Targeting Cross may FOOL YOU!!!

Mon May 05, 2003 12:53 am by SeverH

While plaing freelancer i noticed odd and quite disturbing thing

When you have multiply types of Guns/Turrets on your ship with diffrent Projectile Speed (speed of the ray or whatever it is)
the red cross (the one that marks the place where to shoot to hit your target)
marks the place for the fastest guns turned on (marked green on right pannel)
It causes slower (on the begining of game usualy the mor destructive guns) to hit empty space and drain energy ONLY

Therefore you should Watch carefully if your guns have SAME projectile speed so that all guns are targetted propperly.

Hint: only attacking target that goes on collision course allows to forget about it
Hint: You may tur noff faster guns so that slower ones may target properly

I love the smell of fresh radioactive dust in the morning...

Mon May 05, 2003 1:59 am by CW

Got use to it. Wonder why the programmers wasn't smart enough to have the guns deflected at different angles (slower guns = more deflected) so you can use the same aiming clue.

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War does not decide who is right, only who is left.

Mon May 05, 2003 3:21 am by maswastage|BG

yep. It would of been great to be able to have my c10 weapons along with some skyblast Bs. Although the salmanca mkII isn't too bad, I would rather have some skyblasts.

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Mon May 05, 2003 7:09 am by Lt Cmdr. Ajim

i never use any slow guns coz figters are meant to blast fighters right?. have problems with capship.. torp'em that how realism is suppose to be..

argh.. im never gonna get paid.. goodbye a million credits..

Mon May 05, 2003 11:04 am by Pinger

The aiming reticule is only a guide, you should after practice not have to use it, but Know when you can hit and when not.

Good way to practice is the munitions depot in NewYork and play with the Xeno's that are always swarming around it.

Mon May 05, 2003 4:25 pm by Sapient6

Wonder why the programmers wasn't(sic) smart enough to have the guns deflected at different angles (slower guns = more deflected) so you can use the same aiming clue.

I don't think it was an oversite. I think it was a deliberate balancing effort so if you want the heavy heavy damage slow PS guns you have to commit to using slow PS guns or lose accuracy (or divide into weapon groups depending on how you're firing at your target). Just because you WANT to be able to outfit your ship with something doesn't make it an oversite that you can't.

Mon May 05, 2003 8:39 pm by DJscratchman

true, true

Shigetah shigatah shwa[!

Mon May 05, 2003 10:06 pm by CW

Just because you WANT to be able to outfit your ship with something doesn't make it an oversite that you can't.

A targeting system that gives you an aiming point that is supposed to miss unquestionably involves flaws. If you think the programmers used THAT for "balancing" then you underestimated their intelligence even more than I did.

Even if they were really dumb enough to exclude differential deflection for your "balancing" reason there was absolutely nothing stopping them from putting two or more targeting crosses like what the other group of programmers did for Privateer 1 TEN years ago.

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War does not decide who is right, only who is left.

Edited by - CW on 05-05-2003 23:18:34

Tue May 06, 2003 12:02 am by Sapient6

Here's a wheel of cheese. Try not to cry directly on it, it will get soggy.

Tue May 06, 2003 2:36 pm by cat92

*only uses the target recticle for a guide, sympathises anyway*

Whens the patch coming out?

Tue May 06, 2003 3:18 pm by Sapient6

*only uses the target recticle for a guide, sympathises anyway*

That should be a spoiler, dammit.

Tue May 06, 2003 4:57 pm by Drassnia

Everything goes boom if you jiggle the mouse while firing. From the reticle cross, sweep the reticle to like 2 mm in front of where the cross is( + 500m) to like 1mm behind and directly on the cross. Most everything should hit. BOOM!

Tue May 06, 2003 5:11 pm by Holliday

If you are taking defelection shots (low percentage) you have already made a mistake. The human brain can figure parabolas at nearly the speed of light. Why trust in a few lines of code. Play with your eyes open and your monitor turned on and projectile speed will be meaningless.

Ne frustra vixisse videar

Tue May 06, 2003 5:13 pm by Hellmaster

Amen.

Tue May 06, 2003 10:27 pm by AzNChicken

itll just be much easier getting nomad weapons, since u peepz have the c10 weapons, then shouldnt be ttoo hard to get nomads

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