Can you equip and fire more than 2 weapons at once?
- Thread starter miked79
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With proper heat/power management and weapon groups.
Yes, you can buy what ever weapon will fit, so e.g. 2 laser type weapons and 1 cannon, then assign them to groups, so
1. all 3 fires at once; or;
2. lases fire with primary, cannon as secondary
3. Lasers and K-scanner
4. cannon and k-scanner
etc.
buy a bigger ship and fire 4 at once etc.
Play around with the panel on the right, but as the other poster says - watch your heat & power management, if you fire all 3 at once other systems will turn off, so also set your priorities on the right panel - you don't want life support turning off when you fire the guns.
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I made request to add more fire buttons and most people would like to see that but FD just don't give a damn. :/
2 fire buttons for only 2 weapons type to fire at once while in game there is more than 2 weapon types! It is just silly.
So it is impossible to fire 3-4 weapon types at once.
Example if I want to fire laser constantly and from time to time fire cannon then I cannot fire missile because I must swap firegroups to fire missile or drop a mine!
Good luck with wanting to fire laser constantly then fire multi-cannon from time to time and spit some cannon shell while wanting to fire heat seeking missile!
LOL even WW2 planes had more fire buttons! Weird that FD was blind to notice that while they based their silly combat mechanics on WW2 planes and plane dogfights
War thunder have 5 FIREBUTTONS! 1 for machineguns 1 for cannons 1 for extra weapon 1 for rockets 1 for bombs.
Planes in 1943 had more fire buttons than future spaceships in 3300 ! For FD that makes perfect sense Oh and for people that support their ideas blindly
What I suspect is that FD want to force equality in as much levels as possible so they don't want people with joysticks to have better combat capabilities against those playing on those things from childish consoles. Yeah exactly, gamepads!
I bet if they decide to use gamepads the damn sure know what are the drawbacks and if they manage to use gamepads damn well I see no damn point in downgrading damn experience for joystick users!!!!!
I have spare buttons on my joistick! Those that I use for extra weapons in games like war thunder, IL2 sturmovik!!!
But nooooo advanced ships (yeah right, yaw disabled wrecks!!) from 3300 supports only 2 fire buttons. More would cause on board cheap electronics to malfunction! Just look in repair menu how cheap they are! While hull is made out of diamonds or something that have magical threshold of stability because if hull drops to 0% everything just breaks up magically and KABOOM!!! LOL No wonder that 2 fire buttons are MAX for that cheap electronics! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2 fire buttons for only 2 weapons type to fire at once while in game there is more than 2 weapon types! It is just silly.
So it is impossible to fire 3-4 weapon types at once.
Example if I want to fire laser constantly and from time to time fire cannon then I cannot fire missile because I must swap firegroups to fire missile or drop a mine!
Good luck with wanting to fire laser constantly then fire multi-cannon from time to time and spit some cannon shell while wanting to fire heat seeking missile!
LOL even WW2 planes had more fire buttons! Weird that FD was blind to notice that while they based their silly combat mechanics on WW2 planes and plane dogfights
War thunder have 5 FIREBUTTONS! 1 for machineguns 1 for cannons 1 for extra weapon 1 for rockets 1 for bombs.
Planes in 1943 had more fire buttons than future spaceships in 3300 ! For FD that makes perfect sense
Oh and for people that support their ideas blindly What I suspect is that FD want to force equality in as much levels as possible so they don't want people with joysticks to have better combat capabilities against those playing on those things from childish consoles. Yeah exactly, gamepads!
I bet if they decide to use gamepads the damn sure know what are the drawbacks and if they manage to use gamepads damn well I see no damn point in downgrading damn experience for joystick users!!!!!
I have spare buttons on my joistick! Those that I use for extra weapons in games like war thunder, IL2 sturmovik!!!
But nooooo advanced ships (yeah right, yaw disabled wrecks!!) from 3300 supports only 2 fire buttons. More would cause on board cheap electronics to malfunction! Just look in repair menu how cheap they are! While hull is made out of diamonds or something that have magical threshold of stability because if hull drops to 0% everything just breaks up magically and KABOOM!!! LOL No wonder that 2 fire buttons are MAX for that cheap electronics! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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You can switch fire groups quickly, I fail to see the problem really.
I made request to add more fire buttons and most people would like to see that but FD just don't give a damn. :/
2 fire buttons for only 2 weapons type to fire at once while in game there is more than 2 weapon types! It is just silly.
So it is impossible to fire 3-4 weapon types at once.
Example if I want to fire laser constantly and from time to time fire cannon then I cannot fire missile because I must swap firegroups to fire missile or drop a mine!
Good luck with wanting to fire laser constantly then fire multi-cannon from time to time and spit some cannon shell while wanting to fire heat seeking missile!
LOL even WW2 planes had more fire buttons! Weird that FD was blind to notice that while they based their silly combat mechanics on WW2 planes and plane dogfights
War thunder have 5 FIREBUTTONS! 1 for machineguns 1 for cannons 1 for extra weapon 1 for rockets 1 for bombs.
Planes in 1943 had more fire buttons than future spaceships in 3300 ! For FD that makes perfect sense
What I suspect is that FD want to force equality in as much levels as possible so they don't want people with joysticks to have better combat capabilities against those playing on those things from childish consoles. Yeah exactly, gamepads!
I bet if they decide to use gamepads the damn sure know what are the drawbacks and if they manage to use gamepads damn well I see no damn point in downgrading damn experience for joystick users!!!!!
I have spare buttons on my joistick! Those that I use for extra weapons in games like war thunder, IL2 sturmovik!!!
But nooooo advanced ships (yeah right, yaw disabled wrecks!!) from 3300 supports only 2 fire buttons. More would cause on board cheap electronics to malfunction! Just look in repair menu how cheap they are! While hull is made out of diamonds or something that have magical threshold of stability because if hull drops to 0% everything just breaks up magically and KABOOM!!! LOL No wonder that 2 fire buttons are MAX for that cheap electronics! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Erm... Being able to fire more than 2 weapons at once would be nice, but we can workaround that by using firegroups at the moment, so I don't see it as a massive priority issue.
The rest of your sentiments/rant sound like a casual/hardcore slagging stream of consciousness. I assume you got out of bed the wrong side and hit your head.
As for childish consoles... They are dedicated gaming devices, with well designed controllers that are pretty standard throughout the gaming world and used by millions of people just fine. It would be madness for FD to not support them. I don't think anyone is threatening your faux-joystick-epeen-superiority-complex in any way...
Have a nice day!
How do you know "FD just don't give a damn"?
Did they say that to you?
Have they posted such on the forums?
Or are you inferring it because they have not instantly responded to you request?
Yea, I agree. It is silly not to have more fire buttons. The DEVS most definitely are not listening to players in BETA or GAMMA to make changes to make the game more user friendly as they are rushing to get it out my Christmas.
Or they simply decided it's a bad idea to allow players to unleash every single weapon at the same time and they WANT you to switch fire groups to maintain some game balance.