Are there any way to change firing bank on ship?

deathray38

Whenever I use single beam build, beam is shooting from random ship locations. If I am using beamboat, it is not a problem - it looks ok. "Unfortunately" I am using single beam escort, and beam randomly firing from 13245 locations look silly. My escort have very nice front bank - are there any way to stick this single beam to this bank?

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trycksh0t

Well, that's how Starfleet vessels are designed, with multiple phaser arrays covering different fields of fire. The ship's computer chooses which array has the highest chance of hitting the target and fires that one (with a few exceptions, specifically I recall the Enterprise-D firing 3 phaser arrays at a Borg Cube during Best of Both Worlds Part 1. One from the saucer, one from the main-hull, and a third from near the port-nacelle).

To actually answer your question, no, the only way to control which phaser-array is firing in-game is to have that specific array aimed at your target (however, this isn't guaranteed either, my Steamrunner likes to use the port and starboard forward arrays to fire dead ahead sometimes).

hypl

I wish there was customization for this. Tired of my 360 AP beam firing from turret hardpoints. :P

kyuzos7

wish my beam arrays would fire from 12345 locations...

all my forward beams seem to fire out of the same location makes me feel like im playing MWO lol...

i do like how the omni-directional moves all around your ship kinda cool.

merse

It wouldn't be too hard to fix, all it would take is to replace the hardpoints on the ships and then assign the hardpoints that are on the phaser bank textures to the beam arrays. It would take only about 2 hours for one lone developer to fix for all the ships in the game. And sadly, that's exactly why it won't be done. You know, developer morale or working spirit are not exactly high in Cryptic nowadays...

deathray38

I wish I have some freedom in choosing firng bank. Cannon boats using sngle beam bank look really ugly, beam is fring randomly from multiple locations while cute front weapon bank is not used. Even if this mechanic is working fine for dedicated beam boats wth 5+ single beams, it should work different for ships using single beam only.