No gimbal weapons on small ships possible?

[Pan_de]

Hello,
Idea is basically, that I dont like Aim assist. But ofc i dont just wanna turn it off for myself but for all AI too. Turrents can ofc keep rotating. Is this generally possible to do? Has it been done before? WOuld it cause issues with AI?

[Rothank]

no gimbal weapons already exist (Railgun, Boson, Meson). AI is... not great with them.

If you wanted to mod all weapons to be like this you would need to either:
A) change rotation speed in ALL weapon macros to 0
B) change rotation restrictions to 0 in ALL weapon component files
for B, each component file has X and Y restriction that look similar to below:

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					<restriction type="rotation_y">
						<limits>
							<min value="-10"/>
							<max value="10"/>
						</limits>
					</restriction>

You would need to diff the component files to remove the restrictions completely, which will lock the weapons in place.

[j.harshaw]

This can work and AI can work with it since aiming is done per weapon. It's mostly the player experience that suffers since weapons can't converge on one target so you can't really use your targeting reticle.

[Pan_de]

Alright i tried 0 rotation but the AI really cant handle it. Missing most of their shots. Instead i reduced it to 10 percent.