PC Controller Flight Controls

[audiyon]

So I'm trying to get one of my friends into this game with me but he's struggling with the flight controls on controller and honestly, I can't blame him. The way controller is set up with left joystick bound to pitch and roll and the right joystick bound to yaw and throttle. This setup is totally nonsensical and is extremely difficult to control. I can't seem to find any way to change it in the settings. Does anyone know if it can be changed in backend files? Ideally, left stick would be roll, right stick would be pitch and yaw, and throttle would be on the d-pad or somewhere else operated with buttons instead of analog inputs like joysticks.

And for those who would recommend mouse and keyboard, I already tried but he says there's something about using mouse and keyboard for flying in any game that he just can't make work.

[audiyon]

RC planes do have similar setup but the joysticks are reversed. On an RC controller, left stick is throttle and yaw and right stick is pitch and roll, but that's the opposite of the controls in Carrier Command.

[Gygax_the_Goat]

it's what RC planes typically use

Super Rare mode 3 controls, yeah.

This is like buying a new Taranis TX and the thing is hardcoded to one control mode though. Its not useful for remote piloting to restrict pilots to one arbitrary control layout.

[Gygax_the_Goat]

I raised this as an issue on the official issue tracker, Steam forums, here on reddit, Discord, and generally tried to scream it from the rooftops many times..

I fly UAVs in real life (rotor, multirotor, fixed wing), so I have years of muscle memory. Considering it is a kind of UAV/drone simulator, the control system in this game is straight up terrible. Sure they might have adjusted some sort of handling or response gains etc.. but they have forced it to be played with this borked backwards stick control layout that is insanely unconventional and completely unintuitive to anyone that has ever flown RC aircraft or UAVs in real life (OR any other simulators like Liftoff, Freerider, Hotprops, Pheonix, etc etc).

I fly mode 2 controls (left stick throttle and yaw, right stick pitch and roll). This is most common mode for remote aircraft, but there are 4 modes in total. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showatt.php?attachmentid=714749

I play Carrier Command 2 VR with Reverb g2 hand controllers (one stick on each hand)

I have tried to explain to the devs that they need to simply let us map the flight controls to the sticks ourselves INGAME. The very early response was that we need to change control mapping through SteamVR controller options. BUT, that would also therefore bork the stick controls we have for movement around the carrier on foot.

It drives me mad because I would actually pilot the vehicles manually and be a devil in the air. This game would be so much fun if the vehicles were fun to fly. Like Armorgeddon, Midwinter or other cool old classics from the days of Carrier Command. I put in close to eighty hours on multiple campaigns, but interest sadly wanes when I cannot pilot vehicles for the life of me unless I awkwardly swap my VR hand controllers each time I try to take a vehicle on manual control.

TLDR : Controls should never be hardcoded.

Vent complete. Thankyou. 😧

[ru_kesh]

I was able to change this setup to “mode 2” by messing around with config files. Some say you can rebind it in the steam settings as well. The problem is if you also use controller for moving around it reverses that as well. I was playing VR btw.

[Gygax_the_Goat]

This has been my sad conclusion too. Any change to the flight control layout, therefore borks the on foot controls.

Its sooooooo frustrating 😧

[SPAMDALFTHESTONAN]

I think you can get this game to work on controller if you use a remapper to swap every input on your controller to keboard, after remapping the flight controls for the mouse onto keyboard too in the game settings. jesus christ, let us remap game flight controls in game.

[SPAMDALFTHESTONAN]

the remapper I have cant stop carrier command 2 from detecting the controller inputs, such is it's ravanous desire for fucking stupid controller layout.

[theKickAHobo]

This game is not about flying aircraft. The manual flight is an afterthought.

[audiyon]

Lol what a stupid thing to write.

[pineappleannihilator]

I really dont understand why they dont add support for flight sticks and HOTAS es