Flying the Helicopter with a joystick

[tropic bough]

Pretty decent first time out with these things, I was surprised you even had joystick support enabled.

Only a few issues I noticed from an old joystick flyer's perspective.

All of the controls were in reverse for me except YAW. I had to set pitch up to joystick down, etc etc.

Also I was a bit sad to see no way to bind throttle to analog but once I flew I saw why, you have movement of the Helo bound to throttle....

That's not how it should work, It's more of a momentum thing with pitch and weight when flying a helo.

All in all, I am excited to see how these progress.

Other than that, we will need a freelook option but please also give us like a 8 or 4 way bound movement-look so I could use a hat-switch and not be forced to use a joystick and mouse at same time.

In battlefield more recent titles, I had to edit the config to bind all my hat buttons to freelook so when I hit them it enabled that, but this also unfortunately would suspend movement control. It was very less than ideal.

They are also a bit slow but it's better to start slow an increase little by little then being badass an nerfing them into the ground.

All in all, I would say it was a good first attempt at them and I am sure they will only improve over time.

Thanks,
from an old timer joystick flyer

[simple sapphire]

How did you get BBR to detect your joysticks? seems to no longer detect mine (a while back it woould just bug out when enabled)

[tropic bough]

I have a thrustmaster t-flight hotas x, i just plugged it into USB and it was detected

im also on windows 10

[sand knoll]

Might want to change it from "Helo" to Heli".

[north turtle]

up

[tropic abyss]

Most controls can be inverted in the options.

The controls are BF4 style, and supposed to be easier to fly, so people with keyboards can also use them.

[simple sapphire]

hmm now it seems to be picking um non-existant stick inputs... using Vipril Connie alphas, they are working and zeroed for every game/sim but this one...

[tropic bough]

Flying the Helicopter with a joystick

[graceful cipher]

I can't bind these buttons to joystick at all. It is reading inputs when I am not pressing input, making it impossible to bind. I thought I saw a post on this somewhere as planned for a future update but I'm having no luck using the search feature atm.

I can't bind any keys at all while my stick is plugged in as it automatically replaces any key I try to press.

[lofty gale]

it seems that certain joysticks are recognized and certain ones aren't; my VKB glad's seem to work fine

[frozen orbit]

i can bind it to my thrustmaster joystick but to have it register i have to bring the stick all the way to the left or right.