zork824

Same issue here. F14 crashes so much.

Unless fired extremely close (and even then, the chance of missing is greater than it should be) 120Cs on the F18 have been broken for a long time. Exhausted by being repeatedly killed by F-16Cs while flying the Hornet, tonight I've spectated every single 120 I've fired. The result is that 120s will either fly to the moon once near their target or just jerk violently and teleport away from the intended target, resulting in a miss. This apparently doesn't happen in the F16 given the big amount of kills they get in PvP server, so I suspect this must be something between the Hornet guidance system and the AMRAAMs. I've literally spammed all my 120s at a single target from close range, and none out of the 5 missiles hit. I am fairly sure this isn't a notching problem, as often the targets were flying straight without jamming/chaffing/trying to notch.

The only consistent solution is to switch DCS to Win 8 compatibility mode.

Not sure if this is a bug or the intended behaviour, but this wasn't happening prior to the latest patch. Locking onto a target on the F18 with STT will often result in the aircraft locking something other than the intended target, which is also reported as being extremely far away. The lock lasts a few seconds then drops. This also causes the radar to go up to 160nm range, with of course, no targets.

Hey everyone, I want to chime in too. I think the crash is related to respawning in certain aircrafts: prior to setting Win 8 Compatibility Mode (which solved all crashes for me), respawning after dying in an F14 (be it SP or MP) would result in a guaranteed crash. This never happened with other aircrafts, even without Win 8 Compatibility mode.