TAC24 in Beta 2.5.2.18307

[Puma]

O-fer-five in TAC24 after generally being very successful. Finally resorted to "cheating" and opened tacview for postflight debrief.

 

Several issues with this that I can see:

 

- No comms on guard after his bailout call. How am I to know where the pilot goes down without these? Also zero comms from the CSAR helos. This mission feels like extremely close support and timing are required, but without any radio calls I feel like this is pretty unrealistic as an objective.

 

- In tacview, he goes down north of the crest of the hill, but the helos, land at arco. So even if I knew where he was, I'd be in the wrong spot.

 

- Even though I clear out the area before they land, the moment they touch down, SA9 and a few other units magically appear and instantly down one of the helos. Mission fail.

 

I don't see any tactic which would avoid this. Is this a bug? Am I borking the mission somehow? Please help I'm so close to completing this awesome campaign!

 

(Rename tacview recording attached to just .zip.acmi, removing the last .zip)

Tacview-20180614-225139-DCS-A-10C - TAC24.zip.acmi.zip

[Sabre-TLA]

It could be the latest patch has broken the downed AI pilot actions again. If you can't authenticate the pilot then the mission assumes he has been compromised so the trap is sprung and the air defence units attack the SAR helos.

I recall this happening in an earlier version and it was fixed. I recommend re-downloading the campaign again (disable and re-enable in the module manager) to make sure you have the latest version.

 

We will retest and see if it is truly broken and if so will provide a fix for the next update.

[Puma]

Is csar authentication supposed to be an option under f10 on uhf after he goes down? I havent seen it but definitely will recheck as I may have missed it. That would explain alot too.

 

That as a set trap makes alot of sense! Cant wait to have tome to try it again.

[Puma]

So yah, Im an idiot. I was flying without my uhf in “both” mode, so missing the radio calls on guard. Once I heard those the mission made sense and I passed it. Youtube link coming soon.