Laser designator in multiplayer

[Chomps 0]

I recently tried a little mulitplayer mission with some friends with BAS's Kiowa Warrior and an A-10 armed with laser guided bombs.

I got into the air with the Kiowa Warrior with another player as the gunner. Meanwhile, another guy was waiting on the runway nearby in the A-10. My gunner paints a nearby building with the designator, however for me as the pilot, the dot does not become a diamond, and the pilot of the A-10 reports he does not pick up the laser target on his radar. I told him to make sure it was on by hitting fire, so I don't think that was a problem.

What went wrong?

Is it because BAS's Kiowa Warrior specifically doesn't work?

Is something additional required in the mission scripting?

Do the laser designators work at all in multiplayer?

[Chomps 0]

Oh, and in case you are interested, I was so frustrated by this, I ordered my gunner to fire a Hellfire at the A-10 waiting on the runway.

[KeyCat 126]

I've tried the same thing many times in the past and last time was when BAS just released their Kiowa but we never got it to work when sitting two humans (i.e pilot and gunner) in the same chopper and I think this Kiowa LD thing has been broken since day one in MP.

To bad since I would love to do some realistic co-op missions where the Kiowa acts like target designator like in RL  

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[Chomps 0]

Do you know if the BIS man-carried laser designator or BAS's SOFLAM work in multiplayer, or is it just the same situation?

It really is a shame, a coop mission with a team on the ground marking the target and another player swooping in with an A-10 would be sweet.

[shadow 6]

Do you know if the BIS man-carried laser designator or BAS's SOFLAM work in multiplayer, or is it just the same situation?

It really is a shame, a coop mission with a team on the ground marking the target and another player swooping in with an A-10 would be sweet.  

BAS_SOFLAM works fine with the A10LGB in coop.

I have'nt tried BAS-kiowa in MP but the original Kiowa works fine with the A10LGB in coop.

A buddy of mine and I play alot of missions where one carries a laserdesignator and the other fly a A10-LGB.

Works great.

[KeyCat 126]

I have'nt tried BAS-kiowa in MP but the original Kiowa works fine with the A10LGB in coop.

Are you alone in that Kiowa or are you human pilot and human gunner? As I said the problem starts when you are two (2)  humans in the same Kiowa - no go for us!

The man carried LD (both BIS and BAS) does works in MP even if they have their own "issues".

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[shadow 6]

There was this time we were three who played OFP-coop.

One A-10 pilot

One OH-58 pilot

One OH-58 gunner

That worked fine. Can't remember what OFP-version though, but it was atleast 1.75 (Res)

We usually play with the portable laserdesignator. More fun sneaking up on the badguys on foot

[Chomps 0]

Thanks for the info, guys, I may just make a little test map to try all this stuff out.

[pang 0]

chomps,

i was asking this too.

i guess its a plain config bug with the "laserdesignatoroh" weaponclass, which both the BIS- and BAS kiowa use.

but however you can assign the "laserdesignatoroh" weapon and magazine to every other chopper and it´ll work in an mp game. (actually pretty funny... every chopper can paint targets except the one which should be supposed to )

maybe you guys want to add the ability to paint targets to the apache or an ah6:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">this addmagazine "laserdesignatoroh"; this addweapon "laserdesignattoroh"

this works in mp games, but the turning radius is depending on the helo´s original gun.

i´m hoping for a bugfix there too.

maybe in v1.95 (haha) or with the superconfig

-greetings

[KeyCat 126]

There was this time we were three who played OFP-coop.

One A-10 pilot

One OH-58 pilot

One OH-58 gunner

That worked fine.

Hmm you say it worked fine.... Do you remember doing anything particular to have it working? Maybe you still have the mission so we other can test?

Chomps, let us know what your test reveals...

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[shadow 6]

There was this time we were three who played OFP-coop.

One A-10 pilot

One OH-58 pilot

One OH-58 gunner

That worked fine.

Hmm you say it worked fine.... Do you remember doing anything particular to have it working? Maybe you still have the mission so we other can test?

Chomps, let us know what your test reveals...

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

No, don't have it anymore. It was only something I had put together in under 5 minutes. Nothing special. No special scripting or anything.

[Chomps 0]

Okay, I did a simple test, just the bare weapons and choppers, no scripts or anything on multiplayer.

Both the BAS and BIS man-portable laser designators work.

Both the BAS and BIS Kiowa helicopter laser designators do not work.

There may have been some kind of error factor I am overlooking, but like I said, it was a simple test.

[KeyCat 126]

Both the BAS and BIS man-portable laser designators work.

Both the BAS and BIS Kiowa helicopter laser designators do not work.

Thats our experience to after quite a few tries and I don't think your overclocking matters at all if everything else runs OK.

Concluding from our own previous tests and the tests reported here by you and pang I would say that the Kiowa LD is broken in multiplayer when sitting two humans (i.e pilot and gunner) in the same Kiowa.

Lets hope BIS or some of the OFP gurus someday takes a look at it and are able to find a fix or workaround...

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)