I was hoping that it would have come with 1.0 but I understand that game development is a fluid and challenging task. I think a lot of the PC community is waiting on this feature. We could really use the ability to map throttle and collective axis for analog equipment. Controller emulation is just not cutting it. I personally would really like to sink my time into Reforger like I did with Arma 3 but all of my flight time in Arma 3 was done with a duel stick setup or HOTAS, I have no muscle memory with mouse and keyboard. I wish we could get any kind of information from the company about this specific topic. The last I saw from Geez on the feedback site was: "Hello Amipro.
The joystick support is currently WIP. So it should be available in future." Geez was unable to elaborate any further or give any estimates of when this would be coming to Reforger. They could also not confirm or deny that they were continuing to develop this feature currently. It might have gotten put on the back burner for tasks that were given higher priority but that is personal speculation. The quoted reply was from back in in November of 2023.