Redeye 43 Posted February 22, 2022 Posted February 22, 2022 When using lock specific target, he can pretty routinely lock up targets he can't see, but when using lock first target/friendly/enemy, he doesn't notice them at all on the datalink. Is this intended behavior? Seems like a bug, since datalink is so useful.
draconus Posted February 22, 2022 Posted February 22, 2022 This is intended. It might be changed since Jester rework is planned. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
Callsign JoNay Posted February 22, 2022 Posted February 22, 2022 16 hours ago, Redeye 43 said: When using lock specific target, he can pretty routinely lock up targets he can't see, but when using lock first target/friendly/enemy, he doesn't notice them at all on the datalink. Is this intended behavior? Seems like a bug, since datalink is so useful. Can you elaborate on the first part of your question? What do you mean he can routinely lock up targets he can't see? Is there a way to command Jester to lock a Link-4 contact that I am unaware of? I thought he didn't have this ability at all.
draconus Posted February 23, 2022 Posted February 23, 2022 6 hours ago, Callsign JoNay said: Is there a way to command Jester to lock a Link-4 contact that I am unaware of? I thought he didn't have this ability at all. Duh! Just STT > specific target - it just has to be within gimbal limits. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
Q-Ball Posted February 23, 2022 Posted February 23, 2022 21 hours ago, Callsign JoNay said: Can you elaborate on the first part of your question? What do you mean he can routinely lock up targets he can't see? Is there a way to command Jester to lock a Link-4 contact that I am unaware of? I thought he didn't have this ability at all. Last night I had 3 targets on DL and it appeared Jester did not see them on radar. However, if I selected radar contact by azimuth, he would STT lock them. But no "lock contact ahead" or "lock enemy target ahead". It seemed strange that the radar could definitely see the target, but that somehow Jester was simultaneously unaware that the contact correlated to the TID datalink contact.
Callsign JoNay Posted February 23, 2022 Posted February 23, 2022 I had no idea you could use that to get Jester to steer the radar to look at Link-4 contacts that are outside the scan volume. What happens if they're in a notch? "No can do boss"?
Q-Ball Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 On 2/23/2022 at 9:58 AM, Q-Ball said: Last night I had 3 targets on DL and it appeared Jester did not see them on radar. However, if I selected radar contact by azimuth, he would STT lock them. But no "lock contact ahead" or "lock enemy target ahead". It seemed strange that the radar could definitely see the target, but that somehow Jester was simultaneously unaware that the contact correlated to the TID datalink contact. After some further testing today, it seems that the trouble I ran into crops up if any of the pilot radar modes are engaged (VSL, PAL) when instructing Jester to lock a target. It's as if he will not take back control of the radar.
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