Firing with SPACE bug ?

[VeNoM]

Only been playing for a few days so I might be missing something but for some reason I can't use the space bar to fire on aliens as they attack me.

I have tried rebuilding weapons and ammo, ensured they are in correct slots in the bottom right of the screen and saved and reloaded the game.

The guns fire using C at trees and rocks etc, just not at bugs with space which is a right pain in the arse as I'm trying to clear some nests out for expansion.

What am I doing wrong or is it a known bug ?

Please help as it's really frustrating.

[IamNic]

Are you close enough to the aliens while trying to shoot them?

[Emmote]

Space fires at the nearest alien to your mouse cursor as far as I'm aware. You're not moving your mouse away from them are you?

[VeNoM]

Thanks for the replies guys, I figured it out just now.

What was happening was I was creeping laser turrets near to the nests.

When standing just in front of the turrets I found that the delay between the lasers firing and actually hitting the aliens must register them as dead as soon as the laser was fired. It then doesn't seem to let you lock onto these "soon to be dead" aliens and so doesn't fire the guns at them.

I tested the theory out by saving then yolo'ing at a nest without turrets and as soon as the bugs rushed all hell broke loose.

My theory may be wrong I don't know but regardless I have confirmed it's not a bug so I'm happy and will work with what I've found.

Again thanks for the quick responses .....

[Warlord]

Interesting. Yeah, lasers stop firing at a critter if they have fired enough damage. Very helpful for large batches of alien swarms that your lasers dont concentrate fire and lose out on dps by overkilling any one critter. I hadn't thought that it would cause the games auto-lock attack from the player from seeing a valid target.

Sounds like a legit bug that the devs should know about. It's not THAT big a deal (why shoot at a critter the game knows is going to die?) but it sounds like something that shouldn't happen.

[Nailfoot]

You are correct with your theory. Soon-to-be-dead bugs cannot be targeted or, indeed, hit by anything.