External Fuel Tank's Possible Bug ?

[bumfire]

I have tried this a few times and each time I am left with the same conclusion and, that is that once the 25T ( I have only checked this on the 25T, it may affect other AC also ? ) uses up its external fuel tanks, they cannot be refilled again or replaced unless you crash/die/eject and recover.

 

I start a mission with 2 external tanks on the 25T, I have 5010KG of fuel altogether, which includes 100% internal and the 2 external tanks.

 

I take off and go and kill some stuff, the good part :) , I then land and park up and re-arm with the default loadout ( same as I started the mission with ) and then I refuel, I still have the external tanks attached as I did not jettison them in flight.

 

If you jettison them in flight, when you re-arm they do NOT get replaced, why is this ?

 

Anyway back to the main question,

 

I ask the ground crew to refuel me to 100% AKA the maximum fuel option listed, but I only ever get something like 3600KG of fuel, which is roughly the maximum internal tank limit, but the external tanks dont get touched.

 

I try asking for more juice, but the only thing it does is either start pumping and stop within about 3 seconds, thats if I pick the 100% option, as my internal tank is already full at that time, or if I pick options 75% and under it starts to remove fuel, which is fair enough.

 

I cannot get the external tanks to be refuelled no matter what refuelling option I pick or even if I Re-Arm with the default loadout.

 

Why isnt my External tanks being filled up OR replaced with new full ones when asking to get refuelled or re-armed ?

 

I did look to see if this was a known problem or was the way it is meant to be, but i see posts by moderators saying that the external fuel tanks should be filled up or get replaced with full ones when re-arming, but in both cases neither of those options works for me in the 25T, as I mentioned above, I only fly the 25T thus I have only tested in the 25T, so maybe this affects or doesnt the other aircraft in LOFC2.

 

Anyone got any ideas or info about how I can get those tanks filled without having to resort to ejecting and respawning.

 

Cheers.

[Kuky]

I have also noticed a possible bug where if I rearm with same weapons some do not get attached, for example I have 4x Kh-25ML missiles, when I rearm they do not get reloaded while other weapons do. It might be same issue with fuel tanks.

 

To work around this I first request to rearm with completely different loadout (so it leads all different weapons on every pylon) then rearm again with loadout I want. If I do it this way all weapons are loaded as per payload I requested.

[bumfire]

Just did more testing/playing, for once the re-arm added fuel tanks onto the wings, yay.

 

I was surprised, but its just my luck, I make a post moaning about it and lo and behold the next time I fly the tanks get added during a re-arm :music_whistling:

 

That being said, they still dont fill up with fuel.

 

This is what happened.

 

I was taking out a convoy, a line of about 8 sniper bmp2's at the end of the convoy opened up on me and killed one of my engines, I was fully loaded with 2 fuel tanks, 2 58s, vikhrs, phanta pod and some 13s plus ecm pods on each wing.

 

I was losing height so I had to ditch the fuel tanks and the s13s, with those gone I started to get some decent height.

 

I landed at sochi with about 1800KG of fuel left, I re-armed and for the first time since I have had fc2 installed, I got new tanks, it auto brought my fuel status upto 3500 something KG.

 

I then proceed to fill the main tanks as I was thinking that the 3500KG was the remainder of my internal tank ( roughly half empty ) plus the 2 external tanks, but upon trying to fill up my main internal tank I still only manage to get a maximum of 3700KG of fuel for both external and internal.

 

So, even though the fuel tanks respawned for once, the fuel situation regarding them+internal tank is being confused somewhere and basically doesnt work as it should.

 

I started the mission with 5100KG, 2x external & 1x internal, but re-arm/re-fuel cant give me more than 3700KG of fuel regardless if I get new external tanks or not.

 

I can understand what ED are trying to do here with lockon FC 2 and the DCS series, but some of these bugs are really annoying and so prominent that it begs the question what are the testers doing ? having a fun time playing the game and not really testing ? or is the testing procedures not as strict as they should be ?. I wont speculate asto why these obvious bugs get through, it might be due to something else entirely.

 

I ask because, if I can find bugs, and I take 6 - 12 month breathers away from flying at a time, and for me to find a bug, it really does have to be right in front of my face, that doesnt say much about the testing procedures and or testing team, because I dont get too deep into this sim, I basically just skim the surface, so if these bugs are on the surface and easy for me to spot and I am dumb, then they really should of been found much much earlier and, before ED put their name to a product and started selling it to the public.

 

Its just a pity that judging by the previous history from Lockon FC DCSBS, that A10C will still be broke 2 years down the line.

 

Its a pity, but ED have a reputation for releasing really buggy software, its a fact, I still buy their software regardless as I like what they make even though it is buggy, also I am a glutten for punishment, but it doesnt put me off of buying there stuff, I just wish a little more time went into actually trying to polish the game to make it as obvious bug free as possible.

 

I know some people wont like what I just wrote, I am not cracking up with ED, I am just stating the obvious, I enjoy there sims very much and have helped ED along with a good few hundred spondoolicks from the stuff that I bought from them, but what puts me off is the incessant bugs, the backdoor fixes that users need to do in some cases, the tweaking of files just to get the game to run semi decently etc etc.

 

It doesnt HAVE to be like this all the time does it ?