Flight controls are garbage.

Also an old XvT / XWA player here. I have issues with the controls, but not so wide-ranging as expressed here.

I think the developers did a great job overall, had some good ideas, and I actually think the default joystick is great for the most part (using Logitech Extreme 3d pro). But I do take issue with the following:

Over-steering / necessity of counter-steering!

It's maddening that as maneuver to the heading I desire, and then bring my joystick back to center, the ship keeps pitching or yawing for another second. Especially in a dogfight when I'm trying to turn, cut someone off, and fire. It seems as though they made this harder on purpose, to make it more challenging and really set apart those who can "get a feel" for exactly how much they need to counter-steer, or something. But it's a big pain! I flew XvT and XWA for so many years, and was accustomed to being *completely* in control of where my ship was headed. Not so in Squadrons. Constantly under and over correcting to try to come out of a turn headed the right direction.

That's really the one, big, control complaint I've got. Curious to see if anyone else brings it up or feels the same. I have tried playing mouse and keyboard, and have the same basic problem. I don't feel like mouse / keyboard is necessarily an advantage over joystick. I don't know about control pad, don't have a system to try it. Would be curious to hear if the same problem is present there.

No it's exceeding sluggish on the gamepad as well.  It's a frustrating design choice.  The game just has very awkward controls.

You can play something like Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and it's smooth.

I think I know why they did it: to create a sense of "zeroing" difficulty.  The problem is that because they went with this flight midel:  most engagemente are medium long  when they should be medium to short range dogfighting

It's dissapointing but whatever.  They got my cash, thats all they cared about...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHev0RWlRaI

I'm using a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro.

Same here. Flight sticks are super sluggish! And if I'm going to be locked in the cockpit view, I should be able to free-view the camera while still controlling the pitch/yaw. I have pitch/yaw mapped to the left stick and throttle/roll [free-look] to the right stick. When I double press the right stick to enter free-look, the left stick is completely disabled! WTF!? Also the free-look left and right is somehow tied to rolling the ship! Double WTF!?

the mouse flight controll is crapp yes.but it is not unplayable .

we need a direkt ship control, not a pointer one.and for sure we need to get rid of this fishy, counter steering  * to set the ship straight.mnouse acelerations has to go to .

the flight controll , and game steering needs a propper setup mode.

best example war thunder, that is one of the best mouse sterring controll setup ive seen in the past 10 years.

u can exactly configure every button, axis, action, like u want it.

ofc if this game is meant to be an arcade shooter, than yeah we wont need all this except the basic ones, but even this we dont have at all

There is a bug in the game that affects people on HOTAS and on gamepads, you can't assign pitch/roll to the same stick or its sluggish. If you assign pitch and roll on different sticks it allows the full speed. Here is video evidence of this unacceptable bug:

https://youtu.be/knknwBKd7Lk

Lack of yaw left control, there own suggestions of yaw vs roll show a complete lack of understanding of standard control interfaces. which is totally unacceptable in 2020 with so many modern games. Additionally. having to hold a right mouse key to navigate through a menu to make changes, seems completely devoid of reason. I have brought the game, downloaded it, played it for 5 minutes to try to understanding of the controls. I am now done playing the game and have wasted $30 for a game that is basically unplayable with a $300 hotas. EA knows better.