TrackIR support?
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 i...
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FYI they won't support TrackIR, it's been confirmed on Twitter by the game's Lead Designer.
- @KrashLog Too bad. This sounds like VR players has big advantage against players without VR. Though I wasn't going to use my TrackIR anyway, but I could atleast tried it if game would support it.
- @quenaelin yeah well I don't know how competitive they want this game to be, but it's clear that VR hardware will give you an edge. It's funny because Blizzard made it so that ultrawide monitors couldn't be used in StarCraft because "it was a competitive advantage".
@quenaelin Would you happen to have a link for this? I've been digging a lot and this is the only comment I've found that mentioned any official confirmation.
- @Eminent_Entropy I don't have any links, this info was posted by @KrashLog. There is mouse emulation mode in TrackIR and maybe devs will add support later.
@quenaelinOh oops, missread who posted what. And yeah was thinking worst case we can map to mouse emulation, I definitely remember reading that they will allow free headlook for non-vr players.
Thanks i guess i can scratch squadrons off my list.
Sorry to hear that they wont be supporting trackir. I very nearly pre ordered, but if trackir isnt part of the package i think i will wait and see. I dont see how they can rationalize not supporting trackir, since the game does seem to be sim oriented.
This request is to even up what i feel might be a huge advantage to those using VR over us pleebs using monitors :P Even those of us with ultrawide ones.
I've watched a few Youtube videos of folks in VR and their situational awareness (especially in REP ships with big glass canopies looking up or to the sides) is extreme when using VR since they can follow and track enemies by turning their heads and leading their fighter without losing sight of their target off the edge of the monitor.
I have played other VR games (AirCar) and the ability to 'look where you want to go' makes it easier to contort your fighter into position rather than seeing the stationary icon of your enemy offscreen only to be surprised that you've caught up to the icon and it just shoots across your screen forcing you to overcorrect on the flight stick over and over.
I would really hope they create a bind-able toggle button so that if you have your target locked, you can press the Freelooktrack button and it will automatically freelook follow the target icon to at least 180 degrees around you, so that you can lead into the target and see it coming and adjust flight stick inputs accordingly before it appears visible through the glass cockpit.
I am making this request on behest of all Imperial pilots who have a slight disadvantage in the cockpit visibility department.
Not sure the people who invested in VR or eye trackers like TrackIR would be happy about that. Definitely invest in TrackIR if you want easier freelook, auto freelook would break the game as people wouldn't be relying on visual cues or their radar sensor instrument to find targets. Squadrons is about skill and I hope it stays that way.
- @xxBorn2Game i get what you're saying, but as i own a VR headset anyways, for the times i don't feel like going through the motions of setting it up, i think autofreelook isn't as breaking as you make it sound, any more than any other information being displayed breaks the game, otherwise we should force everyone to play without any HUD elements and rely solely on the cockpit console displays for all information for all pilots.
Besides, a heavy downside is that while autofreelook would track that specific target whereever it may be, the pilot would not necessarily be looking out the front of the window to see that solid object they're about to crash into. It's the gamble you take when you choose to put all your focus tracking one enemy ship to the exclusion of all other situational awareness.
Just my 2cents.
TrackIR would be a great addition for those of us who do not use VR. Almost all other flight games are supporting it, so it would be an excellent feature to have. Are there any plans to add support?
Is it possible to add on or the other to the game it would assist with the free look feature for those of us without VR hardware.
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