Just like you, they can be overloaded by overflowing flux points and destroyed by losing all their hull points.Ĩ.
Just like you, the enemy has weapon groups, flux points, and hull points. Move your cursor near the enemy and press the R key to toggle ta Rget information. The larger ship with the orange diamond overlay is the enemy. Pilot your ship toward the top of the screen. Your ship has a maximum speed, so once you hit it you don’t have to hold down the forward button. It’s best to let these turrets do their job.Ħ. Press spacebar to unpause. (Remember that you can pause again at any time to stop the action.) Weapon group 3 is a set of point-defense turrets, meaning it consists of small machine guns that try to shoot down enemy missiles and fighters. If you use these correctly, you will leave your enemy drifting in space while you attack them from any angle you like with your guns in weapon group 1. These are special heat-seeking missiles that will fly around your enemy and hit their engines, disabling movement. These are very slow to reload, so you’ll want to fire them at the right moment. Weapon group 2 is linked to your missiles. When you find the enemy, hit them with this. Weapon group 1 is your primary offensive weapon, a pair of forward-facing guns. If you select a weapon group set to “autofire”, your control will override the AI and you can manually fire using the left mouse button. You will see that they highlight when selected. Try switching between weapon groups using the number keys. Your ship can fire as many weapon groups at a time as it can, provided your flux is not overloaded. It’s pretty smart about handling weapons, but oftentimes you want to override the AI’s decisions. You can set any number of groups to auto-fire, which lets the AI decide when to fire. You can fire by press the left mouse button.
You can manually select a weapon group using keys 1 through 5 on your keyboard, like an FPS game. Your ship has various turrets and hardpoints which are grouped by number. Weapon Groups: These are your weapons.You want to overload your enemy so you can deal damage without being blocked by shields or shot at. Overloading halts your ability to use shields or weapons for a few seconds while flux is drained. It starts at zero and if it exceeds your ships capacity, you will overload. Flux: This is like heat built up from firing weapons or taking damage with your energy shields.Information about your ship appears in the lower-left corner. Use the mousewheel to zoom in and out and pan with the mouse around the screen to see nearby objects. You will see your ships flying in to the battlefield. Your ally is the other ship with the green box.ĥ. Press the “tab” key to go to the battle map.
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Your piloted ship is the one with a green box around it plus a command star. We’re not going to worry about giving orders the AI is good at taking care of itself. Note that the game is paused so you can plan your attack and give orders to ships under your command. You have deployed your fleet! This is the tactical map, a high-level overview of the battlefield. Here we want to deploy everything.Ĥ. Select “All” then press the “Deploy” button. In campaign mode, you may want to deploy only certain ships from your fleet into a battle. The mission will load and you will be presented with the deployment window. You have one allied ship which mostly serves to distract the enemy from you. The goal is to defeat the enemy ship and not get blown up yourself. The default starting mission is “A Fistful of Credits”. So follow along with and prepare yourself for tactical space combat! You can find this same information live, in-game, with stuff exploding as you learn in the Combat Tutorials accessed via the Tutorials button in-game.īut you’re hear to read. This guide will walk you through a first combat mission while explaining key concepts. An understanding of combat mechanics is essential to success in Starsector.
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