It's subtle bugs such as this that make vehicles seem more dominant than they actually are.
All it takes is turning the aircraft a certain way and the locked on missile will miss and explode mid air.
@Faydakin1983 wrote:Isn’t it interesting how all the pilots kept quite about this one yet yelled from the rooftops about balancing lis missile. Almost as if the just want an advantage!!!
Actually I think that it was a pilot that first brought up this bug/issue all the way back in December 2021.
Nightbird Unaffected by AA Missiles - Answer HQ (ea.com)
This is an issue that is affective the most the Pilot vs pilot gameplay where the one who knows how to exploit it gets to avoid the enemy IR missiles without using the flares which puts them at a tremendous advantage.
This issue generally does not affect the ground to air missiles as far as I remember
@Col_LarsenThis should not be affecting stingers. It was an issue that made Air to Air missiles loop around the small helicopters and self-destruct harmlessly.
As about why it was not fixed yet.... your guess is as good as mine
This bug isn't specific to Nightbird. In the inital release notes for the recently added "Below Radar" feature, it is NOT supposed to allow pilots to break lock by dipping below radar altitude. However, this is not how it is behaving and pilots are exploiting it to break lock.
@Col_LarsenDude, so there's the flarespam ánd the avoid-the-missile-bug ánd the current bug making the missile go straight, ánd the new class system making ammo (more rockets) rare.
That's like a 4-layered EZ cake for the players who main airvehicles.
@rainkloudGoing below radar (<30m) shouldn't cause a missle which already locked and has been fired before the aircraft was below radar to lose it's target lock. It is only supposed to prevent the enemy from establishing lock.
I have had this with multiple helicopters... It's a real issue
@DigitalHypeSo I just tested it and it's COMPLETELY BROKEN. It's not supposed to effect Stingers but anything I fired at below 30m the missile just went straight (no tracking) as Task_and_Purpose mentioned. It's not supposed to break the lock of vehicles missiles already fired and it absolutely does. This isn't like 25, 50 or 75% of the time. It was 100% of the time I tested. What absolute garbage this is. How do you not test something like this?
I'll do a video on it. Was it broken in 3.2 as well?
