Keyboard Controls

Zelator

Zelator
I am wondering (I have looked about/searched the forums but can find no specific confirmation), will ED support the old keyboard play style of the first Elite?

I have never used joysticks (no intention of starting now) and 'flying' with a mouse as the controller sucks space dust IMO. Mouse is fine for the likes of Rift, WoW, Guildwars etc . . . I have also never used the likes of an x-box controller.

I hope I will be able play ED the old school way?! I still have an almost genetic memory using the keyboard controls.
 

Oddball

Oddball
Zelator said:
I am wondering (I have looked about/searched the forums but can find no specific confirmation), will ED support the old keyboard play style of the first Elite?

I hope I will be able play ED the old school way?! I still have an almost genetic memory using the keyboard controls.
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Yes, absolutely! ED is primarily being developed for PC and MAC which have computer keyboards as their primary interface. Not having keyboard support would be a bit of an oversight don't you think?

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Michael Brookes

Game Director
Keyboard and mouse is supported, you could probably bind the controls to be keyboard only, but I really wouldn't advise it, you need some analogue input to get the most from the flight model.

Michael
 

jan

jan
Michael Brookes said:
Keyboard and mouse is supported, you could probably bind the controls to be keyboard only, but I really wouldn't advise it, you need some analogue input to get the most from the flight model.

Michael
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Awww and here i was hoping to get away whit only standard mouse and keyboard setup.
 

Zelator

Zelator
Excellent, thank's for the response.

Yeah, I though it would be an oversight. But, these days with all the control options . . . don't know if you don't ask.

I have a logitech G600 mouse . . lots of buttons to bind to whatever. Don't mind using it - just not to do the actual flying / fighting.

Is there a controls list available?
 

Zak Gordon

Zak Gordon
Zelator said:
Excellent, thank's for the response.

Yeah, I though it would be an oversight. But, these days with all the control options . . . don't know if you don't ask.

I have a logitech G600 mouse . . lots of buttons to bind to whatever. Don't mind using it - just not to do the actual flying / fighting.

Is there a controls list available?
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Reading between the lines i would expect your ships facing to be controlled by the mouse/joystick/gamepad stick (this is where analogue comes into it i suspect). I suspect there will be lots of options for mapping all the other controls to the keyboard.

So expect more of a control system like in Frontier and FFE rather than the original Elite perhaps?
 

Zarkon

Z
If it is not too late, I would like to be able to bind 2 or more keys to a single command. In many games I often assign strafing to both sides of my "move forward" and my "move backward" keys. Usually not with vehicle-type gaming, but most always with 3rd and 1st person games. No big deal if it can't be done though.
 
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Mephane

Mephane
Zarkon said:
If it is not too late, I would like to be able to bind 2 or more keys to a single command. In many games I often assign strafing to both sides of my "move forward" and my "move backward" keys. Usually not with vehicle-type gaming, but most always with 3rd and 1st person games. No big deal if it can't be done though.
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Same here. There is always some action for which I have more than one key or key combination, which I use both depending on the situation.
 

Oddball

Oddball
I will be building my own digital controller using a ps2 keyboard hack and was wondering if Michael (or anyone else at FD) could confirm whether I will be wasting my time on the following....

I will be using the cursor keys for PITCH and ROLL as well as two other keys for YAW. I will be using an n-key rollover keyboard encoder to ensure that there will be no key blocking/masking/ghosting.

So my question is.... Would the game be able to support my idea. I am sorry, but I don't like analogue controls at all. Analogue is evil!
 

Mike Evans

Designer- Elite: Dangerous
Frontier
Oddball said:
I will be building my own digital controller using a ps2 keyboard hack and was wondering if Michael (or anyone else at FD) could confirm whether I will be wasting my time on the following....

I will be using the cursor keys for PITCH and ROLL as well as two other keys for YAW. I will be using an n-key rollover keyboard encoder to ensure that there will be no key blocking/masking/ghosting.

So my question is.... Would the game be able to support my idea. I am sorry, but I don't like analogue controls at all. Analogue is evil!
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You can bind whatever buttons you want for pitch, yaw and roll in both directions and there is a separate binding for analogue pitch, yaw and roll too (9 bindings in total).
 

Mike Evans

Designer- Elite: Dangerous
Frontier
Zarkon said:
If it is not too late, I would like to be able to bind 2 or more keys to a single command. In many games I often assign strafing to both sides of my "move forward" and my "move backward" keys. Usually not with vehicle-type gaming, but most always with 3rd and 1st person games. No big deal if it can't be done though.
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All digital based inputs have a primary and secondary binding. Only axis assignments are singular.
 

Clerec

C
I hope we can "Redefine Keys":

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http://www.cafepress.com.au/mf/48705032/qaop-space_mugs?productId=493860169

:)
 

Flavio

F
Michael Brookes said:
We've not released a controls list.

Michael
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Since we can use smartphones to control PCs remotely (well I can with my windows phone, don't know about apple or android but I don't see why not), I wonder if you will be bringing out on app so that the accelerometer on the phone along with various on screen buttons can act as a control method. Sounds interesting as a gimmick :)
 
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