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I tried the edited mission with the Abrams tank and it worked. I also managed to make a mod for the LAV-25 so it uses the same optics and can work as JTAC. Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

I totally agree with you just let me add some stuff: 1. Depart AND LAND in formation 2. Be willing to fly as low as his flight lead, when I fly at 10m above sea with my Viggen as the SWAF did then he hangs above afraid to come down. 3. Mimic the external light settings that the human player uses on his aircraft, that way you would have simple control of the wingmen so that they dont behave like idiots in this regard. 4. Report his fuel state 5. Report his position in relation to you if he has visual on you (usefull in combat) 6. Preserve his cool when locked by radars running in to targets, I dont know how to solve this but he has to be painted to fire a HARM he cant go defensive right away when he is locked. And in general for newer modules like Viggen, Hornet and Harrier I hope that "engage my target" would be fixed so that it worked, it doesent now for me atleast. I mean if I have a designated target with my TGP or Maverick it would be good to give that to him with that command since there is no other way of coordinating a attack. Best would be if you could hand him the target and then not have him go for it right away until you give him a order to execute, that way you could plan with the TGP and then go in together coordinated for maximum effect in one pass. I have still not gotten a AI Hornet wingman to engage and destroy a target, I hope that is worked on in general. I now all these modules I mentioned are Early Access though so Im not complaining just saying what Im hoping for them.

Ok I will try this when I get home, Its hard to know this stuff since it is not in the manual. I have been searching for some clarity in this matter for a couple of years in varius threads but this is the first time I get info that the Humwee TOW does not have sufficient optics to manage this task at night. I had problems with the LAV-25 that I wanted to use so I shifted to Humwee TOW but perhaps the only way that worked was because I accidently changed the time of day or something. Perhaps I could mod the LAV-25 to use the same kind of sensors as the Abrams to get them to use laser. Sometimes I have problems with getting WP also, are there requirements that the JTAC unit must have a certain type of weapon to be able to designate using WP? I mean if you want to be certain that the WP marking will work in the mission should you place a artillery pice as JTAC? Or is the gun of say a Stryker or LAV 25 enough? Best thing to avoid this unclear things would be if ED once and for all would do a dedicated JTAC unit, or two different soldiers like the MANPADS, one with the radio and one with the laser/pointer. That way if you want to simulate a covert SAS team behind enemy lines designating SCUDs or something you would not have to use a invisible Abrams tank.

Hello! When I do missions for myself I try to do them as random as possible so that each can be played again and again and you never know what will happen and where the enemy are. In order to accomplish this I need to place many more air defence units for example than I need, to get one SAM in five different places i need to place five groups with late activation and activate only one. So I get disturbingly many units in my missions. If there was a command a bit like the "Switch waypont" command called something like "Skip to waypoint" perhaps that would work so that the unit gets teleported to the desired waypoint instantly instead of having to travel there this would be a gamechanger for me. It would also save very much proccesor power not having to do the pathfinding to get there and also the ground units are so slow they cant travel very far before I get there in my Hornet. Only instant teleportation would work.

Im sorry I forgot to remove the mod, I have removed it now, can someone please check why the JTAC wont use the laser?

If you would extend it just a little more south of Bodø you would also get the war-base at Jokkmokk in Sweden. That would be awesome. But I can settle for just Kiruna and Pajala Airports and a bit of road somewhere, I just want a bit of Sweden for my Viggen. I totaly understand what you mean with biting cold and exotic, I guess you mean something like this (Taped in the north of Sweden, Viggens out of F21 at Luleå)

Ok I did not know it worked like that Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

As far as I know TIME MORE has always worked like that. I use TIME SINCE FLAG to get the result you want Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

Have you removed the automatic tasks? CAP or Fighter Sweep depending on what type the flight is. Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

Hello Im using JoyToKey (v 6.3) for a couple of button boxes, it has worked well for pretty long time but lately I have had a problem that sometimes when I start it, it says that its not registred eventhough I paid for it and registred it by typing in the serial key. All configurations that I have done for missing aircraft are also missing, as well as the settings for ID-numbers for the controllers and also settings for notifications in the taskbar and similar. Im on Windows 10, since I backup my configurations for aircraft I can restore them and register again and then it works. For some days, then when I open it, its blank again. I have created a exeption in my antivirus now incase it detects the ini-file as a threat, but I dont know if it will work. Have anyone else that uses JoyToKey experienced the same lately?

