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I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that it took me ENTIRELY too long to figure out that pushing the left stick up and down accelerates/decelerates the ship. :( I had been using the boost to go anywhere and didn't know how to slow down.
Remember when instruction manuals were a thing?
That's hilarious. I'm confused about boosters (or is it thrusters?). On PC it's pressing the space bar. I think they're for turning around faster, but it seems they only work in the up direction. I've started trying to orient my ship so that the enemy I'm fighting is "up" for my turns, but it's kinda wonky. Anyone else doing this?
For quick turns, reduce the speed. I know, I know, counter intuitive.
To be fair Starfield does tell you that at least. It talks about the marked zone in the speed meter that allows the best maneuvering.
...unless you play Il-2 or DCS. Put simply, all fighter aircraft have an optimal maneuvering speed, below or above that your turn rate will suffer. Managing your speed is the key when you're rate fighting. Same mechanics is used in Elite.
Hold space and press the movement key in the direction you wanna go. When space is held down(and you're using default controls) your wasd controls the booster movement not your ships yaw/thrust. Another tip is you can combine it with your mouse turning to get insanely tight turns on other ships. Also if you boost slightly then thruster boosters you'll temporarily carry that momentum too.
I've been messing around with it (got a big class C ship) and it's a lot of fun to face the enemy while still going in the other direction. I'll have to try combining too, though. Thanks for the tips!
@Tylerdurdon @jordanlund thrusters enable strafing but more importantly they turn off "flight assist" and engage realistic Newtonian motion. So accelerate to top speed, hold Space and turn around to continue in the same direction and shoot "backwards".
So do they work in an different direction than up? An I using them wrong here?
Now that I'll have to try. I've not seen of benefit from them so far. Do they get more effective as your pilot skill increases?
It literally tells you that's how it works the first time you fly a ship... and you also seem to somehow not know about the "help" menu..? Most things are explained there. And even if there was no good help menu, you have the Internet, it takes like 10 seconds to look up anything. Why produce more material waste with an instruction manual that won't update with the game and won't have things as well explained?
How are you this dumb? Seriously, everything you've said is so deeply stupid it's not even funny.