Broken Game: Which key for long range scanner?

[ronniejw2002]

Well me and Rebirth aren’t off to a very good start. I’m still having issues with my joystick but I’ll complain about that later in another post if I can’t get it resolved through Tech Support.

What I’m trying to figure out now is what key to use to do a long range scan out in space. Here is what I’ve done:

Entered long range scan mode (got a purple colour around the edge of the cockpit when I did that). Then I pressed and held down the R button because that is what I always did when I first tried to play X Rebirth. However this fired my missiles. WTF!

I’ve remapped my Fire Missile to another key now but I can’t for the life of me figure out where to map the Long Range Scan. I’ve gone through Controls: Space over and over and can’t seem to find it.

Damn, it figures that the very first thing I attempt to do in this game patch failed. Please tell me this is just a simple mistake I’ve made.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Hakke]

default for the scanner is the R key - so maybe reset all bindings to default ?

[ronniejw2002]

Well, it looks like restore defaults restores the default for all the controls and not just individual secitons. That will wipe out over an hour of time I spent setting up and testing my joystick. ♥♥♥♥! I feel like its right back to day one six months ago. I hope this is something that I acidently did while setting up my joystick but I've not mapped anything to the R key. I didn't map any letter keys just buttons on my joystick. But, I suspose it's possible.

[ronniejw2002]

Yep, the key bindings for this game are screwed up. I reset key bindings back to default and it binds both the R and L keys as well as Side Mouse button 1 to Fire Missile. I tried both R and L keys and both tried to fire missiles but couldn’t because I fired them all off trying to do a long range scan.

Anyone have any other suggestions?

Update: While in Long Range Scanning Mode R will do the scan but outside of that mode it fires a missile. Still don't understand why the R and L keys are both bound to Fire Missile.

[ronniejw2002]

So there are two settings, one above the other, for binding Fire Weapons. One that has both the R and L key bound and one that has the Side Mouse button 1 assigned. I want to remove the R from being bound to Fire Missile.

Does anyone know how to remove a key binding without adding another one in its place?

Update: WTF! I was trying to remove the R key from the Fire Missile field and no matter what key I hit it would just assign that key to Fire Missile (I wanted to get the N/A in that field) so then I hit the delete key and it deleted the option to assign a key to Fire Missile from the Control: Space Menu.

It’s actually gone from the Settings>Controls>Space Menu completely (no longer even a menu option). Now Fire Weapons is only listed once (it was listed twice) and it is bound to L and Side Mouse button 1. Ok, so I remapped it to the R key instead of the L key.

But wait! Where am I going to map my joystick button to for firing missiles now that I only have two bindings available? I guess I won’t be able to have the option of using a keyboard key or maybe not on the mouse.

I wonder if I can just start all over again by resetting defaults once more. Another hour down the drain trying to get this game to work.

[CTHOMP]

Why couldn't they just let you have a triplex scanner like in X3? You didn't have to worry about using your scanner instead of weapons or anything. A nice passive scanner that has a large range seems to work great in X3. It was one of their many stupid decisions to get rid of something that works great in earlier games (why change what works?) They also removed advanced satellites didn't they? Another stupid call.

[B1G Country]

i am having the same problem. i cant scan for some reason the R key fires missiles and when i change my fire key 2 some thing else still does not scan

[UniTrader]

did you enter LR scan mode?

[Lupo]

Please do not resurrect old threads that have outdated information, feel free to open a new one with your current problem. Locking this one.