Mission 3 - Smoke gets Shot down

[Strider21]

Baltic again great campaign. I totally recognize you are working within the limits of the Mission Editor.

 

I flew Mission 3 and things went well until the SAM launch. Smoke got hit an then ejected. His plane pilot less then proceeded to orbit and bounce off the ground. I flew to Exxon on the way out stat to refuel. I then though I would use the save function to end the mission and then restart from the final refuel. I wanted to make sure I didn't miss any of the comms/story on the way home. I quit the mission, then exited out. When I went back to campaign I loaded up and was back at the start of Mission 3. Attached is the Tacview. I have the Trackfile as well but its 52 mb and I am not sure how to upload. Also not sure if it is of any help.

TACVIEW.zip

[Strider21]

Redid Mission 3. Followed the instructions a little better. For the second Show of Force I set up South to North as instructed and Smoke was behind me when the SAM launched. I was expecting it so was able to get Flares out quickly.

 

I think the problem I had the first time is I set up North to South and when the SAM fired Smoke was just North and was hit by the missile.

 

I assume this is pretty hard to account for in mission design. Nevertheless really enjoyed the mission the second time through.

[baltic_dragon]

Thanks! I have an idea how to prevent this from happening. I’ll play with it.

[DAZnBLAST]

Yup, also make sure you let Smoke take off first, catch him and join up on his wing and wait for the text to then take lead, don't just take lead and assume Smoke will join up (like I did :D), otherwise Smoke will head back to carrier.

Edited August 22, 2020 by DAZnBLAST

[baltic_dragon]

Internally fixed. Thanks for reporting!

[lester]

I had somewhat similar problem. In my case I did fly from South to North as instructed, followed by Smoke (there was some space between us though), but he was hit by SAM, nevertheless Smoke managed to fly and continue the mission. However when we were heading back to tanker to refuel (which unfortunately flew away from us, so we had to spend more fuel to reach him), I noticed that Smoke is very low on fuel on SA page: he had less than 1.0 left while for me it was ~ 6.0. As a result he ejected near the probe :wallbash: : not sure was it due to SAM hit or just terrible power management by AI. That's considering Smoke was ordered to fly above to cover me all the time while I was destroying targets assigned by JTAC, I only ordered him to help with the very last last target: moving truck (I hit it with all my cannon rounds, but wasn't precise enough to lit it up), which he tried to hit with JDAM first (why Smoke?) and failed ofc, and then successfully destroyed with GBU-12. So I obviously missed some dialogs on my way back to the Carrier :( , but I consider this mission completed as all targets assigned by JTAC were destroyed, I successfully performed AAR two times and Case 1 recovery to Mother.

Edited September 6, 2020 by lester