makapaka

well i played today and it happend again now i think what it is , when im locking targets such as trucks tanks vehicle sams it locks perfectly but when it comes to deployed sa2 rocket sites or even for some reason truck between them it never locks keeps drifting and caging somewhere else except that even thought their figure it very light hreen bright i tried even on black track mode to make sure two modes fail and both couldnt lock them i dont know if agm65f are onlt for ships and vehicles specifically bot mostly rhwy should lock targets that generate heat they can even lock jets and its weird they cant lock some giant rocket on the ground aswell i think theres another reason i couldnt even lock on vehicles i thibk reason behind that (and it happend when i posted this) are dead vehicles close to the target

about the ai i very often use tws on them and they start defendig when its too late soo seems thsy defend when they get lock from missile another thing is that they instantly dodge sam missile is probably because thsy get warning? like its not hard to remember a few numbers lets say sa18 and if u see ur getting locked by it that u should get the <profanity> out of there aboht ir missiles i dont really know but players also can see them with ted beacons unless they are turned off ai seems very easy to kill and even sam a few times as it dies to sams and often i was very close to them sometimes less than 5 miles and they werent able to see me or didnt started manuevering unlewss i attacked them this post is pretty old soo they maybe changed that or u had wrong perspective or maybe its dependent from server

I realized in f15e we have very usefull option which is kind of predicting gbu trajectory x time before impact soo if we lose laser guidance or we wanted just to launch another short after it, it will hit the place it was lased x time before hitting it even thought were not lasing it, i had many times problem with hitting agm65e mostky cuz when i died or had to dodge missile it always missed but its related to all laser guided weapons f18 has i flied f18 for a while but i havent found anything on internet/forums/yt tutorials aboht that and it woild be painfull for such modern jet to not have such option as f15e has soo if anyone knows if theres such option it would be very helpfull and actually imroved gameplay and fun from playing

i played in that server and for some reason i didnt had that issue like before but that was weird

i played just a while ago on other server it worked all perfect as should but i will later play on previous server and if it happens again i will record it for now it worked perfectly for me

as i said before it was contrast was right target was very bright green and i had contrast track on bright green (targeting cursor was green not black) and as i said before for some reason i was able to lock boats and even terrain but not the targets later i will send some photos and eventually video if avaible to this topic maybe im doing something wrong but it looks more likely probably game bug since i wasnt alone with similiar problem

Im not sure if im doing something wrong but i flied f18 quite a lot and when i use agm65f its rng of locking or not sometimes it does sometimes not. I realized that it very easily locked some tiny boats (without ship mode turned on) with just uncage and then slewing cursor to them and then stopping slewing then it instantly locked them i could kill two in single run and then i wanted to destroy some ground targets and there problem begins i tried slewing them many times i couldnt kill a single vehicle when i tried slewing them and stopped maverick kept moving for like 2 seconds and couldnt at all achieve lock whst wss the closest way to actually destoying vehicle was via looking just at hud and arrow and trying get good shoot with just uncaging basically without locking. I tried really many times but it cant lock target it looks like cursor is in somethint similiar for boresight mode for 2 seconds cuz it keeps moving and then ur not even avaible to shoot whats weird it can mostly lock everything around even grass (while slewing i mean it instantly locks when i stop holding tdc depress) when slewing it but not the vehicle i had the right contrast selected for it to lock also definiteky in range it was mostly between 2 and 5 miles i wasnt using targeting pod. After some time researchint some other guy had kinda similiar problem but he was using targeting pod

I was looking a lot on internet for actual like in cockpit f18 throttles and only found orion which looks more like gaming multifunctional throttle than actual f18 throttle with panel and switches soo is there some good f18 throttle with mapping same as in real f18s?

I started trying to learn autopilot in f18c and i got problem with BALT because planes starts to wiggle more and more until it turns off BALT i couldnt find any answers yet soo im asking im quite new and im just playing with keyboard soo maybe that is answer?