Suggestion: make rocket pods act like guns

[Miramor]

Unguided rockets are a cheap way to increase your firepower, but being treated as missiles makes them a bit of a pain - you have to cycle to the right ones so you don't waste DFs or heatseekers or whatever, and you have to keep pressing the return key or the mouse button. IMHO it would be better to list them along with the guns, or at least make them fire when the gun key rather than the missile key is pressed, like with the Gauss and Hephaestus cannons in VS 0.4.x.

(Or maybe add a new category for "special" weapons, and a corresponding new key...)

[bgaskey]

Another fix could (if I understand the complaint) be to have a key bound to fire all selected missiles so you could at least fire all 73 specials on an areus at once. its idiodic to have to fire each hail by itself. and it does nothing => makes them useless.

[Miramor]

That's because holding down the missile key only works for joystick users. I've complained about that in the past, but I think it might actually be better to just make the rocket pods fire along with the guns - that's basically what they're there for.

[bgaskey]

either would be a step in the right direction (and would save wear on enter key on my keyboard )

[loki1950]

That may also be a limitation of SDL in how it handles key presses and joysticks not sure have to dig through the docs.

Enjoy the Choice

[Miramor]

So it might be the case that, for SDL, a key has to be either hold-and-repeat or one-stroke-one-action for everything?

[ace123]

I think the once per missile tihng was intentional... I don't know why the joystick code would work differently than the keyboard code, but it is probably a bug in Vega Strike's code since SDL doesn't deal with key repeats.

[Coragem]

That's because holding down the missile key only works for joystick users.

This is not True at least using my Gameport Sidewinder. If i hold down the missile button it does not repeat fire.