
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.
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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.
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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. It would have been easy for ROCKFISH Games to push HOTAS support off until Everspace 2 was closer to launch, but they instead opted to implement native support for them right out of the Early Access gate.


I would encourage a dual-stick setup as opposed to HOTAS, simply because strafing and flying backwards are both hugely important and can be difficult to set up on a throttle. If you've got a flight stick, it goes without saying that that's the best way to play. The good ole’ “hands of throttle and stick” joysticks are harder to find these days, and they don’t feel great to use in every space-sim out there. Everspace 2 supports mouse and keyboard, gamepad, and flight stick inputs. Everspace 2 may be the latest spaceship shooter to enter the market, but that doesn’t necessarily mean HOTAS support was going to be available on day one.
