They messed up the deadzone so you have to use virtual joystick remappings to fix it. Or otherwise you have to wait for them to fix it in a patch
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...
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:
