Spotting enemy aircraft (online)

[Flanker35M]

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Snapper, spotting and LOD issues are still the same. I use same resolution as you do and sometimes can spot the very distant dots but help me twiddelydoo when they get closer.. Instant loss of sight as they melt into the background.

[Redroach]

Oh.. didn't know that those were "sighting reports" - thank you for that hint!

And what I fear is really true... there is a bug! That's nasty! My appreciation for the recently-much-improved CoD suddenly took a big turn downwards!
Just as I thought we got rid of game-breaking bugs (my subjective view), another one pops up!
Why did I open the Thumbs-up thread again?

[ATAG_Snapper]

It's enough to drive ya nuts! LOL

The momentary plane-disappearing act is off-putting, but after awhile I found I kinda expected it and just automatically anticipated where the dot would suddenly reappear as...a plane. Usually. Sometimes I fail to reaquire it and curse the CoD gods!

I've found the plane-sighting reports work fairly well, as long as you keep track of your current location (usually pretty easy on the current Channel map). As soon as I see a report come up on a custom Server Window (since I can never understand what the helll the controller is saying), I pull up the ingame map, check the grid ref of the enemy a/c and its direction of travel, and roughly calculate the bearing and alt I need to take to intercept. Sometimes it's a no joy if the e/a changes its course and/or alt in the meantime, other times I experience an "aha" moment when a tiny dot(s) appear roughly where you predict.

Good luck and hope to run into you online!

Snapper

[Redroach]

Yeah, that's what I did so far, too! Looking up the Grid on the map, while keeping the target's course and alt in mind - but the success was limited, as I said
Additionally, I've found the target info from ground crew to be completely useless - it always says the same... judging by the dev's modus operandi so far, I assume they've just hard-coded some lines in and hope that nobody will notice!

How long does it usually take for bugged-out planes to reappear?

Edit: Tested again and I can confirm that but now... A juicy target (Bf110) just disappeared at some distance, and I just couldn't find it again
However, at least some people don't seem to be bothered by this - a Bf109 (human) tracked me for some time, as he proceeded to shoot me down...
Maybe there is some method to solve this? Like it worked with the tree LoD issue, with some setting needing to be changed (and possibly re-changed) - but I got no idea which setting, or even settingS that might be

[ATAG_Snapper]

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=430

It may be worth revisiting this small conf.ini change with the latest patch. It did reduce/eliminate the disappearing dot, but affected overall frame rates, too.

[JTDawg]

Hey m8 normally when we get a radar report on atag, Say bombers heading for calias, example I can take off from manston ,get across channel to height ( 14000 to 15000 ) an when i get there i still have a couple min wait (most all radar reports give you 10 to 15 mins. Before they are there ) Hope this helps once again 10 to 15 mins . But on a couple missions they are already there ,when radar says so , the more you fly ,the faster you will figure which is which

[Redroach]

Are you really sure those automatic reports are aircraft that have been "spotted"? Sure, you ATAG guys know best because you implemented it, but it someteimes feels different.
For ex. I had a report yesterday that picked up planes on a grid which was presumably the location of their home airfield, at angels 1,5k or something - which indicates that they've just taken off, something what Chain Home is known to have been capable of