powermatt

Awesome, and welcome back!

Likewise, I'm running into this issue with the manned scenarios. Start the mission, fall through the floor. It's pretty much unplayable. The moon seems to work fine, but several of the Mars scenarios are completely broken. --- Likewise, it seems the bug has been reported here: http://mars.takeonthegame.com/feedback/view.php?id=520

It can be very tricky with the fixed cameras of the small rover. Getting positioned so you have line of sight on enough points is difficult, but not impossible. I think it might be more helpful if the waypoints for photos indicated a kind of "optimum" position from which to take the photos?

Thanks for the reply. I did figure out last night that I could avoid the issues I was having by not using the "topt" command at all. The issue was it would get the elbow joint into strange positions that I couldn't work with. Just manually controlling the arm as you say works much better right now, as it keeps in the elbow joint in a more useful straight down position. Keep up the good work. It's still a hugely impressive game even as it is.

I'd also like to mention that the "stow" command has a bad habit of breaking the roboarm. As does any movement of the arm after using the "unstow" command. If I unstow the arm and then issue a "topt" command, the arm literally jumps off the rover. It's quite spectacular. Also, topt command's accuracy is extremely hit or miss, and often will never actually finish the command. Related to this... is there any way to manually control the rover's secondary joint besides the "topt" command? In other words, while it seems I can manually control the "shoulder" joint and the head or "wrist" joint, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually control the "elbow" joint. The up/down controls (which I thought might do this) don't seem to do anything.