Sub Surface Displacement Missile problems

[Cmdr Zund]

I fire off a Sub Surface Displacement Missile, it hits the targeted area, the mini-game window shows up on the left side of the screen. Now one of two things happen:

1. The mini game proceeds as normal and I either hit/miss the release mark and get a chunk of mineral (or not depending on my timing). So normal game mechanics.

-OR-

2. The mini game pops up, then promptly disappears. I'm out a missle, the node's percent full does not go down (like if you miss getting a chunk of mineral). This will normally continues till I go to a different node.

I've tried a light/crushing touch on the mouse button. I've tried different mouse controllers and different buttons on them. Even different computers seem to let this happen.

Has anyone else experienced this Sub Surface Displacement Missiles?

 

[davinator791]

Could be the button wearing out so the minigame doesn't start every time. I would try assigning a keyboard button for the trigger and see if still happens.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

full pips to weapons too

 

[CMDR_UKmouse]

I've had this too. Definitely not the buttons on the HOTAS. I used multiple buttons and they all did the same.
Always have full pips to weapons for the mining lasers.
I could not work it out. Haven't been mining for a couple of months, so have not tried recently.

 

[Donaldi]

2. The mini game pops up, then promptly disappears.
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Has anyone else experienced this Sub Surface Displacement Missiles?

Had something like this happen on the Playtation from time to time too.
Mostly when I fired after the last extracted chunk was still collected and the exhausted subsurface depot began closing up (it was gone after the misfire). The sound was akin to having released the trigger before firing.
I also got those misfirings with "fresh" depots, simply fired again into them and it worked as expected (minigame starting up).

I file that under equipment malfunction, like those prospector drones failing during launch, mostly due to being run over by the ships auxilaries while travelling.

 

[Cmdr Zund]

After much mining and then finally getting back home to my main computer to test this I've come to the conclusion that there must have been some sort of timing issue with my laptop. Or something in the way it interprets the mouse receiver inputs and translates it to game inputs. This is despite the Logitech USB receiver's location, which mouse I used, distance from mouse to receiver and if I used the keyboard for Displacement Missiles (DM). Both wireless mice worked flawlessly for DM at home on my Alienware Aurora R7 computer.

The one think I didn't test out was disabling the software that senses another mouse device and auto-disables the laptop touchpad/buttons. So there's that.

Thanks for all your inputs. Cheers!