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5 years ago

Solved

Mouse control not fit for purpose

Product: Star Wars: Squadrons
Platform:Steam-PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? Badmagic-One
Are you playing in VR? No
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Other
Please explain 'Other' All inflight areas of gameplay
What were you doing when the bug occurred? Step by Step detail is helpful. Trying to control the ship using mouse and keyboard controls
Where did this issue occur? Please include menu name or in game location. All areas of the gameplay involving ship controls
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 01.10.20 23:30
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
How severe is your issue? Can't play
What happens when the bug occurs? Uncontrollable gameplay
What do you expect to see? A proper control option for mouse and keyboard users
Which ship were you playing? If not applicable, just answer "no" or "none." All
What components were you using? Default
Which customizations (if any) were you using? Default

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Mouse ship control is literally unplayable, I would like to know this is a known issue and will be addressed in a patch. Currently I have spent 82 minutes in game, literally 47 minutes of which were in settings trying to make the mouse control usable, as I purchased through Steam/Valve I only have a pathetic 120 minutes total (38 minutes remaining) window to refund this which I will do if control systems for keyboard/mouse (the default control setup for literally every PC on the planet) are not addressed.

I refuse to go over the ridiculous time limit to try to fix this unusable control issue myself when it will bar me from a refund.

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Straatford87
5 years ago
This post is marked as "solved" so it's easier to find and read for everyone. We do not actually consider this resolved and are investigating.

Hi everyone,

We've heard your feedback that you're not happy with the current mouse & keyboard controls. So we can investigate improving your experience, we'd like to hear more about your preferences while playing with this setup.

We've listed several questions below that will help us get a better understanding. We'd appreciate it if you could take a moment and let us know.

Which flight games have you played with mouse/keyboard?

What is your preferred mouse control method in other flight games (e.g virtual stick, virtual stick with automatic reset to center, etc.)? Do you play first or third person with that scheme?

What are your mouse DPI settings in squadrons?

Are you playing with any other special hardware? (VR, ultra widescreen, multiple monitors, etc.)

What are your sensitivity and mouse screen range settings in squadrons?

Are you having any issues with the current mouse controls? If so, what are the issues?

Are you specifically having any issues with mouse sensitivity or deadzone?

Thanks!

93 Replies

Dave-Baloney
5 years ago
This is genuinely unplayable with Keyboard and Mouse, especially in VR. I hope there is a week one patch for this.
Tankonor
5 years ago
I have the same issue.
Best way i'd describe it, it feels like the mouse when in the center of the screen is on a ball.
Any of the smallest movements to the left or right cause an exaggerated effect on the control.
This happens regardless of the mouse sensitivity.

I've been in dogfights finding myself moving from left to right to left to right to left to right while tracking a target, just to change directions.
Unable to do fine grained control or targeting with the mouse.
Alzitar
5 years ago
Honestly the KBM control scheme is a horrendous. Please fix this so we have some control. I always play KBM and never with a Joystick, yet I had more control with a joystick in this game, its really ridiculous. There even seems to be mouse smoothing and there is no way to use jaw or pitch buttons on the keyboard together with the mouse in addition to the problems OP is already addressing.
jfox225
5 years ago
If mouse is meant to be joystick controls then it needs to re-center automatically like a joystick would. Right now the mouse is a mess and it's hard to even point straight.
v3r7
5 years ago
IS THIS GETTING FIXED OR WHAT?
Chill0wl
5 years ago
How likely is this really to get a fix? It doesn't take much to figure that this set up was a minimum effort add on to make mouse an option.
Alzitar
5 years ago
Maybe unlikely, but the product was sold as being viable for KBM it clearly isn't. Especially if you consider you cant pitch or yaw with keyboard without mouse being disabled and you cant bind throttle decrease to mouse (you can bind throttle up). That last one clearly is a bug, so it would be good for EA to revisit the KBM layout if they hope on ever seeing people like myself return for a purchase.
Badmagic-One
5 years ago
Still not even an acknowledgment...
Why am I not surprised?
DarthFDG
Hero+
5 years ago
@Straatford87 - We need to get some eyes on this one, as its been an issue since beta.
EA should also confirm whether mouse control was intentionally nerfed to allow cross-platform gameplay. In other words, this may not be a bug, but working as designed.
Black5heep
5 years ago
If this is meant to be on purpose then it makes no sense, as the mouse and keyboard already has disadvantage over any controllers - despite all the bugs with controllers.
If they want to make crossplay more equal, then they need to add a tad bit of auto aim to the controller gameplay, rather than make m&k unplayable.