Mission 8 - possible bug?

[Pilot98]

Hi, I'm really enjoying this campaign, it's great!

On Mission 8, after being told to go into the hold at 05 end, I didn't get a call to land. I stayed in the hold until my fuel was down to about 700lb and then landed without clearance. It let me pass the mission fine, but perhaps I missed a trigger? Or an update has broken a trigger?

I'm looking forward to the next mission.

 

[ChillNG]

7 hours ago, Pilot98 said:

Hi, I'm really enjoying this campaign, it's great!

On Mission 8, after being told to go into the hold at 05 end, I didn't get a call to land. I stayed in the hold until my fuel was down to about 700lb and then landed without clearance. It let me pass the mission fine, but perhaps I missed a trigger? Or an update has broken a trigger?

I'm looking forward to the next mission.

 

Hi, great to hear you're enjoying the campaign!

Most likely you missed a trigger but I'll have a double check, were you put in the pattern by the tower?

[Pilot98]

Thanks

Yes, the tower put me into the hold at the 05 end. I had one telling off for straying out of bounds, but then established my hold quite well. I think I did about 10 times round the pattern and then landed without clearance as my fuel was about to finish. 

It still let me complete the mission ok, but thought I'd flag just in case it wasn't me! 

Thanks. 

[ChillNG]

9 hours ago, Pilot98 said:

Thanks

Yes, the tower put me into the hold at the 05 end. I had one telling off for straying out of bounds, but then established my hold quite well. I think I did about 10 times round the pattern and then landed without clearance as my fuel was about to finish. 

It still let me complete the mission ok, but thought I'd flag just in case it wasn't me! 

Thanks. 

Ok thanks I'll have a check and see what's going on, thanks for the heads up.

[cobragva]

I have hit the target, then I went straight toward the airport as a bit light on fuel. I didn't have any communications (even the approach), landed and mission not a success.

I am sorry but please, stop making such campaign so scripted as it just remove all the enjoyment. As example, and I am sorry, it is just me but I am stopping this campaign.

 

 

[ChillNG]

1 hour ago, cobragva said:

I have hit the target, then I went straight toward the airport as a bit light on fuel. I didn't have any communications (even the approach), landed and mission not a success.

I am sorry but please, stop making such campaign so scripted as it just remove all the enjoyment. As example, and I am sorry, it is just me but I am stopping this campaign.

 

 

All my missions are designed to be really flexible in how you play them, to allow you to take different approaches, screw up, run low on fuel, get damaged.  There's almost always an option available to abort the mission and RTB.  So I would argue more scripting is better as it gives more player choice and reduced the chances of you getting stuck at any point.

If you think you've got a specific issue with this mission if you can provide a bit more detail on what you did I'll happily run some checks.

[cobragva]

Dear Chillng, 

Let me give you more details: 

- I destroy the objective (CAS), I am asked to join back Poodle which I didn't twice.

- I don't get any communication

- I land 

- mission score 26, mission result 50 so mission not success

Now, every time i want to try it again, I will have to go throught the same script (take off, corridors, comms). Maybe putting an option via the f10 that once the objective is destroyed, the player could get out with mission won. It isn't realistic, but doing exactly the same for 4-5 times also remove totally the realistic part of it

just a suggestion for other players that have the same experience

 

 

[ChillNG]

4 hours ago, cobragva said:

Dear Chillng, 

Let me give you more details: 

- I destroy the objective (CAS), I am asked to join back Poodle which I didn't twice.

- I don't get any communication

- I land 

- mission score 26, mission result 50 so mission not success

Now, every time i want to try it again, I will have to go throught the same script (take off, corridors, comms). Maybe putting an option via the f10 that once the objective is destroyed, the player could get out with mission won. It isn't realistic, but doing exactly the same for 4-5 times also remove totally the realistic part of it

just a suggestion for other players that have the same experience

 

 

Once you rejoin back with poodle the mission will continue, there is a lot more mission and events still to happen after this point, which is why you can't just RTB at this time.  Hopefully the new save game feature will arrive soon, which will be a big help in replaying missions.

[cobragva]

Look what happened now: 

- i did bomb, did follow the leader to wp4, engaged the mig but got bingo....now wanted to go back to base but knowing that if I leave the leader, mission will fail.. he shot both migs and we departed but he continued his scripting way through the waypoints ...I had to leave to get to a tanker and arrived to him short of fuel...mission failed. 

sorry, but the problem is that we just have no clue what will make the mission a success unless we follow him all the way..

Too bad ...I am done with it

[ChillNG]

1 hour ago, cobragva said:

Look what happened now: 

- i did bomb, did follow the leader to wp4, engaged the mig but got bingo....now wanted to go back to base but knowing that if I leave the leader, mission will fail.. he shot both migs and we departed but he continued his scripting way through the waypoints ...I had to leave to get to a tanker and arrived to him short of fuel...mission failed. 

sorry, but the problem is that we just have no clue what will make the mission a success unless we follow him all the way..

Too bad ...I am done with it

Ok fair enough, if thats how you feel, thank you for purchasing the campaign anyway.  If you do decide to try again I recommend checking out a play-through such as this one for some additional guidance, this isn't an issue that anyone else has reported in almost 2 years since release so I suspect you're making some errors along the way with fuel management, you can also find the fuel plan in your kneeboards for target fuel states as you fly the mission.