Mining Tutorial - broken?

[Jerbs]

I'm trying to run through the mining tutorial and something doesn't seem right.

I've turned off the shields, changed cockpit mode, flown to an asteroid and now I'm stuck on the 'fire lasers' section. I'm firing the lasers until they overheat, letting them cool, firing until the overheat, letting them cool, rinse/repeat.

The game just keeps telling me to fire the lasers, like it hasn't registered that I have/am.

EDIT - someone has just tried the tutorial and is getting the same issue. So this is a bug.

[funkynutz]

Are you close enough? They have limited range.

[Jerbs]

When I'm not close enough I see the "Out of Range" indicator. I'm in range and I see the lasers leaving marks on the asteroid.

If you fire up the Mining tutorial, does it register you firing the lasers? It's not very far into the tutorial.

[malorob]

have a look at the power play weapons call "Mining Lance" they maybe some thing you might like.

they will mine in a 3km range so you wont need to get up close and personal with the rocks you mine.

they are also help full for those ships hard points are at the back of the ship.

and you can use them as weapons also.

[Mustachio Babylon]

I have the same issue. Been trying to do the mining tutorial for maybe 30 minutes. Follow the instructions, but firing laser at an astroid does nothing.

[-GHOST-]

I have the same problem, the laser fires, i am in range and nothing happens.

[frumple]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=755665078
Use this guide, since the tutorial is apparently borked.

Edit - A Mining Multi Limpet controller is superior to having two separate controllers!

[funkynutz]

Looks like you're not alone... It's on the issue tracker:

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/72203

Add your vote to it. I'll add mine when I've had a chance to test it later today.

[42]

Me too

[Miles Davis]

same problem

[QLIQ]

Oh same lol

[Uthael]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

Looks like you're not alone... It's on the issue tracker:

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/72203

Add your vote to it. I'll add mine when I've had a chance to test it later today.

Still broken so I did that, Thanks.
Kind of dumb having to resort to YouTube to teach me how the game works. I figured out the mining lasers, but I'm stuck figuring out sub-surface and deep-core. They just bounce off.

[frumple]

Try the Steam Guide i posted.

I learned all about mining from that guide.

[Chaka (FR)]

You can try also this guide but beware as it is a "light" guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2979780382
(it covers only the laser part mining, not core mining but it can still help and it is in both languages Fr/En)