In Combat - How to Target/Tractor Enemy Weapons & Goodie

Sat May 10, 2003 3:33 am by junkobot

In Combat I want to make the most of targeting enemies to loot them upon their death.

Has anyone made sense of the ship scan and targeting monitor?

So far...

When In Combat... "R" for nearest enemy, click on enemy for schematic of ship. There is 3-D image of enemy ship. One can target: Port Wing, Starboard Wing, Tail, Top...Also There are yellow guns, yellow missles, blue thrusters, blue ountermeasure droppers, blue turrets...

Lots of Goodies! When you activate ship scan... a red-cross hair appears over the 3-D schematic of enemy ship. You can select any portion of enemy ship to fire at...

When enemy ship has taken damage... the targets change to white color... or also orange... or also flashing red and flashing white...

I thought with this target system... it would be easier for me to target the equipment that I want to blast off the ship and turn it into loot after enemy dies...

So far no Luck! I find that I get better guns, countermeasure droppers etc... if I don't open the target monitor... not target anything specific...and instead go after enemy ships from the ship list... and fire at the auto-target cross-hair on the main combat screen,,,

I haven't seen any postings about this yet...

I want to Maximize Battle-Loot Opps...

Thanks,
JunkoBot

Sat May 10, 2003 9:35 am by Pinger

You cant target individual parts of a ship, so cant Shoot OFF parts. Just have to see what randomly drops from the ship when you kill it.

Sat May 10, 2003 4:20 pm by junkobot

Actually,

You can aim for sub-targets of enemies. It helps for more effcient battling... despite no guarentee for loot. My take on the sub-target monitor/3-D schematic of enemy ship:

I use system scan to target the enemy shield... blast that off... it changes from blue to white ...when it is dead...

then I go for the thruster...

by the time the shield and thuster have both gone white... the targeting monitor flashes a wing subtarget... it flashes red and white... starboard wing, tail, etc...

Makes for polishing up enemies...

I did find some other posts about this.... and I would like to see a mod... to hot-key target from the system scan...

as it is ... it is aggravating to be in combat mode and have to click sub-targets with mouse...

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