They have some sort of excusivity deals with Thrustmaster and Hori to make only select devices work with the game.

That being said something tells me they repeated an AC7 and not even the official stick works lol.

Hilariously though, it does work in AC0 - there's an input config file in the game directory.

Originally posted by Matroshka:

They have some sort of excusivity deals with Thrustmaster and Hori to make only select devices work with the game.

That being said something tells me they repeated an AC7 and not even the official stick works lol.

Hilariously though, it does work in AC0 - there's an input config file in the game directory.

tried to copy dpinput and input.ini see if it's working (you never know) but nop

it is Dark souls 1 PC port all over again

Ok update:

People are reporting TM Warthog works. That means the game supports dinput, and that some Thrustmaster devices are supported.

If it's hardcoded then we're cooked, but maybe the config file is somewhere else, need to keep looking.

Originally posted by Matroshka:

They have some sort of excusivity deals with Thrustmaster and Hori to make only select devices work with the game.

Source on this?

Try this https://github.com/Alphonsvds/joystick-mapper

Originally posted by Godzilla Solos:

Try this https://github.com/Alphonsvds/joystick-mapper

This doesn't resolve the fundamental issue that HOTAS gives you more analog axes and more precision at the cost of reaction time, both of which are lost when you map it into an Xbox controller.

Originally posted by Moebius:

Originally posted by Matroshka:

They have some sort of excusivity deals with Thrustmaster and Hori to make only select devices work with the game.

Source on this?

https://www.thrustmaster.com/en-us/news/discover-ace-combat-7-skies-unknown-top-gun-maverick-aircraft-set/

This was in AC7 days.
AC8 seems to support the same (and only the same) devices so far. Not even newer TM devices like T.Flight Hotas 5 or the AVA joystick base.

Originally posted by Matroshka:

Originally posted by Godzilla Solos:

Try this https://github.com/Alphonsvds/joystick-mapper

This doesn't resolve the fundamental issue that HOTAS gives you more analog axes and more precision at the cost of reaction time, both of which are lost when you map it into an Xbox controller.

Pretty sure they've been pasting this to literally every single thread related to the HOTAS issue, not even sure how much of their recommendation is just AI vibecoded. Ignoring the AI issues and implications, it's surprising how they've done the same thing again with AC8.

Kind of both surprising as well as mind boggling how this is even a thing when it was also somewhere mentioned that they are working on it;;;;

Bad tell when they just simply refuse to just add a .ini for this when they had the same deal going on in 7.

Mostly waiting on the game to support HOTAS stuff since I got a couple of VKB items that I want to use but no go and I refuse to install a third part app that is also AI-coded for something that should've been provided at launch. :<

for eveyone sanity use this saves me fighting my throttle lolz as i found it now of the discusion board and i got my flight pedal working

note: just map what you need or else it will double up and not work well

https://github.com/Alphonsvds/joystick-mapper