Brit_Radar_Dude

LOL - the AGM-65 Maverick missiles are not telepathic, they can't tell what you want them to lock onto! Joking aside A10FAN, the Mav locks onto contrast, thus it can easily lock onto an object near to the one you actually want it to lock onto. If your target is in amongst other things that might lock, maybe you can approach the target from a different direction to get a better view of it? A skill you will slowly develop is to recognise the shape of targets (especially AA threats) in your MFD. Depending on how you look around with your set-up (you might use Hat switch or maybe have a TrackIR) you might set a snapview to make the MFD as big as possible to help. Look at outlines of threats like Shilka,Strela,Osa in the Encyclopedia. Put one in a mission and lock it up with both types of Mav. Learn to recognise the distinguishing features, eg Shilka - radar dish sticks up and is lighter colour,chassis looks lower and "fatter" than other vehicles. Hope this helps....

They are a reminder of how beautiful Lockon can look at sunrise/sunset...

LOL - Another British idea (bouncing bomb) stolen by someone else... ;)

After you finish a mission in a campaign you have to save your progress by clicking the debriefing button and then, while looking at the debriefing screen, click (top left) "file" then "save". Don't confuse this type of saving with "save states" (ie the save button on the window you get after quitting, I have never had that type of save work, most folks haven't it seems). But anyway, you are getting frustrated with the whole thing and just want to fly and get further on in the campaign.... There are possible workarounds, so lets get into those. You can declassify the campaign in the Mission Editor and fly the campaign missions in any order you want (plus change skins, weapon loadout, etc). I use this method all the time to cherry pick the fun missions in a campaign and miss out the dull ones. Go into Mission Editor, upper left of screen, click on the open button, bottom right TYPE OF FILE select CAMPAIGN, navigate the folder structure to the campaign you want and select it. Bottom right click on MAP. Now you will see the 1st mission of your campaign. Many missions and campaigns are classified with a password so that they cannot be easily/accidentally changed. The stock missions and campaigns that come with Lockon use the password EAGLE. Top left click on EDIT, then DECLASSIFY, enter the password EAGLE. Now all the missions in the campaign should appear on the right hand side, so select the mission you want to fly. If you wish, you can select your aircraft, select PAYLOAD and pick different weapons / fuel load / skin. If you have downloaded any of the excellent missions/campaigns designed by the Lockon community, then some may be classified. Either the briefing notes or the readme file may tell you the password. Some may not. If not, then you can still get in by overwriting the password with your own. Use keystrokes rather than menu's to do this. Press "ctrl + left shift + C" then type in a password of your own choosing e.g. 1234. Now press "ctrl + left shift + D" and enter your password e.g. 1234 NOTE that Lockon does not seem to remember this, so you have to do it each time you restart Lockon Secondly, there is a really useful utility that will extract missions from a campaign (link below) so you can fly them as individual missions. No real difference from flying them in the campaign.... http://www.checksix-fr.com/bibliotheque/index.php?page=detail&ID=2739 Hope this helps.........

No, I don't think the BS map goes as far East as that region. I reckon it is 100+kms to the East of the edge of the new terrain in BS. If I found the correct place on a map, it is well inside Georgia, more than halfway to the Armenian border.

HubMan - check PM's.

Sorry to hear about your problems Konny. I can partially understand how you feel. Had a PS go bad and fry my mobo and 2 replacements. Finally (I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box) figured it was the PS, replaced it and fitted a 3rd mobo. Be interested in what you get. I'm thinking new machine myself probably before the end of the year ready for BS.

From memory, that's how I recall it looking Eric.....

Monotwix - birds.....brilliant! Alpha - trawler idea...brilliant!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ritsa I seem to recall a v1.02 A-10 versus Tunguska mission someone made back in the day called "Tun of Trouble" that was set at Lake Ritsa....

New gate guardian!! Top class Birdy, nicely done.....

