Newcomer / Intro Fixed PA aiming

[SkyB]

Greetings Commanders,

in order to increase skill I put 2 fixed PA on my Conda's belly hardpoints.

To my surprise I recognized that these don't aim when I have the enemy/ the aiming point withing the circle of my crossair.

I always thought fixed weapons would do a tiny amount of aiming when I meet these criteria or am I simply doing something wrong?

 

[Zenith]

You get the circular reticle either leading or trailing the ship (depending on your settings). If you aim and fire at the circle then you should land the shot on the ship. Assuming the ship isn't trying to corkscrew to the avoid getting shot.

Fixed weapons are exactly that. fixed straight ahead.
Gimballed weapons are the ones with a touch of lock-on.

 

[Chris Simon]

There are two types of fixed weapons. "Hit scan" weapons like railguns or lasers (hitscan means they hit where you aim - the velocity is basically infinite) will do what you describe. But weapons like PAs and cannons have relatively slow shells that take some time to reach the target. That means you can't "snipe" with them. Instead you have to lead your shots.

 

[SkyB]

So I need to perfectly aim at the circular reticle with the respective small weapon dots of my PAs, correct?

I engineered them to long range, increasing shot speed up to 90% as I knew the projectiles travel slowly to counter precision loss as good as possible.

So what is the bigger circle for then?
Is it simply a visual reference point or does it fulfull any purpose other than this.

 

[777Driver]

So I need to perfectly aim at the circular reticle with the respective small weapon dots of my PAs, correct?

I engineered them to long range, increasing shot speed up to 90% as I knew the projectiles travel slowly to counter precision loss as good as possible.

So what is the bigger circle for then?
Is it simply a visual reference point or does it fulfull any purpose other than this.

Do you have more then just PA's installed? you will have multiple reticle for the different weapon types. For example I have two long range PA's, plus some multi cannons, for obvious reasons I only aim the PA's using the appropriate targeting reticle .

 

[xondk]

Greetings Commanders,

in order to increase skill I put 2 fixed PA on my Conda's belly hardpoints.

To my surprise I recognized that these don't aim when I have the enemy/ the aiming point withing the circle of my crossair.

I always thought fixed weapons would do a tiny amount of aiming when I meet these criteria or am I simply doing something wrong?

If you sub target it should correct in a tiny bit, but you already need to be close to target.

 

[SkyB]

Yes, I have six beam turrets but ran gimballed Mulities before switching to this setup.

So the bigger circle around these small reticles does not do much.