Viciam1 Posted August 11, 2021 Posted August 11, 2021 Hi guys, quick question. When flying in the f16, I have the right mfd showing the HSD which shows waypoints, aircraft and yellow circles where there are enemy SAM sites. Now when I fly in the 4YA server...and an enemy base gets captured or a SAM gets destroyed by a team mate...is there a way to refresh that HSD so the now captured base or destroyed SAM doesn't show up as a yellow circle any more? The problem I'm having is that if im flying towards a yellow circle to launch some HARMS from 25 miles away and I fire them...sometimes that base is captured by a team mate and I end up destroying a friendly SAM thinking it was an enemy SAM. I know I can check the f10 map but I don't want to do that. Is there a way so that the yellow circle disappears from the HSD once it is captured/destroyed? At the moment it only updates when you get into a new aircraft or rejoin the server. Thanks in advance.
Wizard_03 Posted August 11, 2021 Posted August 11, 2021 AFAIK no there is not as the Threat rings are programed in on the ground with the data card. DCS F/A-18C :sorcerer:
Majik Posted August 11, 2021 Posted August 11, 2021 Once the HSD features are more fleshed out, you should be able to cursor over, and delete the ring. 6 -
C3PO Posted August 15, 2021 Posted August 15, 2021 On 8/11/2021 at 9:34 PM, Viciam1 said: Hi guys, quick question. When flying in the f16, I have the right mfd showing the HSD which shows waypoints, aircraft and yellow circles where there are enemy SAM sites. Now when I fly in the 4YA server...and an enemy base gets captured or a SAM gets destroyed by a team mate...is there a way to refresh that HSD so the now captured base or destroyed SAM doesn't show up as a yellow circle any more? The problem I'm having is that if im flying towards a yellow circle to launch some HARMS from 25 miles away and I fire them...sometimes that base is captured by a team mate and I end up destroying a friendly SAM thinking it was an enemy SAM. I know I can check the f10 map but I don't want to do that. Is there a way so that the yellow circle disappears from the HSD once it is captured/destroyed? At the moment it only updates when you get into a new aircraft or rejoin the server. Thanks in advance. Fog of War Now: Water-cooled Ryzen 5800X + 64GB DDR 4 3600 (running at 3200) RAM + EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra 24 GB + Pimax Crystal Light + Add-on PCI-e 3.1 card + 2x1TB Corsair M.2 4900/4200 + TM HOTAS Warthog + TM TPR Pendular Rudder 'Engaged Defensive' YouTube Channel Modules: F/A-18C / AV-8B / F-16 / F-15E / F-4E / Persian Gulf / Syria / Nevada / Sinai / South Atlantic / Afghanistan / Iraq Backup: Water-cooled i7 6700K @ 4.5GHz + 32GB DDR4 3200MHz + GTX 1080 8GB + 1TB M.2 1k drive & 4K 40" monitor + TrackIR
leoliao Posted July 9, 2024 Posted July 9, 2024 I wonder how does the f-16 know that there are enemy SAMs and what kind of SAMs they are, some say that it is data link, but since I am the only Blue unit I don't understand how that works.
SeeYouAtTheMerge Posted July 9, 2024 Posted July 9, 2024 35 minutes ago, leoliao said: I wonder how does the f-16 know that there are enemy SAMs and what kind of SAMs they are, some say that it is data link, but since I am the only Blue unit I don't understand how that works. It doesn’t, the way it currently works is basically hacking it so all the sams that aren’t set to hidden are “loaded into the dtc when you spawn as threats” and that’s how they appear on the HSD
Furiz Posted July 9, 2024 Posted July 9, 2024 56 minutes ago, leoliao said: I wonder how does the f-16 know that there are enemy SAMs and what kind of SAMs they are, some say that it is data link, but since I am the only Blue unit I don't understand how that works. Current known SAM locations are pre set on your HSD, you can discover additional SAM sites if they were hidden previously with HTS or they may surprise you.
Dr_Pavelheer Posted July 9, 2024 Posted July 9, 2024 (edited) @leoliao It's just "we know that there likely is a SAM site there so we have marked it for you on the map" which just so happens to be perfectly accurate in the game. There is no datalink involved and it's static because it's just a bunch of points in the nav system that were loaded on DTC Edited July 9, 2024 by Dr_Pavelheer 1
Dragon1-1 Posted July 10, 2024 Posted July 10, 2024 In fact, they should essentially be special threat steerpoints, that's what they are internally in the real jet. Hopefully when we get the DTC, this functionality will come with it.
darkman222 Posted July 10, 2024 Posted July 10, 2024 19 hours ago, leoliao said: I wonder how does the f-16 know that there are enemy SAMs and what kind of SAMs they are, some say that it is data link, but since I am the only Blue unit I don't understand how that works. I works like when you spawn in and the SAM site is not hidden for you by the mission maker or by mission setup, it will show on the HSD. Create a simple single player mission. Put a player F16 and a SAM site only on the map. The sam site will show in the jet. So when you spawn in the jet the thread ring is set for you. The threat steerpoint we currently dont have is a separate thing. But whats creating the thread symbols on the HSD for you at the moment is just DCS magic at the moment.
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