No hot trigger in MP (sporadic)

[sublime]

I asked my old pilot for his tracks. I know i must have some tracks left.. pretty sure. if nothing I can get other players to attest to this

not every mission, but lets say more than just 1 out of 100, (more like sometimes 1 in 10), my VERY experienced pilot who also flew irl and saw combat, would do what we always did engaging bandits. now we had engaged hundreds of bogeys

Sometimes, no matter what I did, I could not get a hot trigger.

Id hook a target, everything, NO HOT TRIGGER. this led to panicky USE ACM QUICK and and other shenanigans

sometimes loosing a missile fixed it, other times not.

Seriously id like this to be looked at, following this post Im gonna look for tracks, but I can ask the guy the back me up and im not making this up. it was very odd, and ive only seen it in MP in the RIO seat.

[sublime]

bump

can i get anyone with similar experiences - or ppl wondering wtf Im talking about? the mp misssions some were 3+ hours long but I got A LOT of them saved and Im willing to trawl to find examples of the hot trigger not working for the back seat, also some weird stuff with the radar when this hot trigger issue would happen the radar would refuse to 'hook' and Id switch modes everything to no avail

yes I asked the pilot if he was in a2a mode, yes I hit the button for phoenix launch info near the scope, yes he was armed.. we are pretty experienced. if noones noticed this.. its happened more than a few times AND happened to me last summer with another squad that I didnt fit in with and left after a couple weeks

 

[sublime]

bump again. A forum member I can summon in here ( plus it was last night almost certain I got the track) we had this issue.

basically - no hot trigger. the radar wouldnt let me truly hook targets. Itd let me get info on a target, but it wouldnt give hot trigger. yes I made sure he was armed in a2a and had phoenixes. I tried STT and pd stt. nothing.

He got a plm lock. he said he couldnt even fire sidewinders!

this was on the hoggit server yesterday

[Mr. Big.Biggs]

Was it a model of weapon that was not allowed on the server? I ran into an issue where I couldn’t fire my Phoenix missles and it turned out that the variant I had was banned. Some of the servers put you in the death spiral and you crash if loaded illegally but others seem to just keep em on the rail??!

[sublime]

I could see that if it was just last night, but in the squadron I just resigned from (AG51) i had a pilot that I flew probably 50-80 hours with. on training servers and otherwise. the weapons were definitely allowed as theyd work sometimes. And once in a great blue they wouldnt, but he could fire. A couple times *After* he fired, it suddenly started working.

Ive only ever encountered this in MP (obviously) but I have the witness to yesterdays incident, and I have tracks from the other missions, Im pretty sure one of those tracks *At least one* has an incident like that on it.

its very very odd, And with people in the front and back very used to the tomcat. I could even look over the seat and see he had it armed, in a2a mode...

Again, like I said, very odd.

yesterday Im willing to allow the possibiility it was a server glitch, as he couldnt even fire a sidewinder and you can shoot those at anything lock or not. and it was close to the server reset.

the other times though, it happened more than once, and in another group of people i flew with this spring very occasionally

part of the problem is theres so few dedicated RIOs. has anyone else seen this? if not can someone from HB reach out because theres definitely something going on here. If I had dozens of kills with phoenixes and sparrrows with the same pilot, in all sorts of different engagements and types of enemies, than I obviously know at least how to hook and launch missiles. Point being... usually on my end Im sure its a user problem (i.;e. idiot problem) this... isnt.

and thank you for posting at all, I hate feeling like im being ignored.

[sublime]

really.. no interest??