no "thumbs up" in mission 16

[gecko1-1]

First of all, I´m a huge fan of this campaign, sure, there are some minor problems, e.g. very low visability on night tanking, some rough ai manouvering when flying in formation, etc, but overall...i´m loving it. Finally, i got to mission 16, but there, I´m not getting the "thumbs up" from the yellow shirt and flight 204 or sometimes peco is blocking cat 3, even I waited past 15.00, as mentioned in the breefing. Anyone an idea what I´m missing? Your help is very much appreciated...cu up in sky.

 

[Reflected]

You mean no taxi clearance?

problem is that ED designed the Supercarrier logic for the Hornet, and when you put the Tomcat there, that is bigger, sometimes it causes glitches. The mission worked fine until now but in the latest version the AIs started blocking each other. 
 

I spent 2 days reshuffling the parking positions and found a combo that works. I’ll submit to ED for the next patch. 

Then it will hopefully not break again in a few months. 
 

mission designers have very little control over carrier decks, we just assign the AI to the carrier and tell them to launch. Where they spawn, how/ where they taxi, launch, etc…that’s all core AI logic. That’s why it’s a real pain. 
 

PS: I think if you ignore everything and just launch anyway, and fly a case I departure the mission will work. I never trusted the AI to perform a 12 plane launch so there are safe guards. 

Edited February 13, 2023 by Reflected

[gecko1-1]

yes, no taxi clearance and paco is stopping and holding position infront of cat 3 ...so I did what you suggested, started from cat 4, did the case I departure, met some Tomcats above mother at 15k (2 time 4-ships, and a single lion 3) but it seems to me that they are waiting for the missing two Tomcaters lions 3-1 and 3-2, so I decided first to push to wp1 (~90nm) then to wp 2 (another*140nm) , but cannot get to the end of the first part of the mission. Maybe you have any further suggestion for me to reach that point...

[Reflected]

1 hour ago, gecko1-1 said:

yes, no taxi clearance and paco is stopping and holding position infront of cat 3 ...so I did what you suggested, started from cat 4, did the case I departure, met some Tomcats above mother at 15k (2 time 4-ships, and a single lion 3) but it seems to me that they are waiting for the missing two Tomcaters lions 3-1 and 3-2, so I decided first to push to wp1 (~90nm) then to wp 2 (another*140nm) , but cannot get to the end of the first part of the mission. Maybe you have any further suggestion for me to reach that point...

Ah sorry to hear, then you'll need to wait for the next update

[gecko1-1]

ok, I´m looking forward to it, thanks for your answer!