Pilot Archive
Thread: y-8 weapon question
Message Edited by Grathen on 05-05-2005 10:03 PM
Hiya 
You need to go down to the lower level using the lift/turret controls. Once on the lower level use the lift/turret controls to enter the lower turret.
Hope this helps...Happy Mining 
Weapon slot 0 is the top turret, 1 is the bottom turret, and 2 is the forward gun. Weapon 2 is currently bugged atm as it can't actually do any damage or be used with a mining laser to break apart asteroids.
I've got to admit though, it was mad funny flying something bigger than a station's hangar bay after tiny tier 1 fighters and hitting them... too bad I couldn't kill them because of the damage bug.
JoKen_Jash wrote:
Weapon slot 0 is the top turret, 1 is the bottom turret, and 2 is the forward gun. Weapon 2 is currently bugged atm as it can't actually do any damage or be used with a mining laser to break apart asteroids.
I've got to admit though, it was mad funny flying something bigger than a station's hangar bay after tiny tier 1 fighters and hitting them... too bad I couldn't kill them because of the damage bug.
Hmmmm... I can get Weapon 2 to work just fine, but couldn't get weapon 0 to work with the mining laser.
Treychyyk wrote:
JoKen_Jash wrote:
Weapon slot 0 is the top turret, 1 is the bottom turret, and 2 is the forward gun. Weapon 2 is currently bugged atm as it can't actually do any damage or be used with a mining laser to break apart asteroids.
I've got to admit though, it was mad funny flying something bigger than a station's hangar bay after tiny tier 1 fighters and hitting them... too bad I couldn't kill them because of the damage bug.
Hmmmm... I can get Weapon 2 to work just fine, but couldn't get weapon 0 to work with the mining laser.
Same here. I was dogfighting in it this afternoon (snicker) but I parked it under an asteroid and couldnt break anything off to save my life.
Question for you though, did you get any loot while fighting? I got none including credits.
I have tried the Y-8 with nothing but mining laser (mk-3) on the upper turret and the pilots weapons slot and a tractor beam on the lower turret (which fires from the upper turret and the pilots weapon?!??!). The pilots mining laser did no damage and did not even drain the capacitor. The upper turret mining laser did drain the cap but did not break anything off the asteroids.
I've only had any of the guns working when I had 2 others manning each turret, I had the top turret with a mining laser, the lower with a def laser (mk-V blaster) and the pilots slot with a tractor beam, which fires from all weapon slots and blinds the gunners.
We could mine somewhat, but we barely got enough to fill 1% of a small cargo hold for a regular starfighter. We could get 5 times as much with three fighters mining than with the Y-8.....