No Joystick Settings ?!

[[*~MAJA~*] Mandragoron]

A Space Game without Joystick options... cant believe it -.- ok so refund

[Yew™]

You could map the controls to a joystick manually, but I wouldn't recommend it, since the game plays on a 2d plane. Your ship doesn't actually go up or down. But you hardly notice it once you get into the game .

[Daegan Jukes]

its not such a foreign concept when you realize the game is built for console game pad controllers. it even has the option to use dual shock art in the settings prompt when launching.

[Zidders 'Rockin' Bard' Roofurry]

If you mean flight sticks those haven't been used in games since the late 90's. If you mean controller options you can dig around in your settings file and remap it that way. That said the controls as is have been optimized for the game as they're the preferred way of playing it. I don't know why you'd need to remap them.

[Berserk Slayer]

While I agree joystick controls are normal to have in space games, and many of us wouldn't play Elite, Freespace etc without one, the gameplay in this doesn't require it and might even make for a little frustration. This has more in common with naval combat games than a flight/space sim, my stick/throttle sit idle while I play this on a keyboard even though it could probably be made to work with one (it at least has xinput for the controller support).

[Reytholian]

At least the GOG version allows the use of Dualshock 4 button artwork.

[Reaver]

Thrustmaster T16000m fcs, to the console crowd who say no one uses a joystick since 1990's. True that very few console games support a joystick, but that's a console weak point, not a trend it space flight games. T16000m joystick is new, inexpensive, best joystick ever. And just because the Devs don't think it would work with a turret based spaceship combat, doesn't make it so. I used a joystick and mouse at the same time in Freelancer. Won that space race in a freighter when the game tried to force me to leave it behind! No joystick, no space flight game.

And while I would go back and replay Freelancer again, I can't seem to enjoy this game. Maybe joystick support would fix that. I mean, would you fly in a jetliner if you knew the pilot was using a gamepad to fly? Or worse yet, a mouse?!!

[Mournsorrow]

Originally posted by Rolland:

I mean, would you fly in a jetliner if you knew the pilot was using a gamepad to fly? Or worse yet, a mouse?!!

Depends is said Jetliner on a fixed 2-d plane that doesn't require up and down navigation? Also how well are said controller and mouse mapped to both the movement and in general controls of said jetliner? Cause if properly set up I think it would be fine and would gladly do so, assuming said pilot was competent in said type of control use.

However on the main point of this thread...as others have pointed out you can map your own controls via steam assuming steam acknowledges your Stick & Throttle based joystick as a controller and just set it up with the game controls (probably using a M&KB scheme or a controller scheme if you could pull it off). Honestly not sure how effective/fun it would be over all since combat is less get tone lock and fire and more of a chargin up my attack sort of thing, though I do think the throttle control would pair nicely with being able to pull off quick turns.

[Captain Cosmo]

It's sad that you refunded over a non-issue. I've had this game since release and it's been nothing but controller run. You were doing something wrong. You should have had more mental maturity than 9 year old, you could have been helped.