recoil17 Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 (edited) So I've been playing since LOMAC, played BS and the A-10C Beta years ago. I eventually sold my computer and quit playing before A-10C was fully released. I'm a HUGE fan of DCS. Long story short I recently got back into it and feel like I've learned enough to tackle the campaign. I downloaded 1.5 Beta but every single mission crashed when I played it. I gave up and played 2.0 Alpha NTTR for a while. I recently upgraded my GPU and HDD to a SSD and downloaded 1.5 full release. The crashing is mostly gone. I've only had one mission crash after landing once. My problem is that I can't get past the first two missions without something going wrong on the games end to be able to advance. I played the second mission last night where I had to escort Elm and Razor. I've failed this mission once before because two T-72's managed to destroy 4 M1A1's without taking a single hit. I was out of ammo and my wingman was hit and returning to base. This time I made sure to clear all of the targets before commanding Elm and Razor to advance. They we're taking a very long time and knowing that the battlefield was clear I decided to land. I shut the A-10C down but in a previous mission I had an F-16 taxi into my plane and blow us up. So I fired my engines back up in case I had to move while I was waiting for Elm and Razor to reach their checkpoint and get a mission complete. While waiting I was switching from unit to unit enjoying DCS in action when I switched back to my A-10 at Batumi, my wingman and six F-16's vanished right off the tarmac. The only thing left was a pilot that was standing next to his plane. A few minutes later, a couple of A-10's spawned out of nowhere and one of them spawned directly on top of my plane. Of course we caught and both died. Elm and Razor reached their destination and I got 100% complete but now my logbook says I died and I committed fratricide and lost all my combat score. So this must of been what happened the first time with the F-16 as well. Why are there planes vanishing and reappearing at Batumi? Here's the only screen I have after I shut down. Notice the F-16's in the top right of the screen Three minutes later they're all vanished Four minutes later this guy is on top of me It's extremely frustrating because I enjoy the game so much but I am constantly running into problems like this. Not including the JTAC that only responds to me ~60% of the time and I have to request and repeat over and over. If this was still BETA, I'd ignore it like I have for the last several years but this is supposed to be full release now. Edited January 14, 2016 by recoil17 "Simultaneous selection of fuel dump and afterburner during high AOA maneuvering may cause fuel to ignite with resulting fuselage damage." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baltic_dragon Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Hm, that is weird.. I've played the campaign under 1.1.1.1 I think, looong time ago, but it is possible that it has not been properly upgraded when the game got a beef up to 1.5. Just guessing. Anyway, good luck with the rest of it, it is quite fun to play! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavven Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 You've got to admit, though, that the screenshot of an A-10C spawning on top of you is really funny! Well yeah, frustrating too. But I couldn't help but laugh out loud. :D Are you doing the Georgian Hammer campaign? If so, I think I know what mission you're talking about. It's not so much an "escort" mission as it is a "kill everything on the map, then make the radio call and wait 10 minutes for them to travel from point A to B" mission. Anyway, some folks tried their hand at bug-fixing the campaign. Google "DCS Georgian Hammer" and you'll find some links to download community versions. I don't know if they work in 1.5 or 2.0, though, since this is a fairly recent development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recoil17 Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 You've got to admit, though, that the screenshot of an A-10C spawning on top of you is really funny! Well yeah, frustrating too. But I couldn't help but laugh out loud. :D Are you doing the Georgian Hammer campaign? If so, I think I know what mission you're talking about. It's not so much an "escort" mission as it is a "kill everything on the map, then make the radio call and wait 10 minutes for them to travel from point A to B" mission. Anyway, some folks tried their hand at bug-fixing the campaign. Google "DCS Georgian Hammer" and you'll find some links to download community versions. I don't know if they work in 1.5 or 2.0, though, since this is a fairly recent development. Exactly, and I learned quick it's best to just take all the targets out then radio them to move. I would think 4 M1A1's would make little work of two T-72's but I guess not. Yeah, it's funny but I really wanted to get into this campaign and when that happens I usually just restart the campaign because I don't want fratricide on my logbook. When the F-16 hit me the first time, I had just changed views and when I came back I seen a pilot parachuting down onto my A-10. I was so confused, just a second ago I was alone now there's a burning F-16 and a pilot on my fuselage. "Simultaneous selection of fuel dump and afterburner during high AOA maneuvering may cause fuel to ignite with resulting fuselage damage." