Ship auto turret not firing

[Kirei]

Hey, so umm. I installed 2 different types of auto turrets on my ship, neither of them fired in combat. Thoughts?


Edit:
Surely one of these would fire
https://prnt.sc/BPzlw0fchs_5

[xpaydayx]

No one else seems to have figured it out so here goes: The direction of the turrets matters. My ship only targets directly above me up to a range of 3500 or so. When I see an enemy I target them with E and then just put my nose straight down and my turrets obliterate the enemy.

[Kirei]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

You need a control room, crew and the turret piloting skill to be able to use turrets.

I'm level 502, with all skills and powers maxed out on NG+13 currently

My ship has those, and the turrets randomly decide "Naw fam, we just gon chill and sleep"

[Tyrax]

Originally posted by Breed me bug daddy OwO:

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

You need a control room, crew and the turret piloting skill to be able to use turrets.

I'm level 502, with all skills and powers maxed out on NG+13 currently

My ship has those, and the turrets randomly decide "Naw fam, we just gon chill and sleep"

Have you checked power levels? They don't have unlimited power - depending on turret type, it needs to recharge after a few beams. Angle also plays a role, if you place them on top of the ship they can't hit something that's below you.

[Torritorr - TTV]

are they facing the correct direction? Turrets can only turn so far unfortunately. IIRC they have a 45 degree angle they can shoot in

[Kirei]

Originally posted by Tyrax:

Originally posted by Breed me bug daddy OwO:

I'm level 502, with all skills and powers maxed out on NG+13 currently

My ship has those, and the turrets randomly decide "Naw fam, we just gon chill and sleep"

Have you checked power levels? They don't have unlimited power - depending on turret type, it needs to recharge after a few beams. Angle also plays a role, if you place them on top of the ship they can't hit something that's below you.

Coinsidering I have max power to all weapons, I'd assume they'd fire.

And it very rarely decides to shoot. Like, once in every 60 fights.

Originally posted by Torritorr - TTV:

are they facing the correct direction? Turrets can only turn so far unfortunately. IIRC they have a 45 degree angle they can shoot in

Yes.

[Petrothian]

have to make sure they are in the right angles when assembling them.

I found a "bump" I added behind my turret was blocking it from moving...

[Kirei]

Originally posted by Petrothian:

have to make sure they are in the right angles when assembling them.

I found a "bump" I added behind my turret was blocking it from moving...

Surely one of these would fire

https://prnt.sc/BPzlw0fchs_5

[FruitBowl]

you have to face them facing forward using the flip command. It will let you place them wrong for some reason.

[Kai]

Turrets only shoot when they are in a cone that they are originally placed in, they do not have 360 degree of coverage.

[Kyle]

It's not a bug, it's a feature. It just works

[Kirei]

Originally posted by FruitBowl:

you have to face them facing forward using the flip command. It will let you place them wrong for some reason.

Originally posted by Kai:

Turrets only shoot when they are in a cone that they are originally placed in, they do not have 360 degree of coverage.

Yes, I am aware. I have seen them work on occasion, and then in the rest of the fights they just do nothing, they dont even try to aim, it's like they are just disabled.

[bvperez]

The turrets in the shieldbreaker started out working, just entered 3 battles with no changes and they didn’t shoot once the whole fight. Had to grab jump away without firing a shot all 3 occasions.

[Memorex]

Automated turrets are garbage, never use them if you want to board ships, because automated turrets will destroy enemy ship it fires non stop

[karin]

Probably a bug.
Sometimes the turret does not work right after it is placed.
It was fixed when I once set the energy of the turret to 0 and then supplied it with energy again.
If you want to get on the ship, you can also set the energy to 0.

[Deklatis]

I had to restart the game for them to start working again.