Trailing or Leading targeting?
- Thread starter Poseidal
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Depends. If my loadout is fixed only, trailing. If I'm mixing gimballed and fixed, leading, because the trailing indicator is the same as a gimballed weapon's indicator and it confuses me everytime.
Hmm, that is true though I think if the gimbal is lasers it's ok, as they have a different reticule (though the dots are annoying when it's near centre). I wish I could 'darken' the gimbal reticules, as they are less 'important' than your fixed aiming one.
I found I could snap fire it better with trailing, though it's annoying if the ship is below your ship and you're lining up and can't see through your hull.
Agreed, would be nice to have the option to turn them off/on...
...or perhaps have the option to set their transparency level.
Same here
Neither - I use the force.
No, but really, both have the same effect in terms of the orientation your ship should end up in - seems to me the only real difference is whether your eye is focused on the center of the screen vs the enemy ship is. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I'd have thought leading might be slightly better for this reason; your eyes would be focused more on where you're going.
Actually, there would probably be one other difference which might be important... If you were sitting idle and an enemy flew past your screen from left to right, leading should show you where to aim just before the enemy ship itself comes into view while trailing wouldn't give you a position to aim at until the enemy was on-screen. I'm not sure how much I've actually noticed this during play, but it seems like it could be an advantage to leading... maybe?
No, but really, both have the same effect in terms of the orientation your ship should end up in - seems to me the only real difference is whether your eye is focused on the center of the screen vs the enemy ship is. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I'd have thought leading might be slightly better for this reason; your eyes would be focused more on where you're going.
Actually, there would probably be one other difference which might be important... If you were sitting idle and an enemy flew past your screen from left to right, leading should show you where to aim just before the enemy ship itself comes into view while trailing wouldn't give you a position to aim at until the enemy was on-screen. I'm not sure how much I've actually noticed this during play, but it seems like it could be an advantage to leading... maybe?