HOTAS support

[HammerTyme]

I know Nate had mentioned this would likely be coming after 1.0. (or maybe it was Dakota who said that? I don’t recall) but I really hope it’s much sooner than that.  Being able to use a joystick, or a gamepad with sticks to have smoother precise control while flying would make this game soooooo much better. Flying a plane using keys on a keyboard feels very awkward to me. 
 

This would make wobbly rockets much less wobbly as well. Currently when you are controlling your rocket you are pressing the WASD keys on your keyboard. Which is basically like going from 0% input to 100% input. That sudden change in motion certainly causes a lot of wobble on your rocket.  Using a gamepad or a joystick to be able to slowly ease into a turn would be much smoother and rockets wouldn’t wobble as much. Plus it would be more realistic rather than the sudden jolts of movement tapping the keys on the keyboard. 
 

I understand the devs have other priorities like bugs and performance and other things they are working on.. but being that this is a game about flying planes and rockets, having the best options for flight movement should be a higher priority than where it currently is imo.    So please devs… please implement this into the game sooner rather than later.  I love this game and im having a blast playing it.  But I really wish I could have smoother controls. 

[Capt. Hunt]

Same here,

I'm so used to flying KSP1 and other games with HOTAS that it just doesn't feel right to play with WASD.

[Turbo Ben]

I had some joystick functionality (pitch and roll) until patch 3 removed it.  I can't bring myself to go back to keyboard control, so it's back to KSP 1 for me. Hopefully we'll get HOTAS support before 1.0 but at the moment I'm not convinced we'll even make it that far.

[Sovetskysoyuz]

On 6/24/2023 at 1:41 PM, HammerTyme said:

I know Nate had mentioned this would likely be coming after 1.0. (or maybe it was Dakota who said that? I don’t recall)

It was Ghostii, on the Discord in late April.

 

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@Ghostii Can I ask you a question? Ok great. Here’s my question… does gamepad and joystick support get brought up in your meetings sometimes? I would Looooooooove to have that in game soon

yes it does! Nate is actually a huge fan of HOTAS, so it is something we talk about occasionally. I think it be after 1.0 though so that the majority of the issues are ironed out

 

Edited July 9, 2023 by Sovetskysoyuz
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