Re: Battlefront 2 Flight Stick

+ 1 for Joystick support. Defo. Given the legacy of great Star Wars games such as X-Wing and X-Wing Alliance, EA and DICE just need to add it. I am sure this would produce an additional player-surge and extra cult for these technically well-done Battlefront Games.

Hey chaps, good news.

I solved my problems by mapping the joystick axes to the only supported xbox controller the game expects following these instructions;

https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/comment/847844/#Comment_847844

I have been playing since the 1.05 patch... and have now earned my rightful MVPs whereas before i was solidly mid table with the joystick issues.

Stay on target!

The Xbox controller emulator works to a degree to shoehorn some joystick functionality into the game, just like Joy-2-key was a workaround for Battlefront 1. The fact remains the game continues to be broken and the developer could not care one wit about that. 

The controller setting in the key bindings is an unholy mess. You can reassign mouse buttons until you're blue in the face and it will continue to use default bindings no matter what. The key bind settings do register any input by a non XBox joystick, bun only in a super secret way because there's no column to see what's assigned or delete existing assignments. You choose a function and attempt to assign a control, then move the joystick and it picks up an axis or button and assigns it. Problem is you will never see that assignment anywhere, and anything already assigned from a stick, can't be reassigned to something else without deleting the prior assignment. And, opps, there's no way to delete assignments for a stick. 

Not a peep out of EA anywhere on this. This just demonstrates the complete disdain they have for their customers. Their only interest appears to be getting your money in the first place and never communicating with you when you find what you bought doesn't work right. Like the number of glitches in Battlefront one that remained through most of the life of that game, they might possibly release something to address a few of these errors only when they are about to kill the game for something new. This is the absolute last purchase from EA ever. 

If you tried to start the original X-wing games without a joystick plugged in, then the game wouldn't even launch which, as far as I'm concerned, is the true hallmark of a GREAT game!  I understand EA wants to reach a wider playerbase not all of whom own joysticks, but still, for flying a Star Wars fighter, the experience should be heightened with a joystick, not reduced.  Had EA done things right, the flying levels would be still playable but barely adequate with a mouse and keyboard, decent with a game controller, and utterly awesome with a joystick or HOTAS.  To quote another post I came across while trying to get my joystick functional with BF2: You remember in all the movies how the Xwing and TIE fighter cockpits had little keyboards and a little flat spot for a mouse for the pilots to control their ships in combat? Let's see some better support for proper hardware here EA!

Bump.

I need support for my joystick for Starfighter Assault. Please, i love this mode, i just want to have X-wing alliance memories

Yes!  We need joystick support EA!

Come on EA!!!!   Flightstick support now!!!!    It would take 1 dev about 8 hrs. (I shift)   to do this.   Yet you ignore us...……..

It seems that this game only support xinput controllers. I have tested my directinput controller with an input emulater. It works fine. Though, I do know, it is not the solution for cool flight stick users. 😢

Yes proper joystick support and control bindings is a must for those games on PC. Not going SWBF2 until that's done.

Hi Daralathas,

I am having similar problems connecting the joystick and/or controller.

I was wondering if you could share the link again to the original post:

https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/comment/847844/#Comment_847844

The EA forums have changed and all the links don't connect.

Thanks