Why were my Vihks doing this...?

[DeltoBrava]

I was playing the first campaign mission and upon switching targets all the sudden my vihk's started to fall short by roughly 1km.

 

I thought maybe my laser was burned out so I turned it off, flew back to base and re armed. Came back and tried targeting 5 different targets and my missles would continue to fall short after locking on to the target. I thought maybe my laser still needed to cool down more so I flew around for 5 or so minutes and repeated the process. Missles still fell short.

 

I figured something must be damaged even though I had not been shot at. Headed back to the base to repair. Shut off all my engines and sat there for about 5 minutes. Started everything back up, made sure my entire weapon system was reset, then started the weapon arming process over again. Got to my targets and my missles were still falling short about 1km. These targets were all within 3 - 5 km and were not out of range of the vihks.

 

Even with targeting off, the vihks would still nose dive into the ground after going a certain distance (about 2.5km), where as before I made some 8km shots without locking the targets, but just by holding the schval on the target.

 

I have played countless hours online and have never seen this happen with the vihks. Is this a bug or is there something I'm not aware of?

[Sharkster64]

Sounds like you made same mistake I made when I started playing. I think you forgot to turn laser on. On left targeting panel there is a laser standby switch which has to be turned on which isnt turned on by default on auto engine start. If laser is not turned they will fall short.

[DeltoBrava]

It's a confirmed bug.

 

Someone in the help section got the thread for me.

 

I was also getting the laser switch reversal glitch when this was happening to me. Laser off is actually on and laser on is actually off, ontop of that the missles nose dived. These 2 bugs = mission failure guaranteed

[LoyalNine]

dELTAbRAVO --- This happenned to me tonight on the KA50 server... I for the life of me could not figure out what I was doing wrong. Good info to know.

[diveplane]

laser issue is known. and will be fixed.

 

you can always use override mode atm to fire vikirs down range.

 

this is ok for static targets.

[Frederf]

I don't think the laser system is fixed mid mission at all.

[connos]

Sometimes i can not lock on targets is this the same issue?

When this happens i manually control the vihks.

[sobek]

Sometimes i can not lock on targets is this the same issue?

When this happens i manually control the vihks.

 

This can result from several problems, maybe your target bracket is too small/large, so the shkval can't track the target (it works by contrast), maybe you burned out the laser (which results in erratic distance measurement and as a result, ground stabilize goes haywire). There may be more but that's all i can think of now.

[connos]

This can result from several problems, maybe your target bracket is too small/large, so the shkval can't track the target (it works by contrast), maybe you burned out the laser (which results in erratic distance measurement and as a result, ground stabilize goes haywire). There may be more but that's all i can think of now.

 

By contrast you mean the display contrast? :doh:

[AndyHill]

Praise the Lord for this bug. I was happily escorting my tanks along and noticed that there was enemy armor ahead and I was all out of vikhrs. I dashed like a madman for a reload, but knew I was going to be too late. When I got back to the crime scene I locked the first tank I could see, fired and killed it. Then I picked up another one, but the laser shut down while the missile was in flight.

 

After the mission I kind of didn't get medals or anything, because nasty rumors say that it was me who attacked our forward units who had already smashed the enemy resistance and were happily sitting in defensive positions.