Salty XBONE players

[Mole HD]

I would probably look to Microsoft for the answer to this one rather than FD. If a HOTAS setup were possible on XBone I'm fairly sure FD would have supported it. It's more likely that the XBone simply can't support a HOTAS setup.

Saying that, it has the requisite number of axis and a reasonable amount of buttons for somebody to design an XBone HOTAS setup. Have you looked for one?

Microsoft won't even support the likes of the Thrustmaster T-flight which the PS4 currently supports. It's simply a matter that they won't allow 3rd party hardware by enabling the software driver support.

Not really meaning to defend MS limiting peripherals, but it's worth mentioning that the advantage isn't imaginary when it comes to FPS games. A M+KB user is at a colossal advantage over somebody playing with a controller. Letting people use M+KB would basically force them to either bundle one with the consoles or drop the idea of having multiplayer FPS games on them.

That's really an old and worn argument since PC gamers have such a variety of 3rd party peripherals to hand. I play Arma with a logitech G13 and 18 button gaming mouse, sometimes with M+KB alone and other times with my Xbox Elite controller...as I mentioned above, even the PS4 supports a HOTAS like the Thrustmaster T-flight.

Considering the Xbox one runs a stripped down version of Win10, there's really no excuse these days...

 

[Tel Prydain]

As an Xbox player I resent you making us all look like spoiled little trolls

I'm not gonna lie I'm mad at frontier. First off I wish I could transfer my elite save to pc because I can't and won't restart my game to play on pc, that being said why does PlayStation get HOTAS support but xbone gets the short end of the stick. I know xbone has some limitations graphics wise but it also made me mad that they said ps4 gets a pc equivalent of elite. what about xbone "SCORPIO" is that going to get the whole game like ps4? Pc is the foundation of elite and the best way to play no debate there but xbone is a huge player base and I personally feel a bit alienated by frontier. My solution is for frontier to make us have the ability to transfer our accounts to a different platform even if that means only keeping basic stuff like rank, credits, that sort of thing. I'm nearly triple elite and I'm not starting over in a sidewinder.

Wow, where to even begin.

* You can transfer your credit balance to PC. It's a one-time, one-way trip - but it's doable
* Playstation gets HOTAS support because playstation has a HOTAS. ##
** Want a HOTAS? COMPLAIN TO MICROSOFT!
* "PS4 gets a pc equivalent of elite". What do you even think that means? What do you think that would look like? Xbox does have all the features of the PC version already.
**They only said "ps4 gets a pc equivalent of elite" because that stream was for potental PS4 players who might worry it was a cut down port.
* Why the hell would they talk about Scorpio when (a) it was a PS4 stream and (b) the bloody Scorpio isn't even public yet?!?
** Sandy didn't even know what the difference between PS4 and PS4 Pro was!!! How the hell would he have anything to say about a Xbox system that doesn't exist yet??!?
** In previous livestreams Sandy has already noted that they'll take advantage of the Scorpio in some way, but he didn't have any information on that. Probably because even the specs of the new system are a closely guarded secret protected with NDAs.

If you're feeling alienated that's your own issue with PC-envy. Chill out and read up on this stuff.


## FWIW, Xbox gamers are excited about Ace Combat 6, since the previous games DID have a x360 compatible HOTAS - so there's a (slim) chance that we could get Xbox comparable HOTAS at that time. At that point, given that you can remap everything from the options menu, you'd expect that it'd work work with Elite without any patching required.

You knew what you were getting in to I put Salty in the title what we're you expecting?

Someone who knew they were talking about, ideally.

 

[Kyennamo]

I had quite enough of Microsoft's short sighted approach to both their gaming community and their lack of peripheral support

That's why I've returned to PC gaming after over 10 years on the Xbox.

This.

 

[verminstar]

It says 'players' as in plural...theres more than one of ye putting the blame on FD fer something thats got nothing to do with them? Certainly hope not, this level of fail gives console players a bad name.

Perhaps one should lay off the caffeine somewhat and do some reading...the subject of account transfers has been done many times. Crying on the main deranged discussion forum is about as useful as a chocolate teacup...

Onwards and upwards as they say...know what I mean? Jelly bean...