opps Posted October 11, 2020 Posted October 11, 2020 Currently Air to Air radar can be used to designate target for AI wingman. However, during Air to Ground role, there is no way to assign specific target for AI wingman other than pre defined in mission editor. Or order "engage target of opportunity" and just let them do stupid things. It would be nice to enable "Attack my target" command with TGP point tracking target so that AI wingman can be used more efficient way. (Like already possible in KA-50 or JF-17.)
Bunny Clark Posted October 12, 2020 Posted October 12, 2020 Yah, this would be incredibly useful. Oil In The Water Hornet Campaign. Bunny's: Form-Fillable Controller Layout PDFs | HOTAS Kneeboards | Checklist Kneeboards
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opps Posted November 21, 2022 Author Posted November 21, 2022 (edited) Bump. During over 4 years of Early Access, zero improvement on this. Actually, worse implementetion than A-10C or KA-50 which released over a decade ago. Furthermore, Deka's JF-17 has very good ability to designate ground target for AI wingman using already available interface in DCS. Why can't ED's flag ship module use same functions. Edited November 21, 2022 by opps 3
rob10 Posted November 21, 2022 Posted November 21, 2022 Except that I'm pretty sure the IRL Hornet doesn't have the ability to do this (vs at least the A-10C does) so don't hold your breath for it to come. Best you can do (in MP) is have your wingman look for where your ATFLIR/LITENING is pointing on the SA page and look in that general area with their pod. It's not precise so they'll need to find the target. You can't "send" the location in the Hornet, you have to manually give them co-ordinates (which you can get off the pod) or lasing it and have them use Laser Spot Track to find where you're pointing.
opps Posted November 22, 2022 Author Posted November 22, 2022 8 hours ago, rob10 said: Except that I'm pretty sure the IRL Hornet doesn't have the ability to do this (vs at least the A-10C does) so don't hold your breath for it to come. Best you can do (in MP) is have your wingman look for where your ATFLIR/LITENING is pointing on the SA page and look in that general area with their pod. It's not precise so they'll need to find the target. You can't "send" the location in the Hornet, you have to manually give them co-ordinates (which you can get off the pod) or lasing it and have them use Laser Spot Track to find where you're pointing. In petfect world ED should implement "talk on", laser or cordinate designation. However it will unlikely happen, at least foreseeable future. And, yes, sending designation directly in F/A-18 is not realstic, but no control over what wingman attack is totally unrealstic too. So ED may chose either of two ways. First way, ED does nothing, untill they figure out realstic way of how to interact AI wingman. Unfortunately, I even never heard about plan of improvement on this arena, so it will take loooooooooong. Second way, as a tempraly solution, ED uses already availiable function, to give more cotrol to AI wingman. It will not perfectly realstic, but will give great flexbility in SP. MP is fun for sure, but SP is as much as important in DCS game play. 1
rob10 Posted November 22, 2022 Posted November 22, 2022 Fair comments (esp. for SP, and I probably do 70% of my flying in SP). I just don't think ED will go that far out on a limb (i.e. unrealistic version versus a way to simulate calling co-ordinates etc) to give us this.
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