Helicopter controls

[WingZero]

so i gave helicopter training a shot and the pitch/yaw etc is tied to my mouse controls.
i looked at the controls settings in the options menu and there's only really an option for 1 input for the pitch and 1 for the yaw controls.
any way i can set this up to be more like battlefield using WASD for lift etc and the arrow keys for the pitch?
or even a way to set my 360 controller up to do this?
when i rebound it to arrow keys i could only pitch forward so that wasn't very helpful

[Buflak]

You can with some .ini editing. Both joystick and mouse can be used.
http://forums.joinsquad.com/topic/37502-get-your-helicopter-control-binds-here/

[WingZero]

changed the controls to somebody else's classic battlefield setup lower in that thread, increased the sensitivity of the A and D a bit and instantly flew like a pro! :D
thanks!

[:partyhat:]

This would be a seemingly simple but huge fix for the next update. Coming from RS2 and very comfortable flying helis there, however in Squad it's so frustrating not being able to bind pitch UP AND DOWN INDIVIDUALLY, same thing for ROLL LEFT / RIGHT. Not to mention no heli specific sens. settings.
The default controls using the mouse are simply not it, chief.

[WingZero]

yeah, hence why i went the troublesome route to fix it in the files :) worked like a charm

[bllx [S.O.]]

What I really want for my joystick is the hat switch to work, so you can look around.

[WingZero]

you might be able to do that if you change the file settings, but i'm not sure '^^

[Ahroovi]

They need to do several things. NEED. One, fix the damn ini so it doesn't list three pitch settings in a row without labeling them as up/down/etc. Two, just let us rebind all the controls to what we want.
I can get around a horrible flight model if I can use the controls I want, but with these controls, not even trying anymore. I did the editing which took forever to get the controls I wanted, but then clearing the user data thing each update to be sure the game runs properly with no bugs just resets it.
The helicopters have been out for a while now, and people keep asking for the controls to change but they just ignore us. Inexcusable. It's doable in the ini so it can be done ingame. As the games settings just change said ini file.

[TERMINATOR-SSD]

Originally posted by Ahroovi:

They need to do several things. NEED. One, fix the damn ini so it doesn't list three pitch settings in a row without labeling them as up/down/etc. Two, just let us rebind all the controls to what we want.
I can get around a horrible flight model if I can use the controls I want, but with these controls, not even trying anymore. I did the editing which took forever to get the controls I wanted, but then clearing the user data thing each update to be sure the game runs properly with no bugs just resets it.
The helicopters have been out for a while now, and people keep asking for the controls to change but they just ignore us. Inexcusable. It's doable in the ini so it can be done ingame. As the games settings just change said ini file.

wait what, this STILL has not been sorted yet... I've not played in months now and was about to come back for some action. But proper FULL bindable controls for heli have still not been added in game yet. Sad times

[Unleashed3k]

Yes, had the same problem today, I fly with wasd + arrowkeys for over 20years now and its just awful bad that we are not allowed to change controls how we want.

I didn't expect such a bad system from this dev, really a pitty that they can't include simple options to control the heli.

[WingZero]

Originally posted by c0dex Unleashed3k:

Yes, had the same problem today, I fly with wasd + arrowkeys for over 20years now and its just awful bad that we are not allowed to change controls how we want.

I didn't expect such a bad system from this dev, really a pitty that they can't include simple options to control the heli.

a fix was mentioned earlier, it requires some digging in files but it's possible to get the controls like battlefield inspired heli controls.

i'll agree a remapping of them would be nice ingame...

[Ahroovi]

Not a fix, a workaround for devs being lazy. This has been requested for some time now, and it's just ignored. Control screen ingame just changes the values in the ini already, so add the appropriate buttons to remap in the control screen.
I've looked into how control remapping works on various engines and it aint that hard. Works a lot better than Unity's default input handling for sure.

[TERMINATOR-SSD]

c:users / name / appdata / local / SquadGame / Saved / Config / WindowsNoEditor / input.ini

Then add loads of lines of text, but its just such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pain to test out each time and make changes to fine tune. And getting to work on Joysticks. Then when an update happens it wipes it out. I've been asking for this since what Sept 2019 now. It's really really annoying, i want to do amazing supply runs for my team and stuff in a choppa, but just can't.

That and a Virtual Joystick option for Mouse control axis, like how Infinity Battlescape does their virtual joystick to control ships. Yes i know space game blah blah but the idea is the same. But im sure this is just too much to ask for -_-

[Ahroovi]

Exactly. The way they have things like rudder listed, is not as Rudder X/Y, but just plain old rudder 3 times in a row. So you don't know which direction is which. And you cannot edit it during runtime so you have to close the game, relaunch, reload a level, then try it every time.
The ini editing is BARELY a workaround with how convoluted the listings are. That and they always recommend clearing the user data thing each update so you need to go back to that file every time and re-add all the custom controls in there. And god forbid you add custom controls for helicopters and expect ALL the controls to work properly. With the controls I had, there were still hardcoded helicopter keys that weren't listed that messed with my custom setup so even then I STILL had to compromise and use controls I didn't want.

I can forgive the ♥♥♥♥ flight model if I can just use the controls I want.

[TERMINATOR-SSD]

even to be able to bind controls to my control pad or joystick would be nice...

[Hitomi]

Not saying it's right, but I knuckled down and learned to fly with these strange controls and I'm pretty decent now. It's a skill and it's a reward to be able to fly. If every tom ♥♥♥♥ and harry could fly these things no one would ever get to use one with how the honor system works in this game with people getting one the whole game.

I'm a old-school BF pilot too and it was a ♥♥♥♥♥ always fighting for the choppers because they were so easy to use everyone would take one. Now I took the time and got used to it and now I'm a asset to my team because I poses a skill not everyone is willing to work toward. Just my opinion but I'm torn because I would like everyone to have a chance to fly. It's the most fun. When I'm alone I just put on some music and do supply and crew runs all game by myself.

Happy as a clam.