Which model? I have a Thustmaster T.Flight Stick X and have not noticed this behavior in Unity (neither in other's nor in my own dabbling).

We have been talking about making a "lore accurate" version of X-Wing, where we would replace some ships with the ones that were actually used in the lore.
Not only GR-75 Medium transports would replace the bulk freighters for rebels.

Imperials should use:
- Arquitens cruisers instead of Nebulon-B frigates.
- Raider-class corvettes instead of CR-90 corellian corvettes. Or at least Gozanti-class assault transports.
- Sentinel-class shuttles instead of Stormtrooper transports (although the stormtrooper transport has appeared in some canon source, but its use is extremely rare).
- TIE Advenced Prototypes (TIE v1), or TIE Defenders (TIE x7), instead of multiples of Darth Vader's TIE x1.

Rebels should use:
- U-wings instead of stormtrooper transports or lambda-class shuttles (although it might make sense for them to use stolen shuttles now and then).
- GR-75 medium transports instead of bulk freighters.

However, all these changes would make the game feel quite different and break the balance of the original misisons.
So it is better to have this as a later, optional mod, instead of built-in.
I think Unity can only handle up to 20 buttons per controller.
But sure, we will have a chance to test all of this once we release the demo.

Mission Selection Screen implemented and international strings supported:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/xwvm/images/mission-selection-screen-in-german

Well, I think the hard limit in most old windows games is something like 32 buttons (the old directinput limit) but few single piece peripherals have that many that I know of.
Besides, most commercial controllers with that many buttons tend to have profile managers to get around those kind of limits so at least basic 20 button 4 axis controller functionality should already be a good start for most people (the thrustmaster T-16000m has 16 buttons for example).

I'd be really curious to know if any CH Products joysticks would be problematic like some of the Saitek and Thrustmaster mentioned above though, I don't think I have ever played a Unity-based game with mine yet.

Just saw the newest video, very impressive Azrapse and team members. Well worth the wait :)

Thanks!
This is the link: https://youtu.be/mKjkD6_PS7M

I love the updated and actually useful targeting mode on the MVD.

I'm impressed by the attention to detail displayed in the video. Shuttles stowing their wings when docking (something the original never did), the weather systems, and particularly the explosions.

I find the game to be overly chatty, though. One thing I like better in X-Wing versus TIE Fighter is that there isn't always someone talking at you. It would be nice to be able to control chattiness. The "Help me!" cues are useful, mind you.

Overall very, very nice, as usual!

The recording feature is something that I would really want to have as soon as I have time to implement it, because it could be very useful for bug reporting and debugging, that is something that we will go thru soon.

About turning your head around, definitely yes. As soon as we have the new cockpit interior, we will enable that feature.

Thanks. Funny enough, we have some other people asking for more in flight chat. :D

But I find weird that you thought that it was less chatty in XvT. I found that game to be a cacophony of voices all the time spamming stuff like
"Message from mission critical craft: they are taking torpedo hits. Message from mission critical craft: their shields are out. Message from missiong critical craft: they hull is damaged. Message from mission critical craft: their hull is heavily damaged. Message from mission critical craft: they are about to be destroyed. Message from mission critical craft. They've been destroyed."
Like non-stop.
We had to lower the volume because it was too much.

God, I remember that sequence repeating verbatim in about ten second once or twice. :/
But still, comm chat doesn't disturb me as long as there is a variety of voices, both XvT and XWA had a few male and female voices for at least the basic comm soundbites.

Miscommunication: X-Wing as opposed to TIE Fighter, not XvT. :P

I've actually never played XvT, and barely played X-Wing Alliance. It was just too different for me to enjoy it.

Starting to lay out the hull paneling (simple black lines here, but the finished version will be more subtle with the occasional panel picked out in a slightly different shade of grey, like the original model).

is this angle correct? in another picture, the shield emitters are vertical.

The shield generators stood upright on the Empire Strikes Back model (8 footer) - we decided to reference the ANH/RO model because that's the era that the game takes place in, and on those models the shield generators sit perpendicular to the bridge surface, which is what I've done here.

Otherwise I can tell you that the render that you're referencing isn't a very accurate representation of the 8 footer regardless. :)