How do I launch a missile? And also, how do I take a shot at the enemy from other weapons?
I tried pressing ‘open fire FC’ and waiting for 5 seconds, as well as other buttons — no reaction at all. I can’t even read the tooltips properly — they disappear right away.
You do not have any target selected.
You need to assign weapons to fire controls. You can use Auto Assign FC to do this or do it manually. Then drag the intended target to the fire control. Or you can use Fleet Fire at Will button, if you do not care which enemy target will be targeted.
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I managed to launch it manually. This is an extremely non-obvious control aspect involving dragging the enemy into fire control. Auto Assign FC, for some reason, removes the missile launcher from Missile Fire Control but adds the guns to Direct Fire Control. “Fleet fire at will” does not launch missiles, even if you manually move the missile launcher back and drag the enemy into the same fire control. Whether you select the fleet or a fleet ship.
So how do you order the fleet to automatically attack a target?
To target enemy you drag it to the fire control. Or you can use the Fleet Fire at Will. This works for enemy targets.
You are targeting your own ship designated as target, so use the manual way and drag it on the fire control.
Auto Assign FC works for missiles as well as for direct fire control.
Result of the “Auto Assign FC”. The missiles that were in the previous screenshot were automatically removed as ‘unassigned weapons’.
Maybe it’s true that fire at will doesn’t work for allied ships — that would make sense. Although there’s a checkbox in the menu for ‘hostile only’. Or does it only work for neutral fleets of an alien faction?
Okay, that’s strange. Will there be any consequences from this?
I mean, it would be very strange if my faction became hostile to itself and started internecine slaughter. But I fully admit that this is possible.
That’s normal when you select one of your ship as a target.
The game create a copy of your race that you can control to allow you to use the ship as a target.
Nothing will change for you from a gameplay perspective, except you can now target your own ship.
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I think what is going on here is that the “Auto Assign FC” logic sees the Res 1 fire control and is treating it as an AMM fire control and doesn’t want to put size 10 launchers on it. It would probably be better for the logic to not apply that restriction if there are not multiple resolutions of fire controls present.
Yeah that’s exactly what is happening.