Current limits of Jester?

[Rhinozherous]

Hello!

As I want to use jester in singleplayer I wonder what are his current limits? Meaning is he having problems locking other aircraft in specific distances and/or aspects? (Heard that he cannot slew the radar elev up or down?...)

 

I want to fly so that Jester can do his work in the best way... So that we dont loose lock all the time :-P

 

Thank you

[Kula66]

I fly Jester only in the 14, and have done since it launched and so IMHO:

 

In bfm ignore him, he is usually a few seconds late in calls and in a fast moving df he is always wrong. You have to fly level for a few seconds for his tally calls to be valid.

 

In AAR switch him off! he is really distracting.

 

In BVR, he is hard work and some people find major issues. I find him ok in SP with a couple of minor limitations:

* He calls out missiles all over the place if there are multiple bandits flying which is very distracting. Again, best ignored.

* Working the radar up and down is hard work, the Jester wheel is too clumsy and there isn't really time - this is my major issue. However, in close and at long range the 14s radar is superb - 30+ and <15 (PAL). Big scan volume good long range detection. Trouble is its between 15 and 25 that things get deadly!

* He is very good at IFF'ing things quickly.

* He locks and highlights tracks in an odd order sometimes (usually) - so he'll focus on the farthest bandit rather than the nearest threat - annoying.

* Things like switching range and RWS/TWS all has to be done manually ... not ideal but doable with a good HOTAS.

* I see some people jump between back and front seats ... amazing, I'm not smart enough!

* I don't think he's good enough for busy MP servers, but you said SP.

* Some of his phrases are annoying 'the sink rate's too high' ... so?

 

I find him ok and miss the chatter from the back seat in a single seater :)

 

Hope this helps,

James

[Rhinozherous]

I fly Jester only in the 14, and have done since it launched and so IMHO:

 

Thank you very much! This provides me a nice overview of what to look at when flying with J.

 

I also think he is an already awesome piece of programming, but I wouldnt be mad if they tune it a bit in the future.

 

[draconus]

Limits are that he can't scan the area with the radar by himself, can't do nav fixes, can't operate LANTIRN, can't change waypoints by himself, can't guide you for interception and can't fire missiles. I'm sure there's more but these are the most important stuff I can remeber now.

As a SP I can tell you he's great anyway:thumbup:

[Eldur]

Still waiting for the LANTIRN, but agree on everything that's been said so far.

 

One thing that annoys me jsut a bit though: I used to do the same that's been done with the LANTIRN, as in take over the control lines so we can use it anyway with some commands like setting the radar range and mode. At the moment the range change commands had been added to the wheel menu, all that stopped working and I can't make Jester switch the TID to the mode where ownship is centered when switching (that was great to have a general overview when doing A/G when you just switch over to it above the target area as it provides for a top down view of your surroundings, given there's datalinked AWACS available that covers the region so you know when something tries to jump you early enough and from where it does that), and changing the ranges (or anything, actually), simply takes a bit too long. Some small things like switching from 50nm to 100nm should happen almost instantly.