Haha, thanks lad. I’ve been playing games such as World of Warplanes and Warthunder with my joystick, so my experience is tiny as hell. Altho, I am looking forward to check this game out, I was hoping to use my joystick in here, but looks like I am stuck with keyboard and mouse hehe
Here you have 6 axis of movement, and your guns are not fixed and can rotate also, so the mouse controls are the best.
To fly a plane in the atmosphere you only need 3 attitude controls, because you can only yaw, pitch and roll. Also, you can control the thrust with your thruster yoke.
But in space, you have 3 attitude controls + 2 strafe directions (like a helicopter, you can slide left and right, and also up and down) and your thruster to go forward and backwards. Yes, you can go backwards, unlinke in a plane.
AND, as I said, your guns can fire out of your flight path. There is even an aim mode in where you fix your ship attitude and you only control your turrets (useful for frigates)
So no, joystick is not supported, and it won’t work.
PS: I also played a lot of world of warplanes, and a bit of warthunder, and I’m a joystick hardcore. I just left Warthunder because of the bad joystick support for that game. And even then, I can tell you I won’t play with joystick here, it is just… not good.