Mission 3 broken?

[Blackbird7]

At 3rd attempt I managed to finish mission 3. And I realized why it is so much harder than those shown on youtube. I had few problems.

1. One Anton from my flight crashes after I take-off. I tried workaround that helped in Beware campaign, to move away and let others take off before me, but it did not help, they wait. So that's one less in fight.

2. Looking at debriefing and Tacview, Antons barely used guns! 10 of them that made it there made 9 burst shots and had only 2 hits, no kills. Nobody except me tried to attack Spitfires on ground. They just tried turn fights until all 10 died. I ordered attack for second flight and my flight to attack bandits. Don't know what else should I have done (ordered attack ground targets?). I checked earlier attempts and it was about the same. I saw on youtube wingman and all others were very active for other players.

3. Any idea how to find home base when it is foggy weather and no F10 cheat? I tried with spamming ATC for directions, but still did not see it.

 

This attempt was total mess even without lethargic flights, I have no idea how I managed to survive (whole time had open canopy, also forgot to drop ext tank). But those mistakes could not have impact, as Antons were also useless in earlier attempts. Mission success (at the end jumped out as I realized rudder is completely broken), happy to manage it with all those difficulties, but still something is wrong. Maybe I did something wrong, DCS/mission script bug or my DCS installation is corrupted? Maybe I broke it with time speed increase to 4x?

I have no mods. Attached track.

horrido 3.trk

[Reflected]

I don’t know if your install is corrupted, remove all mods and run a slow repair. What you describe is core AI behavior and you should report it to ED’s AI team. I can’t tell the AI what bursts to use or how agressive to be. I tell them to attack and that’s it. 
 

as for finding your way home: find a landmark you recognize. Open the F10 map, get a magnetic heading, then follow it until tou find the next familiar landmark, and repeat the process. Just like in real life  

[Shrimp]

As much as five aircraft took off in the wrong direction only to crash on the ground.

 

On 1/8/2024 at 6:45 PM, Blackbird7 said:

I tried with spamming ATC for directions, but still did not see it.

ATC vectors the player to the final of runway in use, not to the airdrome itself.

In this mission it is RWY 32. I don't know the exact distance from runway threshold that the vector points to. Maybe 5 to 10 miles.

So, knowing the vector and distance to the 5 to 10 mile final and the runway in use you know where to look.

Tacview-20250620-155524-DCS.zip.acmi

[Reflected]

Can you please post a trk file? ED doesn’t accept tacview files.