G-Rebels

I don't have a HOTAS, so I'm playing on a Meta Quest 3 through Virtual Desktop, using the Touch controllers as an emulated Xbox gamepad. I'm also using a Logitech G29, with the pedals mapped for forward thrust and reverse thrust. I'm running the game on an RTX 4090. I honestly love this game. The atmosphere, visuals and feeling of flying through the city in VR are incredible, and I really want to keep playing it. The biggest problem for me right now is the VR menu and input handling. In flat mode I can use the Quest controllers as pointers and configure everything easily. Once I switch into VR, those pointers disappear, so I have to enable gamepad emulation in Virtual Desktop in order to fly. That works well for controlling the ship, but then parts of the menus and configuration become extremely difficult to use. I'm also seeing very strange behavior with the G29, its pedals and the shifter. To be clear: there is absolutely nothing mapped to menu navigation in the Menu controls section. Despite that, the game still reacts to movements from the steering wheel, pedals and various G29 buttons while I'm in the menus. The behavior is also very inconsistent and seems almost random. When the shifter is in neutral, the menu selection starts moving around uncontrollably. If I put the shifter into any gear from 1st to 6th, the menu stops moving — but then I can't select anything at all, either with the Quest controllers or with the keyboard. The only workaround I've found is to leave the shifter in neutral and very slightly move the steering wheel until the unintended menu input happens to settle into a neutral position. Then I can sometimes navigate the menus. Keyboard input in VR is also unreliable. Enter and Escape usually only work if I hold them down for a while, and even then they only register sometimes. It really feels like multiple input devices are being read by the VR menus even when they are not mapped to any menu function, and that those inputs are fighting each other. It would be a huge improvement if VR mode had proper mouse/VR pointer support, more reliable keyboard input, and strict separation between gameplay controls and menu navigation controls. Ideally, if a device has no menu bindings, the menus should completely ignore its axes and buttons. The game itself is fantastic and already has something very special. I really hope the VR controls, menus and input handling get some attention during Early Access, because with those issues polished this could easily become one of my favorite PCVR games.