you can strafe sidewards after you reached a specific point in the story - very early in the game.

Originally posted by d_awn:

you can strafe sidewards after you reached a specific point in the story - very early in the game.

Wait, you can actually strafe? How?

It doesn't show up in the demo's controls menu and A and D are bound to the dodge roll. Is the full game's control scheme different or something?

Eventually you unlock the ability to move using inertia by turning off your engines and being able to freely look in any direction, which offers a form of strafing. It is a feature of the AI ship seen in the trailer, which you get early in the game.

drifting isn't at all the same thing as strafing, and yes not being able to strafe up/down and left/right feels like such a backslide from games like Descent and Everspace

Originally posted by Machine Spirit:

Eventually you unlock the ability to move using inertia by turning off your engines and being able to freely look in any direction, which offers a form of strafing. It is a feature of the AI ship seen in the trailer, which you get early in the game.

You mean the drifting mechanic? The demo gives you access to it right from the start. It is pretty cool.

Though I don't know if I'd call it strafing in terms of what people typically mean by that in a video game context. Unlike virtually every other third person game you might be used to, you can't actually tell the entity you're controlling to move in any direction other than where your mouse happens to be pointing at the time.

Might be technically correct, but imo it's still potentially misleading for someone who might be trying to make a purchase decision.

Is there still no mod or any update which makes it possible?

Originally posted by HelloHello:

Is there still no mod or any update which makes it possible?

Would be also interested. I just asked ChatGPT but there's still no mod or patch.

Originally posted by HelloHello:

I just asked ChatGPT but there's still no mod or patch.

As if ChatGPT would know, lol.

Originally posted by No Reason:

drifting isn't at all the same thing as strafing, and yes not being able to strafe up/down and left/right feels like such a backslide from games like Descent and Everspace

I don't know about Everspace, but Descent isn't a space combat flight sim, it's a first person shooter. Descent Freespace 1 & 2 are space combat flight sims and they don't have "strafing". Neither do any Wing Commander or X-Wing/TIE-Fighter games.

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.