Could you please add weapons that fire in the direction you are looking (free look) in your cockpit as this will make combat more interesting
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- Thread starter Surreal_salami
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or... you could get turrets
Aiming with your head? Heh, I've done that in some other games and it's not that easy with head tracking at least. Might be better with VR where it's 1 to 1, though. One wouldn't need new weapons, just "aim-look" mode for existing gimbal and turret weapons. The best implementation would probably be similar to the multicrew turret where you sort of aim to the right direction and it snaps to the target when it's close enough.
Using a turret with the fire mode set to attack selected target works close enough to the suggestion to make it mostly redundant.
But the turrets are pretty stupid, taking a lot of time to turn from their default positions which they return to every time they can't hit anything. If you could direct them manually, you could predict where the target will be and have the turrets more or less aimed that direction in advance.
The main reason to develop this feature is that it would benefit the multicrew gunner, though. Especially with mining lasers that can't aim things that aren't targets.