how to use probes?

Xious

Xious
  • To use the planet probes you must ensure your ship is fitted with a Detailed Surface Scanner. Once fitted, assigned it to a fire group, switch to Analysis Mode, and then hit the fire button it's assigned to. You will also need to be in close proximity to a stellar body. Pressing the fire button once more will fire a probe.
  • This mode can only be used at low speed whilst in Super Cruise
 

dubsdj

dubsdj
well in the real game I have a detailed scanner which auto activates when targeting a planet. Do I need to now assign it to a fire group and then select it in analysis mode?
 

Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
OP, probes are a completely new thing for the beta version. There are no probes to fire in the "real game", if by that you mean the generally agailable 3.2.x version of the game.
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
This helped me as well. I was looking for a "fire probe" in the game options/controls bindings but no luck. So just add the DSS to a fire group and we're set. Thanks.

The good news: Give BETA a week and a fan will write a complete manual on how the FSS/DSS works! :)
 

banskuyoghurtti

banskuyoghurtti
Once in analysis mode, and pressing the probe trigger, a probe is fired (looks like rainbow crap).
But I cannot turn the screen at all in this mode, nor control the spacecraft. I tried keyboard, mouse and stick.
There were no bindings listed in control options for this mode.
 

varonica

varonica
banskuyoghurtti said:
Once in analysis mode, and pressing the probe trigger, a probe is fired (looks like rainbow crap).
But I cannot turn the screen at all in this mode, nor control the spacecraft. I tried keyboard, mouse and stick.
There were no bindings listed in control options for this mode.
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There are, I have it mapped to my joystick, I think it's near the bottom of the controls list where the FSS controls are.
 

Erasmus Boone

E
banskuyoghurtti said:
Once in analysis mode, and pressing the probe trigger, a probe is fired (looks like rainbow crap).
But I cannot turn the screen at all in this mode, nor control the spacecraft. I tried keyboard, mouse and stick.
There were no bindings listed in control options for this mode.
Click to expand...

For reasons known only to the gods of fdev to 'aim' your probe launcher you need to have bound controls under the multicrew controls in options.

After finally working this out probes is quite fun.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Erasmus Boone said:
For reasons known only to the gods of fdev to 'aim' your probe launcher you need to have bound controls under the multicrew controls in options.

After finally working this out probes is quite fun.
Click to expand...

Lol that explains one of my problems...... I could not figure out how to fire them and could not find control options for it :)
 

quilvein

quilvein
This is a problem for me too. I can enter the mode OK and fire the probes but there it ends. I seem to have no way of aiming them and how the heck are we supposed to grab those white points and move them around to get the probes round the back. I feel my age by asking as I am anything but a noob, quite the opposite in fact. This beta is certainly making me feel too old for it now!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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