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Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Fmstrat on October 04, 2004, 10:03:05 am

OK, I must be retarded.  So I got damaged in a fight, then we won, and I went to jump back and it said I had engine damage and couldn't.  So I figured out how to target the nearest repair ship, but how do I actually get him to repair me?  All I could get him to do was reload me.

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: aldo_14 on October 04, 2004, 10:25:50 am

You can't.  Support ships by default only repair subsystems and reload.  

However, the SCP added the ability to have your hull repaired by the support ship.  This is, I believe, set by a toggle in FRED, so it's on a per-mission basis.  And rarely used, AFAIK.

Are you sure, though, that your jumpdrive wasn't disabled untril you completed an objective?  Normally your engine, etc, should slowly auto-repair anyways (unless it's an actual physical subobject, which can't be repaired once destroyed)

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Fmstrat on October 04, 2004, 10:56:35 am

Well, I played around for like 20 minutes and didn't notice any form of repair happening.  When I tried to jump, it said something like "Engine failure, cannot jump due to damage."

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: aldo_14 on October 04, 2004, 11:05:28 am

Odd.  I can't say I've played FS recently (at least, not had my engines blew off recently), so i'm not sure, but they should regenerate AFAIK.

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Night Hammer on October 04, 2004, 11:44:05 am

Wow thats really weird, Ive had my engines shot more than humanly possible I think and they always seem to repair themselves

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: phreak on October 04, 2004, 11:47:28 am

playing 3.6 on very easy?

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Fmstrat on October 04, 2004, 12:24:08 pm

Yup. 3.6 on Very Easy.  I still suck at this game :)

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Zarax on October 04, 2004, 12:26:06 pm

It's a known issue.
You should change your difficulty level or use a newer build.

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Blitzerland on October 04, 2004, 12:52:18 pm

Nobody fix it. It convinces people to play on harder difficulty levels, thus increasing their skills (you have to play it harder to be harder to beat ;) ).

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: karajorma on October 04, 2004, 01:04:29 pm

Replace your 3.6 exe with this one

http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/fs2_open_3_6.exe

The engine bug's been fixed as of last night (Thank goober for that one).

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Goober5000 on October 04, 2004, 01:47:30 pm

I had no idea so many people played on Very Easy until that bug appeared. :shaking:

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Lightspeed on October 04, 2004, 02:13:23 pm

Hence the reason why I never ran into it when it first started.

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Goober5000 on October 04, 2004, 02:34:02 pm

:wtf: Nobody's blaming you.  None of the coders caught it either.

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Hippo on October 04, 2004, 05:06:51 pm

Because usually, i play for fun, not to get frustrated trying to beat it on a higher one...

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Blitzerland on October 04, 2004, 05:12:34 pm

I like to play on Medium. A little challenge is good.

A couple years back, I used to play on easy all the time, though. But then it got frustrating (your enemies get weaker, BUT SO DO YOUR WINGMEN :nervous: ).

A single stray subach shot on very-easy would take down a wingmen's shield. :wtf:

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 04, 2004, 08:35:22 pm

We suck. What more can be said?

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Blitzerland on October 04, 2004, 08:46:01 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ngtm1r
We suck. What more can be said?

That was unexpected...

Title: Repairing your ship
Post by: Cabbie on October 04, 2004, 09:52:54 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Blitzerland

A single stray subach shot on very-easy would take down a wingmen's shield. :wtf:

No kidding. (Checks it out ingame)