How am I supposed to steer the ship?

[MA-SIMON]

I suffered trough all the tutorials and... there HAS to be something wrong with my controls right? Because I can't for the life of me figure out how to quickly turn my ship. Flying a looping is about impossible. What am I missing?

I could not complete the fighting mission because the enemy was everywhere just not in my field of view because I was unable to turn arround. (Only in slowmotion).

Somehow I was also unable to shoot the tanks in the tutorial because: I was too close?
I could only hit them from further away.

[Edelweiss ✿]

you must be pivoting side to side, aircraft/spacecraft dont turn like that, you must roll to the side and pitch up or down

[Madgamer13]

Turning in the game is easier at certain speeds and up and down, instead of side to side. To ensure your ship is at the optimum speed, look to the small bar on the left of the throttle indicator, you turn tightly when your throttle is within that small bar. It is at roughly 50% of your throttle when you have fight assist turned on.

Every ship turns better on the Yaw, which is vertical movement. Pitch movement, or turning to the sides horizontally, always yields diminished turning capacity. Imagine how a plane in atmosphere flies, and you have got it.

None of this applies when you do not have flight assist turned on.

[Steve]

Keeping the throttle in the "blue" zone, will allow you to turn better, also use your thruster. I suggest also reading the game manual, I believe that will help in more ways that this :)

http://hosting.zaonce.net/elite/website/assets/ELITE-DANGEROUS-GAME-MANUAL.pdf

[Purity+Control<]

You don't, silly. You stay still and wait for the solar system to turn around and then only do you move towards your objective.

[FightinWelsh]

remap those damn roll keys from the mouse left/right... its a feckin PITA that way. I did mine to "Q" and "E"

[MA-SIMON]

Much Better! I remapped the rolls to A & B. And the Giering to the X mouse achsis. I also lowered the mouse sensivity a bit. Though, it still feels more like slow aiming then fast paced space fights...

[Agony_Aunt]

And of course, upgrading your ship thrusters can make a massive difference.

[Purity+Control<]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

And of course, upgrading your ship thrusters can make a massive difference.

not really massive, but a difference yes. on the cobra for instance from E to A thrusters you go from 400 to 430 boost speed. I wouldn't call that "massive" performance gain, but there are other factors that make it worth it: heat signature, the damage it can absorb, etc.

[DurtyHarry2029]

personally i like to move my roll to Q and E and my left turn right turn to the mouse side to side(yaw i think) my up and down is mapped to W and S massive difference for me only got like 10 hours in the game so coming from another noob i would try it.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Mr.ExE:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

And of course, upgrading your ship thrusters can make a massive difference.

not really massive, but a difference yes. on the cobra for instance from E to A thrusters you go from 400 to 430 boost speed. I wouldn't call that "massive" performance gain, but there are other factors that make it worth it: heat signature, the damage it can absorb, etc.

That 30km difference could mean the difference between life and death in some situations.

Also, its not just speed, its turn rate. Difference between B and A thrusters on some ships can be quite noticable, never mind between E and A.