can not reproduce DATALINK intermittent bandits disappearing

[Riverseeker]

Recently i am flying the f16 and i am often experiencing this: enemy bandits sometimes are disappearing completenly from datalink and fcr, after 20/30/40 seconds they reappear.

Is thiss already investigated? or am i doing something wrong?

 

I noticed this playing liberate campaing and some other few missions.

Just to know if i have to hunt for a decent track or not.

[BIGNEWY]

Please include a track replay example so we can take a look 

 

[Riverseeker]

well i managed to get only this right now:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fndefb2kq3us39/dataling.fcr.disappearingbandits.miz.trk?dl=0

(via dropbox becouse it is 6mb)

if you fast forward till when i stat to get like 50nm from bullseye you will notice overlord calling for bandits at 70 mile at my 9 oclock.

when i turn on them they disappear. They reappear after a while and they go off again. At the end i managed to get them so when i pre-commit you can stop watch becouse from there everything is going fine.

This is happening randomly, at least i havent found a way to replicate that in a short track till now. So get this, if is too long i am going to retry on next days (now i am going bed ) just to make life easier for you. It is a liberate campaign mix edited to take my bird right behind the frontline to speed up the process.

 

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks for trying with the track, unfortunately its a liberation track so wont play back correctly. 

We will watch for this but so far we have not been able to reproduce. 

There are various reason for a dropped contact, AWACS wont see everything all of the time. 

thanks

[Riverseeker]

Roger, thank you.

If i manage to reproduce this i will post you a decent track

[Aquorys]

I have seen this happen on multiplayer missions. There is an AWACS orbiting in quite a tight circle at 39k feet. It seems that the datalink would only provide information from the AWACS whenever I was to the rear of the AWACS (an E-3). Whenever its nose was pointed at me, I'd lose the picture. As soon as I got behind it, the picture reappeared. It seems to vary depending on the distance between the AWACS and myself.

Haven't done any more testing as of now.

[BIGNEWY]

Just be careful with AWACS and using it in tight orbits it will create a blind spot sometimes depending on the direction of the orbit. Racetrack orbits are better. 

[Aquorys]

Not my mission file unfortunately. I'll try and let the admins of that server know, maybe they can fix the issue by changing the AWACS to use either a racetrack orbit or to use waypoint switching.

[Csgo GE oh yeah]

Datalink in multiplayer is a mess.
Contacts are always dancing around , disappearing , turning red/green/red/green. 

DCS multiplayer is simply not suited for more than 15 players or so. 

 

Edited November 13, 2021 by Csgo GE oh yeah

[Marklar]

I experience disappearing of contacts all the time on 4YA servers but their colour does not change.

[Csgo GE oh yeah]

F16 have red color for confirmed bandit and green color for confirmed friendly

[TheBigTatanka]

I've been having a pretty regular experience with F-16s in my flight (other hot started human controlled jets) dropping off the fighter to fighter DATALINK and becoming green instead of blue contacts.

I'm also experiencing the intermittent DATALINK info from AWACS, but do expect that is because of range and aspect of the AWACS.

Is there any guidance on how to set up the AWACS in the editor to provide the best coverage? Would two AWACS help?

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[Marklar]

On 11/13/2021 at 8:18 PM, Csgo GE oh yeah said:

F16 have red color for confirmed bandit and green color for confirmed friendly

I know that. What I meant is they don't change colour "red/green/red/green" as you described.

[Crptalk]

42 minutes ago, Marklar said:

I know that. What I meant is they don't change colour "red/green/red/green" as you described.

When (if?) it gets NCTR that should change.