Take out the Lights success criteria?

[Willie Nelson]

Can anyone help me try to succeed in this mission? I have bombed what I believe to be the two associated buildings (one a valve room and one a power station component) that I am required to take out.

 

I have used both the TGP to visually ident them and also the waypoint data provided in the briefing to confirm that these are the same buildings (which they appear to be, they're both being labelled as "TACAN stations" when I hit them which does not sound right given they're part of the power station infrastructure. 

 

I receive "results" of 100 and score of 10 both times that I did this. This doesn't sound awfully successful to me, can someone help me here. I don't think it's necessarily a bug but rather my lack of understanding as to how the scoring and results work.

 

I have attached the debriefing notes here. 

 

The mission happens to be a Viper mission but that's not really the issue here rather I am trying to understand mission success criteria.

 

(Surely I deserve a few medals for taking out the Iranian Nuclear program single handedly after old mate elected to use all his fuel on a joyflight then ejected!)

 

Incidentally, the second waypoint listed in my briefing notes is obviously incorrect as it is missing the 09 of N27'(09).632 in latitude.

turn out the lights.log

[Raidhen]

You could have a result of 100 (mission succeeded) and a score of 0.

 

Score is the value of all the objects you have destroyed during the mission, in your case buildings have a very low score.

Result tells you how much you have completed all the criteria for victory (100 = 80 for destroying the target + 20 for landing at the base)

 

[Willie Nelson]

9 hours ago, Raidhen said:

You could have a result of 100 (mission succeeded) and a score of 0.

 

Score is the value of all the objects you have destroyed during the mission, in your case buildings have a very low score.

Result tells you how much you have completed all the criteria for victory (100 = 80 for destroying the target + 20 for landing at the base)

 

 

This is different to other in game missions such as that of the Hornet "Alert 5"

 

Ok, so I've done this mission a few times now with the same results of 100 each time, whether or not I return to Al Minhad it seems, and the same score of 10, you're suggesting for my two low scoring targets? 

 

It seems strange to me that in many other missions there is a voiceover and text to indicate mission success but their isn't in this one. It's fair to say that my struggling wingman seems to have great difficulty keeping himself alive in a perfectly serviceable aircraft whether he is being shot at or not, I suppose that shouldn't change my success criteria. 

[Raidhen]

10 hours ago, Willie Nelson said:

Ok, so I've done this mission a few times now with the same results of 100 each time, whether or not I return to Al Minhad it seems, and the same score of 10, you're suggesting for my two low scoring targets? 

If you want to know exactly all the criteria for victory you can open the mission in the mission editor. 

 

For the voiceover or the text it's all depend how the mission was created, once again the answer is in the ME.

[Willie Nelson]

7 hours ago, Raidhen said:

If you want to know exactly all the criteria for victory you can open the mission in the mission editor. 

 

For the voiceover or the text it's all depend how the mission was created, once again the answer is in the ME.

Fair enough,

 

I’ve tried to minimise my interaction with the dark arts of the ME to now, but it makes sense to have a look, thanks. 

[bonfor]

This mission is f****d up. The wingman will rtb halfway because of bingo fuel.... But that is because although he has the wing tanks they are not used. If you delete him, save mission, close and reopen the mission then add him again with the tanks he won't run out of fuel. However he won't attack his objectives. Haven't figured out what's wrong yet... 

Edited March 20, 2021 by bonfor

[Willie Nelson]

On 3/20/2021 at 9:25 PM, bonfor said:

This mission is f****d up. The wingman will rtb halfway because of bingo fuel.... But that is because although he has the wing tanks they are not used. If you delete him, save mission, close and reopen the mission then add him again with the tanks he won't run out of fuel. However he won't attack his objectives. Haven't figured out what's wrong yet... 

 

Is that why he’s useless! It’s hard to get good help.