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[Oni Ralas]

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.

[Fut]

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...

[FrDrake]

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).

[Oni Ralas]

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 I can still dry fire (no lock) missiles, but their arc path isn't always predictable. Wish it followed the rectical based on the current distance of the object.