Tips on targeting for first real mission

[cjhangen]

Hi, I’m trying to observe which craft keep getting through (first mission). Problem is, I can’t seem to target them all the time. And a different ship keeps slipping buy; game over. I am using T, U, R and half of the time all it cycles through are friendlies. Is there a better way to track quest objectives/neutral craft?

[BluesyMoo]

You can hit M to go into the map which also pauses the game. There you can cycle through everything using the same keys.

[identifiedasbeingdisrespectful]

R only selects the nearest enemy, T cycles forwards through all targets, U iirc, cycles backwards through targets. You can set a specific ship to an f key too, that's covered in the tie training sim, the non maze one.

First mission is really easy to get everything, including bonus objectives. Turn your laser power off until you actually need to engage in combat, that way you have more power to engines. You only have to get within a certain short distance while targeting a ship to inspect it. You only have to inspect all of them once. You don't have to help disable the shields of freighter 3 which has the rebels you're looking for. Use that time to inspect the other ships you're missing. The Z key will also open a threat display showing you what a ship is doing, including the amount of time until it hypers out if that's it's current waypoint. Juke around and avoid the fighters while inspecting the last freighter groups, and I think there's a bonus objective to scan a shuttle that comes way at the end. You'll get ordered to return before it shows up I think.