30x8.4° at 1.7 sec is just nerfed version of the F-15E’s medium scan, which is 30x10 at 1.7sec to give you some context.
Its useable though.
Fair enough, still. Not a half bad set of changes
Hopefully IF the radar is actually fixed now they will fix some of the dozens of other issues with this damn thing. Still waiting on a working cockpit gunsight that was reported during the dev server for that update.
Yeah I dont mean to sound like a doomer. Most of the changes are good, the scan patterns they chose are just weird to me.
Its also just a change in the wrong direction from how the CAPTOR-M’s search patterns are irl, which is annoying to me, but nothing I can do about that atm unfortunately.
That will take at least 2-3 years to fix. Come on, realisitc expectations :P
Like maybe they’ll fix this within the next 6-18 months
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/1QrPlveEFgGY
:P
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Its pretty clear the scan modes were chosen based upon ARB, not ASB.
As always SB has been forgotten.
But maybe we can annoy Gunjob into annoying the devs to tweak them further
Actually, just looked at it again, the scan modes are just copy pastes of the F-15E’s scan modes, but with the CAPTOR-M’s worse vertical coverage…
Same scan widths and scan times
They just slapped it with the F-15E template xD
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All the modes are from the FA2 manual… Soooo
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Sounds like a Gaijin move. Maybe all the new CAPTOR-M code is actually just F-15E code with tweaked numbers. Would make sense given the F-15E actually has a working GMTI
The sea harrier manual? You sure? Cuz all the scan modes now match the F-15E’s APG-70 in scan width and scan speed, with tbe difference only being scan height and the “full” scan, which is just the old wide scan
Should be fixed just before the heat death of the universe I reckon if not during it. Anything to do with smoke is at the very bottom of the pile of issues, lower than bomber cockpits. Just look at the Harrier’s chain smoking like my nan since they got added, and that was many years ago.
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How feesible/realisitc would it be and how open do you think the devs would be to either custom scan patterns you set-up in a settings page and you could have as many or few as you want (within reason)
(Not actually a bad suggestion, might submit that actually)
or have it so that a keybind could be set to adjust each parameter. i.e
1 setting to change the width through 15, 30, 60, 140 and the other to change the height through 4.2, 8.4 and 12.6.
Iirc, the CAPTOR-M had a lot of automation and flexibility right? So whilst this would be a lot more manual, I dont think it would be necessarily unrealistic
Yeah… Typhoon has a sooty exhaust too, why they seem to just assume aircraft have that is wierd
Yeah there is only so many ways to break up a scan area, these are the options I asked for. The wider patterns have fewer bars so the update times are still good, the narrower patterns have more bars thanks to the well narrowness.
Literally lifted from the manual per your request from months ago.
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CAPTOR-M irl scans 140° wide and you choose between 1/2/4/6/8 bars iirc.
Sure, but do you want to have 5 search modes PER azimuth width?
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Huh, well ty for correcting me on that point
any ETA you can share for .72?
A lot of planes have not fixed modes
Gaijin should model that at some point