So I noticed today, when taking out one of my old cats with a tag on it - that the TAG system still doesn't work 100%. For example, Painted DDC slowly lumbering towards me at a whopping 49kph. He's 400m out, so no worries about minimum lock (>180m) range with the TAG. Solid lock, facing him directly - tag indicators all showing we're spot on. LRM's loose!!!.......flying...flying.... and apparently they see a squirell, because they then veer to the right and hit the dirt. Hmm...weird. 2nd volley - same behavior, although 10 outo of the 40 seem to decide to go strait and make contact.
This seems broken to me. Even if there were 7 others sitting behind him all with their own ECM bubble overlapping him - why would my shots not find their mark? It's a friggin laserbeam telling the missiles "Hey, follow the shiney red dot please!". In all honestly, anything the tag is painting should send missiles there, regardless of lock - but in this mechanic both the tag *and* the lock (can't get the latter without it) were both achieved.
Everyone is screaming "LRM boats need to take a TAG too!" but I'm not seeing much benefit as it stands. Maybe my missiles just decided to bail early, with it being Friday and all...who knows.


Tag Still Hit Or Miss (No Pun Intended)
Started by Oni Ralas, Mar 15 2013 10:09 AM
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#1
Posted 15 March 2013 - 10:09 AM
#2
Posted 15 March 2013 - 10:11 AM
Yeah, this is really weird. Even if your TAG left the target long enough to lose the benefits, shouldn't the LRMs follow the path to where their target was last "known"?
I haven't seen this in action personally, but it sounds like a bug to me...
I haven't seen this in action personally, but it sounds like a bug to me...
#3
Posted 15 March 2013 - 10:13 AM
I have played around 30 rounds with TAG since the stat patch, I have seen 0 evidence of what you are referring to. Can you get a video maybe so we can see what you're talking about. I have just not noticed it (and I use TAG every round when I'm LRM boating).
#4
Posted 15 March 2013 - 10:19 AM
FrDrake, on 15 March 2013 - 10:13 AM, said:
I have played around 30 rounds with TAG since the stat patch, I have seen 0 evidence of what you are referring to. Can you get a video maybe so we can see what you're talking about. I have just not noticed it (and I use TAG every round when I'm LRM boating).
Yep, I might actually have video of that last fight. If not, I'm sure it will happen again

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