Missing HUD segment and non functional weapons on Viper

[Fia]

Recently upgraded from a Sidewinder to a Viper but it has been a disaster for two reasons.

1. There is a large area of HUD missing from the center of the screen. Objects are perfectly visible but any targeting reticules, boxes or text are blocked. Targeting boxes etc. become visible as they move out of this area. It does not extend out far enough to affect the hardpoint bands on either side or the comms and info panels, just the patch directly in front of the ship. Got some screenshots but it wont let me post them even after reducing them to small jpegs says I have exceeded limit even though never posted pictures before.

2. I assume 1 is a bug but not sure about problem 2. My lasers wont fire or they do but for a second then die out. Other times they work for several seconds. Pretty sure it is not a power problem as have 2.46 power to spare and and only have two E1 beam lasers. Even with full power in weapons they either refuse to fire or still cut out before the little bars by the weapon names on the HUD even begin to go down. Have C3 and D3 power plant and distributor respectevly. Have not tried any non energy weapons yet.

Anyone else experience either of these problems? I am assuming 'lemon' ships are not built into the game, yet at least. One makes combat or anything else inconvenient but the other makes blowing anything bigger than a sidewinder with shields impossible!

 

[Sanguisaevum]

Recently upgraded from a Sidewinder to a Viper but it has been a disaster for two reasons.

1. There is a large area of HUD missing from the center of the screen. Objects are perfectly visible but any targeting reticules, boxes or text are blocked. Targeting boxes etc. become visible as they move out of this area. It does not extend out far enough to affect the hardpoint bands on either side or the comms and info panels, just the patch directly in front of the ship. Got some screenshots but it wont let me post them even after reducing them to small jpegs says I have exceeded limit even though never posted pictures before.

2. I assume 1 is a bug but not sure about problem 2. My lasers wont fire or they do but for a second then die out. Other times they work for several seconds. Pretty sure it is not a power problem as have 2.46 power to spare and and only have two E1 beam lasers. Even with full power in weapons they either refuse to fire or still cut out before the little bars by the weapon names on the HUD even begin to go down. Have C3 and D3 power plant and distributor respectevly. Have not tried any non energy weapons yet.

Anyone else experience either of these problems? I am assuming 'lemon' ships are not built into the game, yet at least. One makes combat or anything else inconvenient but the other makes blowing anything bigger than a sidewinder with shields impossible!

Since i regularly destroy elite condas iny viper... I would say you have a bug, or have missed something significant in your investigations.

EDIT- i think your distributer may be the issue... Beam lasers take HUGE amounts of weapon power. A D rated distributor just may not be able to cope.

 

[Calvert]

Recently upgraded from a Sidewinder to a Viper but it has been a disaster for two reasons.

1. There is a large area of HUD missing from the center of the screen. Objects are perfectly visible but any targeting reticules, boxes or text are blocked. Targeting boxes etc. become visible as they move out of this area. It does not extend out far enough to affect the hardpoint bands on either side or the comms and info panels, just the patch directly in front of the ship. Got some screenshots but it wont let me post them even after reducing them to small jpegs says I have exceeded limit even though never posted pictures before.

2. I assume 1 is a bug but not sure about problem 2. My lasers wont fire or they do but for a second then die out. Other times they work for several seconds. Pretty sure it is not a power problem as have 2.46 power to spare and and only have two E1 beam lasers. Even with full power in weapons they either refuse to fire or still cut out before the little bars by the weapon names on the HUD even begin to go down. Have C3 and D3 power plant and distributor respectevly. Have not tried any non energy weapons yet.

Anyone else experience either of these problems? I am assuming 'lemon' ships are not built into the game, yet at least. One makes combat or anything else inconvenient but the other makes blowing anything bigger than a sidewinder with shields impossible!

Number 1. seems to be the same as when you have a broken canopy (and you are on the 5 mins of oxygen or something. It would seem like somehow you have got stuck with that even though you aren't on oxygen (I assume). Obviously when the glass canopy blows out, in areas where there is now no glass, the hud can't project onto it.

Number 2. does seem to be a power issue, though perhaps not the power plant but the power distributor (or whatever it's called). It sounds like you aren't getting much in your weapons capacitor. Have you tried putting full pips to the weapons cap and seeing if you can fire for longer? If that helps, a better power distributor may help you out. My recollection is beam lasers are quite hungry (though I haven't played with them since earlier in the beta phases).

If you can get your screenies up, I'll try and help more. I would agree 1 sounds like a bug, but I haven never heard of it before so it would be worth finding out how it happened!

 

[Feldspar]

1) Have you had your cockpit shot out? That's the only thing I could do to replicate your problem in my viper,
2) Are they gimballed? If so it will probably be the ship being in the way, the medium hardpoints will not target the top of the screen.

 

[Fia]

1. No have not had cockpit shot out. May just have to try buying and jumping in to a cheap ship to see if that resets it, thanks for the ideas.

2. Yes they are gimballed. I shall check that and the power distributor suggestions out thanks for help.

EDIT: Sold the Viper flew a Sidewinder to another system, bought a new Viper and the HUD problem still there so I guess I just cannot use Vipers then.