dcs bug Mission 8 - Phantom tanker

[VirusAM]

Well, the mission went well I managed to accomplish it, but after engaging the iranian ship and being cleared rtb i choosed to aar.

But when i was near the viking he choosed to act as a boom tanker and replied to me in that way (chick and tow 1 mile trail etc etc).

After multiple abort and ready precontact I decided to give up.

So I asked the wingman (olive) to do the aar, and she just turned away and went for landing.

I had to land as well and managed to do that with less then 500lbs of fuel remaining!!! Was so scary at night ????

Very nice mission, I hope BD can understand and sort these problems

[baltic_dragon]

Yeah, going to check what is going on there.

[baltic_dragon]

I did check, looks like Olive is running out of fuel herself and overrides the logic telling her to wait for Player to finish... would probably be best to let her go first (via F10 menu) and then get the drink yourself. Trigger-wise all is fine there...

[speed-of-heat]

Hey BD, any chance you could telegraph the Tankers frequency ? somewhere or did i miss it ? I got it in the end , by going to PRI 2?

 

Edited January 29, 2021 by speed-of-heat

[baltic_dragon]

You have an option under F-10 to ask Olive about the details of the tanker, including the radio (Yellow 1). 

[speed-of-heat]

The problem, I think is that that option was showing when I had a choice off send olive to attack something, so f-10 instead of doing 3 things there were only two one of them was find the details on the tanker.  The other was attack, I didn’t want her to do option 2. So I tried to clear the tanker message... and of course succeeded...

[adams83]

I just had the same problem. Waiting for Olive to finish didn't help because I ran out of fuel. I started the process with more than 3000 (basically wanted to go tanking just for practice). She keeps weirdly disconnecting and reconnecting to the tanker. I recorded it on video so you can see what's going on. Btw this is the second time I run into this - in a previous R1 mission I managed to wait until my wingman finished tanking and the tanker just retracted the hose and left. I wasn't able to communicate with it anymore. I'm guessing that the same would have happened here too if I managed to fly longer. So it's possible tanking is broken in all the missions... which is pretty bad as it's something you do after completing all the objectives. Would be great if you could fix this. Thanks a lot! The campaign is otherwise awesome!

 

 

[baltic_dragon]

The AAR is currently broken in DCS for the AI, it has been reported and we hope it gets fixed soon. 

[Flanky83]

Sadly, this is still not fixed.

It‘s really frustrating to do a nearly 2h mission and end up 3miles in front of the carrier without fuel just because no tanker is available…

Why did it happen? Because I kept in mind (mission 08): „think about your wingman‘s fuel“. I then had to wait behind the tanker because the wingman took my turn. After the wingman finished refueling, the tanker S3 just runs away and lands on the carrier. I followed him, and came to 0 fuel just before reaching the carrier…

I flipped out!!!!

From now on, no more Mr Nice Guy!

[baltic_dragon]

I am sorry to hear that... how many times I was close to flipping out - you are on the receiving end of the AI dumbness after I spent hours upon hours trying to make it work with some of the simplest tasks (like AAR) - that get repeatedly broken with updates. I am trying to think about all the possible safeguards, but then the AI will do something different anyway. Really sorry it ended this way, maybe I just put in another tanker on different frequency just to be there. Just in case?

[Flanky83]

Don‘t worry, this pain is insignifiant compared to the immersion you guys build! Since more than a year, everytime I start my computer, it’s only for a baltic_dragon campaign.

Thanks for that!