I noticed this to. I also noticed that if you have got ships on the sea below the cloud deck and the wether and visibility is very low down there so that you dont see them when you are below the clouds you can see them easy when you decend down the cloud deck. Thats perhaps related to this somehow.

Same problem now exist on the Stennis, you cant place four aircraft, one on each catapult. All of them end up on cat 1. Cats 2,3 and 4 are impossible to assign. Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

Sorry forgot about the mod, here you go a version without. Same issue, JTAC only says Type 3 in effect. The JTAC is a Humwee TOW. test_no mods.miz

Hello Can someone (preferably someone from ED) try this mission and explain to me why the JTAC always says "No Mark" when I have set him to use laser and the distance requirement and LOS are met according to the misson editor? This has been a reoccurring problem for all the time I have been using JTAC in missions. Not only with laser but it also occurs with WP and IR marking. Is there some built in logic that never has been mentioned, like that even if you have set it to laser, they wont lase if there are no troops nearby that motivate a type 1 or 2? Or will they ignore it also if there is a cloud, fog or something? Or is it just a bug? Even if they decide to never fix this bug if it is a bug it would be good to know some theory from the devs to why it frequently occurs, like how JTAC works in the sim, what criterias are checked for them to decide between type 1, 2 and 3. That way I would atleast have a chance to perhaps avoid it. Surely there must be a logic that is programmed for this, it cant just happen. Thank you test.miz

Yes Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

I have had this idéa myself, to me it seems not so hard to do but that is perhaps because I dont know any programming :) My idéa was that if there is a Read Script function in the mission editor, perhaps there could be "Write Flag States To File" and "Read Flag States From File" aswell. That could then be used to write the flagstates into a lua-file in the same folder as where the mission is located (the campaign folder that would be in a campaign). So at the end of mission 1 flagstates for if key targets and SAMs are destroyed or not would be written. In the beginning of mission 2 the file from with saved flag states from mission 1 would be read and all those targets could then be set to destroyed or deactivated. This would make a somewhat dynamic campaign possible pretty easy for the not too advanced mission designers as myself.

Hello Last night I did a training mission where i was to drop 4 GBU38 on 4 busses in Nevada. I had loaded them with two on station 3 and two on station 7. I had viewed guides on Youtube but I did not manage to add coordinates using the TGP to them. I managed that the evening before when I only had one on each station. Can anyone explain the logic behind the PP1, PP2.., T001, T002, and STA 3, STA 7? I mean how they interact and what they mean, I know STA 3 and 7 is the station obviusly. But whats T001 and T002? PP is missions I assume but why are they crossed out? When I select QTY I can only select the two stations, how do I select so that all four bombs are dropped?

Is there a Iranian one in CAM? Would be great if it was

Please also fix so that your AI wingmen can land with you, its a sad every time I come in to land and has to send him off on his own, we should just land together. A pair of Viggens coming in to land together is beautiful!

Same here, its a huge thing. Imagine if we would get a undo button also! Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

But better AI is something thats beeing worked on right? I have seen it on a list somewhere. Would be nice to hear how its going in a newsletter or something Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

This is EXACTLY my thoughts as well.

Could try, sad for me though is that I spent many hours in the release version of 2.5 making missions with a great amount of triggers. If they would decide not to make it back compatible for missions created before the latest updates it would be very bad for me because starting from scratch is not really a option. Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

Im would bet its more than just Mavs, I have been carrying Mk20s to try to have the FAC lase for the laser spot tracker in the TGP but I had no success yet. Just No Mark. Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk

The JTAC seems to have stopped designating targets at all now. Skickat från min D5503 via Tapatalk