Occasionally, I am unable to toggle Flight Assist mode back on after sustaining heavy damage from TyCorps Assault bots unless I log off. The display shows Flight Assist as back on, but when I try to dock with the station, I can't align the direction I face with the direction I move, and even when I turn the engines off, I can't stop drifting.

I have sustained damage more than once by bumping into the station because of this bug.

Outline:

Reproducibility: Sometimes
OS: Mac OS X 10.2.6 Jaguar
Build: 6L60
Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 6.6: Thu May 1 21:48:54 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
RAM: 512 MB
HD: 60 GB
Machine Model: PowerBook5,1 (version = 3.3)

-- DekuDekuplex Ornitier

I'm guessing that perhaps you've sometimes hit another key in your panic to get away from the bots. There's been an oddity with the Mac's Caps Lock key sticking thrust on. I don't have a Mac so I'm not really able to help more with this. Anyone else?

This oddity happens occasionally on all three platforms (reproduced by yours truly) and often has little to do with caps lock. Press all six of your thrust keys.
-:sigma.SB

I've noticed things like this too, though I'm a pure physics mode person. Sometimes my controls will just get screwy, with thrust on in some direction that it shouldn't be.

Luckily, this is an easy fix- I just go through my various thrust and strafe keys one at a time until I regain proper control. In some situations, the game seems to occasionally miss a keyup event, which is what causes this. By going through your keys, you send additional keyups that should fix the problem.

If you bump shift or caps lock while maneuvering, you effectively can 'press' d and 'release' D, so d stays pressed and you keep moving right. That is how it is possible for the game to "miss" key ups.

I thought we were gonna fix this.

which is why i bind both caps and non-caps to my movement keys so I don't accidentally disable my controls in the heat of battle :/