How do you use the watch feature?

[💖 Officer Hotpants 💖]

I can't find any information on it in the in-game guide and I'm not seeing anything in the controls menus.

[chaosavy]

So the watch feature is probably far more useful in VD1 than in VD2 - but here's how it works -

In Tactical mode - select a ship/object - click on the little tab thingie on the left hand side (there's several little tab thingies on the left corner). Now the object is "watched" - so you'll see it's health, you can also click the tabby thingie to select the object. It works similar in overworld mode and ship mode (in ship mode hold down Capslock key to be able to get a mouse cursor to click the tab thingie).

Hope this helps.

[💖 Officer Hotpants 💖]

Oh. Alright. Thanks. Although I should probably note that I actually tried clicking on it while GUI mode was active and it wasn't doing anything. Maybe the ship unselected while I was doing so or something.

[chaosavy]

It might only work in tactical mode - but I'll double check to refresh my memory.

As an aside In interest in removing UI clutter I'm going to remove it for the next game...

[💖 Officer Hotpants 💖]

Originally posted by chaosavy:

It might only work in tactical mode - but I'll double check to refresh my memory.

As an aside In interest in removing UI clutter I'm going to remove it for the next game...

Assuming there's some other way to monitor the status of ships you're escorting, that should be fine. Although it could probably just be made into a toggle via the options menu.

[ShaggyMoose]

I find this useful for keeping track of important or expensively upgraded ships in battle; its far quicker than using the fleet screen.