Tracks other than the action performed in the game.

[flavnet]

Hello everyone. Why do the tracks I save have a different action at the end than what actually happened?!?! I attach the track of a simple clash between a Phantom (me) and a Mig-21. On the track the action ends with the Mig-21 evading the two sparrows I launched. In reality the two sparrows hit and shot down the Mig-21!!!! The track is different from the action that took place.
This is not a coincidence. I performed two other actions with the same result on the tracks.

F-4E vs Mig-21.trk LastMissionTrack.trk

[rob10]

Tracks are NOT a recording of what happened.  They were originally designed as debugging tool and they record inputs and recreate what happened based on the inputs.  This means that due to random changes in conditions you can get wildly different results in the track than what originally happened (and different results with multiple runs of the same track).  From the forums they have generally gotten better more recently, but you're not going to consistently get an exact replay of what happened.