Select previous / next radar target

[sudo_su1]

@k_stepanovich

There is this button for cycling the selected radar target (when cyclic switching option is turned on):

It would be nice if you changed it into two separate bindings:

“Select next Radar/IRST target to lock”

“Select previous Radar/IRST target to lock”

Anyone who doesn’t want too many buttons can just use the first binding and cycle to the next target just like they do now (and you could make it so that the first binding uses the same key that is currently bound to the current single binding, in order to not mess up people’s controls)

But the “Select previous target” would allow going back to the previous target in case you accidentally skip your intended target (which happens quite often), and make cyclic target selection much more practical to use.

[Morvran]

This is a big part as to why I use manual target selection instead of cyclic, drives me nuts if you go past.

And its not the only place where they have cyclic selection instead of forward and backward options like:

• Weapon selection
• CCRP Target selection
• Ripple quantities

Like you said, they could really do with adding seperate keybinds for forwrad and backwards on everything with a cyclic selection. If you prefer cyclic then it doesnt matter as forward could just loop round like it does currently.

[sudo_su1]

Good idea … I was drafting an actual suggestion thread for this; Will expand it to “all cyclic controls”.

If you don’t want too many keys you could just bind either “next” or “previous”.

[Morvran]

Yep, there are loads of places where I wish I had a keybind but for some reason there just isnt one (And I really should write suggestions for a few of them at some point)

[Morvran]

I do also have some tenatively linked suggestions already up such as

Weapon selection: sequential selection and priority system

poll Currently in game, the “weapon selection” option does not cycle through the available weapons in a logical manner and instead jumps between the different weapon options in what could only be described as a “random” order To demonstrate this I took a Harrier Gr7 into a test flight carrying 2x Aim-9L 4x AGM-65D 2x GBU-12 Paveway II 1x Mk13 UGB This would be the order that I’d expect the weapon selection to use IR guided AAM > Radar guided AAM > AGM > GBU > UGB > Rockets I’d additional…

and

Additional Advance Control schemes

poll There are several controls such as airbrakes in game that operate on a simple toggle option, with no flexibility or adjustment. In reality many aircraft could vary the deployment of the airbrakes much in the same way we can currently vary the deployment of swept wings. My suggestion is to add more advanced control options to settings such as Airbrakes to maximise realism/immersion, but for the sake of most of the playerbase, to leave a toggle option available as well. Simulator battles are…

Though neither cover a backward option for cyclic controls

[sudo_su1]

@Morvran

Weapon selection

Regarding that:

HUD indicator for currently selected weapon is almost impossible to use

@k_stepanovich HUD indicator for currently selected weapon is almost impossible to use. The only way you can tell which weapon is currently selected is finding a small slash “/” character amidst a wall of text. (And then you have to move your eye again to read the name written in front of it, while making sure your eyes stay at the same line and don’t read the names on the lines above or below it) [Screenshot 2025-05-05 072533] This is completely unpractical and unnecessary. There is no ne…

[viski253]

Yeah. Give me more options to not key binds because I have run out of keyboard combos 15 updates ago.

[GeneralArmchair]

While they’re at it, they really need to give us a keybind to cycle between cyclic and manual targeting. Normally I prefer manual targetting since there are just too many radar returns for cyclic to be practical when your radar resolves the enemy planes, the friendly planes, the enemy missiles, and also the dumb AI A-4’s that are flying around for some reason.

However every now and then you get that situation where you’re 80% certain that some sneaky opponent snuck around a mountain range by himself and you need to hunt him down. The radar will probably reveal that he’s ~17km in front of you and just outside the normal nametag range. So you will have a mad dash to try to shoot first. In that situation using cyclic to sweep that isolated side of the map would be preferable since it will auto-target the first resturn.

[Burgerbean]

Here’s hoping that they added the ability to switch both. I still have alot on my keyboard to bind with. Can’t say the same for other people though.