to once the game has finished. Maybe we'll take a look at it, and who knows, Windows 9 could be much better. It's always the odd ones that are the good Windows and the even ones suck, so we'll see.