Radio comms incomplete and wingment don't tank - Mission 8 - Sirri Island Strike

[zildac]

Hi,

 

Just come back to this campaign after a fair break, and it seems a little broken. When enroute to refuel with Texaco (WPT3) there's a message to let the "nuggets" tank first. I tell my flight to "hit the tanker" but there's no response, all the radio channels are set correctly. Furthermore, when I call into Texaco the replies are clipped, that is the response starts then the sound stops before it's complete, the radio text displays correctly. The Hornets appear to just stack up with my flight and don't do anything. Am I missing something here, or is this now broken in the latest OB (2.7.17.29140)

Was really enjoying it, but I’ve come back to it, and it appears broken I'm guessing it's DCS AI as per usual...

Edited September 1, 2022 by zildac

[SorelRo]

I'll test it today and let you know. Telling your flight to refuel should be a no brainer on this. It should just work. If I can find a workaround I'll post an updated mission.

[zildac]

8 minutes ago, SorelRo said:

I'll test it today and let you know. Telling your flight to refuel should be a no brainer on this. It should just work. If I can find a workaround I'll post an updated mission.

Many thanks, something is definitely up, or I'm completely stupid. The "clipped" replies from Texaco are also odd, and may be a symptom of something else, I guess. No issues running briefing room generated missions or other AV8 missions. I've just remembered that I have the gameplay "unlimited" weapons option set as I was practising some CCIP run in the AV8, but I'm guessing that should make no odds. Will disable it now anyway.

[SorelRo]

The only thing I could think of is some mods maybe, but I'll test it in a vanilla install and I'll let you know in a few hours. 

One more thing. Are you sure it's mission 8? That line with the nuggets drinking first is on an earlier mission. 

[SorelRo]

Hi,  I ran a test on the Mission 4, that's the one with the refuel with a formation of 4 planes. It works for me as intended. I was able to order them to refuel, then I plugged in, the F-18's followed me to WP 4 and then they went and dealt with the HAWK site and the other SAM in the area, I was able to go over the range of SA-15's and drop the bombs on the ammo depot. 

I haven't done any AAR in about 2 months, damn, I was rusty. So, on the latest OB it works for me. Any chance you can get a recording maybe? 

I had my flight on radio 1 and Texaco on radio 2 

Cheers, 

Sorel 

[zildac]

7 hours ago, SorelRo said:

Hi,  I ran a test on the Mission 4, that's the one with the refuel with a formation of 4 planes. It works for me as intended. I was able to order them to refuel, then I plugged in, the F-18's followed me to WP 4 and then they went and dealt with the HAWK site and the other SAM in the area, I was able to go over the range of SA-15's and drop the bombs on the ammo depot. 

I haven't done any AAR in about 2 months, damn, I was rusty. So, on the latest OB it works for me. Any chance you can get a recording maybe? 

I had my flight on radio 1 and Texaco on radio 2 

Cheers, 

Sorel 

Hi, thanks for investigating. I'll give it another whirl in case it was a one-off. Out of interest, could it be related to me perhaps being early/late push time wise from T/O or is this of no consequence? Also, where did you make the call to get the Wingmen to tank just in the general vicinity of WP3?

[SorelRo]

6 hours ago, zildac said:

Hi, thanks for investigating. I'll give it another whirl in case it was a one-off. Out of interest, could it be related to me perhaps being early/late push time wise from T/O or is this of no consequence? Also, where did you make the call to get the Wingmen to tank just in the general vicinity of WP3?

I don't think so, that initial message with refueling it's just a "unit in zone" trigger, and the tanker has quite a long route following the coast, nothing scripted and or triggered there, I don't want everything to feel very scripted, if you are a bit too early on pushing from WP2 you may be refueling in a turn, if you are late you may be chasing the tanker towards WP4 in both cases you move towards WP 4 and that's okay. In your case I wonder if it is a mod that may be affecting radio comms.  

Edited September 2, 2022 by SorelRo

[zildac]

49 minutes ago, SorelRo said:

I don't think so, that initial message with refueling it's just a "unit in zone" trigger, and the tanker has quite a long route following the coast, nothing scripted and or triggered there, I don't want everything to feel very scripted, if you are a bit too early on pushing from WP2 you may be refueling in a turn, if you are late you may be chasing the tanker towards WP4 in both cases you move towards WP 4 and that's okay. In your case I wonder if it is a mod that may be affecting radio comms.  

 

Thanks for the explanation. It may be a day or so before I can try again due to RL stuff. Good point in terms of Mods. All I'm using are mainly graphical enhancements, except the no pause briefing mod, which wasn't active at the time the issue occurred. I'm not running anything that should interfere with any scripting or similar (I think). I’ve attached a pic of currently enabled mods in case it's of use. I guess the Echo19 sound mod may be causing the "clipping" I'll zap that before I try again.

Edited September 2, 2022 by zildac

[SorelRo]

Nothing there that should cause this, except for the Echo19 mod, but the AI should follow the commands anyway. 

[zildac]

11 hours ago, SorelRo said:

Nothing there that should cause this, except for the Echo19 mod, but the AI should follow the commands anyway. 

I'll try and get on later this evening and see what occurs.

[zildac]

Just got a chance to try this again tonight, and it worked! Well I say it worked, I managed to crack two of the ammo dumps but my wingmen all got shot down

 

 

[SorelRo]

You told them to engage, eh?  The SA-15's are totally acting like super weapons now, not a whole lot I can do about it, when this campaign was done they were strong but manageable, now you can't do a whole lot to take them down, they intercept HARM's, Mav's, JSOW's, Sidearms and so on. I don't know if that's the case in the reality but they seem to be way too capable right now.  

[zildac]

8 hours ago, SorelRo said:

You told them to engage, eh?  The SA-15's are totally acting like super weapons now, not a whole lot I can do about it, when this campaign was done they were strong but manageable, now you can't do a whole lot to take them down, they intercept HARM's, Mav's, JSOW's, Sidearms and so on. I don't know if that's the case in the reality but they seem to be way too capable right now.  

I did Understood, well at least I can move forward. Thanks for your help, and hopefully the SA-15s will get nerfed a little soon!