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Fear, desperation, and organized crime dominate Dawnstar, the lawless sector of the galaxy. A cold war between the major mafias has erupted into a massive battle royal where the ultimate prize is complete control of Dawnstar. As a hot shot pilot, you're hired to help reign in the chaos ravaging the sector. You'll be provided opportunities to transcend the chaos or exploit it and position yourself as the next major Mafioso. However, you quickly learn that there are other forces at play that may have doomed your mission before it even began. Free Flight Gameplay Endless loot-driven gameplay. 20+ Storyline Missions. 20+ World zones to explore, battle and trade in. Make choices that impact the story and your relationships with your companions. Open World environment with randomly generated side missions and levels. Thousands of different pieces of equipment to customize your ship with. Co-op based multiplayer. Play with up to 4 of your friends in an open world environment.

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Joystick control stuck On. (Games : Dawnstar : Forum : Bugs : Joystick control stuck On.) Locked
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Jan 28 2013 Anchor

When I try to play the game my mouse cursor is shown and it's hard to control the ship. In the options menu I can't untick the Joystick control box. I have no joystick installed, never had, nor do I have an XBOX 360 controller plugged in when trying to play. Not sure what else to do, is there a config file I can manually turn the joystick overwrite off? Thanks.

Jan 28 2013 Anchor

Do you have any special type of mouse or keyboard?

Jan 28 2013 Anchor

WraithEnt wrote: Do you have any special type of mouse or keyboard?


Just cheap 10 dollar keyboard and 3 button mouse. Nothing special. I even tried another mouse I owned and same issue.

Jan 29 2013 Anchor

I'll take a look. I know at least right now the joystick choice button doesn't work, but surprised you can't control your ship. Going to upload an inbetween build that should fix this.

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

So with the new patch I can no longer fire with my any of the mouse buttons. Also, am I supposed to be seeing the mouse cursor on the game screen?

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

Can you move now or still can't move?

Can you go to the options menu and try turning the joystick button off if it's on?

If you go to the keybinds menu does it have something other than Mouse0 for the firing button?

Edited by: WraithEnt

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

I seem to move just fine, and I can turn on/off joystick. However firing no longer works even when bound to a different key.

My key was set to Mouse0

Edited by: TheClouding

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

Do other actions work? Like opening up your inventory, turning on your cruise engines, firing missiles?

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

Looks like everything works inventory, map, engines etc. except for firing guns or missiles, even when bound to other keys.

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

One more question, what happens if you bind something to Mouse0, like if you bind the inventory button to Mouse0? You also said if you bind shooting to something like CTRL you still can't shoot? Sorry for all the questions, this seems like a very specific issue, and I am not having it on my end.

Edited by: WraithEnt

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

Mouse0 bound to map does open the map, however CTRL bound to fire does not work.

It does seem rather unusual, before patch 1.04 I could fire.

I've also re-installed the game after the new patch, seem to have no effect.

Edited by: TheClouding

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

I apologize, but I'll have to look at it some more. My only suggestion for the moment is to try hitting the reset button for keybinds, and if you haven't really played at all try deleting your save game and restarting/starting a new game. In this situation it's usually a keybind or hardware issue, but we've run through that list pretty much.

Did you change any of the controls outside of the game? In the popup menu before the actual game loads?

Edited by: WraithEnt

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

Ok, did all that, no change. As for the controls outside the game, everything is default. Primary looks like its set as joystick controls and secondary is mouse driven with only 5 buttons bound/set. Fire 1 being blank. I tried rebinding but it didn't work, my fire 2 and fire 3 are bound but don't work either.

So after checking the game again I noticed that in my Inventory screen it shows that I do not have any weapons equipped in slots. So it looks like new game ships may not have weapons actually installed/come with them. That would explain why I can't fire.

Edited by: TheClouding

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

I'm experiencing this as well, except that my out-of-game controls shows everything not bound as "left alt", plus they don't match up with the majority of the in-game controls at all. I just bought this game and was really hoping to enjoy it. :(

Jan 30 2013 Anchor

That would probably explain it TheClouding.... will take a look.

It looks like if you start a new game from scratch with no previous save game whatsoever, it has a problem loading your gear, and causes the problems. Going to fix it asap.

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