Screen Flashes When Missiles Are Fired or Cockpit Canopies Are Ejected.

[LowRider88]

My apologies if this has been reported already, as I am not sure what to search for, in order to confirm.

I have noticed that when I play against an AI opponent in single player, if the AI fires a missile, I get a purple smoke bitmap on my windshield, even when the opponent is far away.  It is very brief and appears as a flash.

Also when the opponent AI ejects, I also get another flash.  This time the flash is like a split second screen blackout.

I don't have a video of the missile flash but I do of the ejection one, below.

The flash appears after the F/A-18 crashes and ejects:

 

[Flappie]

Hi, this is a known issue but testers are unable to replicate it. If you have any idea why this is happening, I'm all hears.

Does it happen with every missile?

Does it happen when friendly aircraft fire their missile as well? What about when you fire a missile?

 

Same questions regarding ejection, of course.

[LowRider88]

7 hours ago, Flappie said:

Hi, this is a known issue but testers are unable to replicate it. If you have any idea why this is happening, I'm all hears.

Does it happen with every missile?

Does it happen when friendly aircraft fire their missile as well? What about when you fire a missile?

 

Same questions regarding ejection, of course.

Hi Flappie, Thanks very much for your quick reply.

I had been doing much AI FM testing recently, so used the same simple custom mission:

- default Caucusas map

- two jet fighter planes added at about the same 2000 m altitude, set to fly straight at each other, about 30 km apart

- missiles included

-weather is standard, clear, sometimes 12pm, sometimes, sun is rising or setting (not directly overhead but to the side, so maybe 8am, 8pm).

You can see this custom mission setup in the first few seconds of my video.

 

The purple flashes on my windshield occur when the opponent AI fires missiles, usually AIM-9Ps, or R-3s, at short range, and seem to be a duplicate of the rendering of the missile launch smoke from near the launching plane.  So we are usually about 2 mm apart.  Most times, my plane may or may not be facing it, but my head (TrackIR) is facing the plane (see it as a dot).

This does not seem to happen when I fire a missile.  I suspect it does not happen with the AI fired mid range AIM-7,20s either.

 

For the black flashes for the AI canopy ejections, I don't recall this happening all the time.  Maybe you can set up a mission similar to the one in my video, and get the oppentint to eject?

[Flappie]

Hi, there was a fix a few weeks ago that might have fixed your issue. Do you keep seeing flashes?