Trouble firing weapons

[Cmdr. Lowdrag]

Hi all. For about the last week or so, I have lost the ability to fire any of my weapons. I have 3 large burst lasers and 2 double missile racks. When I deploy the hardpoints, I get the Hardpoints Deployed message. When I retract them, it states that the hardpoints have been retracted. The problem lies in the fact that I no longer have the burst laser cross-hairs, nor any missile locks. Where I use to have the readings of the burst lasers and the missile rack around the targeting area, there is nothing. I do know how to focus on other ships and how to target them. I have been flying a Krait II, mostly to trade now that I can no longer fight. That makes it double hard when I come across someone after my goodies. I have to run - where before I was able to kick almost anyone's rear. Oh yeah, my control setting for fire is Mouse 1 or Joystick 1. Neither works now.
Please some one help me! I'm tired of running from fights and not being able to Bounty Hunt....!

 

[rekurzion]

dumb basic trouble shooting question(s) inbound...

are your priority settings powering down your weapons by chance? are you in the correct fire group?

what happens when you switch to another ship or replace the weapons with new ones?

 

[CAPT. Ho Chi Minge]

Another question... are you in explorer mode or combat mode , when mining/exploration was released it also included 2 cockpit modes and in one of those modes you dont have access to weapons (guess which one).

 

[Taifu]

Are you switched to combat (Orange HUD) mode? As apposed to analysis (Blue HUD) mode.

 

[Clicker]

Most likely cause...after buying your weapons, you have not assigned them a firing group in the Right Hand Panel.

 

[Cmdr. Lowdrag]

Yup, weapons all assigned to fire group and I am in Combat mode. I have the weapons energy levels set between 3 to 4. When in combat, I closely monitor energy levels and act accordingly.
I am still not getting the laser status nor the missile rack status on the HUD. The HUD does show the up-to-date chaff and the self-defense points charged and "in range/out of range" status bars.
So, here I am, stuck in Trader Mode. I do appreciate the answers I have been given thus far. Just waiting for the one silver bullet answer to my question.

 

[Bottom Hat]

Do your weapons still have a fire button allocated to them? I mean within the cockpit, in addition to the 'options>controls' part of the game's menu.

In the "fire groups" tab of the right hand UI menu, each weapon should have a number 1 or number 2 assigned to them, where you create your fire groups - it's a good idea to check your fire groups are correctly assigned anyway.

It is possible that the weapons no longer have a firing button assigned to them in this part of the UI menus. You would have had to assign them in this tab when you first set up the ship, and you have used the weapons before as you say, so this menu tab should be somewhat familiar.


In addition to what has been said about power module priorities, when the last version of the game was released, there was a situation where all modules had their power priorities reset back to priority 1, no matter how you had them set up before.

So, if this has happened without your knowledge, it's possible that when you deploy your hardpoints, the weapon's power takes your power load up over 100% - if this happens to you, the first thing that gets powered down is the weapons, so you would find that they simply don't fire when deployed, along with the target-reticules simply disappearing from the center of your HUD, as they have in your description.


I hope something from the answers you have received here, and in other members' replies up above mine, will solve the problem for you. Good luck with it, and fly dangerously OP!!


Ps:- I wrote this before I saw the preceding two posts, so apologies if I have repeated anything you already know or have tried, or repeated any of the suggestions by other forum members o7