What controller setup are you guys going to be using for Squadron 42 and, when it's released, the PU? Gamepad, HOTAS, keyboard and mouse?
TL;DRThe hosts name varied personal preferences: gamepad for one, HOTAS for flying plus gamepad for walking for another, and a mix of mouse, keyboard and gamepad for a third, welcoming controller-agnostic support.
I'm a gamepad guy, personally. I've spent so many years as a console fan that now I've just become used to it.
I'll always fly with the HOTAS, but I do like the gamepad for walking around.
Yeah, that's the thing. I'm personally annoyed by having to switch. It's just a personal thing. So I tend to gravitate towards a gamepad because it can be used for everything. And I don't talk to people online, so I don't need the keyboard. But yeah, you're a big HOTAS guy. We do our Wing Commander streams. He sits there, he goes, all right, test this before we're doing it. He does the keyboard, and he destroys everything on the keyboard. He just runs through the levels. He goes, all right, now bring me my joystick. He's absolutely capable of annihilating the game on the keyboard alone, but he's always like, no, bring me the joystick. And then we couldn't get that joystick working. I'm like, well, you just used the keyboard. No, I need a joystick. And we had to go get another joystick. Ben's big on the joysticks.
Ideally, I would have an original Thrustmaster F-22 and a TQS and rudder pedals.
Well, the cool thing about the gamepad, at least for me, with the social aspects of the game, is the variable movement with the thumbsticks. So you can walk really slow and then speed up. And so I like that. Mostly probably mouse and keyboard plus gamepad for me, swapping between the two.
That's one of the things I like most about this, our efforts towards being controller agnostic.
No wrong answer.