Missile upgrade — Sky Knights Steam update #484120

Missile upgrade This time around I have spent some time rewriting the heatseeker, general missile tracking and countermeasure code. Before, the flares...

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Sky Knights (595430)
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patch note
Published
7 December 2017 - 21:00:37 UTC
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steam_community_announcements
Missile upgrade This time around I have spent some time rewriting the heatseeker, general missile tracking and countermeasure code. Before, the flares worked like a silver bullet hard-countering all heatseekers. After the re-design, things are more organic. Missiles still tend to pick up the flare's heat signature and home in on it, but when the missile reaches the flare, instead of exploding in mid-air, the missile will continue flying in its current direction. If the enemy aircraft now is in front of the missile, it will become its new target. This means that unless you carefully time the flare, you will need to combine hard turns with countermeasures to get out of the way and evade a missile. It can also be a good idea to pop a series of flares, rather than just...

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