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After todays patch, Joysticks no longer work, anyone else?
galacticgoo
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I really enjoy flying STO with a Joystick. They worked fine last night in STO. After todays patch they're dead Jim. They worked fine in other games and the calibration program. Also the "controller tab" looks dead too in STO.
For those who use Joysticks with STO, are yours working?
For those who use Joysticks with STO, are yours working?
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I hope it gets addressed soon.
When I first started playing (the Romulan expansion was new), the Joystick was all or nothing (like using the keyboard). Then magically after a patch was proportional control (variable) was added so you could fly some very precise maneuvers. It has been like this for the last few years (around 6 years I think). With the proportional control STO is a blast, and you don't have the jerky turns you have with the keyboards control. If we can get the Joysticks fixed, and added Throttle support, we could use a full HOTAS which would be epic. As of now, we have nothing.
Playing with a keyboard today was awful and not even remotely fun. In the new TFO in the Event today it was Nightmare on Elm street. Here comes the Targ, pressing the left turn key.....turn left?....dang it turn left.......this week, turn left.....ok we overshot, turn right......mother....turn right....(insert colorful metaphors)...TURN!!!!!! Cryptic, really we need to have a discussion on controllability (and targeting (which is also messed up)) in STO. You have us playing a Star Pilot during space combat in STO, give us back the tools we need to do so. To put it in context in the real world I used to work with, if you put the poor controllability and targeting before the review boards of WrightPat or PAX River, they would laugh you out the door.
Doesn't matter who's to blame at this point, the end product/service speaks for itself over the month and years.
My limited funding goes elsewhere instead, where the devs actually provide reliable joystick support of any type, in a competitive FPS MMO, to gain a competitive advantage combining mouse keyboard and other input methods. STO is an easy game, no collisions, no real 3D flight or precision piloting, yet we're stuck yet again without proper analog joystick input recognition because of one single broken patch.
Nothing about this game and game company surprises me anymore.
> Turns out we don't *officially* support joysticks and gamepads on PC, but I've asked the team to take a look if they have time.
The part that I don't get then is why there's a Controller menu in Options of the PC interface which still includes the selectors for Joysticks and XBox Gamepads. If there's no official support, shouldn't that screen not be there?
Arc has nothing to do with the game except as a launcher, like Steam. Cryptic is the game designer.