The real solution is to just disable team killing altogether, just as they do for ground. There really is no need for it.
I’m mostly play AirRB where team killing is guaranteed. Whether on purpose (idiots gunning each other, firing missiles or ramming team mates at game start or because someone hit a bomb target before they did) or by accident at high BR where heat seekers often go astray due to flares or the target dying before the missile arrives.
Disabling friendly aircraft/weapon damage is an easy fix that would solve a lot of problems and much frustration with this game.
Absolutely no. Identification of the target is an important part of the game mode.
They shall fix the IFF bugs, instead of adjusting the game to the bugs.
Do any of you have a recording of IFF malfunctioning?
It never happens to me or my friends, I really think it’s just a case of you guys not understanding how the radar works. I’ll refer to my other comment in this thread
It’s already disabled in ground AB, so quite realistic and not weird as far as WT is concerned.
Granted this is a Sim question and as Sim player myself I wouldn’t want it disable there (my bad for posting it here tbh), however, play any top-tier air RB game and you’ll see that team killing is rampant where someone from either team will intentionally kill another team member at the beginning of nearly every match, then someone will kill that player putting the rest of the team at numerical disadvantage.
I think this is the proper solution to this issue, at top tiers vehicles that historically had friend foe inidcation in the hud should have that properly implemented. For example the SU-27s hud currently shows any locked vehicle as A (enemy) on the HUD. Someone coming from DCS where this is friendly indicator on the hud is properly modeled would probably consider this a bug.
I agree with the need of IFF indicator once the target is locked, AFR, the icon, or whatever they decide to use for all planes if the make a simplification.
It can happen a lot of times locking a friendly by mistake: Close to an enemy, close to a misile, close to chaff if non dopler radar, but when the friendly stays with the lock and gets far from the “interference”, the radar should tell us it’s a friendly, so you can unlock in case you launched a misile.
So the way IFF works is some radars scan as friendly then will switch to hostile cause thats how some radars work as it can get info it needs right away more modern jets like the 16c or Jas39c and maybe the AV8B+ have more advance radar scaning so just got to wait a bit with mid teir jets
When I’m in my F-4S in SRC and it shows a single bar without IFF, I switch to PD and lock the target in head ons. Otherwise I remain in SRC and will switch to AIM-9s. I recently had this occur twice in the same match. One ended up being a friendly F-15 and the other was an F-14. It cost me pretty extensively. I was close enough to kill the F-15 with the AIM-9 - we were both about 8,000 ft. AGL so ground clutter wasn’t an issue, and it wasn’t some range were IFF would be hard to read. It was a single line contact not denoting IFF.
I never fire a missile in this until I determine if it is friend or foe, but the tools designed to identify are broken in an inconsistent manner. It’s happening to quite a few of us in sim. I’m glad you and your friends have not experienced it, but it’s cost me a few hundred thousand SL for no good reason.
FF should absolutely remain in the game. It’s a huge part of simulation playing. Being able to identify correctly and play smartly is a big deal. The tools in game used to accomplish that being broken is not okay.
This isn’t so much about disabling TKing as much as it is finding a Bug in the game.
It’s one thing if you just clown a friendly with an IR missile or Cannons because you failed Visual ID.
It’s another when the game is telling you that the target is an enemy when it isn’t, when your radar is both capable of and should be sorting that out.
I lost so much SL in SIM Battels due to IFF system shows friendly as foe. even with my F-5E plane I found my team mates on runway as enemy. now I need to confirm enemy by its shape and structure and some time I need to go near to the plane for blue indication. please do something about this. In server replay its showing normal but when I actually played that time its shows as enemy.
check this in game screen shot F4 plane first shows as enemy and in last screenshot its shows as friendly. and this is happens many times in one game i get aborted due this team kills. and 49k SL loss is like waste of my grind time.
The F5E does not feature IFF on its radar, it’s simply not part of the radar. All contacts on the radar will look like that. It’s not a bug or some “IFF malfunction”
Yep, I wish Gaijin would explain it better to players. New players in sim get massively punished trying to figure this out it’s unfortunate…
If you go into X-ray in the hangar and hover over the radar, it will say “IFF” if it can identify friendlies. Also keep in mind certain radar modes on some jets does not have IFF like ‘PDV’, whilst other radar modes does feature it.
For your F5E I would recommend working on your situational awareness, you have a great RWR which tells you what jet is pinging you and from what direction, make use of that and keep an eye on the scoreboard to get an idea of what jets are on your team
