Well, as above stated... I have seen some YouTube videos of people doing skimmer missions, strafing while they attack. It seems like a fun thing to do, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I wanna get a Federal Gunship to do it with for Federation purposes, and I have a feeling that it involves turning off flight assist, but that would likely end poorly for me, cause I am kinda terrible without flight assist. Am I doing it wrong, or do I have to get good?
How do you strafe?
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Click your LS. You should see a notification in you info box (HUD upper right) "Switching to alternate flight controls". Your RS should now be set to strafe your ship left to right instead of working the yaw axis.
With default controls, click the left stick to enter 'alternate controls' mode. The x axis on the right pad will now let you 'strafe' (move your ship left & right), instead of being a yaw control.
It's super useful for lining up on the landing pad, personally I've customised the controls so while moving laterally on the one stick I can also yaw with the other, meaning I can circle round things, it's a bit like 'heli mode' and great for ground assault.
It's super useful for lining up on the landing pad, personally I've customised the controls so while moving laterally on the one stick I can also yaw with the other, meaning I can circle round things, it's a bit like 'heli mode' and great for ground assault.
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The SRV works a bit different, but all you have to do for that is make sure the turret is rotated 90º from the wheels' path of travel.
I think I know exactly what you mean (have you been watching Vindicator Jones' Gunship base assult video?). It's use of the lateral thrusters. So as well as your main throttle controlled thrusters, yaw, pitch and roll, you also have thrusters for up/down, left/right, forwards/backwards (although I can't say I bother with those last two). On keyboard/mouse the left/right is Q and E (I think - it's been a while since I used keyboard) and up/down is R and F. So the sort of movements you're seeing in those videos is a bit of Q while yawing right.
Edit: oops, this is xbox thread - ignore my mouse/keyboard ramblings.
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As far as I know it's not possible on xbox unless you completely rejig your thruster control mapping, because to strafe around something, you need both the lateral thrusters and yaw working at the same time, where in the default controls, it's all on the same stick behind the "alternate" and "standard" flight controls stick click.
You can "strafe" around something if you turn your ship 90 degrees and use pitch and down thrust, though... that would give a similar effect, but just look very silly.
You can "strafe" around something if you turn your ship 90 degrees and use pitch and down thrust, though... that would give a similar effect, but just look very silly.
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I don't think it looks silly to "vertically" strafe a target that way. After all, we are in spaceships. Now if we were flying airplanes, that would be silly and for lack of better terms controlled stalling.
You sure you haven't messed with the settings? In Alt control I still have access to both yaw and lateral thrusters and I sure as hell havent messed with the stick controls.
I'm going to assume that I've used the word lateral wrong and instead say "left/right" thrusters. As in the ones that you switch to for precision on a landing pad that take the place of yaw.
Default controls are:
Standard Flight Controls
LS = Pitch & Roll; RS = Yaw & Up/Down
Alternate Flight Controls
LS = Pitch & Roll; RS = Left/Right & Up/Down
The problem of strafing comes because the necessary thrusters (Yaw & Left/Right) are both on RS behind the flight control toggle.
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Just replace rotate with yaw on the left stick in alt controls, hey presto instant 'heli mode'. You lose roll of course and can get a bit skewed over time as a result, by its dead easy to switch to regular controls, correct your rotation & flip back again.
Or if yaw switching from right stick to left seems too campy, you can put horizontal lats on the left stick instead & put yaw on the right. Only reason I didn't do it that way is because lats on right stick is burned deep into my muscle memory from the days before customisable controls.
Btw i wouldn't recommend just strafing 'vertically' (side-on) as a solution - on higher g planets, it's the retros on the bottom of your ship that are the ones keeping your position.. you could find yourself crashing & burning if you keep yourself positioned 'sideways' on a high g.
Or if yaw switching from right stick to left seems too campy, you can put horizontal lats on the left stick instead & put yaw on the right. Only reason I didn't do it that way is because lats on right stick is burned deep into my muscle memory from the days before customisable controls.
Btw i wouldn't recommend just strafing 'vertically' (side-on) as a solution - on higher g planets, it's the retros on the bottom of your ship that are the ones keeping your position.. you could find yourself crashing & burning if you keep yourself positioned 'sideways' on a high g.
Yeah. I found that one out the hard way with my Annie. If I need to strafe on a planet assault, I make sure to use some "up" thrust while I'm strafing to keep my altitude stable.
My right stick never changes regardless of which mode. Its always the thrusters. Possible the "defaults" have changed since the GPP.
"Yaw on low roll"
Enable this option and you are almost as maneuverable as with a HOTAS (not really, still helps a lot though). The only thing lacking is throttle control and shooting at the same time..
Index on throttle, middle on triggers.
Tried to get used to this indeed... but i guess muscle memory is beating me in this aspect.. Might get into a CZ or RES site, and stay there till i can get it done..
this guide refers to VR, but helps also to get it done without VR ... even with a controller (i fly on PC with a xbox controller .... much better for flying FAOFF for me...): https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...silver-s-Top-Tips-Beginner-s-Guide-VR-PvP-Vid
.... and, uhm, some ships like gunship or cutter can't do differently...
.... and, uhm, some ships like gunship or cutter can't do differently...
Yes I have always used yaw on low roll, best all round control and I never need to switch to alt controls.
You could set throttle to triggers for an (almost) full HOTAS experience.
I havent tried it myself yet but now I have an elite controller (having snagged a cheap elite console with the sshd) I might have a play around with different control settings once I finish exploring and get back to some combat.
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can I set the triggers to yaw?