I like to fly the top tier jets where I use the spacebar to fire my missiles. However every now and then it won’t launch my ASRH/ARH missiles. First I lock a plane using my numpad or mouse buttons for HMD, then I press spacebar which gives me the target circle showing the missile is targeting the plane and when I press spacebar again it launches the missile. But sometimes the missile won’t launch when I press spacebar a second time. Instead it makes the circle disappear causing me to have to press it at least 2 more times. This kills me often when I am in the a tense situation where I have to get a missile off quickly. Can anyone explain why? Am I missing something about setting up the controls?
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I get this sometimes too, and I believe it comes from having the lock missile and fire missile keybinds both set to spacebar, but I haven’t been able to know for sure due to how inconsistent it is.
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Oh yeah, like you spooling the missile (prepare to fire it, the missile locks on target), but it just drops? Yeah,. having this issue constantly (well, time-to-time) myself and no idea why
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Yeah, something like that, I normally spam my spacebar when I want to fire, and it usually works.
Ever since this update though, I’ve noticed my radar missile won’t even spool up, even with a radar lock. Had to completely break the lock and re-lock to fix it.
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Only radar? Lucky, I’m getting issues like this from any missile (gets very annoying then you running low and fast, and sling IR/ARH via HMD and they refuse to spool up)
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Haven’t noticed anything with IR missiles, I’ll keep my eye out for it though.
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Best bet, double check that you havent got spacebar bound to load of things. Like for example if you are using weapon selection it isnt bound to both “fire secondary weapon” and “fire air to air missile”
If you dont use it, could be worth trying weapon selection and seeing if the issue persists, i’ve yet to encounter this issue using that
After that, delete your custom loadout and remake it, can fix a surprising number of bugs and issues.
After that, make sure you are actually locking the targets properly. Ideally post a video recording of what is happening for example. Might show an issue.
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I still get it while having different keybinds for lock and fire, I honestly have no idea what could cause this bug.
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I do use weapon select but with a different key, as I’ve drooped way too many bombs trying to launch a Sparrow at an enemy. It’s only with radar and I’ve always got the guy locked properly. Sometimes it happens with TWS but it still tracks the target. The only time I struggle with locks is when my radar locks the enemy missile instead of the plane. I’ll try deleting the loadout but it will be difficult to test because I can’t find a pattern to make it repeatable.
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