Unusual munitions (0.4.3 stable)

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:04 pm

Since I had a nasty encounter with some Luddite thugs, I decided to buy my Llama some better weapons: a couple of mass drivers to supplement the lasers, and some Breeze ammo. Unfortunately, upon my next encounter with said thugs, I discovered that the missiles were quite uneffective - they didn't move much faster than my ship, and not one of them exploded anywhere near the Redeemer I had locked.

So, while I load myself out with FoFs and heatseekers for my next mission, I'd like to know... can someone tell me how the various types of missiles work? Hephaestus, for instance - that works kind of like a Vulcan cannon, no? And what does "photon swarm" do?

sKaar · Post by **sKaar** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:10 am

if they're outrunning you and you're not as fast as them it's better to ignore and catch them during a patrol. if they've engaged you, and they're faster, you can fire some missiles when they turn back towards you, when their relative velocity is near zero, or are on the approach.

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:25 pm

So Breeze ammo is for low relative speeds? Ick.

(I recently purchased two Stormfire guns, and discovered the various ammo for them to be less than incredibly useful. I'd expect more damage... oh well. On the other hand, Hephaestus PD is long range and easy to hit things with, so it kind of works against flimsy trash like Pirate Hyenas. As for photon swarm ammo... Tried some of that and can't see how it would be useful for anything other than slow, piggish ships at short range. Unless missile mounts can have autotracking.)

Post by **loki1950** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:31 pm

Unless missile mounts can have autotracking.

Yes they can

great for getting those dumb fires on target

Enjoy the Choice

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:10 pm

Dang! I'll have to try that. It would be expensive but it sounds great for dealing with the Aera.

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:12 am

Hey, would someone mind telling me how to set the rapid fire key to something on the keyboard? I haven't been able to find any *specific* instructions (i.e. what's the command? RapidFireKey?), only tutorials on how to edit the config file (obvious, it's XML) and people saying that rapid fire doesn't work for them.

(I tried using the mouse too. Not only do both kinds of mouse control suck utterly, none of the mouse buttons have the proper rapid fire functionality.)

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:37 am

Hmm, it looks like autotracking missiles didn't work in 0.4.3. My dumbfires still shoot dead ahead when the target's in my tracking cone and locked on.

Post by **loki1950** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:57 am

Remember rapid fire will not increase the refire rate of any weapon most of the weapons have fixed recharge and refire and some of them will explode break if overheated why you can buy a gun cooling sub-system

Enjoy the Choice

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:17 am

loki1950 wrote:Remember rapid fire will not increase the refire rate of any weapon most of the weapons have fixed recharge and refire and some of them will explode break if overheated why you can buy a gun cooling sub-system

Enjoy the Choice

Yeah, I know what rapid fire does - it fires missiles as long as you hold it down, with the normal reload time. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it working, and it would be nice to have a way of spamming swarm ammo and whatnot without hitting the return key again and again...

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:33 pm

Okay, I still can't seem to get rapid fire to work no matter what I do. Assign "RapidFireKey" to Return, hold down return -> nothing, not even one missile fires. Is there a way to fire missiles one after another without repeatedly hitting the key when using keyboard-only mode, or is this another thing that's broken in 0.4.3?

whatch1 · Post by **whatch1** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:12 pm

Did you try increasing the repeat rate on your keyboard settings

control panel in windows

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:39 pm

Not Windows, and not a repeat rate issue (MissileKey never repeats)... sorry.