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in dire need of some manual
Hello,

I am in dire need of some manual.
I am in the middle of programming my two joysticks with T.A.R.G.E.T. and I need to know ingame functions.
So for the following stuff, I need to know what the game/ship does exactly. :)
It may seem lazy, but I cannot go button for button and keep rerunning the game 500 times to see what it is expected to do.
Better do it right in one to 5 trials and errors instead of 500 ones.

Targeting:
toggle auto targeting:
target subsystem: (what's subsystem?)
target next uninspected cargo: (cargo?? what have I got to do with cargo? a cargoship?)

Ship:
the difference between throttle, thrust, and afterburner please
the difference between turning and banking
right thrust:
down thrust:
Gliding:

Misc:
Attack my target: (is this a chat message only? feels that way)
Same for Disable, Disarm, Capture
Engage Enemy:
Attack my subsystem:
Form on my wing:
Ignore my Target:
Cover me:
Return to base:
Rearm me:
(All seem like chat-only things)

Chase view:
Free look view:
Current Target View:
Communication Menu:

Scoundrilling gay
IT is what they say
Shoot from the hip,
Muggin tha sip
Beware of the Ray!
(The zapp I mean ofcc)

 

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Re: in dire need of some manual
Targeting:
toggle auto targeting:

When auto targeting is on, your ship will automatically target the next nearby hostile when you destroy your current target.

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target subsystem: (what's subsystem?)

Subsystems are the weapons, sensors, comm, FTL, and engines on large ships - battlestars, base stars, transports, so on.

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target next uninspected cargo: (cargo?? what have I got to do with cargo? a cargoship?)

Not important in either FreeSpace or Diaspora, really.

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the difference between throttle, thrust, and afterburner please

Your throttle is your ship's gas pedal - how fast are you telling the ship to go? Full throttle puts you at maximum forward thrust. Zero throttle puts you at a stop. Afterburner is a really important button that gives you a momentary huge speed boost.

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the difference between turning and banking

Turning moves your ship's nose left to right, like turning a car on the street. Banking rolls your ship around its long axis.

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right thrust:
down thrust:

These thrust commands fire thrusters on the sides of your ship to kick your ship in those directions without having to move the nose.

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Gliding:

When in glide mode, you can move your ship's nose without altering your flight vector. Without glide mode, you fly normally, like an airplane - moving the nose alters your ship's flight vector.

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Attack my target: (is this a chat message only? feels that way)
Same for Disable, Disarm, Capture
Engage Enemy:
Attack my subsystem:
Form on my wing:
Ignore my Target:
Cover me:
Return to base:
Rearm me:
(All seem like chat-only things)

These are not chat messages. These are commands given to your AI wingmen. They can be pretty vital in FreeSpace; some of them are also important in Diaspora.

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Chase view:
Free look view:
Current Target View:

These are camera commands. Chase view toggles your camera between your cockpit and the outside of your ship.

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Communication Menu:

This opens the menu you use to give commands to your AI wingmen.

You would probably pick all this stuff up by playing the tutorial with keyboard/mouse.

 
Re: in dire need of some manual
Cool! Thanks for the intell :)

Lots of buttons to assign I see... more then I thought..
Gonna need assigning the entire keybord to my two T16kM youstick buttons.
And alt and shift too on top for tripling the base buttons...
Should do the trick...

Scoundrilling gay
IT is what they say
Shoot from the hip,
Muggin tha sip
Beware of the Ray!
(The zapp I mean ofcc)