Some questions.

[Megatherion]

I am trying to play this with a Saitek X-55 HOTAS joystick / throttle. The plane flys fine, but I can't seem to map the trigger to make the weapons fire. In the first launcher / config window; under inputs; there are sooooo many axes and other inputs to try to set, it makes no sense and I am still not able to map anything to make the weapons fire with the trigger on the stick. First, there are joystick 1-10 analog 0-19 inputs; why soooo many? the plane only needs horizontal and vertical axes to control the flight. When I do assign fire weapons to the trigger (shows up as joystick 2 button 0), in game it still does not fire the weapons. Please include full joystick support or inform me what I need to do to make it work properly. It is much better to use a real joystick / HOTAS setup compared to an Xbox 360 or PS3 controller in any flight game / sim ...
Way more precise and just a better flying experience in my opinion.

Also, how are you supposed to exit the game? In the main menu, there is no exit / quit... option anywhere and ESC on the keyboard does nothing; I have to alt-tab out of the game and close it down either through Windows Task Manager or just click on the X in the Sky Battles application window. Any help, especially from the developers, would be greatly appreciated.


My suggestion to properly map any axis / button / keystroke to this game is; since there are a fairly low number of commands; make a mapping app that goes through all of the commands and requests / scans for the desired input. eg: press axis for turning right (then push right on the joystick axis), press axis to climb (pull down on the joystick), press button to fire primary weapon (press trigger), press axis / button to roll right (press a button or axis or keystroke to roll right) and so on.

Please inform me if this will / could be added, or if you (the developers) are not going to include complete joystick support for this game.