How to launch the beacon?

[Ricardo]

Hello, after the recent update (Trailblazer 3) I can't launch the beacon to do the CALIM test system – what suggestions do you have?

I’m 200 meters from the location, the SC Suite Launch Beacon is assigned to a firegroup, but pressing fire to launch the beacon doesn’t work. Any suggestions?

[frumple]

Press and hold?

[Ricardo]

That didn’t work.

There’s some kind of technical glitch after Trailblazer 3 patch. It manifests as certain functions not working when pressing buttons on Joy 1. I switched to Joy 2 — it worked. Then switching back to Joy 1 also worked. I’m experiencing a similar issue in FSS and on Planet Surface.

[frumple]

It amazes me how unrelated systems can break when fDev fix something in the game.
Like the personal camera suite broke with a patch a couple of months ago. It sets a default zoom of 0, where previously it was 2.3, so all pictures look distorted as if taken with a fish-eye lens, unless the player manually sets zoom to 2.3, every time.

What is your issue on planet surface? Do you mean Detailed Surface Scanner?
I'm not even 100% that is a Frontier mistake. It could be an OS issue.

[funkynutz]

I did one yesterday, using a ship I'd not used for it before. So I had to set the firegroup when I arrived at the location... Worked fine.
Might have just been a UI bug showing the firegroup was set, when it actually wasn't in your case?

[Ricardo]

I had already set up new systems three times before Trailblazer Patch 3. I haven’t played in about a week, the patch was released on April 30. It’s a pity I didn’t record it on video — it would’ve been easier to see what’s what.

[Talonblaze]

I think you can manually assign a key for the claim beacon instead of the fire group; that's what I did.