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[Honey Badger]

I have a HOTAS joystick & throttle setup connected to my PC. I think MWO is picking up on this connected hardware and overriding the inputs from my keyboard and mouse. I have no intention to play MWO with those controls and only want to play with my mouse and keyboard. I've tried to blank the controls mapping in "settings", but there is no apparent way to enter a blank command.

Yes, I can disconnect my hardware, but that is unacceptable, since I have to re-calibrate my throttle every time I disconnect it from my PC. I'm not doing it for this game.

Please advise! Thanks!

[evilC]

I can confirm that if you have a throttle set up and at a non-idle position, it can override keyboard.

EITHER:
Plug in another joystick that is normally not plugged in (Or use JoyID switcher - google it - to change ID of an existing stick).
Bind MWO stick controls to that stick.
Unplug the stick or swap IDs back.

OR:
Edit your actionmaps.xml in MechWarrior Online\USER\Profiles\<name>
Find all lines that contain:
device="joystick"
and for that line, ensure the input bit reads like so:
input=""

So for a section that read like this:

<action name="joy_throttle">
   <rebind device="joystick" input="j5_axis_y" index="2" defaultInput="j0_slider0"/>
</action>

It would then read like this:

 
<action name="joy_throttle">
   <rebind device="joystick" input="" index="2" defaultInput="j0_slider0"/>
</action>

Edited by evilC, 17 December 2014 - 05:02 AM.