Trouble with boarding

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Trouble with boarding

Post by kMotion »

I have problem with boarding. Some times when I boarding, I try to select turret, and she don't selected. I try again... and again... and again... and I can't select her... This problem appear when I try to select shield too.
It does not happen often... But problem is there. While I try to select, cap ship is killing me... When turret don't selected it's problem to shutting here.
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Post by Sparky Sparkycorp »

Unfortunately we cannot directly select surface elements like those if they are under the red targeting square for the ship in question. Trying to do so just selects the ship instead of the surface element.

If this is the cause of this periodic issue, you could try moving closer to the surface elements and maneuvering around the hull until part of it is visible outside the red box. There are also ship upgrades available from Mechanics that offer hotkeys for selecting surface elements in front of our sights (regardless of red box position) and for cycling though them.
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Post by kMotion »

Thank for answer, one question. What do you mean "under the red targeting square for the ship"?
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Post by Sparky Sparkycorp »

Hi, you're welcome. Sorry, it probably wasn't well described.

It's the hollow box over the middle of the ship that we can click on to select the ship. Red for hostile targets or blue for others.

In the following picture, you can see a blue one around the centre area of the Scaldis on the left, and a red on over the selected Domelch in the distance (in the middle of the screen).

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/13/oct/xship.png
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Post by kMotion »

The distance from I try to select turret is <500, my skunk near cap ship head to head, I look on turret, and can't select her. Click, click, click on turret and nothing gonna happened. This is a problem. When he appear I can't understand. But if i don't select turret my gun missed
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Post by Dazzard »

Is the turret inside the ship target box? If so then you are constantly clicking that and not the turret. Try to reposition yourself so that your target is outside the ship's target box

Look at the pic in the post above. You will see a capital ship on the left, what you see around it is it's blue targeting box, if you click any of it's turrets, shields, etc inside that square, you will instead just target the ship as a whole. That is what is happening to you! I found this very irritating before I figured this out :evil:
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Post by kMotion »

Ok, I show you how I see a cap ship and turret

http://imgur.com/eWveUUf

In this position I can't select a turret. My ship is not outside a target, not behind a cap ship. I see all turret, and I click on her, but some times they don't select. Why... I don't know. Maybe this is a bug.
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Post by Sparky Sparkycorp »

Thanks for the helpful image. I don't know why either in this case.

If you can upload a save game from a Rebirth 3.53 game without any mods, Devs may be able to find and fix a bug. I put saves on googledocs but there are several such free places you could use.
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Post by kMotion »

Oh without mods.... this is a trouble. At first I must find this situation, at second save game before cap ship kill me, turn off all mods(over > 10). I think Devs is reading this post, and think what problem is a live))))
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Post by CBJ »

As Sparky says, we would need an unmodified savegame, and that means one started without mods, not just with the mods turned off. We can't do much with a modified savegame, and we wouldn't normally try anyway as there's every chance the problem could be caused by one of the mods installed.
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Post by kMotion »

Understand, thanks all for answers. I try to catch this bug, and send you
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Post by XenonSurf »

Hi kMotion,
selecting turrets or parts of the ship is possible, but guess: *spoiler*
Spoiler
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you will have to buy the right equipment before.
Get a stronger targeting system!
XenonS

P.S: I assume you are playing XR 3.0+, else this may not be possible.
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Post by kMotion »

Sparky was right, problem with red and blue targeting square for the ship/

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