Assign button combinations

Elite dangerous allows the user to assign controller button combinations.

Eg, hold one button to act like a mode switch, then all your other buttons do a different function.

This is achieved simply by allowing the user to hold down more than one button when assigning functions. This can double or even triple the number of assignments and combinations available.

All games should do this. FS2 users could benefit greatly from this.

Thanks Jet-Pack, those are keyboard modifier combinations.

I mean pressing buttons on your controllers so you don't touch the keyboard (especially useful in VR)

eg: On the Hotas or Yoke. Press button 3 toggles Gear. Hold button 1 AND press button 3 toggles the lights.

Simply allowing 2 buttons to be combined reveals all sorts of extra combinations. You don't even have to specifically assign a "toggle" button, just allow more than one button simultaneously. The user can determine how to set things up to suit the hardware.

You could set up 2 toggle buttons and effectively triple the number of assignments to the same hardware. Especially if the combinations can be applied across more than one controller.

It works brilliantly in Elite Dangerous.