w.i.p Buggy, Erratic TWS/Radar Behavior

[wilbur81]

The Hornet radar is still doing some really strange, frustrating things. In TWS, priority switching is erratic and unpredictable, with track files disappearing, reappearing, priority assigning, and reassigning. In addition, occasionally (not sure if it's in my attached track), AUTO will not center around a TWS track, even if it's the only one in the FOV. Also, RDR Elevation control seems to randomly come and go in AUTO (Before, AUTO kept this locked and you had to go to MAN/BIAS in order to manipulate the Elevation). Things haven't been the same with our virtual APG73 since the MSI update two patches ago...  

ErraticTWS.trk

Edited September 21 by wilbur81

[_UnknownCheater_]

31 minutes ago, wilbur81 said:

The Hornet radar is still doing some really strange, frustrating things. In TWS, priority switching is erratic and unpredictable, with track files disappearing, reappearing, priority assigning, and reassigning. In addition, occasionally (not sure if it's in my attached track), AUTO will not center around a TWS track, even if it's the only one in the FOV. Also, RDR Elevation control seems to randomly come and go in AUTO (Before, AUTO kept this locked and you had to go to MAN/BIAS in order to manipulate the Elevation). Things haven't been the same with our virtual APG73 since the MSI update two patches ago...  

ErraticTWS.trk 246.61 kB · 2 downloads

Same.

For me,RWS TDC depress can't lock targets randomly.And TWS auto tracking won't turn to STT when fire fox-1 sometimes.And won't full burn through the jamming targets within 5nm.

ED always broken it again and again.Fixed some bugs and added more bugs.

Edited September 22 by _UnknownCheater_

[wilbur81]

Here's a second (shorter) example track illustrating the problem(s)...

2ndErraticTWS.trk

[BIGNEWY]

We are investigating 

 

11 hours ago, _UnknownCheater_ said:

ED always broken it again and again.Fixed some bugs and added more bugs.

MSI work has complicated things a little but we are working on it, please dont forget the complexity of what we are dealing with.

thank you 

[wilbur81]

On 9/21/2025 at 6:38 PM, wilbur81 said:

The Hornet radar is still doing some really strange, frustrating things. In TWS, priority switching is erratic and unpredictable, with track files disappearing, reappearing, priority assigning, and reassigning. In addition, occasionally (not sure if it's in my attached track), AUTO will not center around a TWS track, even if it's the only one in the FOV. Also, RDR Elevation control seems to randomly come and go in AUTO (Before, AUTO kept this locked and you had to go to MAN/BIAS in order to manipulate the Elevation). Things haven't been the same with our virtual APG73 since the MSI update two patches ago...  

ErraticTWS.trk 246.61 kB · 10 downloads

Anyone checked after today's patch to see if this was addressed?

[wilbur81]

The radar is still pretty heavily screwed, even after the most recent update. 

3rdErraticTWS.trk

Edited September 29 by wilbur81

[BIGNEWY]

We are still tweaking and changes will be in a future update. 

thank you 

[HR-Crumble]

On 9/22/2025 at 1:07 AM, _UnknownCheater_ said:

Same.

For me,RWS TDC depress can't lock targets randomly.And TWS auto tracking won't turn to STT when fire fox-1 sometimes.And won't full burn through the jamming targets within 5nm.

ED always broken it again and again.Fixed some bugs and added more bugs.

Me and a buddy on our training server had the same issue as well - RWS mode TDC press is not locking a valid target. Valid being, a DL contact, with a brick, within rdr wlvation parameters. It seems to happen more when the radar contact is within 10 miles and coming towards you fast. 
Not sure if it’s a ‘thing’ but putting the cursor somewhere near the cot etc and designating seems to work?

[FlankerD]

+1...
How is it possible that a patch supposed to:

• Fixed crash in radar.
• Fixed: Range while Search mode - Cannot designate raw bricks
• Fixed: Cannot burnthrough jammers - consistently fails - blinking lock.

In the end, make the radar TWS completely erratic even against hot non jamming aircraft and report those aircraft range with 2Nm jump and speed with .2 Mach acceleration and deceleration.
TWS Auto also lose non jamming aircraft as close as 10 Nm.

And I only tested some function of the Radar.

[dscalora]

It's not just the Hornet, I was having similar issues with the F-15C the other night.

[BIGNEWY]

23 hours ago, dscalora said:

It's not just the Hornet, I was having similar issues with the F-15C the other night.

Please do not derail threads, keep it on topic, if you are having an issue with the F-15C make a new thread with a short track replay. 

thank you 

[BIGNEWY]

please if you continue to have issues with the F/A-18C radar attach short tracks and we will check them, the MSI work is being tweaked currently.

thank you