avoiding flares

[jacob.jackson]

My ships mostly uses missiles to attack ,but flares make them useless. Is there a way to ignore flares so i can hit my target. Also is there some other problems that could cause my missiles to fail.

[Eudaimonia]

flares only work against IR missiles
radar decoys only work against radar guided missiles
sonar decoys only work against sonar guided torpedoes
ECM only works against untethered remote guided missiles
laser target designators and beam riders are only inconvenienced by smoke
And you don't even have to use guidance at all, dumbfire missiles can be very effective!

So there are a lot of options for mixing it up to avoid one specific type of anti missile. There is even the option of just straight up killing the flares. And of course, you'll want to have signal processors on every missile.

[jacob.jackson]

how do i know what type of missile my missiles are

[c3p1h54]

- One solution is to use LUA block box but its complex and expensive, however it gets the job done ( there is good YT tutorial for this i think is called "LUA missile guidance FtD" or something ).

- Another solution is to use signal processors slot in missiles. This reduces chance to get pulled by a flare but its not 100% and it uses a slot

- Third solution would be to use missile interceptors with munition warrners to shoot down flares if your ship is close to mid range (eg. shoot down flares and then launch the missiles )

[Eudaimonia]

Originally posted by jacob.jackson:

how do i know what type of missile my missiles are

You chose what guidance you are using when you are designing the missiles, so if you can't simply remember then just open up the missile design UI and it shows you your design.

[Cmdr_McBragg]

And you get to the missile UI by pressing Q when looking at the missile launcher/rails.