Couple of question about WSO Maverick controls and Jester lasing

[jubuttib]

First the WSO Maverick controls:

I can slew the seeker around OK, but I can't enable zoom. In the manual's WSO section for the Maverick it says the following:

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Once the applicable target is under the crosshair, lock is achieved using the full action command. Should the WSO need to change 65D FoV to narrow, a subsequent press of half action will do so.

Half-action command on the hand controller does not command a zoom, it enables slew momentarily. So far I've not found any of the inputs on the hand controller to be able to enable zoom on the D Maverick. I suspect the flight stick trigger would work, but I haven't bound anything to that since I wanna leave the pilot stuff to the pilot.

Similarly I can't pop off the cover with the hand controller, which doesn't really surprise me. I expect that I would need to bind the flight stick trigger for this as well?

Next up Jester:

Can I get a confirmation that Jester is unable to lase targets at the moment? I could get him to lock up a point on the ground pretty well, but laser guided bombs definitely didn't guide. Worked fine with a human WSO.

The manual does mention Jester's Pave Spike capabilities will be expanded on during EA, so I guess this is one of those things. I would also kinda like it if he could do stuff similar to what Petrovich and George can do in the Hind and Apache, i.e. I could tell him to look at an area and he could spot targets there.

[Zabuzard]

The WSO controls for the Maverick are on his Flight Stick indeed, not the Antenna Stick.

Jester pod is currently fairly simple and will be expended to levels of the Tomcat and further.
Right now he doesn't lase, cant find targets and also does not stabilize. All he does is pressing the trigger to leave ACQ mode and enter TRACK mode. This allows you to take control of the pod yourself with the pilot-exposed temporary keybinds of the Antenna Stick. That way, you can fine tune the pod and fire the laser yourself :)

[jubuttib]

Thanks!