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Will we see more co-pilot interactions that will assist the pilot?

TL;DRMixed flight controls between pilot and co-pilot are unlikely, but a planned controller change should let weapons like a Cutlass Black's forward gimbals be handed to another seat.

Yogi KlattPrincipal Vehicle Programmer

It depends what co-pilot actions are. If you think about one person takes the stick and the other one the rudders or something like that, then not, because we usually only have one dominant seat that flies the ship. However, we're currently looking into, or will be looking into, changes to the controller system soon so that you can freely distribute what kind of weapon goes to what seat and all that. So you can basically distribute what item you want to control and you can hand off. For example, in a Cutlass Black, you can hand off the forward-facing gimbals to your co-pilot behind you, and they can use it then. So stuff like that. But not mixing flight controls; that would be too hard to achieve.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

It's not like that Millennium Falcon ride, where one person controls the pitch and the other person controls the yaw.

Yogi KlattPrincipal Vehicle Programmer

That has strong, strong network issues that I don't want to resolve.

Star Citizen Live›Ask the Devs - FPS and Flight Teams·
Published on this date.17 Nov 2023