Tighten up on that Joystick!!!!!

[Krakkken]

I know it was brought up months ago about the use of joysticks in the game. I was wondering if they have ever decided to use them or not. In the pax video's there have been nothing but keyboards shown as controls, no joysticks. Can a dev let us know if we need to dust off our joysticks and get them ready or go ahead and store them away. Personaly I realy want space to be joystick controled. So much easier to play when you can use one hand for movement and axis.

[brandonvi]

They have already said that they dont want it to be like a fighter game so i would bet they dont make it a preset up thing but i can also see how if i bind my photons and phasers and other things to keys on my joystick it would work so i would bet it will just be somthing you have to set up the keybindings your self

[Commander_Nate]

"Tall Ships" had steering wheels. The space shuttle has a joystick.

I don't see why giving players the choice between keyboard or joystick would be unreasonable.

[fractaleye]

"Tall Ships" had steering wheels. The space shuttle has a joystick.

I don't see why giving players the choice between keyboard or joystick would be unreasonable.

It would be nice to have the option. I don't own a joystick atm, but would probably buy one to just check out the difference (if it will be supported at all that is).

[Loekii]

Yes you can use a Joystick. It is just limited to what keys you can map to it. (askcryptic).

[Varrangian]

I see it more likely you can use a controller like in CO, than a traditional "joystick". As an aside the controller makes CO a lot more enjoyable I've found.

[SupremeLegate]

I hope I can use a joystick, course now I wonder where I put it.

[HittingSmoke]

Didn't Riker pilot the Enterprise in one of the movies using a joystick?

[Allerka]

Didn't Riker pilot the Enterprise in one of the movies using a joystick?
Yep, in Nemesis. Looked about the same as the 20-year old one I still have and use occasionally (still works just fine!).

I never even thought about joystick controls for STO, but that would be incredibly awesome if I could use one, get one of the thruster/joystick combo deals for space combat, bind a button to voice chat...yeah, baby! I guess it'll depend further on how many buttons I'll need. I know, say, for WoW, I needed about 48 buttons for all my skills on my paladin, 20-ish on my rogue, WAR took around 20-ish for my Witch Hunter, about 30 for my Knight...

[Manta2015]

Manual steering column gogogo


-Manta-

[DragonShark]

Yep, in Nemesis. Looked about the same as the 20-year old one I still have and use occasionally (still works just fine!).

I never even thought about joystick controls for STO, but that would be incredibly awesome if I could use one, get one of the thruster/joystick combo deals for space combat, bind a button to voice chat...yeah, baby! I guess it'll depend further on how many buttons I'll need. I know, say, for WoW, I needed about 48 buttons for all my skills on my paladin, 20-ish on my rogue, WAR took around 20-ish for my Witch Hunter, about 30 for my Knight...

Insurrection, actually.

I've used my Saitek X52 with a lot of MMOs. It's fun to do now and then, but I think I would really prefer to do this one with a keyboard.