Update broke keyboard and mouse aircraft controls

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders Lite:

I think this update broke keyboard and mouse aircraft controls. Can no longer roll or adjust throttle... Ground vehicles still work.

Gonna tinker with settings to see if maybe I need to do that though.

Ok, so I played with settings and it's definitely bugged but *can* be worked around if you have a full keyboard.

With virtual joystick set to off, you can control aircraft with wasd.

With virtual joystick set to either roll/pitch or yaw/pitch the tooltip in the bottom left will say something like "Pitch W/S" but that does nothing. The flight controls move to the arrow keys instead. If your keyboard doesn't have arrow keys, I guess you're SOL.

[Antiker @ Götterkomplex]

If i put the Joystick on "offset" i still cant move the aircrafts ... wtf is this ?!

[Farsky]

Aircraft is unplayable at the moment

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

Found a decent workaround.

Go to Options.
Keyboard.

Rebind 'Look left/right/up/down' to wasd.

You want to leave wasd double bound to walk left/right/up/down as well.

It's possible that this might cause a problem somewhere else in the game, but with a quick test, I didn't find any issues.

[Traslo]

Seems to only be temp fixes, quite a weird bug to make it into an update. Needs fixed asap

[Destrokin]

agreed very unplayable rn since my main way of removing enemies from an island is helicopter and gun

[Wales Grey]

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders Lite:

Found a decent workaround.

Go to Options.
Keyboard.

Rebind 'Look left/right/up/down' to wasd.

You want to leave wasd double bound to walk left/right/up/down as well.

It's possible that this might cause a problem somewhere else in the game, but with a quick test, I didn't find any issues.

this works

[GreenChaos]

The panic of not being able to increase collective in razorback was a nice feature, and the rebinding of look to wasd works well so thanks for that solution was trying all types of things till I checked forums.

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

Originally posted by Wales Grey:

this works

Originally posted by GreenChaos:

the rebinding of look to wasd works well so thanks for that solution

I have been playing this some tonight and did find an issue with this workaround. If you have the controls rebound in this way and you're using a map screen, W and S zoom the map in and out instead of the expected pan north and south.

Personally, I *mostly* click and drag to pan the map but in the specific situation where I'm trying to drag a waypoint and I want to pan the map north/south, that has to be done with the keyboard. Not the biggest hurdle to overcome but it is an inconvenience.

[E4GLEyE]

First I noticed this on the Steam Deck, the collective went from right to left stick, and on PC I managed to test how good a submarine Helos can be... thank you for the idea! Gonna apply it, big F for QA for letting this through lol. (if there is a QA behind this game)

[MacMuffin]

was extremely frustrating trying to fly when you cant even increase throttle or turn around!

[Golf Golfer]

Thank you for the workaround. Truly remarkable that this wasn't noticed before release. Even worse so if they did notice and went ahead with the update.

[Scythan]

@Colonel Sanders Lite I wanted to DM you when I saw your comment on the official update thread, should have figured out you'd post here. You and I seem to be the ones this drives the most crazy! I was happy to see your solution but shocked that the developers let this one past QC. Even more shocked that they haven't put out a fast-fix or even communication regarding the issue.

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

Originally posted by Scythan:

I was happy to see your solution but shocked that the developers let this one past QC. Even more shocked that they haven't put out a fast-fix or even communication regarding the issue.

To be totally honest with you, I'm not really sure they have much, if anything, in the way of QC going on. There are honestly quite a few bugs. Their QC is either overworked, simply ignored, non-existent, or grossly incompetent. And this is coming from someone that really likes the game. I just wish they would sort out a few of their internal problems.

[Scythan]

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders Lite:

Originally posted by Scythan:

I was happy to see your solution but shocked that the developers let this one past QC. Even more shocked that they haven't put out a fast-fix or even communication regarding the issue.

To be totally honest with you, I'm not really sure they have much, if anything, in the way of QC going on. There are honestly quite a few bugs. Their QC is either overworked, simply ignored, non-existent, or grossly incompetent. And this is coming from someone that really likes the game. I just wish they would sort out a few of their internal problems.

I am the same way, this is my 'chill out from work' game and I was also a big fan of Gaia Mission -- but this seems more full-featured and polished somehow. This is the first bug that rises to the level of 'game breaking' in my humble opinion but boy howdy is it.

I also use the Albatross-as-AWACS-with-UI Enhancer mod and that breaks the new gun turret, not that I could fly an aircraft (I prefer keyboard of course, hence this bug's annoyance) anyway.

All I can do is sit and wait for a patch.

[Golf Golfer]

Originally posted by Scythan:

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders Lite:

To be totally honest with you, I'm not really sure they have much, if anything, in the way of QC going on. There are honestly quite a few bugs. Their QC is either overworked, simply ignored, non-existent, or grossly incompetent. And this is coming from someone that really likes the game. I just wish they would sort out a few of their internal problems.

I am the same way, this is my 'chill out from work' game and I was also a big fan of Gaia Mission -- but this seems more full-featured and polished somehow. This is the first bug that rises to the level of 'game breaking' in my humble opinion but boy howdy is it.

I also use the Albatross-as-AWACS-with-UI Enhancer mod and that breaks the new gun turret, not that I could fly an aircraft (I prefer keyboard of course, hence this bug's annoyance) anyway.

All I can do is sit and wait for a patch.

Omg I was wondering what was causing me to have that bugged. I looked at all the islands and couldn't figure out why I couldn't find the gimballed turret. Thank you for this!