any tips for beginner?

[Shinpool]

i pplayed last night, still on the tutorial mission where i have to destroy the pirate ship. damn, it took around 30 minutes maybe more to destroy it. seemed like my ship is too slow while the enemy ship can fly back and forth. and after turning back and forth finally i destroyed hime, but boy, its hard to target that son if ♥♥♥♥♥. i used the lock on feature hoping that my ship would turn automatically towards the enemy, but it wasnt, i sitll needed to move my ship. any tips? i was just imagining if there were a batallion of ships, how long will it take to destroy all of them.

[Captain Harlock]

Try use the function of auto-fire so you can focus on steering your ship. The default key is "f". That should help you out :)

Good luck Captain and welcome to Gemini!

[Zephkiel]

By Default isnt X heavy weapon?

I dont know if i have rebind my key or not, but the fire at will function si bind to F for me.

[Captain Harlock]

Damn I'm giving bad information! I changed most of my keys sorry... ! I will edit my first post to the correct info. Thanks Zephkiel! :) I hope "f" is the one ! ^^

[Zephkiel]

You're welcome Cap'n!

Even the best heroes of the galaxy make mistakes.

[Aelies von Saladir]

Yeah, auto fire is definitely better than manual targetting. I use a ship with more than a dozen turrets and still fail to hit anything smaller than a space station when I'm not using auto fire

[Tanvaras]

Hello deadpooh!?

As mentioned above;

F - Auto Fire on enemies in range (Your crew is manning the guns so to speak)
V - Cycles views - Turret view (Space Bar to cycle lock view or rotation on) is good to get used to flying in so you can rotate around your ship keeping enemies in view and using (where the ship allows) your side and rear weapons and Heavies.
X - Fires Heavy weapons (AI Crew does not fire Heavies (F Key))
M - Is Map key also good for Quick Pause (As game is paused when on Galaxy map)

Having a T-Drive in equipment (When can afford) is a good get out of here tool. Opens map choose a position in range and it jumps you there immediately.

Shield boosters, Use them like candy

On the hologram of your ship on the botton left, You can put your pointer and adjust power to Engines, Weapons, or defenses or a bit of all etc - Handy to get to know and use.

B - Power to engine for faster travel speed from point to point.

When you have a ship with a hanger, utilize the fighter bays, they are pretty handy in some tough fights.

OH and if playing Campaign, at times the ship your in might not be good enough, go off and do some side missions, mining, trading, Ship capping to increase your rank and credits to improve or buy a better ship/weapons.

Safe travels Captains!

[badchad71]

I kept my original ship (did some enhancements on it) until level 17 there I was finally able to buy a frigate, skipping the next higher ship because it didn't seem like much of an improvement and wouldn't last long.

Don't forget to save enough to put some weapons on the new frigate.

[Shinpool]

thanks guys, those controls are useful. i will try it later

[Nist048]

Learn to capture ships for easy money as well as free ships. Basically:

Enahnce your transporter to have increased capacity.

Make sure you have more troopers than the ship you want to capture.

Get them down to less than 50% health.

Grapple them and start sending over troopers until captured.


For advanced tactics the Engineer has life support sabotage as a skill which will assist in capturing as will the Field Commander perk. There are also officers you can hire that will expand the transporter capacity and your trooper effectiveness as well.

[Zenoslaf]

Originally posted by badchad71:

I kept my original ship (did some enhancements on it) until level 17 there I was finally able to buy a frigate, skipping the next higher ship because it didn't seem like much of an improvement and wouldn't last long.

Don't forget to save enough to put some weapons on the new frigate.

We had a guy who finished the campaign in Taurus. Not sure how he pulled it off, I wouldn't be able to do it, but that proves one thing - Bigger ships are not necessarily better. That why you have the option to store your ships and have a big cargo ship for trading and mining, heavy weapons ship for fast killing, ships with many trooper space for easier capturing and so on... Engineer class with maxed Rift skill and cloaked ship can AOE bunch of enemies before they even realize what's going on... There are many ways to play, but as I said. It's easy to learn, but hard to master. :)

[sagagt505]

Ok for all beginner. Please follow my step.
1.use your left hand for keyboard.
2.use your right hand for mouse.
3.Enjoy
And dont forget to open your computer/laptop before play.... ok guy it's joke.

Basic control
1.Press f = autofire
2.Press x + Click on enermy target = heavy turret attack
3.Press v (turret view) + Press spacebar(mouse view) = camera free rotate
4.Press b = boost
5. Press 1,2,3,4 = skill
6.Press N = stop move
7.Press w,a,s,d,q,e = ship rotate
8.mouse 1 = target object
9.mouse 2 = fire light turret
10.middle mouse = show function

Make money fast = do quest + capture ship and sell it.

Hope it's helpful Thank you.

[Shinpool]

thanks guys, i will try it tonight. i saw everyone has their own unique play styles, lets which style suits me the most

[Bodhammer]

I'm really enjoying this game using Voice Attack. No connection with the company - just a happy customer. It is $7 and you can add some other MS voices for free. You will have to Google this as I added voices in Win7 and they carried along to Win10.

[Tanvaras]

Originally posted by Bodhammer:

I'm really enjoying this game using Voice Attack. No connection with the company - just a happy customer. It is $7 and you can add some other MS voices for free. You will have to Google this as I added voices in Win7 and they carried along to Win10.

Yes and there is a pretty cool voice pack I grabbed back when the fellow first put it out HCS Voice pack - It has a ton more available now from some renoun actors etc.

[Zenoslaf]

AstraVoice is still working on it. I have him on my friends list, I was thinking of doing SPG Warlords set with him. We'll see, there's enty of time and he did a great work on Elite Voice pack. :)