Forwarded.
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Much appreciated! o7
I have (i think) a bug sometimes (only in the Typhoon).
I lock a plane, but can’t arm the Amraam. I have to unlock the plane and lock it again, sometimes multiple times before i am able to even lock it with the Amraam.
Has anyone else experienced this ?
most likely radar lock transfers to IRST lock, which cant guide(and fire) amraam in WT
I know, isn’t the case though and i am 100% sure of it.
Or do you mean it is doing it by itself ? Because i have the lock button on my mouse, which is nowhere near my change to irst mode button.
It changes by itself
Ah great, is that a feature or a bug ?
Bit of both.
The game trys to get the best way for an stable lock, but that also includes IRST track which cant guide the AMRAAM in game
Pretty annoying i have to say, got me killed more than once already in GRB where the maps are small and you don’t have time to fiddle around with that bs.
I was just comparing the PS-05A from the Jas39’s to the CAPTOR-M, and (I could be wrong here) but it seems like the differences are mostly jus that the CAPTOR-M has HPRF modes the PS-05A doesnt have, along with more range in exchange for a smaller scan area. Aside from that I think they’re moslty just copy pastes of eachother.
Interestingly, from the wikipedia page, both the PS-05A and CAPTOR-M are evolutions of the Blue Vixen radar, both are missing priority track modes, and both are missing their ground scan and track modes. This can even be seen in-game with the Gripens radar display explicitly stating it has an air to surface mode, shown by the “A/S” indicator just below the left side of the profile view and just below the selected air to air mode [A/A]
Its kinda simultaneously both funny and infuriating to see that certain aircrafts have missing features in-game despite someone on the dev team having done their research and modelled other plane features that allude to or explicitly demonstrate said missing features…
If the wiki is to be believed, the PS-05A’s A/S modes are actually rather substantial in capabilities as well, and being a sort of sister program to CAPTOR-M, it would not be odd to think CAPTOR-M’s A/S modes should be as well.
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Gripens literally have Blue Vixen. its identical to the FA2. Its really sad how little effrot they’ve put into the Gripen (with even basic things like the centre line A2G weapon) have been neglected and now it appears to be the Typhoons turn
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Looks like you’re right, the PS-05A and Blue vixens only differences in-game seems to be HMD modes…
So both PS-05A and CAPTOR-M have been screwed by horrid and lazy modelling… Thats tragic.
I wonder which is objectively worse between CAPTOR-M and PS-05A in-game atm. I feel like CAPTOR-M is, as the extra range it has is irrelevant in WT, and in exchange it loses something like 33% of its scan area. The lower angle half-sensitivity on the CAPTOR-M might make its lock more stable (if im understanding that correctly) but ive never heard anyone complain about lock stability on the Gripen so that might be a moot point…
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At least the Gripen doesnt still have the F-16D radar it had on launch. But yeah, the neglect is real.
I did a match last night in the Sea Harrier FA2 and another in the Typhoon and I felt the FA2 was a little more consistant in finding targets, but I cant dismiss the possibility that is down to the fact the FA2 is much slower and I had more time to search for targets. In all other respects. apart from things like the search areas. I do not know if I could tell any difference in operation/functionality. They both seem to track similarly and feel almost identical
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Itd make sense the blue vixen feels more consistent at finding targets, CAPTOR-M has 35.7% less scan area than the Blue Vixen/PS-05A, all in the vertical plane, which as covered before is the most important plane for ease of finding targets. Thats a considerable difference in favour of Blue Vixen. Having more time to find them as well likely helps some more.
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There is that, and that may very well be a moderate part of it. But I had it again last night, where I pointed the CAPTOR-M straight at a target I could see and I wanted to ID the target. The radar would not find the contact at all in the medium scan mode, I tried for a good 10 seconds or so but found it instantly in the narrow mode. Something is not quite right with the CAPTOR-M in actually detecting contacts but I would have no idea where to begin with testing it or figuring out what the issue was. I really should go back and look at the replay, see if I could find a cause.
But in both the Gripen and FA2. I’ve never had that issue. If I see a target, the radar would find the target, likewise with basically any other radar like the Foxhunter on the F3, or the Blue Fox on the FRS1. So I dont think its user error to blame
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Is RWR bugged against F15 at the moment? I keep getting shot down with no warning. Also happens with the Iranian F14.
Others have reported issues against the F-14 and I myself have had issues with detecting Aim-120 launches from a Typhoon. I think RWRs are currently in a semi-broken state
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Maybe check sensor mode replay? I def get what you mean with the CAPTOR-M seemingly missing obvious targets, but sometimes stuff like that is just cuz of user error. I havent actually checked those situations in sensor view myself mostly cuz i get angry and forget about being reasonable tho lol.