Additional Fuel System Binds

[Charon]

I saw control bindings were added for the forthcoming fuel system, which is awesome.

 

However, can we please get additional bindings: Turn Fuel Selector Clockwise/Next, Turn Fuel Selector Counterclockwise/Previous, Switch to the Previous Fuel Selector, and Switch to the Previous Fuel Pump.

 

I would also greatly appreciate Switch to Fuel Selector #1, Switch to Fuel Selector #2, ... Switch to Fuel Pump #1, Switch to Fuel Pump #2, etc..., although I admit they're likely to be more niche.

 

Fuel selectors, particularly the American style selectors, are an ideal use case for an encoder, which are otherwise underutilized by BoX. That's how I bind all the fuel selectors in CloD, and it's very natural being able to turn the selector CW/CCW as needed, and simply reverse direction if I overshoot. Whereas if you overshoot with the currently available bindings, you'll need to keep going all the way around.

 

None of these need to have default keybindings set, but if they're available, I think many CM3 owners would suddenly find a use for E1 and E2, for example.

 

'Switch to Fuel Selector #N' is likely to be a niche control, but means that players who want to have an encoder dedicated to a specific fuel selector can double bind or set macros so that turning an encoder switches to that specific fuel selector every time.

 

This is also important because (I expect) there won't be any indication of which fuel selector is active when playing without technochat. Imagine trying to switch from drop tanks to mains, but cutting the fuel off instead, because you forgot which selector was active!

 

But if one encoder is configured to adjust the main selector, and another is configured to toggle the fuel cut-off, then that mistake becomes much harder to make.

Edited March 19, 2022 by Charon