I believe the difference is mostly from Normal ships (Interceptor bomber ect) to Capitals. Because every capital I set a speed in, they seem to stall at 150m/s near or around. Meanwhile the fighter sized ships will follow my instructions properly.
So to say, yes. There is a difference in speed when setting a target autopilot speed. But I think that’s more of a bug then anything intended.
Not sure if this is a known bug - pressing F4 after dying (while viewing killcam) seems to crash the game immediately.
Yeah, it’ll be fixed in the next patch.
Right, here’s some random ramble. I played a bit last night (before the previous post), so none of this is particularly fresh in my mind.
Before this, I only played once or twice during beta weekends, and I had absolutely no idea what was happening or what I was supposed to do. I sort of still don’t, but I did manage to make a little more sense out of stuff through trial and error, and had quite a bit of fun! So here’s what I think is missing:
First and foremost: a beginner’s guide or a tutorial. I think an active member of the community would be better suited to make one, rather than the devs. Some of what should be covered:
Just those should be enough for people to jump in and have fun with some combat. You might think this is covered by the in-game help screen (F9), but trust me as a recent noob - it’s not.
Some more things that should be covered for those who want a deeper understanding of the game mechanics:
If a guide like this already exists, I couldn’t find it. Make it prominent. Pin it. Link to it from the website/FAQ. Make the beta accessible to new players.
The other thing that’s missing is actually closely related - better indication of what to do. The bottom-left tells you something like “join the battle at X”, but doesn’t seem to give you any meaningful way of how the hell to get there.
Pinning this might be a good idea until a proper ingame tutorial is implemented:
Hey thanks, it’s nice to get feedback from beginners on where they struggle / lack information. However, keep in mind we’re still iterating on a lot of game systems, so any tutorial or help is likely to get invalidated by the time the game releases. We’ll eventually add a tutorial in game too. Meanwhile I’ll pin Playbenni’s thread.
You’re right on this point. I’ve been in this for ages now and still struggle to locate stations. It would help if it told us which planet the base/station was at.
This should be improved once we get a proper map. There will be extra objectives added at some point too.
Unrelated: We need an HUD indicator to no what we have overcharged.
Um, lol, my mistake.
Then again… Maybe it is disabled in warp?
Edit: These flat weapon effects are not very visible when the camera is near their direction of travel. It is mostly an issue when being shot at by station turrets.
Edit 2: capitals are too sensitive to bumping, with effects varying from throwing off aim to temporarily losing control of the ship.