This game has *good* joystick support?

[krypz0n]

Ive been looking for a good space sim/space rpg for a while now, im looking for something thatd have joystick support, would this game be a good purchase for smth like that?

What other space sims would be good purchases for such desire?
cheers

[krypz0n]

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[SeeJay]

Yes, it supports more or less any controller and up to 10 controllers at the same time ;-)

I use the X55 Rhino and others use Xbox controllers without any problems.
Before that I used the X52 Stick/Throttle.

I think it's the best space sim out there. Elite Dangerous is beautiful but doesn't simulate
space flight as good as Evochron. ED is also way more expensive.

No Mans Sky is an arcade, cartoonlike game that doesn't simulate space flight at all.
More like aircrafts in atmosphere.

Keep in mind that Evochron is a Newtonian based game and it takes a while to get
comfortable flying in open space.

You can download and try the demo here:
http://www.starwraith.com/evochronlegacy/downloads.htm

[krypz0n]

Thank you so much! i have some really old x52 im literally finishing to clean the dust of, ill give the demo a try and maybe play some old classics like xwing alliance untill i can find a good discount for evochron.
Im used to space engineers physics so i might or not have an easy one.
Any other cool games you know tho?

[SeeJay]

You're welcome.

Elite Dangerous + Horizons expansion and Evochron Legacy is the only games I play
atm regarding space sims.

I tried X-Rebirth but that is not a space sim according to me.
It's more of an arcade game with managing stuff instead. Not my kind of game.
(With sim I mean how your ship is acting/handled).

[Maverik770]

I agree that, for me, Evochron Legacy is the best space sim out there right now. It's deeper, more realistic and immersive and has more to do than any other space sim currently out there.

Others that I'd note would be Elite Dangers or the X series, particularly X3: Prelude of Albion. But neither is near Evochron Legacy in terms of depth, realism and things to do in my opinion.

The joystick/controller support in Evochron Legacy is unparalleled. You can mix and match up to like 10 devices at once or something. You can program every axis and button function to any joystick you want. I currently use a combination of a joystick and keyboard and the mouse a little even.

Full HOTAS setups work wonderfully and create amazing immersion in this game. You can even use a 360 controller very successfully. I highly recommend checking out the free demo SeeJay linked in his reply. It's 90 mins of the full game plus you can do the whole tutorial which doesn't count towards the 90 mins of demo time. So you can check out all the joystick/controller support, get everything configured and then run the tutorial and play the game for 90 mins. If you do buy the game your progres can carry over to the full game too.

Oh it even has TrackIR support if you wanna get really crazy and have head tracking in your cockpit. And he's been working on implementing VR support which I think went live in the recent patch but it still being optimized I believe.

[krypz0n]

Thank you, ill be buying evochron legacy and mercenary once they get into discount, and maybe the X series aswell. And ill look into TrackIR aswell, it looks very interesting!

[Maverik770]

Originally posted by krypz0n:

Thank you, ill be buying evochron legacy and mercenary once they get into discount, and maybe the X series aswell. And ill look into TrackIR aswell, it looks very interesting!

Evochron Legacy and Mercenary are both really good but they aren't directly linked in any way. Legacy is basically an improved version of Mercenary in a lot of ways. So you could probably do with just Legacy for a while. I own both and since Legacy came out I haven't played Mercenary at all. It's a great game, I just enjoy Legacy a lot more. But i do plan to go back and do some more stuff in Mercenary once I'm completely done with Legacy, if that ever happens, haha.