Yeah…these are non-maneuvering targets on the nose with no changes of aspect or anything (they weren’t trying to notch me). They are just droning along straight toward me. The radar drops lock after a couple seconds.
Did you check whether there is thick red liquid oozing out of your radar screen or whether someone threw a jar into your dish? 
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I can’t. The missile won’t drop without the radar being locked on something.
And it definitely initially is heading for the target. After the missile ignites, it starts a turn toward an intercept angle, then goes dumb.
Mirage 2k had that problem too, made the 530s pretty useless.
And were there still bleeps, sweeps, and creeps?
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They’ve worked that out though, and the 530’s work as intended now, at least they did the last time I flew the Mirage.
yeah man, they fine now. It’s said even to be possible to save a trashed shot with flood mode. Haven’t managed that yet tho.
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Oooh, now I’m curious. If we don’t have a Hornet by tomorrow, I’ll have to try that out this weekend.
As long as it’s not strawberry…
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Not sure when this got added (the Early Access updated this morning)…but nice to see a VX-23 Pax River livery in there! I’m sure Wags was pushing for that one!
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Haha…well, there ya’ go…! You guys keep adding stuff and my magazine editor is going to kill me. I’ve already managed a couple week extension on my deadline because I keep saying…
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Who is keeping odds on whether tomorrow is the release or not?
Do we have a mudspike bookie?
IMO (yes it’s worthless)tomorrow makes sense. Gives you ten days to fix things before adding in the Map to the mix.
Last night likely since wags debuted it this morning ob FB/Forum.
I wish they would just give us a release date at this point. Save me from checking updates all morning. On the flip side keeping it secret like this will keep everyone from swamping the download servers the minute it does release.
The thing that get me is people complaining that they want to buy it before the discount ends but don’t know when the discount ends, I mean come on, it’s been available to order for like 5 months!
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As a veteran of countless scenario where ED gave a release date, did not meet it, and was then ripped to shred by an angry horde, I can confidently tell you we will never again get anything firmer than “end of the month, hopefully”, and we have only ourselves to blame.
Probably indicative that FLOOD, or at least that use case for it isn’t implemented yet.
What’s the bandits aspect (hot, cold, flanking), what’s his relative altitude to you, and how much chaff are they kicking out? The Sparrow in this game is currently extremely vulnerable to chaff in the notch.
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We are pointed right at each other (180 angles off and 180 aspect) initial range 20 miles, my altitude FL220, his altitude FL230, non maneuvering.
I’ve shot probably two dozen AIM-7s and never had one hit until this afternoon I actually managed by fluke I think to have one take the proper initial trajectory and hit a target…
Yeah, I’m not seeing anything in there that would cause radar loss on your end. He’s high, he’s hot, and he’s fast. That looks like an implementation issue.
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Yep, I understand their reasons. Unfortunately we have some obnoxious folks in our community. I had some personal reasons for wanting a release this week though. I normally work from home BUT it just so happens that I have a new guy coming in from overseas that I have be in the office for training starting next week. I could have to work from the office for 3 weeks! 
I wonder if anyone would be upset if I show up to the office with my gaming rig and my hotas warthog?