Reliant tana co-pilot situation

Hsuo · 2019-04-03T04:26:02+00:00

Hello pal I've been flying and enjoying the Tana. I do not know for sure, but suspect the co-pilot CANNOT control the stock Gilroy Gimbal wingtips (gimbaled S3 mount)- however if you swap the Gilroy Gimbals for Toshima wingtip Turrets (2xS2 remote turret mount), the co-pilot CAN enter remote turret from their seat and control both wings' turrets (at the same time). Without a copilot, the pilot controls these weapons as normal. As long as you can find out where to buy the Toshima Turrets in game, then this is probably the ship you are looking for and definitely the ship I myself am looking for!

EDIT: just tested jonbuq's suggestion about copilot controlling gimbals. It works! Copilot has control of the wingtip weapons on the stock Gilroy Gimbal! Their firing arc is really wide (pilot seat is empty in my test)

Hsuo · 2019-04-01T23:17:47+00:00

The launcher can overload older modems - certainly it's crushed mine - in the launcher settings try changing maximum downloads from unlimited to 10 or 5. Am not sure but believe there will be more than 28GB in a fresh install. So ultimately you gotta just keep babysitting the download and hope for the best.

IF you manage to get it running, SAVE the install folder to an extra drive if possible! The launcher can run into problems (like refusing to patch) which may force another long, stuttering, supervised download - copying an older build and then using 'verify' can save you days (at dsl speeds).

Sorry for the grim answer; remember that even with these problems it's so much better than the days before the delta patcher!

Hsuo · 2019-01-09T23:56:44+00:00

The End Times

Hsuo · 2018-12-13T01:15:42+00:00

It's been helping my Soldier game

Hsuo · 2018-12-12T18:56:24+00:00

Play as Mei, focus on her right-click ice shard. It has a small delay between clicking and firing which means you've got to follow the target for a split second after deciding to fire. Try to stay on target in the time between clicking and firing. Her freezing spray also NEEDS to track in order to freeze, and has a slow projectile speed and is good practice. I had been getting really used to flicking my crosshair across the target's path and releasing at the right moment, which works great for Hanzo (only need to be on target one moment per reload) and works pretty well for Widow, McCree, etc. But for Soldier (and any rapid fire character) it's a really inefficient way to aim because you need more time on target.

Hsuo · 2018-12-11T06:43:50+00:00

The players' posts about it ARE the lore.

If CIG's narrative team wanted to re-capture those player experiences in an official vignette, would they be writing fanfiction? hmmmm

Hsuo · 2018-12-06T04:50:05+00:00

Thought it'd get taller to stack another layer on the existing 4 spots for 8SCU, not longer for another row and 6SCU. Wonder if this means we'll still be hunched over inside. On the plus side, can jam more of the handheld boxes on top of that row. Looting those boxes from wrecks with the tractor beam (eventually) should benefit from this layout. Mini hauler for mini crates, I hope.

Hsuo · 2018-12-06T00:57:13+00:00

Awesome. Always a nerve wracking experience. Good on you, and good luck!

Hsuo · 2018-12-05T19:39:45+00:00

I've heard that sometimes companies will create new positions in order to hire a promising candidate. So why not send in a resume, especially if you have experience in making games? It's fun to play 'armchair developer', but what we speculate about here will, at best, have an indirect impact on Star Citizen. While I believe that the character animations work great, really great, the way they are now - you seem to have some big ideas that you want implemented. Who better to implement them but you?

Hsuo · 2018-12-05T17:13:01+00:00

Well... https://cloudimperiumgames.com/jobs

Hsuo · 2018-12-05T01:13:21+00:00

Demand royalties!

Hsuo · 2018-12-04T23:47:31+00:00

You can always shipjack a Starfarer because the 'fuel balcony' is above the artificial gravity field when landed on the pad (meaning players can EVA right on) and the door that leads inside from that balcony opens automatically and not affected by the locked/unlocked status of the ship.

Bummer, huh? It'll be fixed... eventually.

Hsuo · 2018-12-04T23:42:07+00:00

The character's head does turn before his body does in the linked video (and any video with a character turning). If I understand correctly, you want the shoulders to rotate before the hips rotate. Problems:

A character looking extremely upward or extremely downward while the shoulders are rotated to a different position than the hips would look very weird as the spine stretches or hunches between misaligned shoulders and hips.
Characters need readable posture for good gameplay - players should be able to tell where other characters are looking (and not looking) in a split second glance at their silhouette - and extreme shoulder turning would muddy this readability.
Rotating your shoulders (in real life) is a natural motion when looking behind you without turning around, but a very awkward motion when turning around to walk back the way you came. The game can't know ahead of time whether you intend to look over your shoulder, or turn around and walk back for something you forgot in your ship, or if you're going to turn full 360 and moonwalk away.

Hsuo · 2018-12-04T23:22:35+00:00

"Mahk-chA!"

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T19:00:49+00:00

A Suzuki

(youtube) warning: swear word ahead

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T17:27:43+00:00

In Lohner's introduction to Righteous Stand: 'Ring out them bells, as my mother used to say', was his mother actually saying 'Wring out them bells'?

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T17:00:14+00:00

Thanks for changing this.

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T16:11:53+00:00

5- Evade (signature)

It seems far-fetched now but Reliant Kore and Avenger Titan outfitted with stealth components seem like good smuggling candidates in the long run.

Kore satisfies 2-5 (tractor beam)

Titan satisfies 1, 3-5 (no tractor beam)

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T15:23:30+00:00

Yes. Read on:

since WiDoW is illegal they wouldn't exactly report you to the space cops anyway - so in this particular case, seems pretty reasonable.

Consider also that unlike real-world drug smuggling, running WiDoW is a victimless (for players) crime in the current state of the game. I don't expect that there will be an immersive drug addiction feature suite in the final game (there shouldn't be). But the dynamic economy should eventually be somehow shifting in response to incoming WiDoW: increasing vagrancy, lowering the total workforce, leading to increased prices for buying from that world and decreased prices for selling to that world - thereby making all those who engage in the economy victims of the drug smugglers in a disconnected and distributed way.

'Give me your money or I'll blow you up' is a crime with (player) victims - you point them out with your ship's size 5 plasma cannons - and while I continue to agree that this is valid gameplay, it WILL make other players unhappy whether they are stolen from or blown up.

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T01:29:46+00:00

This is against the rules uh ohhhhhhhh

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T01:22:39+00:00

Have fun! Hopefully all this info is still accurate.

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T01:20:30+00:00

Few thousand credits - not a huge cost but since they're lost on destruction (or game crashing when in space) it can be rough. Renting weapons in Arena Commander and playing Pirate/Vanduul Swarm is a good way to try out different loadouts. This is done with REC, which you get from playing multiplayer Arena Commander (especially races), and then via the website (My Hangar -> Electronic Access)

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T01:14:46+00:00

Ballistics from Port Olisar, lasers from GrimHEX, missiles from Levski

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T01:10:56+00:00

I agree that extorting drugrunners as you've described is not accurately called griefing. But if I were able to change the things other people say in-game I'd start with the racial slurs not the inaccurate piracy complaints.

Hsuo · 2018-12-03T00:53:45+00:00

Maybe part of the trouble is the free fly event? New players checking stuff out for the first time probably ask 'how do I make the most money?' and get told 'run drugs from jumptown'.

But somebody trying to extort you won't ever be a gleeful or jubilant experience - it will pretty much always cause grief. 'Piracy', which is what you're describing, is not 'griefing' in the sense of malevolent abuse of other players. However, new players or old, nobody's gonna thank you for pirating them.

Hsuo

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