Joystick - frequent button presses causes movement/throttle issues

[remote hound]

This may be an issue specific to my joystick/brand (VKB Gladiator), but when I frequently press a button my throttle drops to 0 and my ship flies down and to the left. This lasts less than a second and then my throttle goes back up and my movement centers.

This only happens with the stars of icarus playtest. I checked a different game (nuclear option) and an HTML Joystick tester and did not experience the same issue.

Here is a streamable video of me frequently pressing the fire and alternate fire buttons:
https://streamable.com/xmp2iw

[remote hound]

I woke up and had a theory on this. I removed all controller keybinds and that did not resolve the issue. I removed all keyboard keybinds (except ESC for menu) and when I spawn in game I just kind of float there, unable to move:

Reset keyboard keybinds and it fixed the above floating issue.

I tried resetting my joystick keybinds and re-did them all manually and this did not solve my original frequent button presses issue.

When setting keybinds, if I press my trigger it shows "trigger" and then switches it to Stick/X. Maybe this is the issue? Here is a video of it:
https://streamable.com/tge62a

Note: I don't have this issue in other games (nuclear option, dcs, elite dangerous, etc.). Lemme see if I kind find another Unity game with Joystick support to test this with as well...

EDIT: Nuclear Option is unity engine, duh -____- https://steamdb.info/app/2168680/

[fickle wagon]

Thanks so much for reporting this!
I've logged it for us to look at

[remote hound]

Dug into this further in the VKB Controllers Discord. Apparently this is a common problem with the Unity engine and how it supports Joysticks?

A major thing (for me at least): Although Nuclear Option is a unity engine game they use their own custom system for joysticks. So if I (or anyone else) says 'well it works in Nuclear Option and that's unity engine', it is but it isn't.

I'm gonna try unplugging as many USB devices as I can and see if that fixes it (I have like a Elgato Stream Deck, webcam, etc. plugged in. I specifically made sure I had no other controllers plugged in).

!!! apparently, use rewired?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1g4szsh/im_the_most_stumped_ive_ever_been_in_10_years_of/

[sharp quarry]

I also have vkb joysticks and was getting a lot of similar issues to the above