As you can see in the replay linked above, there are severe issues with the CS/SA5’s search and track radar systems.
Whilst not to apparent in the replay, the search radar picks up objects which simply aren’t there on the display in the top right of the screen.
What is incredibly obvious, however, is the tracking radar’s complete inability to stay locked onto a target unless it is FULLY exposed (ie, high in the sky, like, what I presume was an SU-39 at the very end of the video, not that I could find out,as you lot think this modern vehicle doesn’t have NCTR, but that is a discussion for another time).
As you can see right from the very start, when I try to engage a recon drone soon after the game started, I would press to lock onto it, but a dashed square box would appear around it, as if I had locked onto something nearby and this was just another target the search radar had picked up. I had to resort to using IR tracking instead to get a lead indicator for the gun.
Throughout the rest of the game, you can see multiple times when the tracking radar simply would not correctly lock on, or would lose lock even though the target was still visible. I ended up having to resort to IR tracking once again to shoot down a UH-1B.
Further, due to the tracking radar losing lock constantly it made firing missiles impossible, you can witness multiple times, engagements where I would have the missile locked but it simply would not fire at all, no matter how many times I clicked, due to the radar’s bugs.
Further testing in test drive seems to show that the tracking radar likes to jump around from target to target, like it’s system is based on a multi vehicle setup for ease of targeting, instead of a radar system like pantsir.
Here is a recording I took featuring issues surrounding the tracking radar.
Examples of refusing to lock, losing lock and changing locked target are all prevalent in the video.
You can even see the turret moving by itself at one point without any radar lock!
The video CLEARLY shows this vehicle is bugged.
Another video presenting evidence of the CS/SA5’s tracking radar issues.
From the 5 second mark you can see me pressing “Ctrl + T”, my button config to change targets whilst locked, or to designate another target on vehicles like pantsir and HQ-17. Every time I press Ctrl + T the radar does not switch targets and jumps back to the original target.
A missile then locks onto absolutely nothing and the targetting circle flies off the screen.
From 33 seconds you see me trying to lock onto incoming ordnance, I keep pressing “U”, my lock button, but nothing happens. Again, showing issues of the tracking radar simply not locking on.
I die due to this bug and spawncamping, very nice.
There is something clearly wrong with this vehicle’s radar systems, it needs fixing.
I am now posting this here as I am sick of the incompetent bug reporting managers ignoring bug reports. I have posted this issue once a week for a month, not once was it ever looked at.
Only 45.1% of the 1000 most recent english bug reports have been answered, if the bug report managers no longer want to do what they volunteer for, then they should leave and let people who actually want to improve the game inspect EVERY bug report instead.
I get it, many bug reports are from people crying and venting about a bad game, but the VAST majority are about serious issues which plague the game.