[REPORTED] IFF scan only partially works the first time you use it in a mission

[backspace340]

I spotted something that seems to be a bug - your first IFF scan of any mission is unreliable, it will only return an IFF result from a small sub-section of the friendlies that are in your scan volume. This one is really easy to reproduce - play the attached mission and press TMS Left once you're in the plane, the first scan only returns one result, press it again and it will return an IFF ping for every plane in the scan volume. Every scan except the first one returns an IFF hit for everyone it should - for some reason that first scan is always deficient. You can restart the mission and you'll see the same behaviour again.

 

Unfortunately, there's something fundamentally broken with track recording on my game (which repairs aren't helping), so I can't attach a track. But I can attach a simple mission - which you just have to launch and press TMS Left to scan a couple of times. I've also recorded the behaviour here:

iff.miz

[Harker]

Not always getting an IFF response from friendly aircraft isn't necessary unrealistic, it depends. But the "doesn't work only the first time, works perfectly every other time" behavior makes me think it's not that, so you might have something there.

[NineLine]

Ok thanks for the reported, I have submitted it.