turrets not shooting until locked on

[Exzentrik]

Hi,

 

on my current ship, I have 8/8 armed Turrets, manned by 16/16 Cannoniers (Level 2 & 3).

The Turrets are behaving a litte ... crappy.

 

For each Turret on my Ship, I get a litte circle indicating where they would shoot at.

If I take an enemy Ship into target and click LMB to fire... nothing happens. First, I have to wave my mouse around until these little Circles hover the Target ship, then they turn green and THEN I can finally shoot.

 

If I don't have anything in target I can shoot freely and instantly.

 

What is causing this!? I practically have to sit around all the time in Battle, because when I'm moving it's almost impossible to make the turrets lock on. Is there any switch I have to flick? An Option I don't know about?

 

*EDIT* These are non-automatic Turrets. They should shoot as soon as I click LMB.

[LordMaddog]

Your turrets tracking speed is slow and there is a safety mechanic that stops them from firing unless pointed in the right direction.

 

you can see you turrets tracking speed using this mod

https://steamcommunity.com/app/445220/discussions/5/135508489635591608/

 

forum post

https://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php?topic=1635.0

 

[Exzentrik]

How cool is that!? Thank you, gonna try it out.

[Brigadon]

smaller, faster, and more maneuverable ships can often rotate quicker than turrets can track (especially salvagers and miners) so I will often put guns on fast ships onto a direct fire block in order to ignore the tracking speed issue.

 

This works especially well for designated mining ships with large blocks of mining lasers