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddwg72 Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 The spawning is normal, try parking more towards the taxi way by the choppers. The mission is adding flights and will add them in the set parking places. Also I never stay on the ground. Land, taxi, ground power on, engines off, rearm - refuel, engines on, power off and go back up. Then orbit and just watch till clear. See if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yurgon Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Also I never stay on the ground. Land, taxi, ground power on, engines off, rearm - refuel, engines on, power off and go back up. Then orbit and just watch till clear. Agreed, why stay on the ground? The A-10 is world famous for its loiter time, best to make good use of it. ;) Just one thing, ddwg, why do you shut the engines down? DCS ground crews will luckily refuel and rearm your bird with engines running (I'm sure they're wearing proper hearing protection :D). Shutting them down is only required for repairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavven Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Agreed, why stay on the ground? The A-10 is world famous for its loiter time, best to make good use of it. ;) Just one thing, ddwg, why do you shut the engines down? DCS ground crews will luckily refuel and rearm your bird with engines running (I'm sure they're wearing proper hearing protection :D). Shutting them down is only required for repairs. Agreed. I leave the engines running. In fact, I think I remember reading somewhere that IRL A-10 pilots would keep the engines running during a refuel stop because shutting down would mean mandatory maintenance and inspections. Keeping them running allows them to make 30 or 45 minute turnarounds. Nice loophole :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMEDooley Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 A quick question, if I don't have CA can I still do this campaign? Every time I do a mission that I'm suppose to support a group to some point, I fail. I kill everything JTACs don't have any targets and when I tell pine or elm to go in via F10 I don't hear a reply. Heck I don't even hear me say anything. Any help would be useful [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recoil17 Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 Ok, so I did a DCS World fix and that seems to have fixed my crashing. I decided to not taxi/park and shutdown the A-10C and that fixed the spawning aircraft on top of me issue. I just land and end the mission which takes some of the fun out of the game. Yet I keep running into bugs preventing me from completing the campaign. Now I'm stuck on Mission 4 where I have to provide CAS for another Abrams and Bradley element. The Abrams get stuck in the same spot every time, they just stop and will not proceed. I can't advance on the campaign and I get a 50% each time I complete the mission. Not to mention the Bradley that missed the bridge, went in the water and underground. How has anybody that's played through gotten past this? "Simultaneous selection of fuel dump and afterburner during high AOA maneuvering may cause fuel to ignite with resulting fuselage damage." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDog-IC Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Can't really help with your current problem, but some time ago I uploaded a corrected dcs v1.216 of the complete A-10c Georgian Hammer campaign (not CA one) that I know works fine, because I tested and re-wrote them. You will have to convert them to the new 1.5x mission format, and that may introduce some problems for the mission success, but I can tell you that they will work far better than what comes with the game by default. You can download from the files area of ED: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/?arrFilter_pf[filetype]=&arrFilter_pf[gameversion]=&arrFilter_pf[filelang]=&arrFilter_pf[aircraft]=&arrFilter_DATE_CREATE_1_DAYS_TO_BACK=&CREATED_BY=maddog-ic&sort_by_order=TIMESTAMP_X_DESC&set_filter=Filter Regards, Ian. Asus p877v-pro, Intel I7 3770k 4.2ghz, 32gb Ripjaw X ram, Nvidia RTX-2070 Super, Samsung 32" TV, Saitek x52 pro Joystick and Combat rudder pedals, TrackIR 5, Win8.1 x64 with SSD and SSHD protected by (Avast AV). DCS Tech Support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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