Multiplayer Communication menu not working in F15-E ?

[Rodeo96]

Hi guys, 

I was playing some multiplayer the other day on buddyspike blueflag & 4ya pve beta UK.

I had planned on loading up with weapons and taking off with minimal fuel and joining up on the tanker on my way. Communication between my pilot and ground crew worked fine, no issues there. However once Airborne I tried to contact the tanker through the radio menu (radio on, correct frequency set) but my pilot wouldn't even speak or play any audio of the "request rejoin" option, nevermind not hearing a response back from the tanker. The same issue repeated itself on 4ya when trying to contact the AI awacs for a picture. 

 

Has anyone else experienced this ? Is it down to user error of missing a step along the way ? Any help would be greatly appreciated, 

 

Thank you :)) 

Edited July 13, 2023 by Rodeo96

[razo+r]

It works fine for many people. 

Check that:

Mic switch on

Radio frequency or Preset channel correctly set

You have selected either the frequency or the preset channel 

You use the correct dedicated PTT button for the Radio you tuned

You contact the correct type of tanker (KC-135 only. The MPRS won't work) 

[LazyBoot]

Also make sure you remember to turn the volume up, it starts at 0 when loading in.

[Rodeo96]

2 minutes ago, LazyBoot said:

Also make sure you remember to turn the volume up, it starts at 0 when loading in.

Apologies I should have clarified I did that too, all radios to full volume, tried contacting on both radios but the main issue being my pilot won't even begin the communication, after selecting the tanker > request rejoin there is no audio played from my pilot

thanks for the fast response :))

[Lord_Pyro]

Its a known issue. There is atm no way to troubleshoot (at least not to my knownledge)

 

However, i managed to at least refuel because i just had the keybind for the "ready precontact" command mapped. I asked the initial "intend to refuel" but got no response and the radio menue did not change to the pre contact menue. So by using the direct command we can bypass everything else.

 

And for those who try to help solve the problem. It has nothing to do with anything we do inside the pit.

There are servers where it works, and some where it wont. In SP it works all the time and easy comm is turned off.

I tested with srs and without, it changes nothing.

So i guess its something serverrelated. Who knows...

[Rodeo96]

2 minutes ago, Lord_Pyro said:

Its a known issue. There is atm no way to troubleshoot (at least not to my knownledge)

 

However, i managed to at least refuel because i just had the keybind for the "ready precontact" command mapped. I asked the initial "intend to refuel" but got no response and the radio menue did not change to the pre contact menue. So by using the direct command we can bypass everything else.

 

And for those who try to help solve the problem. It has nothing to do with anything we do inside the pit.

There are servers where it works, and some where it wont. In SP it works all the time and easy comm is turned off.

I tested with srs and without, it changes nothing.

So i guess its something serverrelated. Who knows...

Ahh thats okay thank you, I wasnt aware it had been reported already, I didnt look to hard obviously 

thank you for your response, ill try setting up a keybind for pre contact and see how I get on, thank you very much 

[Lord_Pyro]

Well i dont know if it is reported to razbam yet, i looked it up too and saw one redditpost about it.

All i wanted to say is, that the fault is not on your side

[Moosemermaid]

Yep i have also had this same issue. It also seems that it can be spawn to spawn because ive had it both work and not on the same multiplayer server in the same day. I did not know about the direct command work around. Thanks!

[Tenkom]

I've had this issue. It only affects hot started planes. So one fix is to find a cold start spot.

Another possible fix for this if you are in a hot spawn is to immediately turn on tacan when jumping in the plane. I say immediately because I tried it in flight and it didn't work.

[VancouverIslguy]

7 hours ago, Tenkom said:

I've had this issue. It only affects hot started planes. So one fix is to find a cold start spot.

Another possible fix for this if you are in a hot spawn is to immediately turn on tacan when jumping in the plane. I say immediately because I tried it in flight and it didn't work.

Sadly not even that. Issue popped up for in a cold start jet on Grayflag. 

[Moosemermaid]

58 minutes ago, VancouverIslguy said:

Sadly not even that. Issue popped up for in a cold start jet on Grayflag. 

Yep same here, had it had a couple times in a cold started jet on greyflag. 

[Lord_Pyro]

I only had it at cold starts. At Flashpoint Levant for example.

[BuLLeT.ZA]

On 7/13/2023 at 12:54 PM, Rodeo96 said:

Hi guys, 

I was playing some multiplayer the other day on buddyspike blueflag & 4ya pve beta UK.

I had planned on loading up with weapons and taking off with minimal fuel and joining up on the tanker on my way. Communication between my pilot and ground crew worked fine, no issues there. However once Airborne I tried to contact the tanker through the radio menu (radio on, correct frequency set) but my pilot wouldn't even speak or play any audio of the "request rejoin" option, nevermind not hearing a response back from the tanker. The same issue repeated itself on 4ya when trying to contact the AI awacs for a picture. 

 

Has anyone else experienced this ? Is it down to user error of missing a step along the way ? Any help would be greatly appreciated, 

 

Thank you :)) 

 

You don't specify which keybinds you used to bring up the radio.

In the F15E you need to bind primary and secondary radio buttons manually as they are not bound to begin with. I made mine the same as the hornet (RALT-\ and RSHIFT-\).

You may well be doing this, but I thought I'd suggest it just in case.

[Moosemermaid]

So over the weekend I noticed that it did this when I decided to change liveries while taxing so i changed liveries and requested the rearm on the move. After this the comm menu was bugged like we've stated. Haven't had time to test to see if this consistently bugs it or not but may be at least one trigger. 

[sirrah]

Fwiw; I just flew on one of the 4YA servers and my radio's weren't working properly either (and yes, I do know how to operate them ). Or at least it seems to be very dodgy..

 

For instance, I didn't receive any ATC calls, yet the ATC menu proceeded (startup-> taxi-> TO). 5 minutes later, while in flight, I hear someone else requesting taxi . Later on, when I went RTB, I called "inbound", yet again, no response..

Yep; correct freq, MIC switch ON, correct transmit button, volume maxed out.

Also AWACS: nothing.. (quite peaceful though for a change, without all the BRA callouts )

 

Something's definitely off. Or at least it is on the 4YA servers, as I also had this issue last weekend on another 4YA server. Never had this on any other missions.

(today was on the PG 4YA server, last weekend on the South Atlantic 4YA server)