[jonjonz]

Hi, new player here, I was working on learning the keyboard commands, and would like to know what the difference between the following:

Key and Description

G       - Target nearest attacker
R       - Target closest attacking ship

Thanks

[AdmiralRalwood]

G is "Target Target's Nearest Attacker"; it behaves like R, but for the ship you currently have targeted.

[potterman28wxcv]

To remember it, I do as if G was for "guard". When you want to guard a vessel, you want to target its attacker, so you hit G like Guard.
Hope this helps. Freespace might be the only game where I use more than half of my keyboard

[CT27]

"R" chooses the nearest ship attacking YOU.

"G" chooses the nearest ship attacking what you currently have targeted.

[jonjonz]

Thanks for clearing that up for me.  I notice the key descriptions are slightly different between the ingame options screens and the reference card PDF.

One other question, what does glide do? 

It is listed in the commands as Glide and Toggle glide.

I tried it in game and it did not seem to have any affect.

 

[niffiwan]

Glide allows ships to behave in a more "Newtonian" way.  i.e. the direction of travel can be different to the direction the ship is facing. It's not enabled by default on any Freespace or Freespace 2 ships.  Play Diaspora or Wings of Dawn to see ships that have it enabled.

[jonjonz]

AH, so I am not doing something wrong.  Sounds like a good reason to try those mods at some point.

PS.  I stopped being lazy and did a little searching and found these two posts that give more detail:

http://www.gog.com/forum/freespace_series/control_option_glide

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=66477.msg1312680#msg1312680

Thanks for the information!