I thought that the IFF situation had been resolved in sim. Last night I was doing pretty awesome. 0 deaths and 12 kills. Then I died a few times, still doing pretty good. Both teams were very active and we had a lot of fights going on and it was pretty chaotic. Keep in mind, no FF incidents had occured during this period.
About halfway through IFF just “stopped” working. This happened for several of us on the team. I’m flying along and getting lit up, I’m in TWS and see a single enemy plane, with my radar set to the 30km range. I fire, and get a clean kill at about 15KM. Turns out that it’s an F-14 on my team.
I become more cautious for awhile running in PD modes instead. I get up to around 4 deaths and 18 kills, and get into an area were there is a lot of people’s radar setting off my RWR. I switch into TWS again. No one has IFF symbols here and I can rotate through all the targets. A lot of people locking me, so I start selecting targets and firing off my AIM-120s. Instantly kicked. Guess those were all friendlies…
I recall having this issue a lot in the F-16C, and the F-4S in SRC (not PD). So I assume that it also affected other aircraft radar sets. I’ve seen a lot of complaints in games for it, and last night was the first time I had encountered it. Which really pisses me off after doing so amazing in a match.
This was in the F-15C MSIP II, so I know that aircraft is affected. I also saw an F-14 late, and F-16C encountering the issue. There was some network issues with the server were we all went through a pause, and then the issue really got bad. So it’s possible that a function just stops passing whatever vector of friendlies there is?
Of course one or two people were just saying everyone is retarded and doesn’t know how to use the radar. At first I thought that was definitely the case, it’s not happening to me. If it was really such a big issue why am I not team killing? Then it hits and I feel bad for dismissing everyone else.
Has this been a common issue for anyone else? Do we have enough information to collect for a bug report if so? Not on my computer but I was planning on making a report later if I could get more information on this from the community.