How Do I Answer A Distress Call

[FoulMouthElmo]

I just started playing the game and every now and then I get a Distress Call but I never find where it is or what they need. How to I answer a Distress Call in this game.

Also what buttons do I use to activate my secondary weapons?

[Spattercat]

The location of the distress call shows up as a white text, if I identified it correctly. B is default for the tractor beam, and the secondary wps needed to lock on, it seemed, before I could fire them. I want to know how to achieve that lock on more reliably, myself... like I couldn't lock onto an asteroid. When I did lock on, the B key on my xbox controller fired the missile.

I found most of this by looking at the controls. There's a LOT to be customized there.

I've only played the demo, and am on the verge of picking this up even if I suck at it, just to support the dev and take my chances. However, it's still beyond my means )

[FoulMouthElmo]

The location of the distress call shows up as a white text, if I identified it correctly. B is default for the tractor beam, and the secondary wps needed to lock on, it seemed, before I could fire them. I want to know how to achieve that lock on more reliably, myself... like I couldn't lock onto an asteroid. When I did lock on, the B key on my xbox controller fired the missile.

I found most of this by looking at the controls. There's a LOT to be customized there.

I've only played the demo, and am on the verge of picking this up even if I suck at it, just to support the dev and take my chances. However, it's still beyond my means )

Thank you so much! I've been trying to figure it out for the longest.

I use my keyboard. I found that if I hit "T" on the keyboard I can switch on to different targets in space. Maybe that will help you :)

Yes support this Dev. I heard he did everything himself (Muisc, graphics programing ect...). If that's true, it's freaking awesome!awesome.

[KDR_11k]

There are three targeting controls, R for closest object, T for next object and Y for the object in your gun sights. ALT makes R and T select only hostiles.

Also most distress calls are of the form "deliver X goods to location Y", those are done by landing on the specified location with the goods in your cargo bay. The message for the call includes the coordinates of the location you need to get to (it's often in another solar system which means you have to open the quadrant map and see which system has coordinates that most closely match the ones prefixed with S in the message, they're the sector coordinates).

I don't know if there's any way to recall the distress call message short of recalling the whole log up to the message. Since it's easy to forget those numbers and stuff it'd be nice if you could hit a button to sticky the distress call message on your HUD.