Weapons lock on or manual targeting?

[Karmix]

Hi everyone,

Been away a long time, back and getting things in order. I had a quick question. Can you set weapons to actually lock on target so you can focus on flying? Or do you need to manually aim? I am using the X52 Pro and remember having to keep the cursor on targets and fly (which is totally fun and fine). If they can lock on, is it just gimbaled weapons? Is there a setting? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Xani D]

If I understand your question correctly, then the following applies

Fixed Weapons will always fire on your target recticle(s), they will not auto track targets, and are affected by your aim. They are not affected by Chaff.

Gimballed Weapons, if you have a target selected, will auto track the target as long as it stays near the centre of your view. If you do not have a target selected, they operate as Fixed Weapons. Gimballed Weapons do slightly less damage than their fixed counterpart (On paper, but allow for your accuracy). They are affected by Chaff

Turret Weapons, have a number of firing modes, and can even be set to fixed, and will fire in a 360 arc (Allowing for line of sight, eg your top guns cannot fire though your ship) at your target. If set to the more automatic mode, they will fire on a hostile target, without you really having to do anything, and will keep firing until either the target is dead, out of range, runs out of ammo, or you run out of energy to fire them. Turret weapons do significantly less damage than both Fixed and Gimballed versions however.

Hope that answers your question.