Whats the Z key, gun harmonizing for?

[Guest Cloud]

I don't understand what the manual means by "converging lasers to a single point".

[K_Kinnison]

Fly a Z-95 and hit the Z-key a few time

 

Or fly an X-wing, target a close stationary object, turn away, and fire the guns and a distat target.

 

COnvergance is where the lasers CONVERGE. For most craft it is done automatically, using the distacne information form the targeting computer to adjsut the lasers to hit at one point with the maximum impact

[magnum1587246490]

How Discriptive and Helpful!!!! The lasers are angled in slightly so they meet at a distance away, an Isosceles triangle. So you hit the enemy with all of your bolts. As the XW's lasers are quite widely spaced, you want them all hittin the target togeter not approximately 15 meteres apart which is I believe an x-wings span, I'm sure someone will correct me!, and a tie is 10 m long, you work it out.

 

Originally posted by K_Kinnison:

Fly a Z-95 and hit the Z-key a few time

 

Or fly an X-wing, target a close stationary object, turn away, and fire the guns and a distat target.

 

COnvergance is where the lasers CONVERGE. For most craft it is done automatically, using the distacne information form the targeting computer to adjsut the lasers to hit at one point with the maximum impact

 

 

[Guest krispy]

Remember good ol' X-Wing, when it was practically useless to have those 4 lasers on an X-Wing because they were so spread out you could only hit with 2 (against TIEs). Gunboats felt the wrath of its 4 lasers, but that was it. My favorite dogfighter used to be the friggin Y-wing because its lasers were so close together that if you hit with one, you probably hit with two, almost always. XWA sure fixed that

 

-krispy

[Guest Cloud]

Thanks guy now I understand, also Kinnision for read all my posts! That would now explain why in the original X-Wing and X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighters, it was so hard to hit those stupid TIEs...