Saving Campaigns

[JasBird]

Hi

 

I'm not able to save the campaign I've started. I saved before I start Campaign, and after finished Stage 1 I save again, but everytime I start again it's reset to start Stage 1 again?

[Brit_Radar_Dude]

After you finish a mission in a campaign, go through the debrief screen to the next mission, quit from that one and you save your progress by clicking (top left) "file" then "save". Don't confuse this type of saving with "save states" (ie the save button on the window you get after pressing ESC to quit, I have never had that type of save work, most folks haven't - it seems to be borked).

Hopefully, this will fix your problems. But if not, dont worry as there are workarounds, so lets get into those.

 

You can declassify the campaign in the Mission Editor and fly the campaign missions in any order you want (plus change skins, weapon loadout, etc). I use this method all the time to cherry pick the fun missions in a campaign and miss out the dull ones. You can use the same method to progress further on in your campaign.

 

Go into Mission Editor, upper left of screen click on the open button, bottom right TYPE OF FILE select CAMPAIGN, navigate the folder structure to the campaign you want and select it. Bottom right click on MAP. Now you will see the 1st mission of your campaign.

 

Many missions and campaigns are classified with a password so that they cannot be easily/accidentally changed. The stock missions and campaigns that come with Lockon use the password EAGLE.

 

Top left click on EDIT, then DECLASSIFY, enter the password EAGLE. Now all the missions in the campaign should appear on the right hand side, so select the mission you want to fly. If you wish then you can select your aircraft, select PAYLOAD and pick different weapons / fuel load / skin.

 

If you have downloaded any of the excellent missions/campaigns designed by the Lockon community, then some may be classified. Either the briefing notes or the readme file may tell you the password. Some may not.

 

If not, then you can still get into it by overwriting the password with your own. Use keystrokes rather than the menu to do this.

 

Press "ctrl + left shift + C" then type in a password of your choice e.g. 1234.

 

Now press "ctrl + left shift + D" and enter your password e.g. 1234

 

NOTE that Lockon does not seem to remember this, so you may have to do it each time you restart Lockon

 

 

Secondly, there is a really useful utility that will extract missions from a campaign (link below) so you can fly them as individual missions. No real difference from flying them in the campaign....

 

http://www.checksix-fr.com/bibliotheque/index.php?page=detail&ID=2739

 

 

 

Hope this helps.........

Edited February 20, 2009 by Brit_Radar_Dude