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I know there was a stable update yesterday but I have not forced my DCS to update yet. If I update it, will it break the Harriers over PG campaign or do I need to do some additional steps to get it working? I have all SAM's destroyed and am working on stationary bases and vehicles now but didn't want to break the campaign before I finish it.

I started using JDAM's and they work good but in the F10 map I have selected 8 targets and I have loaded 8 GBU-38's on the airplane. When I go into the kneeboard and hit RAlt + Rshift + 8 it only imports 4 targets. Looking at the CAS page in the Harrier I actually see all 8 targets listed there but I can not assign anything higher than T4. I am wondering if this is a Harrier issue or a DCS issue? I am using the stable release 2.5.5. I have watched tutorials on how to do it but others do not seem to be having the 4 target limit that I am. My workaround has been to fire the first 4 and then go into the CAS page and assign 1-4 to the remaining target points and then firing a second round but I would like to figure out why I am limited and others do not seem to be.

Is there a way to change the default loadout of the generated missions? All of the flights so far have been not far from my home base so I would rather get rid of the external fuel tanks and take extra JDAM's instead. Selecting my preferred loadout on the mission planner doesn't seem to work as I am back to the default load when the mission loads. I can change my load using the ground crew menu once in the cockpit but would rather just set the default for the mission.

I figured out how to fix the issue of the campaign loss after the third mission. In the Debriefing folder I noticed more than three debriefings and the timestamp on them were from 2019 so maybe files that were accidentally left in there. If you delete all of those files except for your three debriefings and then run the SkipMission.bat file you can continue the campaign as you left it without having to start over.

Same issue with the Harrier over PG campaign. Looking in the folder the file was named Newspaper_Defeat so I added the _blue at the end and reran the debrief mission batch file. I also got a campaign loss after losing 14 aircraft after the third mission which is frustrating because I was actually doing really well. I did not die once and completed the first two successfully. In the third mission I only managed to damage the SA6 site by 20% but returned to base successfully. One problem I noticed is that the Harriers AI wingmen seem to not be able to land. They often crash while trying to land and then that ends up counting against me. In the last mission I told them to rejoin formation but did not tell them to RTB to see what happened but somehow two of them must have crashed as it shows them lost in the statistics.

I installed the Harrier over PG campaign generator and got the first mission loaded. The briefing said the mission starts at 6:55 with a take off time of 7:11 but when the mission loaded the clock in the Harrier said 2:55. I was all alone on the tarmac which seemed a bit weird but was supposed to meet up with my flight at waypoint 1 around 7:20 at a weird altitude of 19,600. Once I got to waypoint 1 I orbited for a while but nobody else came. I asked the flight to check in and they said negative. Dodge 5-2 said bingo fuel. I thought well, all I need to do is destroy one EWR site so I can do that myself even though I was now past time on target. Proceeded to waypoint 4 but could not find the EWR site with the TPOD. Made a couple orbits searching for it and then got shot down by a SAM site. I canceled out of everything and didn't accept the result so hopefully I can try again but it seems like the times are off and the rest of my flight is nowhere to be found.

Yeah, I saw that in the documentation which is why I didn't think much of it on mission 1 when I got a score of zero. But then on mission two I got a score of 3 so it seems like it is adding something.

I completed mission 1 and 2 so far and am liking this campaign. I do have a question though on how the mission scoring works at the end. On mission 1 we blew up the target bridge and performed the recce but didn't destroy any other targets as I was still getting used to things. When we landed and completed the mission I got 100% success but a score of 0. For the second mission we blew up the primary target and all of the artillery in the field. Then on the recce we killed three whole columns of utility vehicles on the roads before returning to base. When we landed my final score was 3. Did I get a 3 because we killed three groups of units besides the primary? The scoring seems different than the A10C Georgian Hammer campaign I am also playing now where the scores are usually in the 150-250 range.

I have been trying to complete the A10 CSAR standalone mission several times now and every time the helicopter that rescues the pilot crashes. I go in and clear out the area and wait for the APC's to come and then I clear those out. Then I tell the helicopter to come in and he does. Then I get a message that the rescued pilot is in the helicopter and taking off and then the helicopter crashes into a tree and explodes. I am thinking pre-DCS 2.5 there were no trees here so this wasn't an issue but with the new map, there are trees all over and the AI can't cope with it. Does anyone else have this issue?