Vekkinho, here is my standard cut and paste logbook information, hope it helps.... Log Book Problems. To get your logbook working you should create a pilot and make sure the "default" box is ticked. Also notice that even if you checked the "default" box on your pilot his stats are only updated when you fly for that pilotґs country or when your pilots country is in the same coalition, meaning that if "your" pilot is American the stats of missions you fly for Russia for example will not be stored in "your" pilotґs log unless you make sure USA is on the same side as Russia. A couple of things...... 1) He must be alive. Once he is dead, then you might still be using his name as the pilot name, but he won't log any time. Each time he dies, you have to use notepad or a similar text editor to edit the file C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\Lock On\PilotLogBook\Pilots.xml Search for your pilot name, then move a bit more along the line until you see Status= if it says 0 (zero) then your pilot is dead, change it to say 1 (one). Remember status = 0(dead), status = 1(alive and kicking). This is a real pain in the *&% to have to do . Try to bale out when you get shot down, so you are still alive. If you can't, hit ESC and quit before you die. Having to constantly edit the Pilots.xml gets old real fast. 2)You may have a problem regarding which country your pilot is from and which planes you try to fly. Overcome this by making sure that your pilots country is in a coalition of the side he is flying for. For example I have made a British pilot, but there are no flyable British aircraft in Lockon. I like to fly Su-27, so in any missions/campaigns I make myself (or D/Load from the Internet) I always edit them so that UK is in the same coalition as the Russian or Ukrainian Su-27 I want to fly. That ensures my flight gets logged.

Sorry you can't. Only the Black Sea area is mapped - Crimea peninsula plus the Krasnodar region of Russia down to the Abkhazia region of Georgia. The next addon (Black Shark) will add a little more Georgian territory down to the Turkish border. If I tell you that it took several man-years of effort to make the existing Lockon maps, placing all the roads, railways, bridges, rivers, buildings, forests, etc then you can see why the map is "limited". But it has every different type of terrain you might want for a mission - cities, industrial sites, flat farmland, rolling hills, high mountains, deep valleys, lakes, etc so it isn't really limited at all. Why is the map based around the Black Sea? Well, the Lockon developers (Eagle Dynamics) are from Moscow...... Check out the Map Tours to see how much work went into making the Lockon map.... Crimea Tour Crimea Tour link Caucasus Tour Caucasus Tour link

Old fart? - You owe me a beer in 9 weeks time for that crack - LOL! If there is another Cold War, maybe I'll come out of retirement and write some more software....

That movie had me laughing out loud - insane flying skills.....

Aaaah, the good old days! :)The Cold War kept me in (well paid) work for a few years. Many a Bear detected by my radars on the Faroe Islands and the Shetlands.

Awesome photo's Guys, really enjoyed them. Thanks for posting....

http://www.alasrojas.com/Descarga/lomac/ficheros.htm They have an Iranian MiG-29 skin and a Saudi E-3 AWACS skin that may interest you middle-east aviation nuts :)

From what I've read on the forums, I'm not sure that LockonSkins is coming back. Remember it dissapeared once already. Perhaps you could get in touch with Deadman and get him to upload to LockonFiles?

