[REPORTED]JTAC gets stuck on copy remarks

[Lord of War]

If an SA-2 Fan Song tracking radar is within ~30km range of a JTAC, the JTAC will get stuck on copy remarks.

 

Tested with several different units as jtac and different targets but the result stays the same.

jtac remark fail_sa2tr.trk

[purpi]

The same thing happens with the jtac in the missions of a player, jtac will not respond after the 9 lines. Please fix the jtac once … thank you

[Frederf]

I'm guessing that it's because remarks is telling about threats "1 Zeus, northwest" etc. and the script doesn't have a text/sound entry for the SA-2 threat.

[Grimes]

Reported.

[Capn kamikaze]

It's not just with the SA-2.

[Grimes]

Please elaborate.

[SUNTSAG]

It also occurs for me, linked to groups made up of entirely Air Defence Units.

[Capn kamikaze]

I set up some radars only on a practice mission, basically built a bombing range with typical Iranian threat emitters, I had the SA-6, 11, and Hawk, and a SA-15 with ROE set to hold, and it didn't like them either, as soon as I deleted them the FAC worked again.

[Tholozor]

Neither the SA-2 or Rapier units have definitions set for them in Sounds\Speech\NATO.lua in NineLineBriefRemarks (starting at line 708 where it lists the displayTypeIds). If the JTAC detects them it throws an error into the dcs.log with the error listed on line 674 for a nil displayTypeId, which results in a hung JTAC when trying to copy remarks.

 

Units affected:

- rapier_fsa_blindfire_radar

- rapier_fsa_optical_tracker_unit

- rapier_fsa_launcher

- SNR_75V

Edited November 16, 2018 by Tholozor

[Xxx]

Armour with Tunguska and Tor appear to stall JTAC?

 

Tried same column with CTLD JTAC and no issues seen.

[Xxx]

Further to the above, it seems JTAC is not working properly at all.

 

 

No Lasing or WP on target. That's Armour, BMP's. When using M2k with no on board laser designator, its a shame! No BDA. Nothing working as it used to.

 

 

CTLD does work though.

[Tholozor]

Appears to be fixed now on 2.5.4!

[Esac_mirmidon]

So your mod is not needed anymore?

[Tholozor]

At least not the original mod, the new default .lua works just fine.

[045]

I'm not sure if it is fully repaired. I have been unable to get the JTAC to relay remarks on any of my missions. I made the attached mission as an example.

JTAC Remarks Test.miz

[Grimes]

It appears that JTACs do not like the Harriers gun and sidearm.

[045]

Good call Grimes, that'd probably explain why my check in doesn't play but JTAC still responds initially. It doesn't know what to send for them. Time for me to dive into the lua to see if there's a fix. If only it was something other than the cannon and Sidearms, two of my favourites!

[Grimes]

Sounds/Speech/Nato.lua at line 315 there is a list of weapons in categories so it knows what is what. Its kind of obnoxious because seemingly anytime something gets added to the game nobody remembers to update the JTAC code so it doesn't error out when that new thing is present.

[045]

Oh excellent, that is definitely a fix I can do. Thanks Grimes. And yes that is an awkward way of doing it.

[Mr_sukebe]

I currently have this issue, whilst using JTAC against WW2 assets.