Multi-Targetting?

[TribalBob]

Just curious if there are any plans for supporting multiple targets, perhaps with some sort of AI weapons suite? If I build a capital ship and I have gun racks along the port and starboard, I would hope that in a larger battle they could each fire independantly at different targets.

[tallon.nisar]

You should be able to target multiple ships using different groups right now.

Short(ish) tutorial:

Say you're like me, and group all your weapons by the side of the ship they're on.
So they're grouped like this:

Front-fixed: 1, Front-Turret: 3, Rear: 4, Port: 5, Starboard: 6, Underside: 7.

You warp into a group of 3 hostiles, and target them successively by clicking the radar icon and then hitting 'C' thus targeting all the enemies, and assigning each one a number value, "1," "2," and "3."

By the time you're in range, 1 and 3 are on your port side, and 2 has moved around to your fore-starboard. you then can select target 1 by hitting F1, and then hitting 5 to have the port weapons group start firing on it. After that, you can hit F2 to to select target 2 and then hit 3 and 6 to have the front and starboard group firing at 2.

As far as I know, you can't fire at multiple targets with one group though, so unless target 3 is in range of another group, such as the underside, to fire at it, you would have to switch from firing at 1 and use the port group to fire at 3 by hitting F3 and hitting 5.

[Tarax00]

Thanks ! I did not know that xP - I am a bit annoyed i can untarget stuff xP - accedently locked stuff i wasn't supposed to and not been able to unlock (Like a station or "friendly" vessel.

[tallon.nisar]

You can untarget by selecting the target via the F key and then hitting "Shift+C" I think, never tried it though. Dunno if it cancels hostile though.

[Shagohod ~Red]

Oprindeligt skrevet af tallon.nisar:

You can untarget by selecting the target via the F key and then hitting "Shift+C" I think, never tried it though. Dunno if it cancels hostile though.

That does work indeed. However, it does not reset the hostile status.

[Tarax00]

haha ok Thanks ^.-.^