Thank you for remote ship turret control! (1.50 Beta 3)

[Scoob]

Hey all,

Ok, Just noticed that 1.50 beta 3 introduced this...I didn't notice it in the change notes. Basically, we can now go to a ship we're not piloting and remotely set the Turret Behaviour. Nice.

Just thought this was worth a share for anyone who didn't want to test the Beta builds - things are getting better!

It was only yesterday, or the day before, we were discussing this particular issue - having to be on a ship to tweak its turret behaviour. I guess it was already on the list to add.

Quite chuffed by this one!

Scoob.

[CaptainX4]

Hey all,

Ok, Just noticed that 1.50 beta 3 introduced this...I didn't notice it in the change notes. Basically, we can now go to a ship we're not piloting and remotely set the Turret Behaviour. Nice.

Just thought this was worth a share for anyone who didn't want to test the Beta builds - things are getting better!

It was only yesterday, or the day before, we were discussing this particular issue - having to be on a ship to tweak its turret behaviour. I guess it was already on the list to add.

Quite chuffed by this one!

Scoob.

can you easily change them on the one you are piloting?

[Socratatus]

There`s a 1.50 beta 3 now?

Fascinating.

[Scoob]

I've not actually sat on any of my Turret-equipped ships yet. However, all ships now have a "Turret Behaviour" option in their Information panel. In it, each turret, or group of turrets, is listed with the "Defend", "Attack my current enemy", "Mining", "Attack all Enemies", "Missile Defence" and "Hold Fire" options. Something like my Corvette (Peregrin Sentinel) has four Turrets that can be changed independently, my Odysseus has nine Groups of turrets listed. Plus there's an "All" setting to set everything to the same option.

This is a good step forwards and I hope they build on this. Things like "attack S-Class Only" and all the variations would allow us to tailor turrets to specific goals. This will be even better when the official damage output pass occurs, and turrets can finally hurt what they hit

Scoob.

[consiefe]

This will be even better when the official damage output pass occurs, and turrets can finally hurt what they hit

I'd love to see it but where did you get the info about it being official?

[Requiemfang]

This will be even better when the official damage output pass occurs, and turrets can finally hurt what they hit

I'd love to see it but where did you get the info about it being official?

CEO admitted on livestream on twitch that they gimped turrets intentionally only they went too far with it and made them useless. Right now they're pee-shooters there is no ommph behind them at all unless you mod them with mods, not the in game kind but game modifications.

[consiefe]

This will be even better when the official damage output pass occurs, and turrets can finally hurt what they hit

I'd love to see it but where did you get the info about it being official?

CEO admitted on livestream on twitch that they gimped turrets intentionally only they went too far with it and made them useless. Right now they're pee-shooters there is no ommph behind them at all unless you mod them with mods, not the in game kind but game modifications.

Thank you! That is very good news for the likes of me who can't find any incentive to buy capitals which is the big part of the fun.

[letwolf]

where do they publish the patchnotes?

[SparvieroGed]

Also L and XL ?

[Miravlix]

where do they publish the patchnotes?

They seem to favor the steam forum for posting the beta patch notes.

[marksnake]

Also L and XL ?

Patch notes 1.5.3
[Beta 2] Added turret behaviour settings to the Ship Interactions menu (including L/XL ship turret groups).

[SparvieroGed]

Also L and XL ?

Patch notes 1.5.3
[Beta 2] Added turret behaviour settings to the Ship Interactions menu (including L/XL ship turret groups).

Thank you very much.

[Empyrion]

I was wondering why turrets were so poor when flying medium traders. They very rarely hit a small target.

Then, by accident / experiment I found that turrets set to target mode work really well when you fly FA off and go full reverski. Suddenly I was taking down targets in 30 seconds just by keeping the aiming reticule on the target as you flew "backwards". Might be worth a try.

[Velocinox]

This will be even better when the official damage output pass occurs, and turrets can finally hurt what they hit

I'd love to see it but where did you get the info about it being official?

CEO admitted on livestream on twitch that they gimped turrets intentionally only they went too far with it and made them useless. Right now they're pee-shooters there is no ommph behind them at all unless you mod them with mods, not the in game kind but game modifications.

Do you have a link to this? The latest stream I see on twitch for Egosoft is from last year.

[jocan2003]

Wish there would be somethong similar for carrier and drones.... Havong my cerberus lau ch 20 drone against a xenon N... is... waste of time.

[Requiemfang]

I'd love to see it but where did you get the info about it being official?

CEO admitted on livestream on twitch that they gimped turrets intentionally only they went too far with it and made them useless. Right now they're pee-shooters there is no ommph behind them at all unless you mod them with mods, not the in game kind but game modifications.

Do you have a link to this? The latest stream I see on twitch for Egosoft is from last year.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/347669019

around 40 mins in watching from there CEO admits they tuned the turret down waaaay too much so they are next to useless. Can't remember the exact time stamp but it's there.

[Smacksim]

I was wondering why turrets were so poor when flying medium traders. They very rarely hit a small target.

Then, by accident / experiment I found that turrets set to target mode work really well when you fly FA off and go full reverski. Suddenly I was taking down targets in 30 seconds just by keeping the aiming reticule on the target as you flew "backwards". Might be worth a try.

I love discoveries like this. For me it's at least 1/2 the charm of X games that things happen that nobody ever foresaw and tactics can be eh... slightly unintuitive but effective.

[Bellatormonk]

I had seen that I able to change turret functions by hitting the Enter key on my L/XL Ships..however I had not noticed I could change the turret settings remotely via the Info Tab. Thanks for the find. I had assumed the AI would know what do with the Turrets on the fly anyways...I wonder if they have any scripted logic to change as needed depending on battle conditions? uh....probably not...

[Invasion]

Wish we could also remotely configure AI weapon selection
Because if you fit a ship with (not only) a launcher and missile/torpedos and send it to fight, where is no way to stop it from using up all the ammo

[Velocinox]

CEO admitted on livestream on twitch that they gimped turrets intentionally only they went too far with it and made them useless. Right now they're pee-shooters there is no ommph behind them at all unless you mod them with mods, not the in game kind but game modifications.

Do you have a link to this? The latest stream I see on twitch for Egosoft is from last year.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/347669019

around 40 mins in watching from there CEO admits they tuned the turret down waaaay too much so they are next to useless. Can't remember the exact time stamp but it's there.

Thanks