“Direct fire” missiles, no longer require lazes.
You can fire them based off flares, and with offsets.
Further, you can program them into fire missions. This means you could buy 4 direct fires, 4 fuel-mix, and then edit a fire mission to fire all 4 at the same time on the same signal flare with a spread to fire OBs as CAS.
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Uhh sir… I think it a bit of missinfo
No you cant. Napalm is the only rocket you what you cant shoot in an FM no matter what.
Also you can direct fire on any signal,no mater if its flare, lase or JIMA flag, even if you direct shoot something else instead of missiles. And there is also no way you can offset if you do direct fire (You still can move your ship camera around durring direct fire but your projectile will land direcly at your target be it lase or flaer no matter the camera place during fire)
you are actually trying to grief
Yeah Jerba is on the money here. Anything you fire in direct fire lands directly on the flare/laze, you can ONLY offset Fire Missions, also every missile except for the Napalm has been able to be in a FM for like years at this point.
But someone figured out how to offset directs. Because theres been several rounds where I see direct firemissions fire nowhere near red dots or signal flares. So it most deffinetly is a thing.
look, last round i made a FM with direct fires and offset them off of flares, and had 4 people in Dchat and 3 in JTAC comms ask me how i was doing it. this lead me to believe its uncommon knowledge so I made a thread.
There’s a strategy where the spotter for Cas turns off their laser after gp fires their missiles, maybe that’s how you think they’re “offsetting” it? I tested out several missiles with lasers + flares and wasn’t able to find a way to offset them without using firemissions.
Nope. Had like 5 different directs happen on me with no flares or lasers, as they are both painfully obious to spot. I don’t know how they do it, wether its a bug or intentional, but its possible to do.
Even had one that hit right in the middle of a rasin box with no windows. So unless the scout somehow got in there, lazed, and then somehow phased through the walls as not to be caught in a napalm strike, I don’t know how else it can happen.
Directs are not intended to be offset, Bug report it
If i knew how to recreate it, I’d love to. But not knowing how a bug is done, makes for a very poor bug report.