Yeah, was probably painite, have def seen that before.
Who thought requiring pixel perfect angles for sub surface mining was enjoyable?
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We need more information here. I don't usually go for surface mining, as core mining is more fun and more lucrative. But i gave it a try and the described problem did not happen to me.
We need more info on your input device. If you use your mouse, you might even want to try something like this:
Browser Mouse Event Test Page
unixpapa.com
If you hold down the button on the "click here" but the window keeps displayling mouse events, then your mouse button is worn down and creates additional input, which confuses the game. That's of course just one speculation. Without more information, we can only blindly guess what could go wrong, sorry.
This is a fair point.
I've noticed, recently, that when I click on stuff with my mouse the game will sometimes interpret that as 2 clicks.
On the main screen, for example, I'll click on "start game" and then it'll automatically select Open Mode to start the game because the game seems to think I've clicked a 2nd time.
Doesn't happen often but it does happen.
If you were using the mouse to launch SSD missiles, a dodgy input API could probably cause all sorts of headaches.
The issue just came to my mind because i had that with a mouse a few years back. When playing a shooter, everything worked fine except a railgun-style weapon, where you had to hold the button for a second, only then could you fire by releasing the button.
Interestingly enough, things worked fine enough in windows itself. Dragging icons around worked perfectly fine. So windows itself is built to compensate for aging hardware, but the game was not.
Anyway, as said: pure speculation. More info on the hardware is needed to be able to make better guesses.
I could do that.
But it would be entirely made up. That never stopped anyone from posting in Dangerous Discussion though.
Damn, ya got me! You guys
I am reasonably sure I had some LTDiamonds via subsurface, not 5 obviously, I only get 3 attempts at the most and the third almost always fails.
But only reasonably sure because it was last week and I have been sober once since then.
Here is video proof of the I have to deal with when I try this, notice how many missiles I go through before the game FINALLY says I have the angle, why it can't just tell me this in bips, beeps or colors BEFORE I fire the missile is beyond me, guess were so far into the future that everyone should be just a mind/asteroid reader.
Every one of those missiles is hitting correctly... because the "drilling" ui is popping up for each. It looks like either:
- you're not holding the fire button down; or
- it's not detecting you're holding down the fire button.
Even the one you've said works disengaged way too early to be a deliberate disengage.
Except I'm NOT disengaging the button, I've pretty much confirmed for myself that it IS an angle issue since it happens way too damn much and if I can keep the angle the missile will always work. Trust me it IS detecting that I'm holding it down by the fact that if I can keep the angle right when it enters I can do the minigame. Honestly the one that you say disengaged too early disengaged just fine, it's not like exploding it inside or just outside the bars matters, at least not that I've seen.
I believe everything you're saying... but what you're explaining is not how that game mechanic works.
Provided the round hits the (surface) target, holding down the fire button should allow full progression through the graph which appears in the lower left corner. Every round you fire says "drill deploying" and the only way it disengages from that point is with releasing the trigger, or exhausting the graph. If its not functioning that way, and you're definitely holding the button down... go bug report it, because none of that other stuff should matter.
I can't record my own video at the moment, but I'm happy to show you one of the full thing... where I'll get a 100% stick rate for the drills.
Sub mining seems like a lot of frustration for so little returns.
Just core mine. Once you've found a core rock, it's only about a minute before you blow up the rocks and profit.
At 1.6m a pop, a nicely blown up rock will yield you 10 to 15 VOs. That's easily 16 to 24m.
Easy Peasy. The best way to play a game.
Just core mine. Once you've found a core rock, it's only about a minute before you blow up the rocks and profit.
At 1.6m a pop, a nicely blown up rock will yield you 10 to 15 VOs. That's easily 16 to 24m.
Easy Peasy. The best way to play a game.
Did you read the post where someone suggested your input device is at fault?
As always, a video helps. Either your controller is screwed, or you are doing something completely wrong.
Was it the OP who was complaining elsewhere about menus triggering multiple times? May well have been someone else though...
The mechanics are nice sort of, but the reward...
I mean, why even bother?
Edit: i remember having a mouse that ti would release the click on its own. In normal operation it was not noticeable, but anything that involved helding the click was frustrating (drag and drop, drag select, etc)
I mean, why even bother?
Edit: i remember having a mouse that ti would release the click on its own. In normal operation it was not noticeable, but anything that involved helding the click was frustrating (drag and drop, drag select, etc)
Yeah, as I said, if you're not letting go of the trigger I think it must be a hardware problem. My own joystick does that, sometimes I've been unable to scan wakes at all because the scan bar keeps resetting part way through until the thing expired (not sure if it's more annoying if it happens a split second after starting or almost at the end...).
Anyway, I had to work around it by binding a keyboard key and using that instead. Angle isn't relevant, but if you want to blame the game, I'll happily join you in saying that the implementation of 'button held down' is way to strict and unforgiving for some controllers!
Anyway, I had to work around it by binding a keyboard key and using that instead. Angle isn't relevant, but if you want to blame the game, I'll happily join you in saying that the implementation of 'button held down' is way to strict and unforgiving for some controllers!
You either make up a lot of stuff you claim or you have a hardware problem.
Yea, Hardware problem or driver problem would be my guess.
Once had a mouse whose contacts failed when holding a button was required. Day to day clicking was mostly fine.