Spirit ship, how does it work?

[Maurycy]

I am running the game on Linux which has the unfortunate effect of help not working at all - could some good soul explain to me how to use Spirit Ship? None of the buttons do anything, nothing in the keyboard mapping suggests how to use it and I feel like I tried everything I could think of myself.

[bob2chiv]

Select the ship.
Press and hold the 'use' key (E is the default keybind).
Click and draw a path for the bombing run

[Maurycy]

Thank you! I somehow tried every other key that sounded likely but never noticed Use. I can now proceed.

[Mozai]

The video shows clicking left mouse button, and E key. I did that, drew a white path... but the spirit ship doesn't launch.

[Happy Monkey]

With the ship selected there are some launch options on its panel.

[Svartkladd]

What does loop/bounce switch do? Didn't notice a difference besides that in bounce mode it was actually cutting digitalis (or maybe it was a coincidence). Also, should that vessel stay on drawn path till it's out of juice or run depends on length of drawn line? That specific unit feels really underexplained.

[phillip_lynx]

Originally posted by Svartkladd:

What does loop/bounce switch do? Didn't notice a difference besides that in bounce mode it was actually cutting digitalis (or maybe it was a coincidence). Also, should that vessel stay on drawn path till it's out of juice or run depends on length of drawn line? That specific unit feels really underexplained.

Loop means - go from the end of the line to the start without DPS
Bounce means - go the line back and forth doing DPS all times.

To be seen on long lines which are not closed.

[Svartkladd]

Originally posted by phillip_lynx:

Originally posted by Svartkladd:

What does loop/bounce switch do? Didn't notice a difference besides that in bounce mode it was actually cutting digitalis (or maybe it was a coincidence). Also, should that vessel stay on drawn path till it's out of juice or run depends on length of drawn line? That specific unit feels really underexplained.

Loop means - go from the end of the line to the start without DPS
Bounce means - go the line back and forth doing DPS all times.

To be seen on long lines which are not closed.

If DPS means damage, then what's the point of using it without causing damage?)
Kinda explains why I couldn't break digitalis in loop mode.

[musizlover2008]

You just need to draw a line across the digitails so the vessel will bounce back and forth and cut the path.

[phillip_lynx]

Originally posted by Svartkladd:

Originally posted by phillip_lynx:

Loop means - go from the end of the line to the start without DPS
Bounce means - go the line back and forth doing DPS all times.

To be seen on long lines which are not closed.

If DPS means damage, then what's the point of using it without causing damage?)
Kinda explains why I couldn't break digitalis in loop mode.

If you draw a circle with start and end connected, Loop works fine.
And if you only draw short lines Loop also suffice to cut of digitalis.

It only makes a real differens, if your line is toooo long.

The "no DPS" part is only to get from the end of the line to the start.
After the ship is at the startpoint it follows the line again and do Damage.