Newcomer / Intro SRV controls?

[Hitchens]

Hi Guys, I made my first planetary landing today. Sadly I could not use my joystick to move at all. I'm using the [h=1]Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X Joystick.[/h]
Any bindings that you guys use specifically for the SRV. I'm using some bindings for flight which are great, but nothing for the SRV.
Any help as always would be much appreciated

 

[Para Handy]

You have to set them yourself. I have not done it since the 2.1 update but I had to do that for my HOTAS-X too. The bindings were at the very bottom of the list, they still are but are nested, the main Driving tree is where you set the steering and so on.

One daft thing - I think the default (there are some, it's just the axes that needed doing if I remember correctly) for target ahead in the SRV was fire 2 so I changed that to be the same as for my normal setting (button 3) - makes life simpler if the same button does the same thing.

 

[the100thmonkey]

Go to Options > Controls.
Find the Driving options.
Set forward/reverse/left/right to WASD.
Set the turret controls to mouse.
Set turret fire controls to left/right mouse buttons (plasma cannon and scanner)
Set thruster to spacebar.
Set roll to Q/E.

Play game.

 

[Hitchens]

You have to set them yourself. I have not done it since the 2.1 update but I had to do that for my HOTAS-X too. The bindings were at the very bottom of the list, they still are but are nested, the main Driving tree is where you set the steering and so on.

One daft thing - I think the default (there are some, it's just the axes that needed doing if I remember correctly) for target ahead in the SRV was fire 2 so I changed that to be the same as for my normal setting (button 3) - makes life simpler if the same button does the same thing.

Ok I will try this on my Thrustmaster

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Go to Options > Controls.
Find the Driving options.
Set forward/reverse/left/right to WASD.
Set the turret controls to mouse.
Set turret fire controls to left/right mouse buttons (plasma cannon and scanner)
Set thruster to spacebar.
Set roll to Q/E.

Play game.

Thanks for your help, but keyboard and mouse is not what I am after

 

[Chris Simon]

My general bindings on X55 are.

Forward/reverse - Full range throttle
Steering/jump roll - Joystick roll
Jump pitch - Joystick pitch
Turret yaw - Joystick yaw
Turret pitch - Joystick pitch
Cannon - Primary fire
Scanner - hard-bound secondary fire
Handbrake and boost - index and middle finger buttons on the throttle
Target ahead - Joystick button 3 (same as in ship)
Switch targets - joystick hat left/right (same as ship)
Lights and cargo hatch - throttle thumb buttons
Looking around the cockpit and moving through menus - same as in ship.

 

[Para Handy]

Ok I will try this on my Thrustmaster

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Thanks for your help, but keyboard and mouse is not what I am after

Here are a couple of screen-grabs of the controls I use for the srv (there are other things you can set too):

Might be of help

 

[Hitchens]

Thank you all for your help. Your time is appreciated. All good now. Just need to know what there is to do with my SRV now I can drive it?!

 

[Chris Simon]

Thank you all for your help. Your time is appreciated. All good now. Just need to know what there is to do with my SRV now I can drive it?!

Follow the wake scanner
Materials show in the lower half of the scanner, artificial structures and items show in the upper half. If it's all over the place, it's big.
the signals start very dispersed and as you get closer they get stronger and narrower.

Every type of rock/canister/building/whatever has its own signal (both on the scanner and audible), so pay attention and learn to recognize them. It saves time, later on.

Also, and most importantly. As soon as you can get yourself to Sol, go and explore the canyons on Ariel! It's a nice training ground for SRV handling.

 

[the100thmonkey]

Thanks for your help, but keyboard and mouse is not what I am after

I might suggest you'll change your mind when you're getting shot at and can't return fire due to how awful it is to control the SRV and its turret with a joystick axis.

I use an X52 Pro (a joystick that cost five times the HOTAS X,) but KBM is a better combination for the SRV. Of course, if you want to gimp yourself by insisting on using the joystick, you are free to do so.

 

[Chris Simon]

I might suggest you'll change your mind when you're getting shot at and can't return fire due to how awful it is to control the SRV and its turret with a joystick axis.

I use an X52 Pro (a joystick that cost five times the HOTAS X,) but KBM is a better combination for the SRV. Of course, if you want to gimp yourself by insisting on using the joystick, you are free to do so.

I don't have problems with that. I manage turret with pitch and yaw, just like I would aim in a ship and drive the SRV with the throttle and roll axis. It took about five minutes to get used to it.

