Instant lock on

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: Instant lock on

yeah..well ive seen that with regular missiles...the firing is like delayed for no apparent reason

[Oompa]

Re: Instant lock on

it works ive tried it but i havent been able to shoot anyone down with it..it happens pretty rarely

Works fine for me. I just tail people with bombs selected shooting at the engine and then when I am kinda close I switch to rockets shoot 2 off and go back to bombs.

[-75thRgt-Sharingan]

Re: Instant lock on

I was speaking of the laser guided ones the bombergunner uses to take out armor

[Teaves]

Re: Instant lock on

Speaking of lockons. Them damned bomber laserguided missles. Almost every session i play and i get perfect lock with them, the second i fire them i lose the lock and the missle just flies of into nothingness. What gives?

Its usually because the pilot isnt flying in a straight line to your target, the bombadier get a really wide range of movement in his view but anything other then a few degrees off straight-on and you will probably not maintain the lock if he is traveling at full speed.

This can also be used to your advantage, when you blind fire them they go more or less straight and you can fire a volley fast if you are nice and low, thats if there are no friendlys about of course The carrier is a good place to just blind fire or anytime the pilot swoops in for his own bombs. Dont forget you get loads of missiles compared to the pilots load-out (is it 12 or even 16 missiles?) in the bombers, so you will never run out before a fly-by for the pilot to reload.

In regards to the original question, several of the answers are true, the locking closest heat source when flared is the most common, but mid-air lock-on also works, as does a really fast aquisition when following from behind with bombs out, this is really effective is you can wait for the perfect moment when he is distracted to switch and fire giving the impression of an instant lock by the time it happens. Less then a second from being safe to being a burning wreckage :laugh: