PC controls are terrible

[Possemaster]

Cannot remap roll to Q and E. This game was created with controller ONLY in mind. Arrow keys to adjust power to engines/shield while using WSAD to control your ship and use your mouse to aim. WTF I am not an octopus. terrible.
Performance is also very very bad. RTX4090 and 3840x1600 (3440x1440 ingame resolution) as the game does NOT support full Ultrawide only 21:9 3440x1440 the rest of the 60% of ultrawide users have bad luck, onlky getting 60-90FPS on Ultra without upscaling. And the game does not even look that great.

[Commander Hitman2b]

Originally posted by Ms. Lazarus:

Originally posted by Veraxus:

To get ultrawide working you have to do a hex edit on the exe to remove the black bars and then add a custom ini to fix the FOV.

Bethesda could have shipped the game with ultrawide support for basically no effort on their part... but they didn't. This game wasn't made for PC. Bethesda doesn't a damn about us as customers.

Puts me at ease seeing PC players refund, Wouldnt wish these trashy forced controls on anyone.

the solution is simple and bethesda could easely fix it

[Black]

I've found a sweet spot with Razer Basilisk V3: while I aim with the mouse and control the ship with WASD, I control the ship systems with the mouse wheel (L/R click of the mouse wheel to move controls left or right, and wheel up/down to set the systems). Also mapped mouse middle button to fire the missiles, Mouse 4 button for healing, and C key for the Camera First Person / Third Person.

The other option is to use ALT+WASD (or map to CTRL/WIN+WASD) or maybe other keys of the keyboard for that (like Z, X, C, V), but it's a bit more messy at least for me. Or using a controller... But I'm much faster and happier with my mouse setup :)

[Zalzany]

Use controler who the hell does any space game with mouse and keyboard? I mean come one that was first thing I did was hook up my xbox controller knowing damn well I fly better with it lol.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by Commander Hitman2b:

Originally posted by Ms. Lazarus:

Puts me at ease seeing PC players refund, Wouldnt wish these trashy forced controls on anyone.

the solution is simple and bethesda could easely fix it

And that is what? The easiest solution is get a game pad lol

[똑똑한]

I think they bound it the way they did because they wanted to keep thrusters locked behind a skill. If A/D did nothing in the intro (ie because many backgrounds wont have the skill for thrusters yet) people would likely assume the game is bugged.

[dot]

Originally posted by Possemaster:

Cannot remap roll to Q and E. This game was created with controller ONLY in mind. Arrow keys to adjust power to engines/shield while using WSAD to control your ship and use your mouse to aim. WTF I am not an octopus. terrible.

The tuto window that appears the first time in orbit tells you to use alt+WSAD to power parts... but really even if you think you lack hands for that, then play elite dangerous or any flight sim...

now the performance could be better, the graphics uncannily remind me to Outer Worlds but running like it was RDR2 all max out in Saint Denis market...

[Commander Hitman2b]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Originally posted by Commander Hitman2b:

the solution is simple and bethesda could easely fix it

And that is what? The easiest solution is get a game pad lol

sorry am playing on PC not on console + i play most my game on KEYBOARD+mouse there only a few games in my list where controller is better such as Dead cell

[unclepuppy]

Btw you can adjust ship power levels with the ZXCV keys which works a lot better than using arrow keys

[ForrestFox]

*meanwhile, me on keyboard/mouse is blasting every ship to bits without any problems while not doing any roll*

[AoD_lexandro]

Originally posted by ForrestFox:

*meanwhile, me on keyboard/mouse is blasting every ship to bits without any problems while not doing any roll*

Good for your. The rest of use with piloting skills hate the friking controls. Mouse flight is and always has been garbage.

[Sharkon]

everything is fine until there is some action going on. I would rather have turn based combat than halfassed shooter gameplay and very basic space dogfighting but oh well. it was fine in Fallout with the vats system at least but it's not there in Starfield.

yes you get some "powers" later on and a targeting skill with slowmotion for the ship but game got it's strenghts elsewhere and that's all the stories told in the world and that's the stuff that still got me hooked.

[Lackadaisy]

You can tell this game was built as a console game and then ported to PC. Other games like Sea of Thieves suffer from this too. Terrible XBox port when it comes to controls.

[Lackadaisy]

Originally posted by Hal:

As a controller enjoyer. I do not care.

Sure cared enough to comment on something you don't care about.

[brownie689]

I've put 10 hours in this game and didn't even know it has a roll mechanic. Probably because I've never even thought that I need to roll. The enemies are braindead and just stand out in the open while I shoot their bullet sponge faces until they die.

[StingingVelvet]

Hold ALT and use WASD to change power settings. Works a treat. I have no real issue with the controls other than having to hold keys instead of press them sometimes.