New character

willwilco

I just started a new character today, a Romulan Technical officer. I did the tutorial by fixing the irrigation lines, but when i try to shoot my phasor at the little critters, it does not always fire a pulse. Sometimes it takes four or five mouse clicks to finally shoot. Then when the planet is attacked, I am to go find a battery, I keep getting killed before I can complete the mission. I am not sure what to do to make it through the quest. Can anyone assist?

Will

officerbatman81

Wtf is a technical officer?

Edit: sorry i was being an TRIBBLE.

It sounds like the issue is selecting a target before shooting? To target the closest enemy you press the tab button, then youll shoot at it.
Maybe its a setting to adjust somewhere, but you can auto target things. But to cycle targeting youd use the tab key.

When your in range to an enemy you should be able to fire and have it automatically be selected.

rndfluctuation

He meant Tactical Officer.

As for the issue itself, other thing to consider might be some kind of a (partial) connectivity issue (potentially involving high latency ("lag", high ping) or even timing outs as a result for example. Sorry, I am not technical.)
having a bad connection myself at times, I think this may likely be the issue.

Other options could possibly be, range* (while you are more far than 10km in space from a target you can't shoot the target. There is a range for weapons and skills on the ground too,) or trying to use a skill or secondary attack while it timed out or otherwise non available.

*On a second read, it could be the upper poster meant to relate the same range issue I referred to, but in such case I didn't fully understand what he meant and am not sure, so I apologize if this is he case.


Basically, if it's hard to aim on the ground, and beside the upper poster advice about tabbing, while in range, you could use 1 (by default) to use your main shooting skill. Mind you the target which might be auto chosen this way might not be the one you meant to shoot.


P.S.
Basically space weapons have an arch, an angle which you may shoot them successfully. Your position in relation to your target(s), matters.

officerbatman81

Whoa! It just occured to me......

I dont even shoot with my mouse, ever. On ground i just press 1 & 2, in space i spacebar.

So perhaps that would serve you better, or look at your key binds.

I use my mouse for simultaneous direction control.

guljarol

"Technical officer" could also be an engineer, if OP plays the game in a different language and translates for us.

As for OP, yeah, try what officerbatman81 says: use 1 and 2 (they should be set to fire by default). They would autotarget and fire, making your killing a lot more effective and fast.​​

officerbatman81

Also another thing, you may be in shooter mode? Which requires you to manually target and shoot via mouse like a fps game. I find that weird and disorienting and never use it, maybe because your see over the shoulder of your character and not through their eyes as you do say call of duty.

Switch back to regular mode by pressing B.

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noroblad

pistols and other guns that requilre mouse spam to fire are GREAT candidates for the 'toggle fire, never cancel' option. This is availabe in space too. What you do is right click the weapon shoot button on your tool bar and it gets a green box around it. Then you mash your shoot button once, and you will fire until it is dead, tab to next and it will shoot that one too. The setting is in options somewhere, shouldnt be hard to find.