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Post Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:19 am

Turrets

Does anyone know how the turrets will work on ships that have them. Will they fire and aim automatically if you are in the cockpit or do you have to switch to them and manually fire them?

Post Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:23 am

Just so you know, ive moved ur mouse topic to Offtopic.

You can control your turrets by going into Turret View, which basically switches you to a view where you can spin the camera around your ship. You can aim anywhere around your ship and fire your turrets in that direction. Typically, the turrets are mounted to the back of a ship, intended for targets behind you but there are exceptions -- some ships you buy have the turret mounted at the front of your ship.

There are no AI controlled turrets on your ship. Turret view is best for when you are in formation and when you jsut wanna take a gander at your surroundings.

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Post Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:31 pm

Thanks for your response.

So what if you have more than one turret, like when you are flying a frieghter that has 4 or more turrets? Can you only fire one turret at a time... and have to keep switching to the different ones depending on where an enemy is firing at you?

If this is the case, then it seems it would be very difficult to defend your ship.

Post Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:42 pm

When in turret mode, all the turrets that can fire at the point you're targeting will fire, so you don't control them individually. Also, when in normal front-facing mode, the turrets that can see the front will fire, or so I've heard from Tach

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Post Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:44 pm

Cool.. thanks

Post Fri Feb 07, 2003 5:22 pm

Turrets are always better than standard weps.

Post Fri Feb 07, 2003 6:40 pm

Rats I was hoping that the turrets would be fired by
the computer too.

May luck is either good or bad so I'm First to kill or first to dead

Post Fri Feb 07, 2003 9:14 pm

They're not always better. You can't maneuver while in turret mode, meaning you'll just fly forward while shooting at all the enemies making crazy turns around you :p


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