Turrets and AI ships will handle meteorites with the next update - as soon as next week :)

Is there a way to lock the target in your sights/reticule. Instead of scrolling through them with the mouse-wheel? I'm new to violent actions in Helium Rain :-)

Also, thanks Stranger for good news on the AI and turrets. Exiting times for Helium Rain!

The mouse wheel does that, if you scroll up to the top.

Ah, thanks! Will use that!

Looking forward to next update - I also gave up the asteroid interception after 3 failed attempts.

And also, on missions with gain more than +45000-50000 credits some meteorites just dissapear and can't be destroyed but the squares to target them on hud remains. The mission get stuck and it fails after one day.

Thank you guys, if you can do something on it !

Take a look at how easily a meteorite group can be taken care of with our upcoming update !

https://i.imgur.com/iWNJV8r.jpg

You can notice an Anubis cruiser, an Invader destroyer, smaller owned ships, and neutral AI ships teaming up to destroying the coming threat.

Any ETA on upcoming update?

For now, all we can say is this month. We initially planned on a much smaller update; Take a look at the changes here : https://heliumrain.gamepedia.com/Version_history#Next_version

Excellent news Stranger! Good luck with that impressive to-do-list!

Last update made asteroid missions a bit better, but they are still too frustrating and randomized.
I think a good improvement would be to add nav and direction marker for the place where asteroids will arrive to designated sector. That way we could be ready for interception before asteroids will arrive.

I mean if they can see incoming asteroids several days before arrival they should easily calculate the sector point of entry.

How do I find these bloody meteorites?
I track the quest and it lead me to a docking spot.
I have 1 day to go. Where are these incoming meteorites? How the heck do I find them???

EDIT: Please, don't tell me that they spawn the day they are supposed to hit a station...
Because if my Fleet or Station needs help in the meantime, what would I do?
Also, that station knew about the incoming meteor shower MANY days before, and we are in space. Let. Me. Find. Them.

They do spawn the day they're supposed to hit. They would be extremely far away a day before that.

Originally posted by Stranger:

They do spawn the day they're supposed to hit. They would be extremely far away a day before that.

They don't fly that fast, but I understand the gameplay reason behind that decision. :)

They're indeed quite slow, but the approach we took in the game to have "sectors" rather than continuous space prevents us from going far from the sector center to intercept a meteorite a day before. That's not how the game works, and though it may be frustrating compared to other games, it's a constraint we had to work with to keep the project manageable.

What we could do if you all feel bad about meteorite gameplay would be to allow you to travel to the meteorites themselves, as if they were a regular sector, to destroy them days before arrival. That's more in line with how we handle things internally.

Please keep your feedback coming, we always read everything in the forums, even if we end up not doing what's suggested.