Mission 6 seems impossible, rescue helicopter runs away before I can take the first shot

[bernardv]

Hello, what's the trick with mission 6 (Everyone comes home)? The rescue helicopter gets shot at and runs away (without performing the rescue) as soon as I arrive at the scene. Doesn't matter if I take out all of the Russian forces after that, the helicopter is gone and Colt is left at the LZ. Is this a bug?

[King39]

Let me look at it and get back to you. What version of DCS World are you on?

[bernardv]

Latest beta - 2.8.8.43704 (installer verson 2.16.3.18).

Edited October 1, 2023 by bernardv

[King39]

OK, got it sorted out and have submitted it for the next update (after the current 2.9 OB update). Thanks for the heads up. The Jolly voiceover wasn't loading for some reason.

[bernardv]

Hi, I noticed the fix included in this last update, thx. The F-16 planes are at the scene now, but the rescue helicopter still arrives super early and then runs away without picking up Colt. Am I doing something wrong? What is the trigger for the rescue helicopter to approach?

[Animal66]

Hi, very interesting campaign till now but I am stucked in mission 6. Analysing in Tacview I see that immediatly after the start of the mission an A-10 with callsign Major Took Key-1 flies to the LZ with both Chinook and Apache behind him. At the LZ The A-10 kills himself by flying directly into a mountain. 17 minutes later  both choppers arrive at the LZ, the Chinook lands but doesn't pick up the poor chrashed pilot. The Apache is already on it's way back and also kills himself by flying into a mountain. The Chinook takes off at  the moment that my flight cross the border. We crossed shortly after that but I didn't noticed the Chinook. I started to destroy all enemies and after one hour of priceshooting I took off to Senaki.

What went wrong?

nullThe picture is the moment that the Chinook returned while I arrived at the LZ.

Tacview-20240225-190250-DCS-Mission 6 A-10C II.zip.acmi

[Scoop]

Exactly the same thing happens to me

[Animal66]

Seems the developer doesn’t follow-up this post anymore

[Gunnar81]

Kinda sounds like base game AI issues and not campaign issues but who knows. How do you like the rest of the campaign? I've been thinking about picking this one up.

[Delta Kilo]

Hi,

I had the same issue and then, after reading this, I thought try it again (to get at least 51 points and some kills) and somehow, I said to myself: "Let´s follow the script!" And it worked!

It feels odd but see it in a way that you clean up the mess after they rescued the downed pilot.

That said, when you get the message that you are 10min out and you should do the call out (from inside the hanger!), DO IT! And everything works out.

They picked up the pilot and before you arrive at the border, the helos are on the way back home and you get the message to RTB.

I decided then to still engage the Russians and cleaned up everything.

Surprisingly when I finished them, an AH-64 appeared, and I thought to do some CAS for him, even though there was nothing left. Unfortunately, he crashed into a mountain on the way back home.

Landed and mission complete.

BR,

DK

[King39]

My apologies to everyone. I missed this thread and didn't see it until now. I have fixed this problem in v2.3 so it shouldn't be a problem now. For some reason I don't get all of the posts in this forum.