Changing formation orders only affects flagship

[DyonisX]

If I have a formation with lets say, 3 ships, and I right click the formation folder to change something like the speed or the ADS, it only changes it for the formation leader, not for the rest.

Is there a way to change every ship in a formation at once?

[thunda]

Formations are completely busted right now. I got ships or planes leaving or joining formations at will. I have a two F-14 in the air, I command the second plane to fire a missile, then 5 seconds after it does that it leaves formation?? I have 4 bombers in a formation, I order them to drop bombs, they all do, I issue order to formation to return to base, only the leader acknowledges and then some random plane in the formation leaves formation?? Or I got some two-ship formation, one lone formation ship gets a bit close and joins it automatically?? etc. Constantly having to micromanage formations because planes and ships leave and join them for arbitrary reasons

And yes your orders only apply to the formation leader, but the other ships or planes are supposed to follow the leader so they get them too. But not with radar for some reason. So if you order your formation to turn on radars, only the leader does. If you want all with radars on, gotta go through every unit one by one.

Easy fix is to never allow units to change formations without ordered to do so. How this was allowed to be in the game i have no idea

[Tero]

They're all supposed to update but there are a lot of bugs. One is that sometimes you'll have the lead ship selected and then when you click the formation the game "holds" you to the last thing you've clicked which just happens to be the lead ship.

Otherwise things can simply get buggy in formations. What I've noticed is that, as a workaround, you can sometimes give each problem ship a waypoint then right click it and tell it to rejoin the formation. It will reset the ship sometimes so that it tries to stay on course at the proper speed but it isn't 100% functional.

If your formation leader gets screwed up you're out of luck though...in that case you might have to disband the formation and make a new one. I had that happen and it caused my whole formation to start going nuts avoiding colliding. It was like hitting multi-ball on a pinball machine.