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I'm interested to learn what Chris's personal preference is for his hands-on throttle and stick with Star Citizen. Does he prefer pitch and roll on the stick, or pitch and yaw?asked by Herné

TL;DRThe default is pitch and yaw on the stick with roll on pedals, but because of g-force effects on pilots it may change to pitch and roll on the stick with yaw on pedals.

Chris RobertsCEO / Game Director

So that's a pretty good question. Generally in the past in Wing Commander, it's been pretty much a pitch and yaw setup. But I'm playing around with the idea that we have g-forces on pilots in our dogfighting part. And obviously in that case, just as a human being, you can take greater gravity in the vertical than you can eyes out, eyes in, or in the lateral G's. So that's why a modern pilot will roll and then pitch if he wants to. I mean, he could do his rudder and do this, but he'll do that because he can actually do it quicker. So that would probably affect whether it would be pitch and yaw or pitch and roll. Right now the default is pitch and yaw with a roll on the rudder pedals, but that may actually change to be more accurate to a real plane, which would probably be pitch and roll on the joystick and then yaw on the rudder pedals.

Wingman's Hangar›ep048 . December 6, 2013·
Published on this date.6 Dec 2013