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The level of control would probably be insanely amazing having a clamped device with stiff springs. I had a blast playing with a suped up pyro in the 6DOF games Descent 1&2

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Space Navigator's stoppers prevent broken Space Navigators, but the loose springs turns it into more of a joystick positional device rather than a super fast force input device like the SpaceOrb.Įven with an unclamped loose spring Space Navigator you could still have amazing control with proper software settings.

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(SpaceOrb was sort of like this, but the right hand keyboard was basically all the buttons on the SpaceOrb)ĭid you install stiffer springs? SpaceOrb's stiff springs were awesome, but lack of stoppers were resulting in broken SpaceOrbs. If you've got a flight stick, it goes without saying that that's the best way to play. Though without all of the buttons which I personally rarely use as I don't want to remove my hand from the puck, instead I use my other hand to press buttons either on the keyboard (tons of easily accessed buttons) or 2DMouse. Everspace 2 supports mouse and keyboard, gamepad, and flight stick inputs. Purchase only if you are comfortable with the current state of the unfinished game. So, feel free to play with a HOTAS you crazy diamonds, but don’t be afraid to try out the other control methods if you find yourself having a rough time with your stick and throttle.Like non-Space Navigators, your GameNavigator contraption uses one's wrist to clamp the device down onto the desk. It may or may not change over time or release as a final product. Much different than pulling off barrel rolls, corkscrew loops, or an Immelmann, like in old-school in-atmosphere dogfighting.” To defeat ES2-baddies in space, combat is more about 360° two-axis precision aiming and dodging enemy fire by swift two-axis strafing as well as quick-boosting to get out of the fire zone and then turning on a dime to counter-attack.

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Logitech/Saitek X52 (by virtue of the X52 Pro support)įor those who don’t believe me when I say Everspace 2 is best played on anything other than a HOTAS configuration, here’s what Rockfish Games had to say on the matter over on Steam: “While this should be solid enough for Early Access (but not the final product!), joystick pilots should bear in mind that piloting a starfighter in EVERSPACE 2 is more like flying an agile assault chopper than a supersonic jet fighter.

The HOTAS devices with official presets are: Players can manually create or alter the joystick keybindings within the game if they either don’t have a supported HOTAS or want to make tweaks to their specific preset, and these keybindings are divorced from the gamepad and mouse/keyboard inputs. As of the Early Access launch, Everspace 2 supports 10 popular stick and throttle combinations with a custom preset for each. Since players can pilot their ships nimbly across every axis a HOTAS setup isn’t considered optimal.īut, if you want to play Everspace 2 with a HOTAS joystick you can. I will always remember becoming aware of the gunky layer of sweat on the joystick after slowly coming out from an unnatural focus state that I.

For us older nerds out there think of Descent and you’ll have the right idea. Emulator allows your controller (joystick, wheel, gamepad, etc.) to operate as the most common device, recognized by most of the games without any additional. Everspace 2 tried to cash in on the popularity of games like Elite, offering an additional Destinesque layer for loot obsessed players but lost the essential bits that made Everspace unforgettable.

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This has to do with how flight in Everspace 2 works: it’s less a traditional space-sim and more an arcadey six-degrees of freedom (6DoF) shooter. As revealed in production update 19, the star system Union is a bustling trading hub in EVERSPACE 2.While the newly-introduced and independent Freelancers run extremely profitable businesses in high-tech gear, medical supplies, and mining resources in the clouds high above planet Culver, the omnipresent Outlaws, already known from the predecessor, make a killing with loot.

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ROCKFISH Games has baked full HOTAS support into Everspace 2, but they don’t recommend using one to play their game.

Everspace 2 has full HOTAS support, but ROCKFISH recommends you use a different control method.

It would have been easy for ROCKFISH Games to push HOTAS support off until Everspace 2 was closer to launch, but they instead opted to implement native support for them right out of the Early Access gate. The good ole’ “hands of throttle and stick” joysticks are harder to find these days, and they don’t feel great to use in every space-sim out there. Everspace 2 may be the latest spaceship shooter to enter the market, but that doesn’t necessarily mean HOTAS support was going to be available on day one.

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