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[nexor63]

The rockets of every Santa Blanca Helicopter I deploy shoots at something on the horizon
No matter if I zero in on an object with the cross hair or auto zero's in on enemy vehicles and Helicopters,
the rocket fly way over their heads towards something on the horizon.

Anyone experiencing the same thing?

[MikeWeeks]

From time to time I've had the fired rockets go "stupid", but not consistently on anything close to a regular basis; on the PC.

IIRC it would clear if I landed, exited the helo, then re-enter. Don't recall if I ever FT to clear the glitch - that's how infrequent it happens in my game.

[Virtual-Chris]

Yesterday when using the Military Chopper (Cobra) to escort el Pulpo to the airport, the rockets were shooting at the horizon regardless of what I was targeting. This caused me to fail the mission and upon respawning and summoning another chopper, it worked as expected.

This is the first time I’ve seen this and I used the Military Chopper extensively in the last few months to fast track to Tier 1 with two different characters.

If it wasn’t for Mike’s post, I would have said this bug must have come along for the ride in SO4 as that’s all that’s changed recently for me.

[MikeWeeks]

Not that what follows adds much to the conversion, but based on VR's reference to SO4 dropping with his experience:

the last time it happened to me was when Tier grinding in GM, and that ran from 15 Feb to the 25th. SO4 dropped on the 27th.

[nexor63]

I've tried landing_exiting_re-entering stunt, it didn't work. even re-spawning and order another one.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think this started after SO4

[MikeWeeks]

I've tried landing_exiting_re-entering stunt, it didn't work. even re-spawning and order another one.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think this started after SO4

If this is taking place each and every time you use a SBC rocket helo, then I suggest report it in the appropriate platform tech forum as a bug. If you get a response most likely they'll ask for a video or screenshot(s). They also might ask you to re-verify your game files (don't know if that's limited to those using PC however).

I used the same helo just two days ago however, for the TF challenge, and had no issues.

[ManticButton]

I've had this happen to me before and after the update

no clue what causes it though

[AI BLUEFOX]

Which helicopter control scheme are you using @nexor, the classic controls or the alternate? I'm wondering if the saved defaults have mixed something up there, because in the classic the rockets flew in line with the chopper fuselage whereas in the modified control scheme with the cross hair and target lock you can fire at angles.

Might be worth swapping the control schemes back and forth and firing rockets on both sets to see if that clears the error. Just a thought, I've no idea if it will help.

[Bone_Frog]

I've tried landing_exiting_re-entering stunt, it didn't work. even re-spawning and order another one.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think this started after SO4

This happened to me back when I was grinding tier mode on main campaign SO2 I think. Only thing that fixed it was to completely exit game and reboot.

[GiveMeTactical]

+1 it does not happen often but when it does, the only way to fix is to either exit completely and or get out to the main menu (IIRC) it worked as well. If not, like Frog, only getting out completely and then come back in would fix that issue.