Currently, if a player is to disable the “Cyclic target switching of aircraft radar” setting and then try to acquire targets manually using the target cue control axis controls with an IRST system, the acquisition box that is expected will not be visualized.
I have opened a bug report on the subject, and make this thread as a companion to it to hopefully spread the word a bit.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/zMTdNMI9KCnE
The clearly buggy behaviour is best seen through these 2 videos.
- https://youtu.be/TNiYHSiARUY (Su-27SM)
- https://youtu.be/8gLQScCcAH8 (MiG-23MLD)
It would be nice if this issue could be fixed with relative haste, now that a proper report on it has been made, as it seems that multiple other reports on IRST systems have been made in the past. And it seems that the current implementation is very broken. I can personally also vouch that the issue has been affecting the game at least for two years now.
That would be all.