I registered a forum account solely for this suggestion: Please don't bind the "toggle flight assist" keybind in the default keybinds. For players who haven't made the conscious decision to train their muscle memory to fly without flight assist, this is basically a button that just makes you lose complete control of your ship. It's a real "feels bad" way to die for new players.
Today I learned the hard way that keybinds are saved locally when I played on my laptop and accidentally toggled flight assist off while landing (normally I have the control unbound). I drunkenly flailed against the planet's surface desperately trying to press every button to turn it back on until I lost 429,623,574 credits in exploration data (815,000 in Codex Discoveries, 35,365,874 in Cartographic Data, and 393,442,700 in Organic Data according to the black box claim losses. I don't know if those include first time bonuses or not, but it's all from freshly unexplored systems). That may not be a lot for long time players, but it's way more than I've ever had since starting. I was fully scanning every planet in every system including exobiology, geology, and codex scans while taking a nearly fully unexplored route to Colonia for the first time, and now I'm back in the bubble and it's all gone because of a keybind. Honestly a real gut punch moment. I'm taking a break from this game for awhile.
Today I learned the hard way that keybinds are saved locally when I played on my laptop and accidentally toggled flight assist off while landing (normally I have the control unbound). I drunkenly flailed against the planet's surface desperately trying to press every button to turn it back on until I lost 429,623,574 credits in exploration data (815,000 in Codex Discoveries, 35,365,874 in Cartographic Data, and 393,442,700 in Organic Data according to the black box claim losses. I don't know if those include first time bonuses or not, but it's all from freshly unexplored systems). That may not be a lot for long time players, but it's way more than I've ever had since starting. I was fully scanning every planet in every system including exobiology, geology, and codex scans while taking a nearly fully unexplored route to Colonia for the first time, and now I'm back in the bubble and it's all gone because of a keybind. Honestly a real gut punch moment. I'm taking a break from this game for awhile.
