Question about AWACS
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So, I built a new TE based in Sweden with an AWACS also based in Sweden.
Also, there as some USA, carrier based F-18CsOnce airborne, we can hear the AWACS making aircraft launch calls to the F-18 flight but, we cannot communicate with him.
I went into MC commander and made sure that USA and Sweden were set as allied but, still no AWACS comms.
What am I missing here?
Thanks,
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Are they both on the same or in 2 separate teams; i.e. both blue, or 1 blue and 1 green? Which side are you flying as? Which side does the AWACS belong to?
If they are blue and green, I don’t think there is any link between the two teams (Older topic). A quick way to check this in your TE: commit to either side and check the ATO. You probably won’t find any flight from the other team. Same for ground units, including ADS, by the way. You’ll only see them on the 2D map while they were spotted by your own units.
If the AWACS belongs to the other team, I have no idea exactly why you can still hear him, though. I assume it may be because it’s a broadcast somehow?
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the AWACS and the F-16s are on the same team, Sweden, blue.
I went to mission commander and put them on the same team as US, green, same results.
My AWACS comm menu is blank, except call the SAR -
in campaigns any nordic country can call any blue force awacs. if its blank except for that one line, then no awacs is on call. in TE each country needs its own. we will dig into this more to try and re create issue and find a solution.
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Okay, thanks.
Just to be clear our flight was blue and the AWACS was blue. Only the green team (USA) could communicate with AWACS.
This was in MP campaign.
For now we have unchecked the “AWACS Required” option -
Quote from earlier
“I went into MC commander and made sure that USA and Sweden were set as allied but, still no AWACS comms.”did you check if all were on the same team here?
edit: i meant to circle the greyed out team 2I think you need tacedit to change that number(what i did). but would have to check with Falcas on that.
this is what i did to make all teams blue for camps, also the only way atm to see allies on radar just as your own team.
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Hi starrats,
I will have to double check on that, probably this week end but, if I create Swedish flight of F-16, and a Swedish AWACS, wouldn’t they automatically be on the same team?
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Yeah, they definitely should. it sounds like another bug issue, gonna dig into it tonight.
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OK. i tried and tried to get a recreation of this glitch with no luck. the good news is it doesnt seem to be an issue anymore. v2 is soon to come and wont have this bug.
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OK. i tried and tried to get a recreation of this glitch with no luck. the good news is it doesnt seem to be an issue anymore. v2 is soon to come and wont have this bug.
Thanks for checking.
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Was the AWACS actually “On Station” and not still in transit to the orbit? I believe they will make calls even when in transit to the orbit, but the game doesn’t provide the menu option for you to reach out to them until they are actually in the orbit.
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Yes, on station for sure.
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one other thing i notice, while in the farthest east i loose awacs and when i fly back to friendly territory its back on. awacs may have effective distance? i dont know yet.
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Hi, dear Ned.
AFAIK it seems so - just can’t recall now where I read that, but I’m sure enough about.
Hope this helps.
Oh, and one more matter: I experienced that when in AAR, this same issue always makes the tanker impossible to be located.
Any call to the AWACS about remained without answer. So, let’s hope going better in the new V2 theater.With best regards,
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Here’s a little TE if you want to test…
Choose Sweden as your team
F-16s and AWACS, on Station, on same team.
Verify that you have AWACS required checked in the config and tell me if you can communicate with AWACS…
or if you can spot an error that I’ve made.
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I want to test this asap. But that may be tomorrow. Anyone else?
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Sorry it took so long, but lots of work is going on in the background as Nordic Team.
any way the prob with this TE is no bug, and not a big deal. the awacs is Swedish sqdn and same awacs package is USA.
not real sure how you managed that but here is a fixed TE. carrier and awacs working fine.
I think all this TE needed was another awacs flight added. maybe first one was edited and needed to be deleted instead? Im not sure, but it works now.https://www.mediafire.com/file/l79mwgpc3ccocs8/chem%20trails%20fixed.rar
Cheers
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Interesting, just built the TE the same way that I’ve been doing it for years, in other theaters.
Thanks for looking at it. I will try to see what happened there and if it repeats in others.
Strange thing is that we get the behavior in MP campaigns as well so, we’ve unchecked the “AWACS required” option in the config.
Looking forward to v2
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Hello, dearest Ned.
I’ve seen that last yours only now, and I was wondering if you managed to solve that strange issue with the tanker too…
A nice day, bellezza
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On Badger’s TE I was just looking at the AWACS. And it had coms after I re added the awacs in MC. If tanker is on station but not responding, maybe doing this same thing might fix it.
Is this the issue you are referring to?