So I'm playing the demo for this game and I'm really liking it. But I'm having some issues with a few things and I hope you guys can help set me straight so I can enjoy the game a bit mroe and understand what the heck I'm doing wrong.
1) My first issue and the one that is really annoying me, I accept a mission at a space station and it gives me a waypoint automatically. Those waypoints are always far away... So I undock and set autopilot. Autopilot gets me nice and lined up with the waypoint for my mission, all is going well. Except my mission waypoint is 105k away and it's taking forever for autopilot to get me there at 812 velocity. So I mouse over the "Jump" button and engage my jump drive to hop to the way point. Except about 90% of the time I click on the "Jump" button, it moves my waypoint cursor to some random location off to the left and then hyper jumps me out into the middle of no where and my mission gets cancelled. What the F?
I assume my mission is getting cancelled because I jumped too far away from the way point. Fine. But why did it randomly jump me into the middle of no where when I click the "Jump" button on my HUD? Shouldn't it jump me to my mission way point? What the heck am I missing? Why does it just hyperjump me out into space no where near my selected waypoint. Please explain to me how to quickly jump to mission waypoints cause this is getting extremely frustrating. I know I'm doing something wrong.
This happens to me sometimes when I manually select waypopints on my Navigation Map too. I select the waypoint with let click and then close my navigation map. I hit autopilot and get lined up and then click "Jump" and it moves my waypoint to some random location off to the side and hyperjumps me into the middle of no where. WTF?
2) Where do I find a mining laser/tractor beam? I need it for certain mission types and have yet to find one at space stations for sale.
3) If I go into the "Build Your Ship" area of a docking station I see all the options to change my ship and buy new parts. I currently have the starting ferret ship. It won't allow me to choose any different engines or wings or cargo bays for this ship. Is this ship just locked from most upgrades except fuel tanks? If so, how do you even tell which ships can upgrade which parts? I can't find any info about which ships can upgrade which parts or how to do it.
I'm pretty sure I had other questions as well but I can't think of them right now and these are the ones that are really bugging me. I'm digging the game and it's premise a LOT. Its just a little difficult to get into. The tutorial was extremely vague and had way to much talking and not enough hands on. Plus during the navigation tutorial it asks me to select a waypoint near certain coordinates and then never continues so I couldnt complete that portion fo the tutorial. The game seems amazing, it just needs ot be more accessible to new comers. I appreciate all the help and advice yall can give me. I'm going to buy the game if I can just get into it a little bit more first. Thanks everyone!
I prefer a joystick ... with the keyboard as secondary for lesser-used options (like the tractor beam).