SRV undrivable with mouse?

SentineI

SentineI
At the moment I am not able to drive my buggy SRV at all, which is really annoying. As far as I can tell, NOBODY at Frontier drives using mouse+keyboard:

I had expected that I could steer left/right with mouse, but that that doesn't seem possible. It appears to expect you to use a joystick or keyboard buttons(!). Come on, how am I supposed to steer accurately with keyboard *buttons*? That's ridiculous. (I steer my ship using mouse, so why not buggy SRV?)

I also expected to use the scroll-wheel to (de)accelerate, but the only way is to treat them as keyboard buttons, which makes it incredibly SLOW to (de)ccelerate. (I (de)accelerate my ship using scroll-wheel, so why not my buggy SRV?)

edit: Also UNlike ships, you cannot have keys to set speed to 0/50/100%. Your only option is to slowly increase/decrease speed with keys, with is both daft & unplayable. NOR is there a key you can press to go -100% (i.e. reverse).


Someone PLEASE tell me I missed something obvious, or Horizons is a huge disappointment for me (not even getting off the starting block).
 
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shreddog

shreddog
Hmm. I may have to use my PS4 controller for driving then. Not sure if PS controller is supported though.. Oh well I'll find out in 20 min when beta is done downloading. Wohoooho!! The excitement :)
 

SentineI

SentineI
Lysander lysan said:
You need to make a separate key binding to the SRV. Go to options > keybindings
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AND? Where are the options I was complaining about not having? They aren't there (that I can see) :-(

Sigh. In case it's not obvious, I just spent what feels like 30 mins carefully going through all the keyboard binding options, without success. Keyboard buttons to steer?!? Almost useless. Increase/Decrease speed in slow increments using keyboard buttons (no buttons to set desired speed (0/50/100/-100%), nor usable scroll wheel). Almost undrivable.

Forget about mouse+keyboard users being treated as "third class citizens"... In the SRV they are treated as "unregistered voters", not eligible for any consideration at all, or so it seems.
 
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tawittle

tawittle
If you don't want to use keyboard to steer then rebind those keys to your mouse X axis?

As for the preset speeds, tis unfortunate but sounds like a glitch/bug
 

SentineI

SentineI
tawittle said:
If you don't want to use keyboard to steer then rebind those keys to your mouse X axis?
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Did you try? You canNOT bind to mouse axis :-( . Maybe it's a bug, but seems too obvious for that.

As for the preset speeds, tis unfortunate but sounds like a glitch/bug
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I don't think so. Ship bindings are separate from SRV bindings. And SRV has no options for preset speeds.
 
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Eelux Mott

Eelux Mott
SnowyNI said:
Wonder if the buggy works with a G27 too... hmmm.
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Would love this. Actually never tried the ol’ g27 with Elite. Barrel rolls forever! (Though already possible...and no pitch? or use the gear shifter!?).

Regarding the OP - I’m not sure I’ve ever played a game where the movement of a ground vehicle was controlled with the mouse. If the mouse was involved at all it was to rotate the view/turret on top, with a wasd type arrangement controlling the chassis.
 

aRtFuL

A
I'm not sure if ED is the only game you've played on PC but in most other games you can't drive with mouse too - you can fly with it but not drive with it.

In Planetside 2 you can't steer with mouse. Mouse is for turrets only.

In War Thunder you can't steer tanks with mouse either, it is for turrets only again.

In MechWarrior Online same thing, mouse is for torso movement.

And ED isn't even as combat oriented as those games above.

Don't think it is even convenient to try to drive with mouse. Don't know why you would even want to. It is much better to drive with keyboard imo.
 

Mephane

Mephane
- Can't properly assign mouse to axis.
- No mouse sensitivity for axis, not even the turret.
- Acceleration and deceleration is limited to holding a key, throttle goes up, hold another key, throttle goes down. No direct fine control of gas&brake is is common in so many games with vehicles. Please copy the gas&brake control options from GTA, Saints Row, Battlefield, you name it. I can drive just fine in those games with W = gas, S = brake, A = steer left, D = steer right. Mouse is for headlook or aiming guns (in our case: SRV turret).
 
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Kirioroshi

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Eelux Mott said:
Regarding the OP - I’m not sure I’ve ever played a game where the movement of a ground vehicle was controlled with the mouse. If the mouse was involved at all it was to rotate the view/turret on top, with a wasd type arrangement controlling the chassis.
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Live For Speed for one, as far as I remember. Wasn't brilliant, but it worked.
 
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piercehead

piercehead
aRtFuL said:
Don't know why you would even want to. It is much better to drive with keyboard imo.
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Analogue steering is always preferable to digital, hence mouse is objectively better than keyboard for it. The games you mention that use keyboard for steering only do this because you need to aim with the mouse, separately from steering. In Elite, you don't turn the camera to aim the guns/turrets, you "aim" the ship, or in this case buggy.
 

RockThatThing

R
Yes exactly! Acceration and Steering is fine with keyboard, it's when you get off the ground. There is not even any sensitivity right now for the yaw, pitch etc. Yesterday I went of a cliff with the SRV and kept holding the D key by mistake, almost did a barrelroll but ended up landing upside down.
 

redVENGEANCE

redVENGEANCE
I use my mouse wheel to accelerate/decelerate when in flight. I really want the same with the SRV. Hopefully this issue will be fixed.
 

Hurricane Moon

Banned
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drive with a mouse?.....
Chris I would strongly recommend a hotas sir...I never would go back to even a control pad after using one in ED
 

SentineI

SentineI
Hurricane Moon said:
drive with a mouse?.....
Chris I would strongly recommend a hotas sir...I never would go back to even a control pad after using one in ED
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Please do NOT start a hotas/joystick vs mouse+keyboard debate. You can start a new thread if you wish, but lots of people fly their ships very well using mouse (and in fact there are some advantages to doing so). But really it's personal preference.
 
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