Gunship SLF orders: 'Follow me' unavailable (red)

[tafkabb]

All the other commands work though. 'Hold fire' brings him into formation, attack leads to attack, defend works, etc. But 'follow me' isn't available to select, and the button combo I have for it does nothing.
Am I missing something obvious here, or is it a bug? The Gunship audio really isn't right at the moment either

 

[FunkyCold84]

Its not available on my Conda either; I always assumed the SLF is always following you by default. Try using the hold position command to see if it lets you click follow me.

 

[MrWhippy]

I think follow me comes into play if you don't have a NPC crew member, not certain though.

Sounds pretty redundant with crew when hold fire basically does the same thing, so that's prob why it's not available.

 

[tafkabb]

I've been using follow me up until now, so it's no that. Hold fire maintains formation anyway, so it's no biggie

 

[heliman001]

I always thought that the follow me command was to NPC with helm control only, and not SLF.

 

[tafkabb]

I always thought that the follow me command was to NPC with helm control only, and not SLF.

You're probably right, I've just watched back one of my older videos and he defaults to defend when I tell him to follow.

 

[I PORKCH0P I]

All the other commands work though. 'Hold fire' brings him into formation, attack leads to attack, defend works, etc. But 'follow me' isn't available to select, and the button combo I have for it does nothing.
Am I missing something obvious here, or is it a bug? The Gunship audio really isn't right at the moment either

I'm not too well today so could be talking rubbish but I think it's there to tell your crew member to start following you again after you've told him to hold postion.
I normally tell him to hold postion when he's in my mother ship and I go for a fly in a slf because I don't trust him .

Edit I was completely wrong I tested all commands on my npc in both the mother ship and slf when I got chance today and the follow me command all ways stays red.

 

[heliman001]

Bongo
Just sent you some rep as you seem woefully low all of a sudden

 

[tafkabb]

Bongo
Just sent you some rep as you seem woefully low all of a sudden

I turned them off. There was far too much green

 

[heliman001]

I turned them off. There was far too much green

Mod powers eh.
Can you turn mine up?

 

[verminstar]

I assume its the exact same as holding formation as without any orders at all, the mothership tries to keep up with me as best it can. In fact, I have to directly order it not to follow me with "hold position" otherwise it will never stop following me.

The "follow me" order has been unavailable fer a while now and seems always on by default anyway, so its either bugged or...something else I dunno but its no huge issue ^