In the first RG I named mine Intrepid Ferret but in this one it’s Rocinante in honor of both The Expanse ship and its inspiration in Don Quixote, which I read all the way through in grad school back when the Earth’s crust was cooling.
You’re more like Grandpapageno.
Hmm, met character named urzu, gave me an mec jammer and he said get it installed, I go to ship and only only option is to sell it not install it?!
I sold it when I couldn’t install it on the thought maybe if I buy it as an upgrade I can then install it, yeah, didn’t show up in the list.
Now when I fly to the escort where it was to be used on the cops they don’t recognize me as they did previously telling me to install it.
And of course I can’t now install it.
Is this mission now borked?
Once you buy the station and upgrade it a bit you can re buy it.
To install it you needed to go to a launcher hardpoint and then bolt it on - I assume you went to surplus and then sold it?
Anyway, you can buy it again later. This is a side mission chain and not critical, so feel free to putter ownward.
I know Don Quixote was referenced in the story, but my understanding is The Expanse’s authors said it was really a nod to the Rush song. Which is an awesome reference, but maybe too niche for the audience.
Hmm, ok, well I went thru every menu trying to figure out a way to install it. Never found an option. Must of missed it.
Thanks for letting me know I can pursue it later, I’ll move on.
Have to confess to being a little annoyed by this outcome.
I liked all tachs too. Can’t beat it for dog fighting with a little trigger discipline. But what won me back to auto/photon combo was the power>shield dump. You have plenty of power to spare if you’re not all tachs.
Using Travis’ recommended remap option (push down right stick to replenish shields) made this a fair margin better. Those odd, super tough missions are easy peasy now.
Minor bug report.
I’ve been switching back and forth between M+K and joystick+throttle. I typically use the mouse to navigate through the menus, for example.
Normally the joystick+throttle will regain focus as soon as I use one of their controls. However, moving the throttle axis will not regain focus. I can press a button on the throttle, or I can move the stick along one of its axes, and at that point the throttle axis works as expected. But, right after using mouse or keyboard inputs, moving the throttle axis does nothing.
I noticed it when leaving a station, as often the first thing I do after leaving is throttle up or down. Now I just waggle the joystick first, then I can use the throttle. Not a big deal, but thought I’d mention it.
Yeah, the reason I don’t do that is because some axes ‘wobble’ - and will give me false positives, which is ultra annoying.
500 posts back but that’s how you sell a game people
Why does the auto-navigation like to take the scenic route and the shortest route? IE: You are in jureze (the one with the double jack base). You want to go through texas, which is like 2 jumps away. But if you select texas as your destination, it will guide you through merlin and another additional bunch of hops instead of the much shorter direct route.
It hates the red unstable gates
And there is no way to tell it to just use them in its calculations?
Not that I know of.
It should, I hate the red unstable gates too. Thankfully the few times I had to or accidentally gone through them my ship hasn’t been too damaged, only lost one piece of equipment, but that was enough that I avoid them if I can.
Unfortunately there is one system that you can only get to through one of them. I stripped my ship down to minimal equipment before going through the gate.
Buy that repair component. It’ll fix most of the issues that get damaged during an unstable jump (if there’s any damage at all - it’s not absolute).
I’ve had components get completely destroyed by those unstable gates. I’m assuming the repair drone can’t fix those.
You assume correctly. Red gates are the worst. The time saved isn’t worth the potential headache.
It shows you a waypoint on both gates. A red one and a blue one. You just pick which one you want to fly through.
It doesn’t seem to always do that for me. If I pick up a mission in a system where both the scenic route and the shortcut exist, then yes - it does this. But if I make a jump or three first, then come across the system w/ the two paths, I don’t see the double waypoint.
Or I wasn’t. Haven’t checked in the last day or so. Restarted w/ a new game, so haven’t really gotten that far as of yet.