TECH help, Question: Is there a weapons grouping & firing bug? Or what am I doing different?

StewartScott · Feb 19, 2015

I have just lost all weapons I cannot fire on any targets. No idea why.

Nothing changed since I logged off last night in my ship settings. All modules are functioning correctly, Generator has plenty of power with all weapons deployed.

BUT I press fire buttons assigned to my fire groups, I get nothing. It's like the buttons are not functioning or something.

Tried re-entering fire groups to their assignments didn't seem to help.

Running 4 multi cannon turrets on a Viper here.

Any ideas out there whats happening?

Thanks for any all help.

PS-

BrewerGeorge · Feb 19, 2015

What about your pips? WEAP capacitor empty?

Kalearne · Feb 19, 2015

There was a bug where the visuals would trigger when you opened fire. Are you seeing any power drops, ammo changes?

slarsson · Feb 19, 2015

Following the last patch, the loaned lasers on my Eagle stopped working. I was getting the firing sound but no beams. The only way I found to fix it was to dump the loaned lasers and buy eactly the same ones for 2200C each!

Wavey · Feb 19, 2015

StewartScott said:
I have just lost all weapons I cannot fire on any targets. No idea why.

Nothing changed since I logged off last night in my ship settings. All modules are functioning correctly, Generator has plenty of power with all weapons deployed.

BUT I press fire buttons assigned to my fire groups, I get nothing. It's like the buttons are not functioning or something.

Tried re-entering fire groups to their assignments didn't seem to help.

Running 4 multi cannon turrets on a Viper here.

Any ideas out there whats happening?

Thanks for any all help.

PS-

Have you checked your control settings under options ?

StewartScott · Feb 19, 2015

Yes I checked control settings as well nothing has changed they seem to be in order.

I am flying a Viper using 2 F2 multi-cannons turrets firing on fire group 1 and 2 G1 multi-cannon turrets firing on fire group 2, I swear same set up I was using last night, now seems like it won't work. Maybe they Nerfed the Viper a bit in todays patch? So I can't run this particular weapons together? Is that possible?

Not getting any kind of indicators other than fire buttons won't discharge weapons right now.

Wavey · Feb 19, 2015

Check module priorities in right panel ,ive seen mine randomly change after a patch.1 is highest priority if you didnt know
Just checked mine and its changed all mine ,power distib weps shield ect all at 2 now ....

ME-tan · Feb 19, 2015

Did you accidentally open the comms window? Weapons can't be fired while it is open.

BrewerGeorge · Feb 19, 2015

ME-tan said:
Did you accidentally open the comms window? Weapons can't be fired while it is open.

Oooh, good idea!

StewartScott · Feb 19, 2015

ME-tan said:
Did you accidentally open the comms window? Weapons can't be fired while it is open.

Yes, I have even completely changed my weapon load out and still both fire buttons won't fire. This is driving me nuts. Should be working.

Comm button not on either

Any more ideas please?

Plenty of power to spare, mouse buttons work for everything else, just not when trying to fire weapons? I can't find any reason for it.
I Checked controls under options menu, shows buttons are assigned correctly. I just can't figure out whats going on.

BrewerGeorge · Feb 19, 2015

Try a training mission to rule out any issues with your particular ship. The trainers are set up to work from the start.

EUS · Feb 19, 2015

I don't think it's been mentioned, did you check you key maps for any changes?

StewartScott · Feb 19, 2015

BrewerGeorge said:
Try a training mission to rule out any issues with your particular ship. The trainers are set up to work from the start.

YES! Good idea. I just tried playing the practice mode and my fire buttons work perfectly. Has something to do with weapons working on my ship.

Everything is within specs, everything should be working, still not firing. Will I have to sell ship and everything in it and start again with a new ship and rebuild it from ground up?

It has to be a bug of some sort I would think.

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EUS said:
I don't think it's been mentioned, did you check you key maps for any changes?

Yes fire buttons are assigned right in controls, works in practice mode using supplied ship.

StewartScott · Feb 20, 2015

OK I finally found the answer.

I had 4 turreted multi-cannons mounted. They won't fire on a target unless the target in marked hostile, therefore my fire buttons didn't work. Even in turret fire forward mode. They won't fire at selected target.

I equipped with turreted plus lasers, they will fire at targets when set to fire forward only mode, so the answer was to hit my target 1st with plus lasers in fire forward only mode making them turn hostile red, then switching to turreted fire at will mode or targeted modes, then all turreted weapons would track targets and fire on them.

Whew, was that hard for me to figure out? Yes, oh yes it was.