Artillery "Aiming" task timer incorrect when group has an FDDM

[wraith444]

I'm not sure if this is a Combined Arms issue or a general DCS UI issue, but if you give an artillery group a fire mission and that group has an FDDM, the Aiming task timer at the bottom left of the F10 map does not count down to launch correctly. Instead of counting to zero then switching to firing like it does normally, instead it counts down from 180 and continues to count down Aiming after the vehicle starts firing. Eventually once the last round is fired the task resets from "Aiming XXX.X seconds" to Inactive. Attached is a trk file (not sure if that's helpful in this case but I felt it was better safe than sorry) and a screenshot of the F10 map showing rockets actively outbound while the timer still shows Aiming. So far I've only tested this with the M270 MLRS.

System info:

DCS Open Beta ver. 2.7.11.22211
OS: Win 10 Home edition version 21H2, build 19044.1645
CPU: Core i9 10900K
RAM: 32 GB
GPU: RTX 3090
 

FDDM timer.trk

[Northstar98]

To be honest though, I'm not really a fan of the fake artillery timer, especially since it only applies to artillery units and they aim as soon as they're tasked - they just don't fire until the timer finishes.

Edited April 29, 2022 by Northstar98