QOL for heavy warships

[Deployabledrone]

Add a 'command' mode for large warships (like Cruisers) where you can see more of the battlespace and designate targets for weapon groups.
The few times I've messed around with playing as a Cruiser I noticed that it was really hard to actually know what was going on, which is really important as a cruiser because you're too slow to be able to change much quickly and also that the weapons all recieve targets together, meaning that you can't assign your small turrets to one target and your big cannons to another.
Additionally, the AI controlled cruiser in the 'Defend the Frigates' mission will always yaw to engage only one broadside of Ion Cannons rather than turning to keep both broadsides in firing arc, thus halving the firepower which it can bring to bear.

[nkrisztian89]

Yes, playing with warships is not really much fun now, I am first and foremost focusing on fighters. Still, having different targets for weapon groups is a thing I have planned as it would also make sense when the ships or stations are played by the AI, it is weird how it is now (e.g. if the station has a target above, the guns on the bottom will still track that target and not be able to fire, while there could be available targets below as well, which feels off)
The thing about the cruiser in that mission is a bug, it is supposed to take a position where it can fire all 6 main guns (and sometimes it does manage actually). I will fix it when I get to the ships, for now I just balanced that mission taking that into consideration (it is still winnable if it takes the correct position, but you can have fewer frigates destroyed to make it when that happens)

[Deployabledrone]

Interesting, I didn’t realize that was a bug, in all of my testing with cruisers they did the same thing.I don’t know how the target assigning is set up but a way you could probably do it is have each weapon, in the loadout editor, be assigned to a ‘control group’ which could be assigned targets independently or all control groups could be assigned a target simultaneously if you want to have all weapons target a specific target together. In order to implement this there would have to be different hotkeys in order to differentiate the target assignments or there would have to be a hotkey sequence (ex. press a key to open the control groups menus, press another key to select the active control group, this bumps you out of the control group menu and you can go on changing targets for that control group).On Feb 7, 2025, at 7:31 PM, Krisztian Nagy ***@***.***> wrote: Yes, playing with warships is not really much fun now, I am first and foremost focusing on fighters. Still, having different targets for weapon groups is a thing I have planned as it would also make sense when the ships or stations are played by the AI, it is weird how it is now (e.g. if the station has a target above, the guns on the bottom will still track that target and not be able to fire, while there could be available targets below as well, which feels off) The thing about the cruiser in that mission is a bug, it is supposed to take a position where it can fire all 6 main guns (and sometimes it does manage actually). I will fix it when I get to the ships, for now I just balanced that mission taking that into consideration (it is still winnable if it takes the correct position, but you can have fewer frigates destroyed to make it when that happens) —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>