Throttle not respond to midpoint

[PeWu]

Hi!

I've encountered a weird issue where my throttle doesn't respond until mid level.

I calibrated the controller, the calibration screen looks like everything is working properly - every stick has full range and respond correctly, the drone start lifting at low throttle.

However, when i go to the game throttle stops working properly and drone starts lifting only above 50% of the range.

I tested it on both my radios - Taranis QX7 and Radiomaster Pocket, both has same issue. I have tried to recalibrate the controllers many times, checked various settings on the radios itself, but the problem still persists.

Moreover, on the Uncrashed simulator the throttle works properly.

I recorded few screencasts that shows the problem:
- from Liftoff, where on controler calibration screen everything works ok, but next on game it is not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw-8MsVdxHI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6dix34ak84

- and from Uncrashed where both on calibration and game throttle works ok:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdR1fp2n_FM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm83qsEMgi0

I searched whole internet, found some similiar issues but none of them has been resolved. Please help, IMO Uncrasched has worse physics simulations so i would like to train on Liftoff.

[JuniorDiscart]

Hi

The throttle response in this case is normal and expected behavior. Not every drone setup is the same, and we aim to simulate as much physical and electrical aspects of a drone as possible. The drone setup you're flying is a very basic, old and heavy, which doesn't have a lot of power. So it will need a lot more throttle to get off the ground. Same if you'd take a very powerful drone and pack a brick to it - it will need a more throttle to get off the ground.

Try to select a different drone setup which has a lot more thrust per kilogram (see the drone statistics at the top during the drone selection), and you should notice that the throttle will have a different effect.
If you want some direct examples: look for the Vega HSX-R built-in drone setup. This one will require about 30% throttle.
And if you want to go to the extreme: you can give this drone setup a try, which only requires about 10% to get going: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2893952812&searchtext=gman+late

All this to say: it depends on the drone setup.

Also, I see you've created a new drone setup when going to the drone workbench. In the drone selection now, it is filtered based on your own setups. In the upper-ish left corner in the drone selection, you should see a dropdown to switch the filtering to 'Official blueprints', to get to the selection of drone setups that come with Liftoff. If you subscribe to drone setups from the Steam Workshop, they will appear in the 'Workshop blueprints' category.

And, in the case you still want to tweak the throttle response of that particular drone, you can do so in the flight controller settings menu (accessible from the pause menu, or in the drone workbench).

[PeWu]

Thanks for quick response. Its my bad that i not checked other drone setups, but i tought that default should works fine. Now i tested the one you pointed out and some others and it works good, i also understand why it works this way, so I mark the problem as solved.

[JuniorDiscart]

No problem, and glad to be of help!

Have fun!