Unsolved CATMs have a small chance at destroying targets
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Tried out CATM 120s with a friend today. He shot me 5 times as we worked to understand how everything was working. I exploded on the 5th “shot” as his hit beep sounded. He noticed afterwards that his arming switch was set to master arm instead of sim. Might be related to the bug. Please enjoy this amusing clip of my death to the CATM beep. Regardless, thank you devs for this feature. I look forward to seeing it used for simulated Flag exercises and the likes.
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Haha! An amusing bug
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The way they work is by launching an invisible missile and see if it hits. I guess the invisible missile hit you physically and somehow did some damage.
A somewhat related bug is that CATM hits always show as misses in the after-action report. Except maybe this one
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@GhastlyTT yea, its need to be at SIM mode for simulation engagements.
Never know if you CATM has fuel in it or not -
@GhastlyTT it’s an old phenomenon , we have experienced it back to 4.34 era with CATAM 120 in the EMF theater. you need to set your AC invulnerable for training.
CATAM can’t explode but it would impact aircaft.
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Nope. That’s not true. Back in the old days, the EMF CATM missiles was a mod just for EMF.
Now, in 4.37 you don’t have to set invulnerability on, since this feature is supported by code.
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First, CATM are supposed to be launched in SIM mode.
However, even in ARM, you shouldn’t have any issues.
Are you sure there wasn’t any live missile loaded?
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@Mystic_J Then there wouldn’t be a beep.
Can confirm that behaviour after some CATM alrealdy hit the same A/C -
@Mystic_J
@Micro_440th has an ACMI of a test session we did yesterday. There you see that the fifth hit of a CATM is deadly.
We came to the conclusion that if you were hit 5 times, even if only simulated, then you deserve it! -
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ok then
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Maybe each hit affects the hit point tolerance that an aircraft has.
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@Micro_440th said in CATMs have a small chance at destroying targets:
I already created a ticket in the dev bugtracker.
All catms where released in SIM mode.
After four hits the airplane exploded.Noted