Mission 3 issue

[kaiseracd]

Hi,

In mission 3, the wingman did not started engine, and appear off the pad. I followed instructions correctly.

[kaiseracd]

Second attempt, there are clearly an issue with this mission.

Once startup permission obtained, the wingman take-off imediately, before me, and fly (with difficulty) over the FARP. Once i obtain takeoff permission, i take off and fly slowly forward to gain enough speed to take altitude, the wingman land at the position seen in the screenshot above, and cut motors... 

I hope you can resolve this issue, 

thanks

[=RAF=Armen]

4 часа назад, kaiseracd сказал:

Second attempt, there are clearly an issue with this mission.

Once startup permission obtained, the wingman take-off imediately, before me, and fly (with difficulty) over the FARP. Once i obtain takeoff permission, i take off and fly slowly forward to gain enough speed to take altitude, the wingman land at the position seen in the screenshot above, and cut motors... 

I hope you can resolve this issue, 

thanks

Hi,

Yes you are right. There is a problem. I'll fix it.
Thanks for the report!

[PoliticalPuffin]

Hi Gents,

I can't tell you how glad I am to have found this post. I too get the issues that @kaiseracd reported above. I am not the greatest of pilots, to say the least, and so I assumed it must be something I am doing wrong. @=RAF=Armen sorry for this stupid question but once a fix is developed would I be correct in assuming that this will get rolled out with an ED DCS update? Is that how this works or will I need to download and install a patch, or what have you?

Thanks to you both. I trust this finds you both well and doing fine.

Cheers,

Dave (Puffin)

[=RAF=Armen]

1 час назад, PoliticalPuffin сказал:

Hi Gents,

I can't tell you how glad I am to have found this post. I too get the issues that @kaiseracd reported above. I am not the greatest of pilots, to say the least, and so I assumed it must be something I am doing wrong. @=RAF=Armen sorry for this stupid question but once a fix is developed would I be correct in assuming that this will get rolled out with an ED DCS update? Is that how this works or will I need to download and install a patch, or what have you?

Thanks to you both. I trust this finds you both well and doing fine.

Cheers,

Dave (Puffin)

Dear Dave,

You don't need to do anything, the fix will be installed along with the update.

[=RAF=Armen]

The problem with the wingman taking off in some missions was resolved with update 2.9.

[Bashibazouk]

Ok. I know this is something to do with my stupidity, or something I missed. When I get to Mission 3, Bandit Camp, I destroy the enemy with the row of tents (after the mortar bombardment). As instructed, I fly back to where the mortars are, land and pick up troops. Then....? I've taken off. No messages. I've flown back to the original FARP. The mission is a draw. I've taken a hint from the throwaway line about Fort 4, something about picking up troops for Fort 4 IIRC. I then tried setting the NDB to 1280 or 1240 (whatever the Fort 4 NDB is) fly to the beacon (where the needle flips, so I know I'm flying over the beacon, land at the Fort which I assume is Fort 4 and.... no further instructions. My wingman continues to circle above the camp with the mortars (Fort 3, perhaps?). 

What am I doing wrong? I've flown this mission enough times that I'm giving up and moving on. But I'm curious to know what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[randomTOTEN]

The spec ops team has a mission, which gives you the hint as to where to go next.

[Bashibazouk]

Nope. Flew Mission 3 again, destroyed bandit camp, return to Fort 6, collected troops as instructed. Nobody is telling me about any mission. I get told to take off, then.... nothing.

Sometimes audio recordings don't seem to come through, and I'll hear only one side of a recorded conversation. It usually fixes itself with a restart, but not in this one. Maybe that's my problem, I'm just not getting important audio messages?

Anyway. I'm giving up. Thanks anyway. Life is too short.

[randomTOTEN]

On 10/25/2023 at 1:17 AM, Bashibazouk said:

Maybe that's my problem, I'm just not getting important audio messages?

All the radio messages are displayed as text. By pressing escape, you can view all text messages displayed in the mission.

Unfortunately I can't see the messages inside the mission editor, but I don't want to spoil the mission for you (or anybody else reading this). I remember flying around for a bit trying to figure out what to do. You'll get it when you get the motivation again.

[Bashibazouk]

On 10/26/2023 at 5:06 PM, randomTOTEN said:

All the radio messages are displayed as text. By pressing escape, you can view all text messages displayed in the mission.

Unfortunately I can't see the messages inside the mission editor, but I don't want to spoil the mission for you (or anybody else reading this). I remember flying around for a bit trying to figure out what to do. You'll get it when you get the motivation again.

All I needed was a nudge! I'm going back in, now I have a way forward. Cheers.

[Kolibri]

Now there is a new issue with M3. When spawning both helicopters spawn on exactly same spot and we just explode...
Ok, so this one doesn't appear every time, but I launched mission 10 times and out of those tries 7 times it happened. 3 times I spawned correctly and could fly the mission - until the next issue.

Second issue comes to play when you land to pick up troops. I land, pilot gives command to troops to board, troops start walking towards the helo, stop next to it and never enter. Nothing happens. Ever. They just stand there.

