Am I going crazy? Track replay changed??

[Tumbleweed]

I just got finished flying a quick generated KA-50 night mission against ground vehicles. Aside from my wingman, I also had a pair of AI apaches doing their own sweep a couple of miles away off my port side.

 

Got through the mission and RTB safely and thought I'd watch the track back to see if I could grab some screens. I clicked watch track and sped up the playback speed to where I reached the enemy when all of a sudden, I got shot down and killed. This did not happen in the mission.

 

Checking the map the only units present were the AI apaches and the remaining enemy forces.

 

I've had this happen once before in the past but couldn't work it out and just put it down to something I'd done. Not sure how or why this happens but I certainly didn't get shot down during the mission yet both my wingman and I died in the replay.

 

Not sure if it's related or not but during the actual mission, the apaches vanished in a hail of ground fire. Pretty sure they got shot down as they wern't on the map any longer. I don't suppose that the replay recorded that data incorrectly and applied the death to me and my wingman by mistake???? Is that possible????

 

:huh::huh::huh:

[Sceptre]

yes, this happened to me. I shot down some F-15s with a Su-27 and watched the track for some cinematics, etc and the first plane shot me down which did not happen in the mission. Very weird and freaky bug...

PS: this was a mission that I made not an official one.

[will-]

never used the replay system nor know how to... but from reading here and maybe a quick search my help you better...

 

the way the replay system works is it will replay the mission showing what actions you took but as AI goes they can take a different course... enabling to replay-replayed missions also.

[Tumbleweed]

Thanks both.

Seriously thought I was going loopy lol :pilotfly:

[kuri77]

Yeah it is frustrating, happens quite often as well for me at least.

[ericoh]

Tracks often get messed up if you accelerate time while playing a mission.

[Tumbleweed]

Tracks often get messed up if you accelerate time while playing a mission.

 

That would explain it. I was zipping through at max FFWD to the action LOL

[msalama]

This can happen because DCS doesn't really capture anything, it just replays the whole mission with an AI pilot in your place doing the same things you did. I once shared a track of a brilliant Ka-50 mission I flew, and after a while got a bunch of folks asking why I'm posting a track where I'm shot down immediately:megalol:

[Exorcet]

This can happen because DCS doesn't really capture anything, it just replays the whole mission with an AI pilot in your place doing the same things you did. I once shared a track of a brilliant Ka-50 mission I flew, and after a while got a bunch of folks asking why I'm posting a track where I'm shot down immediately:megalol:

It's not the AI flying your plane. Your control inputs get recorded and DCS replays them to recreate your flight. What happens is the inputs are not recorded or read correctly and your plane ends up doing something it should not have. Just missing a single input can be devistating. In another thread I uploaded a replay of me vs 2 MiG-23. After I killed the MiG's I went to land a Vaziani. The landing was correct, except that I was about 2-3 miles north of the airfield and ended up landing on a hill (and exploding).

 

AI aircraft are AI controlled in replays which is why they can end up shooting you down after your aircraft starts behaving strangely.

 

 

Tracks often get messed up if you accelerate time while playing a mission.

 

Yes. It would be nice if we could crop tracks and also get save states back. Maybe post EDGE.

[msalama]

It's not the AI flying your plane.

 

Not in the sense of letting the AI make any decisions, but it surely ain't YOU flying that crate anymore either ;)

 

But aye, I know what you mean. What I didn't though, was those goof-ups resulting from missed control inputs. Good to know that.

[Corrigan]

Another thing to consider is game version. If a patch has been applied, things can change.

[VIMANAMAN]

Someone on these forums (can't remember who) said when you save a track and replay it for the first time - don't change any parameters at all i.e. speed / camera, just let it run.

 

Then save a copy and only play with the copy - it seems a lot more reliable for me anways - doing it that way.

 

Plus you've always got the original.

 

And yeah updates nearly always break track files.

[Corrigan]

I once posted a track, as part of a bug report, of a Tunguska missing missile upon missile fired at a nearby, slow-moving helicopter. A dev replied and said that the missiles all hit on his internal build, in the same track. Sure enough, I tried it a few weeks ago, same track again, and now all the missiles hit.