 

[the100thmonkey]

Trust me, you get a lot less control.

 

[Hitchens]

I might suggest you'll change your mind when you're getting shot at and can't return fire due to how awful it is to control the SRV and its turret with a joystick axis.

I use an X52 Pro (a joystick that cost five times the HOTAS X,) but KBM is a better combination for the SRV. Of course, if you want to gimp yourself by insisting on using the joystick, you are free to do so.

I will go with the Thrustmaster for now. Thanks anyway.

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Follow the wake scanner
Materials show in the lower half of the scanner, artificial structures and items show in the upper half. If it's all over the place, it's big.
the signals start very dispersed and as you get closer they get stronger and narrower.

Every type of rock/canister/building/whatever has its own signal (both on the scanner and audible), so pay attention and learn to recognize them. It saves time, later on.

Also, and most importantly. As soon as you can get yourself to Sol, go and explore the canyons on Ariel! It's a nice training ground for SRV handling.

Thanks! I will try this out later today

 

[Hitchens]

Follow the wake scanner
Materials show in the lower half of the scanner, artificial structures and items show in the upper half. If it's all over the place, it's big.
the signals start very dispersed and as you get closer they get stronger and narrower.

Every type of rock/canister/building/whatever has its own signal (both on the scanner and audible), so pay attention and learn to recognize them. It saves time, later on.

Also, and most importantly. As soon as you can get yourself to Sol, go and explore the canyons on Ariel! It's a nice training ground for SRV handling.

How do I interact with what I find? Pick it up etc? Or do I blast it with the gun lol?!

 

[Ashnak]

If you want to see how it looked and sounded in 2.0, check here.

I have the impression that display, sound and behaviour have slightly changed in 2.1 - it seems to behave more like a 'real' device now, with more washed out and spurious signals, and occasionally false signals (and a vastly reduced range for seeing contacts on the radar).

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How do I interact with what I find? Pick it up etc? Or do I blast it with the gun lol?!

What else [noob].

After shooting them (takes ~half a dozen shots), they explode into materials fragments you can pick up with the scoop.

New in 2.1: POIs may contain manufactured materials (also rather rare ones), and shooting skimmers and such may also drop some stuff (like Shield Emitters).
Also new in 2.1 (I think): you may be scanned by NPC pirates while landed on a planetary surface. Haven't experienced a scan (or attack) in the SRV (yet?).

 

[Para Handy]

How do I interact with what I find? Pick it up etc? Or do I blast it with the gun lol?!

What Ash says - just remember you have to target each fragment individually before diving over it with your cargo door open in order to scoop it up. My first trip out I was driving back and forth like some sort of mad thing that drives back and forth wondering why the bits didn't go up the cargo scoop. [uhh]

(P.S. I am quite happy using the joystick to control the turret. When "in" the turret (deployed) the POV hat does the turret training OK in my opinion and that leaves the main axes still controlling SRV steering etc.)

 

[Hitchens]

What Ash says - just remember you have to target each fragment individually before diving over it with your cargo door open in order to scoop it up. My first trip out I was driving back and forth like some sort of mad thing that drives back and forth wondering why the bits didn't go up the cargo scoop. [uhh]

(P.S. I am quite happy using the joystick to control the turret. When "in" the turret (deployed) the POV hat does the turret training OK in my opinion and that leaves the main axes still controlling SRV steering etc.)

Thank you for the tip appreciated. It all helps.

 

[Great Phantom]

I am using an Xbox controller and the turret is very hard to control. Any suggestions?

 

[Para Handy]

Gosh nearly 6 years necro - well done

 

[Rock Hunter]

Gosh nearly 6 years necro - well done


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That’s disturbingly mesmerising, I’m unwilling to admit just how long I’ve found myself staring at that

I am using an Xbox controller and the turret is very hard to control. Any suggestions?

I’m not sure specifically about an Xbox controller, but I used to use a cheap game controller that had two thumb sticks. I found that putting an axis on each stick helped my control. If the Xbox doesn’t have two sticks this is redundant advice so I’m sorry if that’s the case.

As an aside, that may be of little use as that above, I moved to using my Hotas for SRV control and found that gave me much finer control in general…again, redundant if you‘re not a Hotas user.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Gosh nearly 6 years necro - well done


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Is this a record?

A shame we didn't have forums from the original Elite back in '84 - I'd love to necro one of those...