WSO TGP desync with Pilot

[Ignition]

In multiplayer multicrew the WSO and Pilot have a desync with the TGP. WSO sees something that the pilot don't. When WSO designates, pilot TGP display sync with WSO.

If the TGP it's desynchronized, guided bombs by own TGP go where the pilot is seeing and not where the WSO is pointing.

It's temporarily synchronized when WSO designates.

Edited November 11, 2023 by Ignition

[Aigle2]

Same issue for me and my friends in an MP flight today.

TPOD was desync, bomb was falling where the pilot TPOD screen was pointing, not the WSO's

[QuiGon]

On 11/11/2023 at 5:28 PM, Ignition said:

In multiplayer multicrew the WSO and Pilot have a desync with the TGP. WSO sees something that the pilot don't. When WSO designates, pilot TGP display sync with WSO.

If the TGP it's desynchronized, guided bombs by own TGP go where the pilot is seeing and not where the WSO is pointing.

It's temporarily synchronized when WSO designates.

I can confirm this. I experienced the exact same on a multicrew sortie recently: I was playing the WSO and was in control of the TGP. We were dropping an LGB on a vehicle, which I was lasing with the TGP. My pilot notified me that on his side the TGP was looking a few meters to the side of the vehicle, so I told him that on my side the TGP is aiming exactly at the vehicle. When the LGB impacted on my laser it was actually impacting the ground next to the vehicle, where the pilot was seeing the TGP aiming at instead of hitting the vehicle where I as the WSO was aiming the TGP at.

[Inanity]

Having the same issue but also including the laser designator where it states its on "LASE" for the WSO but "ARM" for the pilot on the tpod and vice versa.

Regardless if its auto lase or manual. 

Edited November 16, 2023 by Inanity

[Rex854Warrior]

My findings for this were that designating enough times allows for synchronisation. Eventually, if you are close enough to the target, you can switch to point track which is very reliable. Then and only then you may switch to CDES since CDES seems to make things worse when moving the camera manually.

However, any kind of TPOD movement from the WSO while designating + relative movement between the target and the aircraft, throws off the TPOD, sometimes to a point where the WSO can't compensate. Which is why CDES seems to not work well.

This very much seems related to the way motion compensation is done between WSO and pilot. Considering that the TPOD drifts on it's own I can't imagine this being easy to do.

 

This remains extremely unreliable and makes multicrew a lot less interesting since the pilot has to be ready to step in to get on target when closing in if it's not already the case. And has to confirm that we're on target anyways.

Edited November 18, 2023 by Rex854Warrior