How to use weapons on vehicles...

[Pims]

So I may be missing something really obvious here, but I can't seem to get weapons working on vehicles.
I've built 2 different small ships and attached guns to both.
When I try to fire I hear clicking but nothing actually fires.
At first I thought I just needed to load them but searching brings up a bunch of results saying the vehicle guns currently have infinate ammo.

How do I get the damn guns working??

[PhoenixPDG1]

first you need ammo box you have to unlock it in tech tree then build them put it on the ship then make the ammo the gun use and put the ammo in the box then enter the vehicle and press r to load the ammo into the gun

[Sillls]

If you got turrets you will may need to activate each of them by pressing T. Just so you know. But yeah do what Phoenix said to.

[Me55erj0cke]

My miniguns on small vessel dont aim at the crosshair. They are mounted bilateral. Do I need to get them mountet in the middle of the ship or is there a way to get them aiming at crosshair?

[Phelbore]

Originally posted by Me55erj0cke:

My miniguns on small vessel dont aim at the crosshair. They are mounted bilateral. Do I need to get them mountet in the middle of the ship or is there a way to get them aiming at crosshair?

They currently fire straight ahead, no convergence. I center mount mine under the cockpit.

[Me55erj0cke]

Thank you very much. I will change my concept.

[Pims]

Thanks for this guys, been dogfighting with drones all day!
I do have another question that has since cropped up.

Do the automated turrets consider the drones an enemy faction or alien?
When I first saw that I presumed aliens meant all the various animals around until I saw the alien cargo pods.
So I guess enemy factions ould refer to PVP stuff?

[Gordholm]

some turrets need manually activated. like artillery turret for hover vessel, to do so just sit in the turret and press R for reload leave it and it should work.

Ofc you need a ammobox attached to your vessel/base filled with the ammo your turrets or weapons need

best setting for turrets automatic shooting on drones is alien, may also check predator, if you got enough ammo left.