I had exactly the same thing happen to me with this mission and several others that I have D/L'ed from the Internet. This bug affects many (but seemingly not all) Lockon users - namely that occasionally the target Lat and Long gets totally screwed up. It is a slight pain in the behind, but as long as you are aware of it you can usually fix it in the Mission Editor. I have read a number of posts about problems with target locations in some missions - but mission 4 (Destroy Power Plant) of the Su-25 campaign seems the most troublesome. When I first flew this mission with Lockon v1.02, the target was over 100km East of where it should be! I have read other folks posting that for them it was in a different wrong place on the map - Wierd.... I have also had the same happen occasionally with some missions I have downloaded from the Internet- the target location seems to get porked.There seems to be no common factor that I could see that made this sort of thing happen - seemed totally random. Anyway to get back to fixing Su-25 Campaign Mission 4. The power plant is at 44.37.10N, 39.06.45E, you can't miss it when you fly over the town of Gorjachij Kljutch, it has 4 chimneys of which 2 are smoking. There are other buildings with smoking chimneys in the town but only the power plant has the double smoke. When I edited this mission to fix it, I assumed that the building with the chimneys was the target, other folks on the Forums told me it was actually the big warehouse looking building next to it with the overhead skylights in the roof. It doesn't really matter which one you pick as yur target provided that you edit it correctly. In Lockon, many missions and campaigns are classified with a password so that they cannot be easily/accidentally changed. The missions and campaigns that come with Lockon use the password EAGLE. Go into Mission Editor, upper left of screen click on the open button, bottom right of screen, TYPE OF FILE select CAMPAIGN, navigate the folder structure to the campaign you want and select it. Bottom right of screen, click on MAP. Now you will see the 1st mission of your campaign. Top left of screen, click on EDIT, then DECLASSIFY, enter the password EAGLE. Now all the missions in the campaign should appear on the right hand side. Select the mission you want (Mission 4), zoom in th emap until you can see the route of your aircraft (it will be a white colour on the map) click the mouse on the ATTACK WAYPOINT, the triangle shape (I think it is waypoint 3?). Now press the TARGETING button (top right of screen). Find a building at 44.37.11N 39.06.46E you may need to zoom the map in (and you can see where on the map your mouse is at the bottom of the screen (a box called COORDS). Click on ADD (bottom right) then click your mouse on the building. This adds it as a target for your flight. It is a building with 4 chimneys, some of which are smoking (though I think this may depend on your graphic settings?). Now your AI wingman will know about the target you have to destroy. If there was something already shown as targeted when you first click on TARGETING, you want to DEL (delete) that one as it is the messed up one. So far so good, but mow we need to set MISSION GOALS (the thing that decides SUCCESS/FAIL). Look on the left of the screen and you see a button that looks like a sniper scope. Put your mouse over it and it says "Add New Mission Goal". Press that button. Now look at the left hand box that just popped up. If it has any targets listed, then DEL (delete) them. NOw we can add the correct one in. Left side of screen, halfway down, press ADD, now put the mouse over the same building as before, the mouse icon is now the sniper scope. Click on the building. it should have now added this building as NUMB 1 OF 1 TARGET Building COORD 44.37.11N 39.06.46E GOAL DESTROY LIST Building This is what we want, so save the changes, top left pulldown menu FILE, SAVE. While we are here for your future reference when you start making your own missions with the Editor, a quick note about mission goals. Notice that you can set goals as either destroy or survive. This is so that you could design a mission to defend a friendly building / ship / aircraft / vehicle convoy etc. and your mission is to stop the enemy destroying it. In the Mission Editor, if you want to, you can select your aircraft, select PAYLOAD and choose different weapons/fuel load/skin if you want to try the same mission but with a different loadout. Remember to use SAVE AS and a new name so you don't loose the original mission/campaign. For your future reference, if you download any of the excellent missions/campaigns designed by the Lockon community, then some may be classified. Either the briefing notes or the readme file may tell you the password. Some may not. If not, and you really want to change from what the campaign designer wanted then you can "cheat" by overwriting the password with your own. Use keyboard (instead of pulldown menu) to do this. Press "ctrl + left shift + C" then type in a new password of your own choice e.g. 1234. Now press "ctrl + left shift + D" and enter your password e.g. 1234. Hope this helps.....

Smart move ED. TekaTeka really thinks outside the box and comes up with great Mods that no-one else thinks of. I've just installed the tree Shader Mod and it looks great. I've spent half an hour simply flying around the Crimea mountains looking at trees.......

Strweth it's big (over 600Mb) !! Still looking on their website at the familiar names of folks involved in making it, sure to be worth it.....

Lockon v1.02 - in Mission editor, MiG-27K when attempting to have any number ending in 6 eg 06, 16, 26 etc shows as 07, 17, 27 etc. All other aircraft seem OK, just MiG-27K exhibits this. Shows in both Mission Editor and when flying.....

Groove - great pics! Italian A-7 Corsair? Didn't know the Italians had any. Sure it wasn't Greek?

Good choice Geier! My favorite Russian gun. I like the neat engineering of it, the 3 legs etc.