I know, I know, this is basic, but I have just begun trying the on-foot stuff! I have found a crashed ship on a dustball, and I am trying to cut a red access panel to get in to stuff inside.
The panel is sitting on the aperture at a cockeyed angle, and what happens is that as I activate the laser cutter with a green 'sight' dot, it fires up ok, but as I traverse the beam over the target panel edges, the sight suddenly goes red and the beam shuts off. I relocate the sight slightly until it goes green again, but the same happens again. I can't get the panel off; I haven't a clue where the beam has to go, nor whether I have to make the entire thing with a single 'cut' or whether I can do it in stages, one section at a time.
It's bloody infuriating, to be honest!
Please can someone give me some tips on how to perform this most basic of on-foot tasks, second only to walking? At least I can do that!
[Edit]: Would you believe it needed a restart so that the panel worked properly.....
The panel is sitting on the aperture at a cockeyed angle, and what happens is that as I activate the laser cutter with a green 'sight' dot, it fires up ok, but as I traverse the beam over the target panel edges, the sight suddenly goes red and the beam shuts off. I relocate the sight slightly until it goes green again, but the same happens again. I can't get the panel off; I haven't a clue where the beam has to go, nor whether I have to make the entire thing with a single 'cut' or whether I can do it in stages, one section at a time.
It's bloody infuriating, to be honest!
Please can someone give me some tips on how to perform this most basic of on-foot tasks, second only to walking? At least I can do that!
[Edit]: Would you believe it needed a restart so that the panel worked properly.....
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