Read by Council Fire Guns Forwards hotkey

[Winterhome]

It would be really, really nice for guns to have a Boresight fire keymap.

Why? Easy.

If you've ever been in a larger ship fight, you'll know that at knife fighting range, oftentimes you're having to turn at maximum speed to keep the enemy in front of you - but your cursor is so far away from the enemy that you aren't able to hit them - you're actually firing *past* the enemy at a stupidly wide angle.

A bind for guns to fire *directly forwards* would seriously help with this.

 

[sayerulz]

I would rather have guns ONLY fire forwards, or at least much less than now. The only actual limit to a weapons firing arc right now is your view.

 

[spunkiethefirst]

I see what your saying, although it is currently possible to achieve this with logic linked weapons, that means you lose the ability to aim it with the reticle. The only workaround I can figure is to have a "ship" ai docked to a rail on your nose and have it set for target selected, but this would prevent you from targeting jammed units.

 

[Gandrac]

I would rather have guns ONLY fire forwards, or at least much less than now. The only actual limit to a weapons firing arc right now is your view.

This exactly.

Like I wrote before.. this would make capital ships actually feel like capitals. It would also save a lot of fighters from getting ripped apart by weapon systems which should only be effective against other big ships.

 

[Parameter]

I thought right click fire already did this. What am I missing?

 

[Megacrafter127]

I thought right click fire already did this. What am I missing?

If you've ever been in a larger ship fight, you'll know that at knife fighting range, oftentimes you're having to turn at maximum speed to keep the enemy in front of you - but your cursor is so far away from the enemy that you aren't able to hit them - you're actually firing *past* the enemy at a stupidly wide angle.

 

[Jaaskinal]

I thought right click fire already did this. What am I missing?

Right click makes weapons fire at default focus. If you're firing at nothing, and your cursor never turns green, right click and left click do the same thing.