ok its really quite simple as long as you don't get confused by the controls - this is where people trip up on the groups.
1. IGNORE all "assign weapons group" controls - they don't do anything and should be removed from the keylist someday to avoid this confusion

2. assign keys to the "activate weapons group" controls

now,get into space and look at your weapons list in the lower right corner of the HUD -
see the green weapons?they're all activated - now press the 'activate weapons group 1' key

3. deactivate the weapons you DON't want in group 1

4.now activate group two,deactivate/reactivate the weapons you want in this group
and so on for the rest

when you activate a weapons group any time you deactivate a weapon manually through the mouse that weapon will be deactivated in that group until you manually reactivate it while in that group

these are very handy for switching from missiles to guns,torps etc so you're not wasting costly ammunition on shields

Edited by - Cold_Void on 7/30/2005 2:52:29 PM