Particle Beam Turrets

[MaxMagnus]

I can not operate them manually, but how are they operated?

[fenris]

They work on their own. No input from you. Get in range and they pew pew.

EDIT: They stop working sometimes. Restart your game if they do.

[Martin]

Yeh i found if you have 1 set of manual guns they work all the time but if you have 3 sets of turrets they rarely work at all.. except after restarting the game, until they break again, it's like they can't find a target or something.

[Oh Heck]

Make sure when you install turrets, that they are facing forward or they may not die as they have 180 arc of movement

[Skumboni]

You do not fire turrets manually, they auto fire when a target is within range. When getting turrets look at the range as well as the dps. And the more of each type you have the slower they operate, so 2 long range ballistic turrets and 2 long range em turrets with the best missiles you manually fire is the best option. The best weapons are at Deimos .

[aandaie]

I bought the Narwhal and the Auto Turrets were not shooting at all.

The two front ones were pointing off to the left and right, so I went into Shipbuilder and made them face to the front. Then I went into "upgrade ship" and replaced them with "PB 300 Auto Turret" or something like that, with a range of 3,000; I mainly did that because the one point I put in the Auto Turret skill was not getting credit while fighting ships while using the "beam" it came with(to advance it to skill 2.) It seems that it wants a Ballistic weapon for the skill.

The next fight I went in the Auto Turret was going CRAZY and was already attacking the enemy ship at quite some distance. I was also getting credit to advance the Auto Turret skill to rank 2. It is now at the point where If I wanted to board an enemy ship I would have to turn that "PB" down all the way and just my manual guns or the Auto Turrets would destroy it.