twistking Posted December 15, 2023 Posted December 15, 2023 (edited) Hello, i still have trouble getting datalink to work as i expect it to (maybe my expectations are wrong though). I have set up a test mission with a player viper, a different viper flight which is set as member to the player, a hornet which is set as donor to the player and a random hornet as "control group" that is neither set as member nor as donor. All flight have the option "radar illuminate continously" active, and i have set up multiple passive enemys circling well withing radar range of the friendly flights. In mission, als flights show correctly on the HSD with respective colors and symbols, however even though the flights do pick up the enemies (confirmed by radio contact report), i never get a contact from the datalink. The only instance where i get a contact over DL, is when an aircraft actually engages a bandit. I think this is how it was before the DL update already. The "donor" flight never gives a DL contact. My assumption was, that members and donors would provide contacts similar to an awacs, but limited to their respective sensors. While the member flights at least provide contacts when engaging, i haven't figured out if there is anything that the donors provide. What am i missing? Does this work differently with player/client controlled donors? Is there a way to set up the AI flights to actually broadcast enemy contacts before engaging? Edited December 17, 2023 by twistking My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
twistking Posted December 15, 2023 Author Posted December 15, 2023 update: small correction: donors do indeed provide contacts, but only those they are currently engaging. is there no way to have donors and members broadcast all contacts, even if not actively engaging? is the DL only useful for attack sorting? i was hoping i could use other fighters as improvised awacs. is this not possible? My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
twistking Posted December 17, 2023 Author Posted December 17, 2023 (edited) another question: the member/donor advanced page is available also for AI aircraft. does AI behaviours change when they have other flights added to their datalink? i assume not, but would appreciate clarification on that (testing AI behaviour is very tedious). Edited December 17, 2023 by twistking My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
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