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ElectronicShart2
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4 months ago

Southpaw Helicopter Free-look probably bug?

Lemme first establish context.  Free-look in heli with Default or Alternative controler config is fine.  When you hold the free-look button, whatever that the right stick normally controls (pitch & roll) is suppressed, and now you can use your aim stick (right stick) to look around and shoot at stuff while you float there.  Great!

But let's say you're a heathen and you use Southpaw.  Sadly, it's the only control scheme that clicks with me.  You press the free-look button, and then need to use the LEFT stick to look around.  What?!  That's right!  The stick that's used for movement and traversal in every game in the world, is for lookin around on southpaw controls.

"No worries, just remap 'em to the right stick." you say.  But guess what.  Holding the free-look button doesn't supress whatever controls you had on the free-look stick, it specifically just suppresses pitch and roll. So... for me, pitch and roll on the left stick are suppressed, and my right stick's yaw and ascends/descends are still active.  So, when I free look, I'm also moving the heli around; feels like I'm drunk and my aim suffers as expected.

My request is that the free-look button suppress the controls on the free-look stick, and NOT hard-coded to pitch and roll.  That'd be fantastic.

Also the key bindings for changing seats in transport heli don't work.

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  • Hi,

    I’ve noticed similar using Legacy XB controller settings for helicopter flight controls and have tried a custom set up and clearing/rebinding left stick controls for thrust (pushing up/down) and right stick for pitch/yaw. I also use the auto hover and with this enabled the left tick control for thrust is not honoured and you have to use LB/RB. Feels incomplete and doesn’t work for me.

     

    Had the same issue during the beta and presumed it would be fixed for launch.  don’t know why they thought they needed to change it as these helicopter control settings work absolutely fine in 2042 and BF4.

     

    Very frustrating that it appears impossible to get anyone at EA to listen or take any notice. 

  • Similar situation here....

    SouthPaw and Invert on all portions of the game. 

    Everything works fine, Except for (DROP IN  from DUO/QUADs) doesn't seem to care about the southpaw situation.

    Also, gadgets like the DRONE and REMOTE BINOCULARS .  My Left stick and Right Stick Controls seem to blend together, rendering them useless........ Needless to say, I cant use the Classes that have these gadgets..... I guess ill just always use ASSAULT......SMH...  Nvidia GeForce NOW REDSEC

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