[BUG] Vector cannon doesn't work?!

[Thundercleez]

I'm on the mission where I'm supposed to blow up the engines of the ships with the vector cannon, but the vector cannon doesn't work? I'm standing on the deck of the ship holding the subweapon button with the vector cannon subweapon selected, and Jehuty keeps starting to charge and then is cancels. Why can't I use it?

Edit: After some more testing, it's just completely broken and doesn't work at all. I've tried in VR and out of VR and with both control options. Sometimes it starts to actually charge up and then just cancels itself again.

[RAWRmonger]

Are you grounded and *holding* the button?

[ADA]

Originally posted by Thundercleez:

I'm on the mission where I'm supposed to blow up the engines of the ships with the vector cannon, but the vector cannon doesn't work? I'm standing on the deck of the ship holding the subweapon button with the vector cannon subweapon selected, and Jehuty keeps starting to charge and then is cancels. Why can't I use it?

Edit: After some more testing, it's just completely broken and doesn't work at all. I've tried in VR and out of VR and with both control options. Sometimes it starts to actually charge up and then just cancels itself again.

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[Thundercleez]

There's no error message. The ability simply doesn't work. You are supposed to be able to use the vector cannon while standing on something and holding the subweapon button. After an hour of trying this standing on the back of the ship, I managed to get the cannon to fully spawn only once and partially spawn once. All other times the ability keeps cancelling itself. I thought maybe it was the button on my controller, so I tried both control options, 1 uses a should button, the other uses a face button. Same problem. I thought maybe it was because I was in VR, so I tried flat mode. Same problem.

Idk if the game has a problem in detecting the button being held or if it has a problem in detecting that I'm standing on the ground.

This is in the Skies of Vascillia level when you need to shoot down a bunch of battleships.

[ADA]

Originally posted by Thundercleez:

There's no error message. The ability simply doesn't work. You are supposed to be able to use the vector cannon while standing on something and holding the subweapon button. After an hour of trying this standing on the back of the ship, I managed to get the cannon to fully spawn only once and partially spawn once. All other times the ability keeps cancelling itself. I thought maybe it was the button on my controller, so I tried both control options, 1 uses a should button, the other uses a face button. Same problem. I thought maybe it was because I was in VR, so I tried flat mode. Same problem.

Idk if the game has a problem in detecting the button being held or if it has a problem in detecting that I'm standing on the ground.

This is in the Skies of Vascillia level when you need to shoot down a bunch of battleships.

Thank you for the additional information. Could you please send these details to https://eu-support.konami.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new with the other requested information? Thanks in advance.

[Greenssteel]

I had the same issue, but I found out why.
The ships move up & down very subtly.

Hold the "down" button (on PS4 it's X) while you're on solid ground (I usually pick right next to the reactor), then hold the vector cannon button (on PS4 that's R2), you'll then be able to fire the vector cannon when you release it after charging.

I forgot if I held "Down" the whole time or not, but you'll figure it out.



I hope this helps.

[Rtoo]

Old thread but if you're still having trouble, there is a way to destroy the battleships without the vector cannon- you'll have to destroy every panel on the ship along with the tower on top of it

[Denver]

the solution of standing on a solid ground, enables v cannon, worked for me on ps2