How to make CPG engage with the gun?

[ebabil]

When I order him to fire with hellfire, it is ok. He fires and hits easily

But when i order him to fire with the gun, he says roger but does nothing. Even less then 1km.

How can I have him fire with the gun?

[admiki]

Are you selecting target for him?

Best way is video or track file for us to look over.

[Poptart]

Check his view of the tads. He will not fire if the target is obscured or he has lost track of the target.

[ebabil]

7 hours ago, admiki said:

Are you selecting target for him?

Best way is video or track file for us to look over.

yes I select a target and see the target myself on the tads as well

5 hours ago, Poptart said:

Check his view of the tads. He will not fire if the target is obscured or he has lost track of the target.

no there is no obscure. head on, left right, far, close. as soon as I switch to hellfire, he fires

[Jel]

Experiencing the same, gun issue only.

I noticed that putting CPG in fire-at-will (green) mode "sometimes" works, although only without any relative movement. Manually commanding him to fire never does anything except George saying "firing". I already switched using the gun by myself as pilot but i really wished George would use it more conveniently.

 

Edited September 2, 2022 by Jel

[sirrah]

If you add a short track file maybe we can help you.

Fwiw; I did notice (and report) that the cpg only does one single burst. If then the target is not dead, I'll have George to re-acquire the target and again he'll do one burst. This issue might have been solved by now though (haven't touched the Apache since last OB update)

[placsea]

Is the range on the TADS 9999? I found in single player if you tell George to target something he will range it and then the range will update as you get closer and then when he fires he lases to get it accurate on target. In multiplayer this ranging doesn't seem to happen and will just display 9999 but if you set him to engage at will he will start haphazardly engaging in a weird truncated way firing off a maybe 1/2 a burst as he actively lases then stopping when not lasing. It's weird and I hope they fix it soon.

Ideally George should get a laser range when the target is selected and it should give an updating estimate as you close in and then when you tell him to engage he should squirt the laser and do the full selected burst so long as he is in constraints. 

[Antix70]

I have only been able to get George to engage with the gun when he is weapons free (no Consent to Fire required, Green George Hud mode, or however it's referred to), and even then, only at short, SHORT range, and he will not fire complete bursts, no matter what the burst is set to.

[Astralnut]

I noticed the gun cannot be switched to George if I the pilot had selected it that is also true of all weapons. I had to safe everything and unselect the gun to have George use the gun. I am still testing but it seems I'm messing him up by selecting the weapon I want him to use and forgetting about it.

[Mausar]

When he fires  and stop I just swap to Hellfire and back to gun and he shoot again... sometimes will not work tho...

Edited September 9, 2022 by Mausar

[Astralnut]

I would say George is just unreliable, I noticed he fires the first time but swinging around and selecting a new target and he doesn't shoot. This happens with the gun and rockets but he hellfires he will sometimes shoot without a target. It is almost like George is experiencing lag or missed ques from the system.

 

[-Cipher-]

as far as I have noticed  
When I tell the George to WAS the gun , he  sets the laser to off making it unable to use the gun since there's no range to target
it will probably get fixed next patch
I have experienced it both in SP and MP

Edited September 14, 2022 by -Cipher-

[Varry007]

I have this exact same issue… hope it gets fixed soon…

[placsea]

Ok the latest patch has not fixed the problem for me so I made a little video show casing what I'm running into. Are you guys experiencing the same thing as me in the video? Gun seems to work fine in singleplayer as the TADS range isn't instantly defaulting to 9999 like it does in multiplayer. I do start to come out of constraints on that second clip because I'm overflying the target lol. 

 

 

Edited September 21, 2022 by placsea

[-Cipher-]

On 9/14/2022 at 4:44 PM, -Cipher- said:

as far as I have noticed  
When I tell the George to WAS the gun , he  sets the laser to off making it unable to use the gun since there's no range to target
it will probably get fixed next patch
I have experienced it both in SP and MP

 

The issue I have reported has been resolved
I tried a test flight in SP and everything works good
I'll let you know any problem I find in the MP