I have Fire from special guns and Weapon lock on my mouse, both start the locking process for SAMs but for some reason my Rangefinder button R also starts that process.
Why?
Are you sure you don’t have any radar keys bound to the R key, even as a secondary button?
Yes, I am. It even happens if I unbind all the radar and weapon lock buttons
Strange, maybe try to bind to side keys if u have it, or see if the binds of anything has R as well.
Nothing for locking SAMs is bound to R even in the other controls for Planes or Helis R is not bound to anything that has to do with weapons
For anyone with this problem, for me it was a naval binding.
Controls > Naval > Search for “rockets” > Unbind “Rockets”.
OMG, it is actually that! Why is Gaijin letting Naval controls control something in a ground vehicle?
The worst bit…I had it fixed way back when and then occidentally reset my controls. It was maddening to know I’d fixed it before and couldn’t find the controls. Took ages to figure it out again :)
FYI the source I found the fix again from was here: Missile lock (bound to alt+x) activating when I range find (bound to R), because I gave up for a while until their thread re-jogged my memory. In case you want to spread the love there too :P