Question about radar dish alignment

[Dev]

On the terminal ... theres a command i can issue to my teammate called Relate Terminal Text ... Where and what is that showing my teammate ? ( So i know what to look for if im the one rotating the dish ) Thanks guys

[Ishan451]

If you rotate: Rotate until you hear the beep

[Midas]

I think it's bugged, honestly. Every time I use the call out, it gives a compass direction, and my assumption is that it's relaying to face the radar in that direction, but the direction it calls out is never the direction that it actually wants you to face, making it a pretty useless callout.

A way better indicator is that if it's not TOO noisy, you can hear a 'beep' when the radar is rotated into the correct position.

[Dev]

I wish someone had a screenshot of that compass direction and where it shows! hehe

[Doppi]

Yeah no idea I assume most people just do it solo by turning and hearing for a beep.

[asura]

I kinda wish the person at the console would just say like "3 o' clock!" or something.

[DrLamp]

Tell them 12 oclock, 3 oclock, 5 oclock, etc.

[QuaestComm]

Originally posted by Ryu Thundabandit TTV *live*:

I wish someone had a screenshot of that compass direction and where it shows! hehe

The relay-terminal-text interaction itself doesn't have any visuals to it --- it's just your Helldiver saying something like "First one, northeast." (Valve-based relay interactions work similarly, with your Helldiver saying something like "One, Alpha. One, Bravo. Two, Alpha.")

For your teammate(s) that haven't seen the terminal screen yet but heard the interaction, they can hypothetically figure out where the radar dish needs to go by referring to the compass at the top of their screen. The only problem is, "north" on the terminal usually doesn't match with true north, as commenter #2 noted earlier, so the directional callout has a good chance of being patently useless.

[Dev]

Oo thanks alot for all the info guys!

[SneakyStripes]

Originally posted by Midas:

I think it's bugged, honestly. Every time I use the call out, it gives a compass direction, and my assumption is that it's relaying to face the radar in that direction, but the direction it calls out is never the direction that it actually wants you to face, making it a pretty useless callout.

A way better indicator is that if it's not TOO noisy, you can hear a 'beep' when the radar is rotated into the correct position.

It's been the opposite for me. Every time someone uses that function at the terminal I always listen for it and get the dish aligned correctly every time.

[Mathias Giovanni]

I listen for the beep but if a enough explosions are going off it's kind of hard to hear.

[Frost Spectre]

Simple Left or Right for the shortest time required to spin it works far better.

Sadly no one gets it, that pressing left moves the dish left and right to right, so far.

[mweaver776]

That side mission seems bugged sometimes. Twice I've turned the radar clockwise but I swear it didn't turn clockwise on the console.

[mweaver776]

Originally posted by asura:

I kinda wish the person at the console would just say like "3 o' clock!" or something.

I do this or say "turn that way" or "turn the other way" until its green they say "stop"
Usually works.

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by DrLamp:

Tell them 12 oclock, 3 oclock, 5 oclock, etc.

That only works if your team mates know how to read an analog clock.
Sadly, many young people do not know how.

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by Frost Spectre:

Simple Left or Right for the shortest time required to spin it works far better.

Sadly no one gets it, that pressing left moves the dish left and right to right, so far.

Me: "Left."

Team mate: turns to the right

Me: "No, your OTHER left."

Team mate: keeps turning to the right

Me: leaves the console in disgust