Lock gimbaled weapons?

JerryLove

JerryLove
Is there a command to lock gimbaled weapons (I thought there is for turrets, but I've not used those) so I can keep shooting people when that chaff comes out (which seems to be unlimited and 70% of the time for dangerous+ foes)? I'm not good enough to reliably use fixed guns against fast targets; but those in-between targets (like the imperial ships) which are too fast for me to hold a close broadside to, but big enough that loosing half (or more: as they time it well) of my shooting time is a problem?

It seems like Chaff is just a way to penalize people who aren't as good at flying (as the gimbaled weapons are already more power hungry and less DPS than fixed... which is fine as a trade-off)

Yes. I know I can untarget: but that's "inelegant" at best, and it destroys subsystem targeting, and reporting on the bad guy and requires me to re-target when the chaff is not firing.
 

Fenric

Fenric
No, not specifically. You can just use the target forward button to deselect your current target, and the weapons will center and you can fire them like fixed weapons.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Yes, it would be useful.
As useful as the ability to tell turrets to STOP firing. That can also be done only by de-selecting the target.
 

Monk

Monk
Chris Simon said:
Yes, it would be useful.
As useful as the ability to tell turrets to STOP firing. That can also be done only by de-selecting the target.
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I thought you could stop turrets from firing if they weren't on the currently active fire group...could be wrong, I rarely use turrets.
 
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