No comm with wingmen in Hunting the Hunters

[Snappy]

Hi,

I recently decided to refly the single mission "Hunting the Hunters" where you have to search&destroy the 

frigate looking for the allied sub.  However it seems not possible to give orders to my wingmen on this mission.

After taking off, I select special channel 1, press the comm menu button and tried various orders, but they don't reply or

follow my orders.  Neither do they reply when trying the other special channels.

Does anybody have an idea or can test this?

Regards,
Snappy

On a side note, it seems communication behaviour in the single missions / instant action is a bit inconsistent, besides wingmen/flight being on special channel 1 usually.

But for example on "tank busting" mission , you can issue orders to your wingman while using the "interphone" comm menu ( and he will reply) , while in "beachhead interdiction" it seems you need to use the actual PTT of the FR22 to bring up the comm menu , issue orders and for the wingman to reply. If you do it via intercom on that mission , he wont answer, at least not to me.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 5 by Snappy

[Machalot]

Hey Snappy,

As I suspected, the comms channel settings for the missions all kind of got messed up when they redid the radio channels in one of the patches, sometime in the past 2 years.  If you are comfortable looking inside the mission files (C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\AJS37\Missions\Single\Hunting the Hunters_SP.miz\mission), you'll find two pieces of information to solve this issue.

The assigned frequency for the Viggen flight is defined on line 1220:

                                ["frequency"] = 123,

There's also a section defining the player aircraft radio presets (lines 941-996). 

                                        ["type"] = "AJS37",
                                        ["Radio"] = 
                                        {
                                            [1] = 
                                            {
                                                ["channels"] = 
                                                {
                                                    [1] = 123,
                                                    [2] = 264,
                                                    [3] = 265,
                                                    [4] = 254,
                                                    [5] = 250,
                                                    [6] = 270,
                                                    [7] = 124,
                                                    [8] = 257,
                                                    [9] = 255,
                                                    [10] = 262,
                                                    [11] = 259,
                                                    [12] = 268,
                                                    [13] = 269,
                                                    [14] = 260,
                                                    [15] = 263,
                                                    [16] = 261,
                                                    [17] = 267,
                                                    [18] = 251,
                                                    [19] = 253,
                                                    [20] = 266,
                                                    [21] = 305,
                                                    [22] = 264,
                                                    [23] = 265,
                                                    [24] = 256,
                                                    [25] = 254,
                                                    [26] = 250,
                                                    [27] = 270,
                                                    [28] = 257,
                                                    [29] = 255,
                                                    [30] = 262,
                                                    [31] = 259,
                                                    [32] = 268,
                                                    [33] = 269,
                                                    [34] = 260,
                                                    [35] = 263,
                                                    [36] = 261,
                                                    [37] = 267,
                                                    [38] = 251,
                                                    [39] = 253,
                                                    [40] = 266,
                                                    [41] = 305,
                                                    [42] = 264,
                                                    [43] = 265,
                                                    [44] = 125,
                                                    [45] = 121,
                                                    [46] = 141,
                                                    [47] = 121.5,
                                                }, -- end of ["channels"]
                                            }, -- end of [1]
                                        }, -- end of ["Radio"]

 

At some point Heatblur reworked the radios to give us access to more presets, and in the process they reordered the way the array elements get assigned radio channels.  Now elements 41,42,43 are Special 1,2,3, and elements 44,45,46,47 are channels EFGH.  Elements 1-40 are assigned to channels 100-109, 200-209, 300-309, 400-409.  So in order to talk to your flight on 123 MHz, you need to set channel 100, which is Grupp 10, button 0.