If SQUADRONS wants to move away from arcade push button Gamepad flying, it NEEDS to offer Flight stick/HOTAS support and TrackIR/VR support.
Not to mention the shown micro management, we all loved in X-WING/TIE-Fighter/Alliance...
and again PLEASE NO push button flight maneuvres like Battlefront II.
5vs5 pvp skirmish...meh sure okay, why not!
2 single player STORYLINES...OH YEAH,welcome!
I really hope they support Track IR!!
TrackIR would be great. EA? Any word?
Polygon: Talk to me about my peripherals. First of all, is my Track IR going to work?
Ian Frazier: So I’m pretty limited in what I can say there. What’s on our website is what I’m allowed to say. We will support HOTAS [hands-on throttle and stick] and traditional joysticks — non-throttle joysticks as well — on PC. I cannot say yet whether or not we will have that on console. I cannot say yet the specific hardware we will or won’t support. All that’s going to be coming later, so keep your eyes peeled. But I can say at the bare minimum that we will support HOTAS on PC.
And COCKPIT VIEW ONLY MODE (without able to 3 person view)... For hardcore players.
I am hoping sooo hard that they include the TrackIR support! I honestly think that would sway enough of the flight sim community to purchase that may be on the fence about Squadrons to justify the bit of time it would take the Dev Team.
YES! Please Track IR support. Track IR with Hotas is the closest you can get o VR experience and was awesome in Elite Dangerous. Wish there was more support for it.
Trackir is a must have ! I Hope squadrons support it.
It would be cool, but I have been flying with HOTAS and TrackIR for ages and setup is too cumbersome and not fun for my taste, my neck and trigger finger gets RST pain too easily. I hope this game supports comfortable flying with mouse + keyboard and also flying with Steam Controller from my couch.
In the Star Wars: Squadrons discord Jay Ingram (Charlemagne) said "Nothing to share on TrackIR, but there is a way to toggle free-look in the cockpit."
Jay Ingram is one of the community managers
Honestly, there's no reason not to support it. I was able to get TrackIR working in Unity in about 2 hours. Peripheral support is freakin easy when you're talking about the same piece of hardware for every user.
