New Bug...Ship won't move

[joriente]

Anyone seeing this issue? It just started yesterday. I have been playing since beta 1
I was docked at a station and when I left, none of the throttle controls worked. though the speed indicators on the hud moved correctly. the pitch, roll, and yaw controls did not work either. I rebooted. checked the joystick in devices and all worked ok. returned to the game and found I was now 10km from the station but the same thing was happening....the ship wouldn't move. Tried self destruct and back in the same station with the same issues... Game is un playable. other controls work like ui focus. Even keyboard presets for throttle do not work...I have zero for 100%, 9 for 75%, 8 for 50%...ship never moves. note that for the galaxy map, all controls work (yaw, pitch and roll) so I don't think its a hardware issue. Then, I disconnected the gamepad and tried using just the mouse and keyboard. same result...ship will not move but the controls seem to work, I can deploy weapons and fire, retract landing gear etc throttle indicator show 100% but the ship is stationary. Will a reinstall wipe my game? I would not want to lose my current progress.

Thanks
John

 

[Kramster]

Bit of a long shot but, have you checked that thrusters are not disabled in the modules/functions tab, it happened to me once in beta...No idea how.

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Right hand UI panel in your cockpit

 

[Rothor de Gilian]

Anyone seeing this issue? It just started yesterday. I have been playing since beta 1
I was docked at a station and when I left, none of the throttle controls worked. though the speed indicators on the hud moved correctly. the pitch, roll, and yaw controls did not work either. I rebooted. checked the joystick in devices and all worked ok. returned to the game and found I was now 10km from the station but the same thing was happening....the ship wouldn't move. Tried self destruct and back in the same station with the same issues... Game is un playable. other controls work like ui focus. Even keyboard presets for throttle do not work...I have zero for 100%, 9 for 75%, 8 for 50%...ship never moves. note that for the galaxy map, all controls work (yaw, pitch and roll) so I don't think its a hardware issue. Then, I disconnected the gamepad and tried using just the mouse and keyboard. same result...ship will not move but the controls seem to work, I can deploy weapons and fire, retract landing gear etc throttle indicator show 100% but the ship is stationary. Will a reinstall wipe my game? I would not want to lose my current progress.

Thanks
John

Have you checked that everything is turned on under 'Modules' in the right hand systems panel? I nearly threw my PC out the window in frustration because my ship wouldn't move the other day until I realised that the thrusters were turned off

 

[Gédéon_Lecanard]

Bit of a long shot but, have you checked that thrusters are not disabled in the functions tab, it happened to me once in beta...No idea how.

Yep, looks pretty much like this. If controls are responding in the control settings, there's a pretty good chance that this right here is your problem. Have you changed anything in your ship equipment, for instance?

 

[777Driver]

Anyone seeing this issue? It just started yesterday. I have been playing since beta 1
I was docked at a station and when I left, none of the throttle controls worked. though the speed indicators on the hud moved correctly. the pitch, roll, and yaw controls did not work either. I rebooted. checked the joystick in devices and all worked ok. returned to the game and found I was now 10km from the station but the same thing was happening....the ship wouldn't move. Tried self destruct and back in the same station with the same issues... Game is un playable. other controls work like ui focus. Even keyboard presets for throttle do not work...I have zero for 100%, 9 for 75%, 8 for 50%...ship never moves. note that for the galaxy map, all controls work (yaw, pitch and roll) so I don't think its a hardware issue. Then, I disconnected the gamepad and tried using just the mouse and keyboard. same result...ship will not move but the controls seem to work, I can deploy weapons and fire, retract landing gear etc throttle indicator show 100% but the ship is stationary. Will a reinstall wipe my game? I would not want to lose my current progress.

Thanks
John

I have seen this very occasionally when ALT tabbing between the Rift and my desktop, it's like the game loses focus. I never bothered ticketing it because it's so rare. a restart or a couple of alt tabs would fix it for me. Your issue sounds serious, you contact support. I re install wont wipe, you have to click 'clear save'

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Yep, looks pretty much like this. If controls are responding in the control settings, there's a pretty good chance that this right here is your problem. Have you changed anything in your ship equipment, for instance?

Good point about the thrusters, I made that mistake once and launched the ship inside a station. Wont be doing that again :/

 

[Grumbleweed]

Unplugging and replugging controls can have weird effects. Check the bindings in the controls menu if you haven't already too.

I've had to reprogramme my controls a few times after changing USB ports for some reason. I think it sometimes happens because I use a USB hub, so the game sometimes sees a different port, and assumes its a different controller and resets all the bindings. Irritating stuff.

If its this then please ticket it and ask for the option to save our custom bindings.

 

[Angelo]

Try resetting your pips. I had this problem once on my keyboard+mouse.

 

[joriente]

Thanks everyone!! apparently I did turn off thrusters...that only cost 16k credits after ship destruction!! I am using a MadCatz gamepad...You know what would be nice...When you throttle up without thrusters active a big message shows up that says "Hey dummy you turned your thrusters off!"

 

[Kramster]

Glad you're sorted.

 

[[Del]]

This issue caught me out today - I stupidly let a deadly pilot bring my shields down, who then proceeded to kill my thrusters and canopy, and then he allowed me to run out of air. After buying back in, my thrusters defaulted to disabled, leaving me a bit confused as to why I had no control of the ship at all.

IMO, a bug - can't see a logical reason for this. There were no changes to controls involved, using a Saitek X52 on the same USB port it's been on since the PC arrived, and no changes to my control profile in game.

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

This issue caught me out today - I stupidly let a deadly pilot bring my shields down, who then proceeded to kill my thrusters and canopy, and then he allowed me to run out of air. After buying back in, my thrusters defaulted to disabled, leaving me a bit confused as to why I had no control of the ship at all.

IMO, a bug - can't see a logical reason for this. There were no changes to controls involved, using a Saitek X52 on the same USB port it's been on since the PC arrived, and no changes to my control profile in game.

its a sort of bug but still worth a ticket. from what i can gather the settings default to the same as they were prior to destruction to save you having to spend time resetting everything if you've tuned your ship, the problem is destroying the thrusters turns them off on the function tab and so when you die they stay that way.

 

[[Del]]

OIC - that makes perfect sense - hadn't considered the tuning perspective. However, disabling essential systems in a new ship because they were destroyed in the last one is just silly. I've logged a ticket.