F14 comma (was an error) MEANT COMMS are bugged in MP

[sublime]

I really wanna bring attention to this

Ive tested this.. a lot

In SP the radios, ez comms off, work fine. You find the freak, etc. I purposefully jump in back in SP and do it all. it works

IN MP, SAME EXACT SITUATION, NOTHING. At best, Sometimes AWACS works, but tankers *WILL NOT WORK*

Anyone else having the same problem?

I reread chucks guide

I reread the manual on radios

I watched several tutorials.

my feeling is, If ez comms are off, and Im able to contact whomever I want if I punch the right freq in SP, than I know how to use the radio. ANd yes I know theres a diff between the 159 and 182.

In MP, the same stuff doesnt work.

Please, anyone...?

[JupiterJoe]

On 11/28/2020 at 2:15 PM, sublime said:

Please, anyone...?

You're using (default) 'Right Alt' and '\' (ARC -159), or 'Right Ctrl' and '\' (ARD 182) to bring up the comms menu, yes?  If you just use '\' it doesn't work.  '\' is for easy comms only I think.

[draconus]

Check tanker freq and modulation.

Turn on the radio - either ask pilot or as RIO, set right freq, mode, vol and modulation (RIO).

Choose XMTR on the ICS panel.

http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/cockpit.html#communication-tacan-command-panel

Use right foot as PTT > F6 Tanker > F1 Intent to refuel.

Edited December 3, 2020 by draconus

[sublime]

5 hours ago, JupiterJoe said:

You're using (default) 'Right Alt' and '\' (ARC -159), or 'Right Ctrl' and '\' (ARD 182) to bring up the comms menu, yes?  If you just use '\' it doesn't work.  '\' is for easy comms only I think.

Yessir, and im well aware that the 159 is the pilots and the 182 is the rios and can reach lower freqs that the pilots often cannot. i also know shift uses ICS. I havent used EZ comms in 4 years BESIDES when regular comms wouldnt work to my dismay in a DCE campaign.

thank you though, Im sure many people were stymied by that..

3 hours ago, draconus said:

Check tanker freq and modulation.

Turn on the radio - either ask pilot or as RIO, set right freq, mode, vol and modulation (RIO).

Choose XMTR on the ICS panel.

http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/cockpit.html#communication-tacan-command-panel

Use right foot as PTT > F6 Tanker > F1 Intent to refuel.

sir, I know how to do it, as I got it to work before.  For some reason on Hoggit, it wouldnt work and I have my track as rio and can get the pilots.  Mike asked me to try 104th where it did work.  I will ask what you mean by modulation, do you mean AM / FM?

 I frankly dont knoow how to tell unless it tells me,  I just punch in the numbers . Nevertheless, for whatever reason, I was doing what Ive done millions of times and had problems.

Theyve almost entirely gone away, and Im not saying it isnt user error, but damned if I can figure it out and Ive been VERY attentive to when I try new things.. lets say this became something of an obsession because at the time I had joined a online squadron and I kept seeming to not be able to use comms like everyone else ( all f18s though ) and continously had to be 'that guy' everyone was running TS for whilst using SRS too.. so yeah i ended up learning the radio and it thoroughly at that time, and its so rote it 'feels weird' to do something new... 

Now that rant said, everythings working and stuff but SC, on the final landing theres sometimes issues, though sometimes not. Theres something with the LSO grading I think, I keep getting NCs when I definitely C'd

 

[sublime]

i really do have the bizarre track of us spending 20 mins shadowing a 135 and calling it, reading the briefing 20x to check, messing endlessly with the radios, checking chat on the freq and if it worked...

lol it was hoggit, im just saying this because i probably sound crazy or overreactive.  but whateever happened on the end  of me and this guy in in denmark, we have more than one game (though this was the one we sat there and endlessly tried) where they wouldnt work.  Still, theyve worked... as far as I can tell in the MP ive played lately. I should also note I usually dont fly hoggit or 104th. I almost exclusively fly clan servers or sp..