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Please post the controls online.
I don't have a Xoom, and don't plan to get one any time soon. But I'd like to be able to offer helpful advice when newbies ask in chat how they do things like target roids and such on the Xoom. If the controls were posted somewhere, I could do that. All I can do now is shrug and suppress an urge to say "Sucks to be you."
I'm guessing they can't just use their virtual keyboard that they use to ask these questions to access game features?
Even if you don't post the full controls for whatever reason, at the bare minimum we need decent responses to the two questions "How do I target roids on the Xoom?" and "How do I fire my secondary/tertiary weapons on the Xoom?", as those are the main questions I hear them asking over and over and over. Even if they really are not possible right now, it would be helpful to know that they aren't so we can tell the newbies to stop wasting their time trying to figure it out and make do with what they have.
I'm guessing they can't just use their virtual keyboard that they use to ask these questions to access game features?
Even if you don't post the full controls for whatever reason, at the bare minimum we need decent responses to the two questions "How do I target roids on the Xoom?" and "How do I fire my secondary/tertiary weapons on the Xoom?", as those are the main questions I hear them asking over and over and over. Even if they really are not possible right now, it would be helpful to know that they aren't so we can tell the newbies to stop wasting their time trying to figure it out and make do with what they have.
To the prior question: hold your finger on the TARGET touch button and you get 5 or so more buttons that appear on above it. Slide your finger up to "TARGET FRONT OBJECT" and at that point the target button locks target to the closest thing to the reticule, regardless of what it is.
For the latter question: I wish I knew. I would have lost a lot less ships if I did. Let me know if you find out.
It looks like the quiclest end-user work around is a mini keyboard (amazon has some for about $30). I just hate to have MORE electronics in my bag. I ride a motorcycle year round, the xoom fits in a gallon ziplock bag in case I get REALLY wet.
For the latter question: I wish I knew. I would have lost a lot less ships if I did. Let me know if you find out.
It looks like the quiclest end-user work around is a mini keyboard (amazon has some for about $30). I just hate to have MORE electronics in my bag. I ride a motorcycle year round, the xoom fits in a gallon ziplock bag in case I get REALLY wet.
Thanks YnotElbon.
I assume you know you can go to the ships tab -> manage -> groups and set the additional weapons to be also fired by the primary trigger, so that you can at least fire them, but I'll mention it for the others and in case you didn't know that. Not as good as having an actual trigger though, since you can't only fire one or the other this way (like if you had flares, you wouldn't want to fire off a flare every time you shoot your blaster).
If there is a way to change weapon group while flying on Android, you could set a second weapon group that has the primary and secondary triggers swapped, and toggle back and forth between groups to fire individual weapons. But I don't know if you can do that - it is normally done with the number keys on the desktop.
I assume you know you can go to the ships tab -> manage -> groups and set the additional weapons to be also fired by the primary trigger, so that you can at least fire them, but I'll mention it for the others and in case you didn't know that. Not as good as having an actual trigger though, since you can't only fire one or the other this way (like if you had flares, you wouldn't want to fire off a flare every time you shoot your blaster).
If there is a way to change weapon group while flying on Android, you could set a second weapon group that has the primary and secondary triggers swapped, and toggle back and forth between groups to fire individual weapons. But I don't know if you can do that - it is normally done with the number keys on the desktop.
The virtual keboard doesn't pull up for anything but chat, to the best of my knowledge. If that can be changed easily, it would provide a quick interim fix, tho. I'll make a new thread for suggestions to the development team on how to address droid fincrionality. I'm sorry for the awful spelling-this virtual keyboard takes so e getting use to...