Assign new weapon to a group

[Arkan]

I looted and bought a couple of new guns and installed them on the station. Howether in the first encounter my weapon groups are empty, obviously i cant shoot but i also cannot assign weapons to said groups. No elements of the interface allow me to do that. What am i doing wrong?

[0kaiowas0]

Did you assign the "weapons grouping" numbers?
On the screen the shows the guns being fitted - did you notice a little square parallel to the right of guns' names? You need to click on that and up will come a number "1" or "2", directly next to the type of gun.

[Colmaniac]

also you cant mix and match weapons, you only have 2 weapon groups, so lasers to laser groups shotgun to shotgun etc, also to assign a weapon group when you have installed weapons select the group in the coloum next to the weapon when installed, no other way to group weapons

[Arkan]

Oh, so you have to assing group on statio too... That is a bit counterintuitive, i sincerely thought that grouping can be done anywhere. But thanks a lot, i thought i'm seriously stuck since i already was in a story dogfight without any guns =)

[Colmaniac]

lol yea only on station found that out after fitting new guns and forgetting to assign them :), for a tip I dont use 2 weapon systems after getting a few ranks up, I now just use a bank of 6 rail guns, makes micemeat of targets :)

[sedman]

Originally posted by Arkan:

I looted and bought a couple of new guns and installed them on the station. Howether in the first encounter my weapon groups are empty, obviously i cant shoot but i also cannot assign weapons to said groups. No elements of the interface allow me to do that. What am i doing wrong?

If this is the 'daddy's old ship', then there is a hidden gatling gun in the first weapon group, so you can only use gatling guns in the first group, adding another type will result in you not being able to add the turrets to the first group.

[Amereth]

Originally posted by sedman:

Originally posted by Arkan:

I looted and bought a couple of new guns and installed them on the station. Howether in the first encounter my weapon groups are empty, obviously i cant shoot but i also cannot assign weapons to said groups. No elements of the interface allow me to do that. What am i doing wrong?

If this is the 'daddy's old ship', then there is a hidden gatling gun in the first weapon group, so you can only use gatling guns in the first group, adding another type will result in you not being able to add the turrets to the first group.

i can use railguns only on that ship and i don't have any hidden gatling gun in mine.


possible you encountered a bug.

[2ugly]

Funny.... I'm at the services screen now after jumping in the ship with the new droid from the first sting of missions. Found out you can't access the services UI unless you take off and land again. Then got an instruction to equip and assign the groups, but no means to assign them. Can't get out of the screen, and clicking on any part of the weapon only puts it back in storage, even the green box next to the weapon. It's waiting for me to figure out how to assign the weapon to a group.... but appears impossible.

LOL... alt tabbing back and forth appears to have knocked something loose.... Now clicking on the obvious little green box next to the weapon... even though it says "hold to unload" now sets the group. For about 5 minutes prior this never worked before alt tabbing out and back into the game.

[0kaiowas0]

There has been issues with the resolutions - borderless, windowed, fullscreen. I can't remember off the top of my head, but at least one of those resolutions doesn't like alt-tabbing. Maybe someone else could confirm...

[Amereth]

Originally posted by 2ugly:

Funny.... I'm at the services screen now after jumping in the ship with the new droid from the first sting of missions. Found out you can't access the services UI unless you take off and land again. Then got an instruction to equip and assign the groups, but no means to assign them. Can't get out of the screen, and clicking on any part of the weapon only puts it back in storage, even the green box next to the weapon. It's waiting for me to figure out how to assign the weapon to a group.... but appears impossible.

LOL... alt tabbing back and forth appears to have knocked something loose.... Now clicking on the obvious little green box next to the weapon... even though it says "hold to unload" now sets the group. For about 5 minutes prior this never worked before alt tabbing out and back into the game.

Yeah there is some weird stuff going on with the game sometimes.


Like coming out of warp and not being able to click any button other than ESC.

happens to me quite often.