Greyhawk drone

[Son Of Gib]

do you need to keep the laser designator on while firing rockets from the drone, im on the mission "preventive diplomacy" and whenever i shoot them they dont hit the target

[Blackened_Angel49]

For LG missiles yes. Also, watch the [Angle Of Attack] of the drone. If it is poorly aligned with the target area.. it will miss.

[Son Of Gib]

Originally posted by viperBAT46 DTF46:

For LG missiles yes. Also, watch the [Angle Of Attack] of the drone. If it is poorly aligned with the target area.. it will miss.

could you link me to a video explaining all of this? thank you

[mortified_penguin]

If you aren't running mods, the laser marker is not required for the Greyhawk's missiles. Laser targeting is only for backup guidance and isn't required at all for this mission.

Keep in mind that the Greyhawk's Skalpel ATGMs are primarily infrared-guided (IR), so all you need to do is make sure that the Greyhawk is facing in the direction of the incoming Mora IFVs/Kuma tanks, lock-on, wait for the tone to change, then fire.

Be sure to slow down slightly so that you don't overshoot the targets, otherwise the missile won't have enough time to adjust its flight trajectory.

[Blackened_Angel49]

SPOILER!!! THIS IS A WALKTHROUGH!!! https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=arma+3+preventive+diplomacy+walkthrough&view=detail&mid=1D4C3B13A72209E00D251D4C3B13A72209E00D25&FORM=VIRE

[Son Of Gib]

Originally posted by mortified_penguin:

If you aren't running mods, the laser marker is not required for the Greyhawk's missiles. Laser targeting is only for backup guidance and isn't required at all for this mission.

Keep in mind that the Greyhawk's Skalpel ATGMs are primarily infrared-guided (IR), so all you need to do is make sure that the Greyhawk is facing in the direction of the incoming Mora IFVs/Kuma tanks, lock-on, wait for the tone to change, then fire.

Be sure to slow down slightly so that you don't overshoot the targets, otherwise the missile won't have enough time to adjust its flight trajectory.

how do you lock on?

[mortified_penguin]

Switch to the Skalpel missiles and press whatever key you binded to the "Lock Target" action (IIRC default is just holding down the right mouse button). Alternatively, you can use the "Next Target" action to do essentially the same thing (default should be Tab).

Pay attention to the UI markers that come up. You'll see a dotted square over the Mora/Kuma initially; this doesn't mean that the missile has finished locking onto the target yet. You need to wait until the square becomes a filled line before the missile has locked on completely (you'll hear the beeping tone change to denote this).

Note that you don't have to switch over to control of the UAV's "gunner"/turret AI to lock-on with the missiles. You can simply toggle "Manual Fire" (scroll wheel menu option) to effectively control the "gunner" AI at the same time. Once the "gunner" AI locks on, you can manually fire missiles as if you were the "gunner" while still flying the drone as its "pilot".

[Son Of Gib]

also how do you order the uav to go to a specific height and other commands?

[mortified_penguin]

Those have to be set in the UAV Terminal's interface. Make sure you're connected to the Greyhawk and set down a waypoint. You can then right click on that waypoint and a context menu will show up with a variety of commands, though the altitudes you can set them to fly at are capped at specific heights.

Just a word of caution though: UAVs that are ordered to follow waypoints are sort of slow and unreliable, so I wouldn't recommend using them unless you really have to, or it's just a basic MOVE command that has them flying at the default height. Manual control is always preferable since you can react faster than the AI are able to.

[Son Of Gib]

Originally posted by mortified_penguin:

Those have to be set in the UAV Terminal's interface. Make sure you're connected to the Greyhawk and set down a waypoint. You can then right click on that waypoint and a context menu will show up with a variety of commands, though the altitudes you can set them to fly at are capped at specific heights.

Just a word of caution though: UAVs that are ordered to follow waypoints are sort of slow and unreliable, so I wouldn't recommend using them unless you really have to, or it's just a basic MOVE command that has them flying at the default height. Manual control is always preferable since you can react faster than the AI are able to.

its currently set to fly around a town, will this work?

[Son Of Gib]

my game is also really foggy which means i cant see with the drone, i have watched some youtube videos wit the same mission and there is no fog on thiers, bloom is already set to 0 so is there another setting i need to adjust?

[Soceris]

Set up your view distance to about 3000 m. That should lessen the fog from above.

[mortified_penguin]

Originally posted by Baku:

its currently set to fly around a town, will this work?

If you mean for the campaign, probably not. Drone AI response times are not great so you should manually control the Greyhawk to attack the AAF vehicles. You don't need to worry about getting hit because the drone doesn't get targeted for this mission.

[Son Of Gib]

Originally posted by Soceris:

Set up your view distance to about 3000 m. That should lessen the fog from above.

Thank you so much this problem has been bugging me all day!!!!

[Son Of Gib]

Thanks for the help, i finally managed to use the UAV to lock on and destroy targets