Need 'fixed mode' for gimbal weapons

[Adam Lusardi]

Just de-select the target and they fix centrally.
Not complicated at all, useful for getting around chaff.

 

[kirkkh]

Title says almost all of it, but:

Specifically NOT asking for power increase in fixed mode. Reduced power should be the price we pay for buying gimballed weapons; just need to be able to lock them forward with a single keystroke so that I can use them better at long range and at least get some use out of them when target is using chaff. If turrets can do it, why not gimbals?

I'd really (really) never buy fixed again.

 

[Alvatore]

I'm going to echo the second post; if you want a "fixed mode", just unlock your target. Your gimbals will fire straight ahead, ignoring the enemy's chaff.

 

[Crescendo]

I'm with the OP on this.. It would be nice to have more control over gimballed and turretted weapons. Going to the panel and changing a turretted weapons behavior isn't convenient. if they give us a keybind for that, I don't see it being problematic to do the same for gimballed. I wouldn't mind seeing a "forward tracking" function for turretted weapons that would be like gimballed weapons as well

 

[RadimentriX]

Just de-select the target and they fix centrally.
Not complicated at all, useful for getting around chaff.

and after that you have to scroll through all the subtargets again. yeah. great alternative. NOT.

 

[Somillian Hiigara]

I'd sooner actually give Fixed weapons a radar-guided convergence distance or one that can be toggled at different distances with a single buttonpress.