So, feel free to play with a HOTAS you crazy diamonds, but don’t be afraid to try out the other control methods if you find yourself having a rough time with your stick and throttle. Much different than pulling off barrel rolls, corkscrew loops, or an Immelmann, like in old-school in-atmosphere dogfighting.” To defeat ES2-baddies in space, combat is more about 360° two-axis precision aiming and dodging enemy fire by swift two-axis strafing as well as quick-boosting to get out of the fire zone and then turning on a dime to counter-attack. The two innovative throttle levers are ideal for double-engine aircraft, and ideal for combat situations where your primary. Logitech/Saitek X52 (by virtue of the X52 Pro support)įor those who don’t believe me when I say Everspace 2 is best played on anything other than a HOTAS configuration, here’s what Rockfish Games had to say on the matter over on Steam: “While this should be solid enough for Early Access (but not the final product!), joystick pilots should bear in mind that piloting a starfighter in EVERSPACE 2 is more like flying an agile assault chopper than a supersonic jet fighter.The HOTAS devices with official presets are: Players can manually create or alter the joystick keybindings within the game if they either don’t have a supported HOTAS or want to make tweaks to their specific preset, and these keybindings are divorced from the gamepad and mouse/keyboard inputs. As of the Early Access launch, Everspace 2 supports 10 popular stick and throttle combinations with a custom preset for each. Since players can pilot their ships nimbly across every axis a HOTAS setup isn’t considered optimal.īut, if you want to play Everspace 2 with a HOTAS joystick you can. For us older nerds out there think of Descent and you’ll have the right idea. This has to do with how flight in Everspace 2 works: it’s less a traditional space-sim and more an arcadey six-degrees of freedom (6DoF) shooter. ROCKFISH Games has baked full HOTAS support into Everspace 2, but they don’t recommend using one to play their game. Everspace 2 has full HOTAS support, but ROCKFISH recommends you use a different control method.

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