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Aug 14, 2022 @ 2:18am

Tractor beam not working

I have a tractor beam on my ship - found a zeep ship in floating in space. Can not seem to activate the tractor at all. Pressing left shift does nothing at all. No tractor - no nothing. I noticed shift key is bound to two different keys by default ( Speed boost and alternate commands ).

Any help would be appreciated.

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Originally posted by Jaasrg:

On your equipment screen there's a number next to your tractor, that's the activation button.
Pressing that alone takes your target into towing state, shift+activation slows and stops the target.

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Aug 14, 2022 @ 2:37am

you need to have whatever you want to target actually locked on, then press the button assigned.

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Jaasrg

Aug 14, 2022 @ 2:38am

On your equipment screen there's a number next to your tractor, that's the activation button.
Pressing that alone takes your target into towing state, shift+activation slows and stops the target.

Last edited by Jaasrg; Aug 14, 2022 @ 2:43am

skunkmonkey has Star Valor

Aug 14, 2022 @ 4:08am

As Jaasrg said it will automatically get assigned a button. I always change it myself in the equipment section when I equip the tractor beam, so that I know what key it goes to.
This is especially important because it's highly likely that the game will warp in a hostile when you hang out near the ship for a bit, so the faster you can tractor and warp away the better.

The tractor animation threw me off for a bit, so be aware that pressing the tractor key without shift will cause the ship to follow you. Pressing shift when you activate it will stop the ship from moving. The non-shift animation will push the ship away if it's closer than the games tow distance, so don't deactivate it if that happens. It's to be expected. The ship may bounce around a lot, especially if it's significantly larger than you. It was a PITA to drag my dreadnaught around since I was in a tiny frigate at the time.

Also if dragging a ship much larger than yourself go slow. The tractor beam connection is tenuous, and will break with sudden acceleration / stopping if the load is heavy.

Last edited by skunkmonkey; Aug 14, 2022 @ 4:13am