Better Thruster Controls
There needs to be vertical and horizontal thruster controls. The ship moves like a planes with gravity, which isn't nearly as controllable if the ships had controls that moved it in the vacuum of sp...
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I do miss my thrusters from Elite Dangerous, but that doesn't really fit Star Wars. I have them mapped to the analog sticks on my X56 and I find myself moving them every once in a while in this game. I'm waiting for VR to be fixed to really play, but I was screwing around in the practice area and I'd park by something to check out the detail and I found myself wishing I could just strafe to the left a few meters. That's really just because I'm slowly floating around checking out the environment in VR.
I do think Star Wars ships have some thrusters for landing and maneuvering around hangers, but there isn't a "Flight Assist Off" mode like in Elite Dangerous. There is a dog fighting mode in that game, but I don't think it's very popular. It's a different audience. That game attracts sim fans who want a simulated economy and a grind rather than players who want instant fast action.
@Aculeus wrote:I do miss my thrusters from Elite Dangerous, but that doesn't really fit Star Wars. I have them mapped to the analog sticks on my X56 and I find myself moving them every once in a while in this game. I'm waiting for VR to be fixed to really play, but I was screwing around in the practice area and I'd park by something to check out the detail and I found myself wishing I could just strafe to the left a few meters. That's really just because I'm slowly floating around checking out the environment in VR.
I do think Star Wars ships have some thrusters for landing and maneuvering around hangers, but there isn't a "Flight Assist Off" mode like in Elite Dangerous. There is a dog fighting mode in that game, but I don't think it's very popular. It's a different audience. That game attracts sim fans who want a simulated economy and a grind rather than players who want instant fast action.
Strafing isn't common in the Star Wars Universe, because it would be unreasonable to do, considering you would need thrusters all along the left and right sides, to perform such a maneuver.
As for landing, the explanation of landing is based on the concept of tractor beams, along with vertical thrusters on the ships. But they would only propel a vehicle in the opposite direction of their exhaust, so you would need thrusters that rotated or thrusters in all directions... which would seriously take away from the look and feel, especially Tie fighters, because they would need thrusters on the panels.
Are they using a tractor beam? https://youtu.be/qPEB9PS5mOw?t=90
One of the first cinematic in the solo mode show the former racing pilot of the alliance squad inviting another one to a race and going in front of him with a sudden use of vertical thrusters.
I can't do that ingame
Vert and lats are in star wars flight model, ea just choosed to not put them in-game because it would be too complex for battlefield players
