R1 > RB: Fire Right Auxiliary. L1 > LB: Fire Left Auxiliary. R3 > Right Thumbstick: Pitch (vertical) / Yaw (horizontal) / Free Look (double-tap) L3 > Left Thumbstick: Throttle (vertical) / Roll (horizontal) / Boost (tap) / Drift (hold while boosting)

Overall Star Wars: Squadrons feels a lot better with a controller. This may be because I grew up playing other flight games – like Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and Star Wars: Starfighter – on controller. Nostalgia or not, Squadrons feels more fluid on controller, and creates an overall better feeling experience.

Star Wars Squadrons are better on the controller. There are just not as many movement options for a keyboard. With a controller, you have one or two moving sticks for movement, so the movements are much more manageable. On top of that, it seems like the controller’s movements are much more fluent and consistent.

You can play Star Wars: Squadrons using a keyboard and mouse, PS4 DualShock controller, or Xbox One controller. But if you have the option, playing with a joystick is definitely the way to go.

Squadrons allows up to three different flight stick controllers so you can use a stick, throttle, and pedals if you want. The game will automatically detect how many inputs you have plugged in.

Aiming in Star Wars Squadrons works a lot differently than in the Star Wars Battlefront series, here you do not have the option of auto-aim but there are different ways in which you can aim, attack, and take down your enemies in the game.

One note worth mentioning is that Star Wars: Squadrons is not a space flight sim. As a result, it’s totally playable on just a controller, keyboard and mouse, or even a single flight stick without a full HOTAS if you wanted.

Analog Stick-Move your fighter around the screen L Button- (Regular)Brake (Clicked in)Full brake. R Button- (Regular)Accerlerate (Clicked in)Full throttle accelration. Z Button-Used to sideways roll your ship in conjunction with the analog stick.

Walkthroughs for all 15 levels, sections on all playable crafts, locations of all upgrades, and all the secrets so far.

No matter how you felt about RS’s predecessor, “Shadows of the Empire”, you had to admit that it just didn’t measure up to expectations. Rogue Squadron, on the other hand, breathes new life into the Star Wars experience on the N64.

This FAQ covers the basics (controls, storyline), gets you used to your crafts you’ll be flying in, and will also stand by you for all 11 plus missions of the game. From start to finish, Rogue Leader is a crowd-pleaser, and surely a must-have for any Star Wars fan. It should be the reason you pick up a GameCube.