Mission: Abandon Ship

Coop mission for up to 6 ( 8 ) players, but will also be fun for single players. A US frigate is in distress off the coast of Batumi. UH-1H and Mi-8MTV2 helicopters must evacuate the crew from the ship's decks and surrounding waters.

Featuring two variants. A day version for 4 Hueys and 2 Mi-8, and a night version with additional 2 Su-25 for illumination flare support.

There has been a small issue with a bug where the frigate is sunk if the mission is started with more than 2 persons on the server (see here). I have adjusted the script to hopefully minimize the impact of the bug, but haven't had the opportunity to retest it with sufficient people. Please let me know if you have any problems.

Mi-8_UH-1_co6_AbandonShip_day.miz

Mi-8_UH-1_Su-25_co8_AbandonShip_night.miz

Cool. Thanks. Will try with my squad!

Is it just me or is the wind really rough on this mission?

Like the mission. Making people having to land on the front deck is insane though ;)

Great saw this being played on a server yesterday but had no time to join. Looks fantastic though thank you :)

Great mission again Mbot, we've tinkered with the script a little to give it a little more randomization and have flown it a few times now with 6 of 10 UH-1H clients and had a ball with it, no issues at all.

Thanks for your work!

Il sound in and lend my 5 cents worth too, its a great fun mission mate, its great for fine tuning the hovering and approach work, all Kudos to u Mbot.

Cool mission in SP mode!! Enjoy it very much!

Q: Only occasionally are there directions from crew chief helping getting close "to / from" target in water ("12 o'clock - 8", "12 o'clock - 6" etc).... but most of the time I get no direction from crew chief.

When 'close to' or hovering at 2 -3 feet in the green smoke, a voice states "... below..." (I guess..., can't really understand what he's trying to say...) no idea what it means... Flying too low? Fly lower?

Someone else experienced this too?

If I remember correctly, the crew chief only calls out directions if you are at pick up altitude. Otherwise if you are too high he will indeed only call "below". To keep it simple I used some stock DCS sound files, so these were simply the terms that matched best.

For pickup you have to be almost on the surface, since it is assumed that a crewman tries to pull out the survivor crom the skid.

Is there an extract of the actual script anywhere? When I look in the DO SCRIPT box, I can see the script, but if you scroll to the bottom, you don't get the whole thing back out...

it ends at line 175 when I copy and paste it into notepad++ and clearly is not the full script.. can someone post a lua file?

Nevermind, opend the mission file in notepad ++ and and walla - alll intact.

Glad you could still find it. At some point DCS started to cut short code in DO SCRIPT triggers, so I guess most of my missions are no longer working anymore.

Yeah it got limited for some reason. So any script that wants to do anything cool pretty much has to be a script file now.

Nevermind, opend the mission file in notepad ++ and and walla - alll intact.

except now I actually can't get it to do anything in my own mission... do I have the entire script extracted from the mission file correctly? (attached)..

I put it in a do script file instead, but it appears to do nothing. No errors, no ship, no messages..

AbandonShip.lua

Mi-8_UH-1_co6_AbandonShip_day

If I remember correctly, the crew chief only calls out directions if you are at pick up altitude. Otherwise if you are too high he will indeed only call "below". To keep it simple I used some stock DCS sound files, so these were simply the terms that matched best.

 

For pickup you have to be almost on the surface, since it is assumed that a crewman tries to pull out the survivor from the skid.

Corrected these missions to work with DCSW v1.5x, seems to still work sort of, but as I have never played it before, not quite sure what I am supposed to do.

I have picked up off the rear of the boat and placed them back at the airfield apron, no problems, haven't tested the front of the boat yet.

But when trying to hover over a guy in the water, can't seem to stay in position for long enough to pick him out of water, I'm guessing you have to stay spot on for 4-6 seconds, what is the area zone size you have to stay in ???.

The standard hover height is 0-4 feet, changed the height to 0-15 feet in copy of mission to make it a little easier for me, and the crew chief barks out directions and distance, but I still haven't managed to get one, just wondering if I am doing something wrong (just suck at hovering maybe)or mission is actually broken (It doesn't seem to be though as it is doing all the other stuff correctly).

Anyway, thanks for a great mission, will continue to practice.

Attached patched missions if anyone else wants to give it a try and let me know if it is working as expected.

Regards, Ian.

First off - great mission, MBot - flew SP with Huey. Like MadDog, I picked up from the aft deck and got 11 men back to base. Not gone further - yet, still practicing.

Can I ask a Noob question: does setting trigger.action.explosion events on the frigate automatically modify the visible model to show damage? I've noticed that crashing the Huey on the aft deck pad produces charring on the deck surface after the smoke has cleared.

As you can tell, I'm quite new to the functionality of DCS!

Cheers - Dai.

I am glad to hear you are having fun with the mission.

The shown damage of the ship is directly tied to the damage status of the ship. So the explosion trigger serves to damage the ship just enough to look mauled while not yet sinking it. If you crash a couple of helos into it you might even bring if over the edge and actually sinking it.

Hey I am so glad this is resurrected. Great mission, now I can fly it with the rift:thumbup:

Picked up troops out the water. 2 foot hover but its hard to judge movement without a fixed point. Great fun and thanks for fixing it