Zabuzard

How did you determine this? In multicrew with a human pilot and a WSO? Or by sitting in the rear seat and moving your head so you can see the front area from behind? Or by binding the WSO switch to the pilot controls and clicking them from the front magically? Or by sitting in the WSO seat and going external view (F2)?

Could you share a screenshot of the pilots front cockpit area when you are in that situation? Usually that answers all those questions. If the racks are an issue your CTL INTL lamp would be on.

I doubt that will happen as it would mean HB needs to officially support a weapon that this aircraft could never use (even if someone would hang it on a real F-4E). I understand you wanting to cosplay another Phantom variant though. Cool that the mod at least lets you fire it and it works even though the aircraft has no code to support it.

Yeah that's what I meant. I believe this video was edited and did not have the tone in the actual gameplay either. (I remember people talking about it on Discord when the video came out)

I have no experience with the mod, but did you witness the tone in-game before? Or did you only see it in a video? Cause some of those videos are edited, adding sound effects. I've seen that a bunch of times before.

Our F4E is not supposed to carry HARMs. If you got hands on a mod that allows you to carry it, it is not official. Either case, whether a weapon works or not is decided in the C++ code, not in Lua. Lua allows you to visually add anything you want to any pylon, but that is not enough to also make the weapon "work". That requires the actual aircraft code (C++) to understand and explicitly support the weapon. Which is something only Heatblur could do, not modders. If a weapon happens to "just work" regardless (often the case for dumb bombs), its coincidence and any future update to the aircraft might "break" it.

Could you share a screenshot of the binds you are using please? That would be helpful, thanks

CAGE mode is a pilot controlled "panic" radar override (for when you get jumped by Migs). It is 5nm only. You need to explicitly leave CAGE mode again to get back to the normal radar modes. You do so either by moving the Weapon Knob in or out of the B position or the WSO needs to press the A2A button. Jester can do latter if you press the context button twice.

This is a known issue and the team is already working on it. Partial fixes had been pushed already as well. It happens on subsequent spawns and the exact conditions vary depending on DCS version and selected mission (for the coders: its so called "undefined behavior").

Can you show a screenshot of your ministick binds? Ensure you are maximally deflecting the stick, the threshold where its supposed to jump to the outer ring is afaik at around 90% or so.

Yeah. So the upcoming patch will include slight changes to slat behavior in such configurations IIRC and also plenty of hydraulic fixes. So possibly after the update it might be better. But in general it is definitely correct behavior that you can end up in a situation with the slats going out, that causing you to change angles and speed, causing them to go in again and vice versa. IRL they would just grab the stick and throttle and just change the setup so you are not crawling around this edge case anymore.

Generally, up and down is completely normal behavior for the F4 (due to bellows vs bobweights). That said, there are known hydraulic issues in the current patch which are already fixed internally for the next update. Possibly you had your slats extending and retracting constantly (which btw is correct behavior in certain situations and is countered by simply changing the current flight configuration - make sure that your tanker flies at a speed that is appropriate for the F4 and not around a speed that triggers this situation for you).

This is a known issue and has been confirmed already to get tweaked eventually. But yes, lets not mix the character/mirror topic with the stick topic for now

Believe it or dont. We dont make things up, have to take guesses or similar. All of this was modelled directly after first hand evidence. We didnt put all of what we found into the game as not everything had nice and detailed pictures to recreate it correctly. Heck, they even put folded paper between the buttons to keep them in.

Sorry, what are you trying to say? Combat Tree is not there yet, if that is what you thought.

Yeah. In a nutshell, Combat Tree allows you to "magically" spot any contact in like 200nm distance. Its like getting gods vision. You see them all, regardless of what your radar is doing. It is not only used to ID a target that you picked up with your radar, it allows you to actually locate bandits like a "super-radar". Just like it was IRL for the Phantom pilots in the time period where Combat Tree was used and enemies have not patched their systems yet. Its not "magic" ofc, but the IFF receiver/transponder have a much greater range.

The head movement is a different topic. As said, its to prevent silly looking glitches. In the Tomcat you can get them if you move your stuff fast. You seem to be mixing topics on this one. The pitch axis isnt "delayed". It is the bobweights and bellows influencing the pitch axis. A system which the Tomcat (and most other aircraft) do not have.

It would be neat if you can try what I asked above regarding the HeatblurUI.exe. It is something we did observe during initial testing and tweaking, so its not an unknown issue. Its just that we thought we eliminated it fully. So if you are actually running into that issue, would be great to know

The table you are linking to refers to the AIR variant of the bomb, which you can load on these pylons. The regular version of the bomb has longer fins, causing separation problems on the pylon. Also check the official weapons manual that explicitly does not allow this loadout. Phantoms that carried them nonetheless had to use self-made separator modifications which were not present on the F-4E we have ingame.

Great stuff, thank you for this (and all your previous) awesome contribution

Are you sure that you ever had a state where your exported texture actually displayed content from the DSCG and not just all-green or possibly even a different screen instead? Cause if that's the case I might be able to help you by giving you the full list of all internal texture names to try out instead of just going with the one you guessed there.

Correct, it does not. Its on the list. The screenshot looks like you are not actually exporting the DSCG at all. Its just all-green, none of our internal or external textures looks like that.

If its a hydraulic issue it will likely be fixed with the next patch. Ive also seen plenty of user errors on this Crew Chief routine though. Either case, if you can create a quick track or video that would be really helpful, thanks.

Someone from the team will have a look. Could you share a track so its clearer what you are describing and easier to work with for the devs, that would be great There isnt much I can tell you right now during the weekend other than the documents you are using (and the source you got them from) had been used and consulted extensively during the development. Of course that doesnt exclude the chance of bugs, so someone will have a look at your query