Missiles

[Wizrdwarts]

Are all the jet and anti-air missiles in BF2 fire and forget?

Will they lock on mid-flight if you fire them without a lock?

[TheGothicAngel]

Re: Missiles

Are all the jet and anti-air missiles in BF2 fire and forget?

Will they lock on mid-flight if you fire them without a lock?

I have only been successful when the missle locks on the target, however, I do recall making a few kills without it being locked, but it's probably sheer luck.

[Rugerdog]

Re: Missiles

You must get a lock to track, but you don't have to maintain that lock. You also used to be able to fire missiles before a full lock and have all after the first track. Not sure how that works at this point, it's been awhile since I've tried it.

[=MNKY=Frosty]

Re: Missiles

Missiles from jets are all lock on missiles, if you are not locked on, they will simply fly off in a upward arced motion.

Missiles from Bombers (in the second seat) are laser guided and lock on to ground vehicles, however they can be guided when not locked on.

[zone36]

Re: Missiles

You must get a lock to track, but you don't have to maintain that lock.

This is correct.

I've achieved numerous kills by attaining a quick lock, firing a couple missiles, and then pulling off visual of the target. If they were fired with a tone, they will attempt to track. Same applies with AA.

[XmetallicaXguitarstX]

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Back in the day, if a missile lost lock, it would hit the nearest heatsource... But it was kind of retarded.

They patched the missiles a bunch of times..

Now their seek angles and **** are all smaller etc so they don't do that anymore, but every once in a while, for example if you shoot a missile at someone who flares, and another heat source is within range and viewing angle of that missile, it will track even without a lock.. because it's almost like it's next "checkpoint".


Missiles are stupid anyways.. especially with this latest patch (cannon hitreg L-O-L). Get some skill. Use only cannon.

[Skaggy]

Re: Missiles

The first missile won't lock on if you fire before the 1 second has elapsed. However, any missiles you fire afterwards will lock on even if you're not properly locked on. i.e Before the one second lock-time has passed.

[zone36]

Re: Missiles

Back in the day, if a missile lost lock, it would hit the nearest heatsource... But it was kind of retarded.

I used to laugh my *** off back in the day when a jet would spam missiles, target would flare, cause the missiles to lock onto a transport loaded with friendlies and get 6 teamkills and auto-kicked.

LOL just thinking about it.

[Rugerdog]

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The AA missiles track like mad now if they lose lock. I've killed the other jet from halfway across the map without even seeing it since the patch came out.

[XmetallicaXguitarstX]

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I used to laugh my *** off back in the day when a jet would spam missiles, target would flare, cause the missiles to lock onto a transport loaded with friendlies and get 6 teamkills and auto-kicked.

LOL just thinking about it.

I remember playing oman in the demo and that happened like every 20 seconds. :laugh:

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: Missiles

If a server had the TK set to off, I used to launch STA missiles at every flare I could see. Random kills FTW.