Answered: Where the Hell is the radial wheel?

[Jurassic Fart 2]

Okay, so first thing, the game tells me to "use the radial wheel to issue orders." Simple enough, right? Just look in options, and...WTF? WhereTF is the gawddamned radial wheel? It sure as frack isn't in Options!

It SEEMS to have something to do with the Q key, but it is NOT intuitive. Try to move the mouse left or right*, and THAT's screwed up, and try to use the arrow keys* (*as suggested by the onscreen "hint"), and that doesn't work, either.

[danbio]

To open the wheel in combat (on map is different)
-Querty keyboard: Q
-Azerty keyboard: A

more about that here:
https://www.ign.com/wikis/operation-flashpoint-dragon-rising/Guide_part_4#Operation.C2.A0Flashpoint.C2.A0Dragon.C2.A0Rising.C2.A0Guide

[Jurassic Fart 2]

Originally posted by danbio:

To open the wheel in combat (on map is different)
-Querty keyboard: Q
-Azerty keyboard: A

more about that here:
https://www.ign.com/wikis/operation-flashpoint-dragon-rising/Guide_part_4#Operation.C2.A0Flashpoint.C2.A0Dragon.C2.A0Rising.C2.A0Guide

Thank you for trying to help, but that guide really is quite useless; like I said earlier, I had already figured out that the Q key had something to do with it, but that actually USING it to desired effect is impossible, as none of my efforts to do so, nor reading the MUCH-less-than-helpful guide provided any illumination on the dark subject.

I reiterate: Moving the mouse AS WEAKLY SUGGESTED by the onscreen hints, or using arrow keys (also AS WEAKLY SUGGESTED) did nothing but make the gawdamned hints dance all over my screen; doing so did NOT enable me to issue any orders.

While the "guide" was quite detailed in what SORT of orders might be given, it also completely failed to illustrate HOW those specific orders should be given once the Q key had been actuated.

[Jurassic Fart 2]

...and trying to use Q in Map mode is WORSE than useless; you can select some or all team members, but YOU STILL CAN'T ISSUE DESIRED ORDERS.

Unless someone can tell me how to ACTUALLY issue orders, I'll be forced to consider this game unplayable and uninstall; I can't use my AI teammates, have to play 100% solo. Ditto for Red River, I suspect (I'm going to test that right now).

[danbio]

oyé boy !
to give orders to your team you use the order wheel,
you open the wheel with Q or A (depends your keyboard)....
then use the KEYBOARD to type orders like the wheel indicates...

on the keyboard (your querty) you use Q, W,E,A,S,D.
example:
-follow me: Q-S-Q
-go to : Q-D-W-Q
-defend: Q-D-S-S-Q
-suppression fire: Q-D-A-A-Q
and so on
Q at beginnig to open wheel and at the end to close wheel.
Use the keyboard to give orders with the order wheel and point with the mouse to the place where the order should apply. (for example "go to")

[Jurassic Fart 2]

Te escucho, vato mio, pero...that's an awfully effed-up and complicated totally non-intuitive bunch of CRAP to memorize. No, thank you very much! This game is STAYING uninstalled. You shouldn't have to work so hard to have a little fun.

I'm having a LOT easier time with Operation Flashpoint: Red River; The AI gives you explicit onscreen instructions so you don't have to go to some support board to dig out "secret protocols." EDIT: Just looked at manual. Got out of habit of even HAVING a manual to look at; contemporary devs seem to think READING is too gawdamned troublesome and so no longer PROVIDE manuals. It's explained far better in the manual, but, I'm already in Red River. Maybe I'll come back to Dragon Rising after...MAYBE.