Stormer AD Unable to Lock Missile or Radar?

Machinery of War Discussion Ground Vehicle
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Maybe I’m just special but after failing to lock a Su-25 from about 2km with my stingers I became suspicous something might be up. I checked in practice range and sure enough, I can’t radar lock, or missile lock planes with the Stormer AD! As of now im currently unsure of whether or not the issue applies to any other AA with Stinger missiles

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Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on anything, And definitely let me know if you do or don’t have the same issue in your own game.

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Clouds during the game ? Gaijin belives that clouds disable IR and TV tracking…

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the stormer AD is an odd one, all its peers are at 9.3 but its 10,0 and stingers are… wonky sometimes. theres also a glitch where you lock but are incapable of firing sometimes

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ummm i hate to break it to you, but theyre not exactly wrong in thinking this, clouds exist and block line of sight so therefore block TV, and clouds are generally cold and full of moisture which blocks IR

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problem is that even when theres an obvious thermal contrast the IRST and missiles act like theres no LOS

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yeah thats to some extent fair, but its still incorrect to imply that clouds dont do those things at all

the bigger issue with clouds is that theyre client side (which is probably needed because putting that on the server would be more strenuous than is needed) but there is sometimes completely different cloud formations and amounts between people, like it could at least be the server tells the client roughly where to generate the clouds or something

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Client side cloud should have been fixed over a decade ago, its so stupid

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to be fair over a decade ago it didnt matter as much, but yeah shouldve been sorted out at least when all aspect missiles got added

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I had something similar… In Air Sim.
0.7km or so behind an F18.
R73 slaved to radar.
Just refused to lock for a solid minute.

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Two things come to mind.

  1. Clouds are ridiculous in this game right now. If there even happens to be a cloud behind a plane your lock range will still be heavily gimped. Same goes for the likes of the stormer HVM/ozelots IRST, even if the plane is clearly burning bright hot in thermal view god forbid there by a cloud somewhere vaguely several km behind the plane because the IRST just won’t pick it up or let you lock.

  2. IR seekers have had a bug for years now where you can turn them on, you will get a seeker tone and the red indication that you can launch but the you cannot fire. This still happens infuriatingly often and I still don’t know of a way to reliably fix this bug when it happens, often it will get you killed. Sometimes switching lock to the sun and then back fixes it, sometimes it doesn’t. Just jank all around.