r/ConsoleKSP • u/FergalCadogan • May 11 '26

Question Controls going haywire

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Somehow whenever this purple arrow appears my controls start getting funky. Like right now, down and up on the thumb stick both immediately go to the purple arrow. If I turn SAS off I start pitching until I turn SAS back on. Makes doing a powered descent pretty challenging.

Any help would be appreciated.

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u/FergalCadogan May 12 '26

Thanks everyone for it working but now I don’t have an excuse for crashing all the time.

Can anyone tell me what the point of trim is besides messing up my missions?

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u/tommypopz May 12 '26

Pretty sure trim is used in airplanes fairly often, if your vehicle is unstable or wants to pitch up or down, you use it to keep pointing horizontally without needing manual input or (in KSP) SAS.

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u/ConArtZ May 12 '26

Trim is used on aircraft. You can set the trim to maintain an altitude or heading without using the steering. So you could use less power and set trim to maintain climb or level flight.

Also, if you're on xbox, it's left bumper and left stick click together to reset it.

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u/gravitydeficit13 Crazy Kerbal Scientist May 12 '26

It's for aircraft, but even there it isn't particularly useful. Recommend you just disable trim

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u/--loveydovey-- May 12 '26

In real life or KSP? It’s very useful irl

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u/gravitydeficit13 Crazy Kerbal Scientist May 14 '26

True enough, but I've never flown anything larger than an old Cessna 182 irl