Well the flight model has received a TON of commentary on the official site. Roberts wrote that huge dissertation on it back in June, too (
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13951-Flight-Model-And-Input-Controls)
Not saying that I'm in love with the current implementation, just that I think CIG is well aware of the discontent. Of course it never hurts to keep the pressure on if the community feels something needs attention.
Sorry, after reading the article I take my prior comment of minor optimism back. It's the usual disingenuous CR trying to keep everybody happy nonsense.
Look at this for instance.
"There are also some additional head look modes that haven’t been implemented yet that will allow a joystick player to take advantage of the gimbaled weapons the way the mouse player can. And of course if you feel the mouse, with its greater precision allows for better aiming you could always fly the ship with a joystick and look with a mouse!"
These's so much in this one paragraph I'm going to have to deconstruct it.
"There are also some additional head look modes that haven’t been implemented yet that will allow a joystick player to take advantage of the gimbaled weapons the way the mouse player can.
This is lies or stupidity, one or the other. State-of-the-art Military grade iris tracking
might match zero order mouse. Unless he is talking about some form of console land auto locking which would kill the experience in any case, head tracking as afforded by game devices like Track IR etc will never match zero order mouse. Aside from this obvious fact, it stands to reason that if there was any truth to this statement flight sim fans like me would have been using our track IR for years now to take care of targeting and selecting buttons in our 3d virtual cockpits, and not just looking around. The only exception I can think of is black shark, a helicopter sim, where head look is used to lock before firing missiles or employ heavy gimbaled forward cannon, but again, it is a much more difficult proposition thank clicking on a target web browser style. In short this is complete and utter of the highest order.
"And of course if you feel the mouse, with its greater precision allows for better aiming....
Disregarding the use of the words "if you feel" rather than the word "since", what he is disingenuously side stepping here is that mouse does not allow for greater precision of aiming, unless that is you stupidly implement it as a zero order controller. Hence what he should have written is...
"And of course >since< the mouse, with its greater precision, thanks to the way we have stupidly implemented it as a zero order controller, allows for better aiming....
And finally, when you review the sentence as a whole you decern a petulant defensive challenge and a complete failure to understand the point of HOTAS and why people use joysticks in the first place. You do not even need to look carefully to see this:
And of course >since< the mouse, with its greater precision (thanks to the way we have stupidly implemented it) allows for better aiming you could always fly the ship with a joystick and look with a mouse!"
What planet does this guy live on, or more to the point think we live on?
Then again, could it be this is the head look mode he's hoping for joystick users to accept?