Edited November 16, 2023 by Kolibri
Added another issue

[=RAF=Armen]

В 17.11.2023 в 00:42, Kolibri сказал:

Now there is a new issue with M3. When spawning both helicopters spawn on exactly same spot and we just explode...
Ok, so this one doesn't appear every time, but I launched mission 10 times and out of those tries 7 times it happened. 3 times I spawned correctly and could fly the mission - until the next issue.

Second issue comes to play when you land to pick up troops. I land, pilot gives command to troops to board, troops start walking towards the helo, stop next to it and never enter. Nothing happens. Ever. They just stand there.

 

I couldn't reproduce the problem myself.

[ngreenaway]

I had a problem with 3 last night

after destroying the camp, go back to green smoke. land in front of the troops, they wander off into the field. get up, land next to them, they just stand there, get up and land on the other side, they just stand there. hard to find trigger zone. after a long time, it said theyre loaded

i fly them to the camp and land. i get a message theyre disembarking, but nothing that theyre off. the troops appear, walk into the wreckage of the camp and stand...and wait, and wait , and wait......im sitting on the ground as a huge target waiting in case they need to be picked up and taken back to the mortar emplacement. finally after accelerating the time for a good while, i just decide to leave. as soon as im up in the air, im told that im good to got. i can take off and RTB

fly back to base, receive clearance to land. wingman is already on the ground and shut down. i land on one of the pads....and nothing....shut down the helo..still nothing. exit the mission and receive a 50% score despite accomplishing all tasks given to me

the campaign is enjoyable, and brings me back to the time when i was new to DCS flying the mi8 campaigns in this same region that i havent revisited in years, but it seems some of the scripting triggers are a little off?

[CyberCopter]

This mission is still flawed. The wingman doesn't leave the FARP. There are no further radio transmissions after clearance to take off. Channel 2 is selected for the FARP and channel 6 is selected for the Fort. People have been posting about this for a year now. Spending hours chasing bugs is a big waste of a customer's time and money.

[=RAF=Armen]

В 31.08.2024 в 22:01, CyberCopter сказал:

This mission is still flawed. The wingman doesn't leave the FARP. There are no further radio transmissions after clearance to take off. Channel 2 is selected for the FARP and channel 6 is selected for the Fort. People have been posting about this for a year now. Spending hours chasing bugs is a big waste of a customer's time and money.

Bug fixes for the campaign will be in the next update.

[BBL]

I just spent two hours trying to figure it out what I am doing wrong ... and this is still not fixed....

That is why I hate dcs... after so much time nothing has changed... bunch of bugged content... when I catch time to spare on dcs ... I have to fight bugs and loose time trying to figure it out what is wrong and every time is bugged content... only money money money ... j

DUDE @=RAF=Armen will you fix this ... this has no point....

[=RAF=Armen]

21 час назад, BBL сказал:

I just spent two hours trying to figure it out what I am doing wrong ... and this is still not fixed....

That is why I hate dcs... after so much time nothing has changed... bunch of bugged content... when I catch time to spare on dcs ... I have to fight bugs and loose time trying to figure it out what is wrong and every time is bugged content... only money money money ... j

DUDE @=RAF=Armen will you fix this ... this has no point....

What exactly doesn't work? I just checked, everything worked the first time.

[BBL]

This does not work:

"This mission is still flawed. The wingman doesn't leave the FARP. There are no further radio transmissions after clearance to take off. Channel 2 is selected for the FARP and channel 6 is selected for the Fort.People have been posting about this for a year now. Spending hours chasing bugs is a big waste of a customer's time and money. "

I´ve wasted two hours of my life just to find this post and to see that the mission is bugged.... So fix it please.

[=RAF=Armen]

30 минут назад, BBL сказал:

This does not work:

"This mission is still flawed. The wingman doesn't leave the FARP. There are no further radio transmissions after clearance to take off. Channel 2 is selected for the FARP and channel 6 is selected for the Fort.People have been posting about this for a year now. Spending hours chasing bugs is a big waste of a customer's time and money. "

I´ve wasted two hours of my life just to find this post and to see that the mission is bugged.... So fix it please.

What mission are you talking about? There is no 6th channel in the 3rd mission and you don't need to fly to the fort.

P.S 

I repeat, the mission has long been fixed. After your message, I also checked today. Everything works there. You are quoting a message that is not relevant.

Edited November 3, 2024 by =RAF=Armen

[BBL]

Just found the cause for this, you must use f10 menu communication option and not to contact the ATC. If you contact ATC the wingmen will not start... and consequently no radio communication later... lost three hours of my time.... bad very bad... lost the will

It is obvious and not at the same time ....

[=RAF=Armen]

You value your time very much, and rightly so. However, I also lost 2 hours of my time because you do not read messages carefully. I hope we are even

[BBL]

Very badly designed, it is not only me complaining, I am sure other people here made the same mistake. Sorry but in other campaigns haven't had such problems, instructions were very straight forward.

Also, later when you need to pick up the soldiers if you do not land very very close to them nothing happens and you have no clue (go closer or whatever)..... next where to drop them??? to the spot, which spot.....

As I have said could be more precise ...

I have wasted your time? You are selling the product you must support it, even the stupid customers... I can run the chopper but cannot read silly interface....

[=RAF=Armen]

Design is a matter of taste. I try to make campaigns where I have to think a little. Some people like it, some don't. It's impossible to make everyone like it, people are different.