r/EverspaceGame • u/mzatariz • Jul 29 '26

Discussion Why does the ship keep rotating back?

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I'm coming from games like Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen, i get that this more arcady game, but is there a way to keep the ship in the position I want it to be?

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u/RFG_Geekbyte RFG Community Manager Jul 29 '26

Yep, in Settings > Input > Gamepad, you can disable Auto Roll in there if you prefer.

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u/mzatariz Jul 29 '26

Thank you!

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u/Snake2k Jul 29 '26

Another thing that you might like coming from ED/SC. Go in your key bindings and look for inertia dampeners. Map it to something. That's "Flight Assist On/Off".

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u/kerpui Jul 29 '26

Thank you! You saved my life.

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u/Illeazar Jul 30 '26

Yeah, mapping this to something easy to use was a huge plus to my dogfighting.

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u/Immediate-Cold1738 Aug 01 '26

Would you mind explaining what FA actuality does in NMS? I haven't really noticed anything "bad/uncomfortable" while flying, but I haven't really taken the time to play around with all settings

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u/DangyDanger Aug 01 '26

It's basically just inertia dampening (i.e. space friction) iirc, allowing you to face a different direction from the one you're moving in.

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u/Immediate-Cold1738 Aug 01 '26

Ahhh I see.. that's definitely useful. I'll play around with that setting and check the results

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u/Snake2k Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

Idk about NMS, but I think that's the point of flight assist, it makes flight easy and not uncomfortable. Sometimes it's fun to make it not that for a few seconds.

When you even nudge yourself in a particular direction, you will always keep going in that direction unless you nudge yourself to counterbalance it. This is because of the law of inertia and it is kinda ridiculous in space. Most space games handle that for you alot and put it under "flight assist." But if you turn it off, you get a pretty raw physics experience of flying in space.

There are a lot of fun flight maneuvers you can pull off if you turn off flight assist for a few seconds. I like to keep mine set up where I have to hold a key to keep it off. Very easy to get flight assist back by just letting go of the key.

My favorite ones are always boosting in a direction, turning it off, spinning around (but my ship keeps moving in the original direction and speed without any engine use), and I can shoot backwards. Or even orbiting certain large options or ships.

It's alot of fun to mess with it. Literally free falling in all sorts of directions lol

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u/Immediate-Cold1738 Aug 01 '26

Thanks for the reply. It definitely sounds useful when getting into dogfights. I'll check it out

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u/Doranagon Jul 30 '26

Feel like there is an "align to galactic plane" setting.. thats more than a flight assist counter thrust to stop rotation.

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u/AmericanPoliticsSux Jul 29 '26

No. Everspace has autolevel.

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u/mzatariz Jul 29 '26

Is there a way to disable it?

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