Friend or Foe? How do you know?

[ETF]

Is there a simple command for a unit to check the identity of a contact? ie. Friend or foe without manually flying the plane/ship/helo over to it?

[Rory Noonan]

You can get this kind of behaviour by using a strike mission with no targets assigned and setting the 'activate when contact is' to 'unknown', this means the units assigned will investigate unknown contacts to ID them without opening fire--presuming the WCS is set to TIGHT.

You could also set WCS to HOLD and auto-attack using F1. The relevant unit will move to the targeted contact and stay within close proximity.

[ETF]

Ah excellent! Thank you kind sir.

[Scar79]

@apache85

Very useful tips, thank you very much.

[guanotwozero]

Oh, this is a clever solution, thanks!

[BeirutDude]

So this is how the Bears are set for MPA missions in North Inferno? I was wondering how to keep them at stand off distance but still tracking.

[terry1040]

ORIGINAL: apache85

You can get this kind of behaviour by using a strike mission with no targets assigned and setting the 'activate when contact is' to 'unknown', this means the units assigned will investigate unknown contacts to ID them without opening fire--presuming the WCS is set to TIGHT.

I recommend to also limit the attack speed of the aircraft in such a mission. Otherwise the scrambled unit will use Afterburner, most often not intended by me. I typically set the attack speed to cruise for such an investigation mission, at least if there is enough distance & time after the detection of the unknown unit.

[Varancar]

Depending on the scenario, you can sometimes make educated guesses and manually mark them as hostile.

Contacts flying in pairs at high speed for examples could be hostiles.