Wingman in The Batillus mission flies off into the sunset instead of landing and dying like he should

[quantumchance]

Funny title, but honestly genuine problem. This occurred in the Increased Difficult campaign, if that matters! 

You wingman hails ras al kaimah to declare the emergency, RAK responds then your wingman takes a course away from the coast and never turns back

[Badger633]

Hi @quantumchance

Your right it is a problem, never used to be as you can see from Flying Kenny's fly throughs, playlist on my YouTube channel. I am aware of the issue, it is as a result of a DCS update which changed how AI react to instructions. Sorry, but it is out of my control. I have issued a fix to ED and it will be out next update.

Cheers

[quantumchance]

Completely understand.

Do you know of any reason why when ED changes scripting/AI actions they don't allow campaign creators to review and provide feedback or updates before the patches? This seems like a gaping hole in the support architecture of this business model that is blatantly ignored by Eagle Dynamics. 

I wish they'd stop 'thanking us for passion and support' when they incessantly break the products they're selling.

[quantumchance]

Also, I am wondering if I could fix this just by using the non-beta version? Would that revert it back to the more playable state i wonder?

[Badger633]

Hi @quantumchance

We do get sight of a proposed updated versions prior to release, however these are constantly changing every few days and perhaps the final version only a day before issue. Unfortunately when you have a few campaigns published you can have in excess of 60 different missions each about an hour so it is physically impossible to check each mission every time ED makes change. They can impact existing campaign missions in unexpected ways especially when dealing with AI. So the first we know when we have a problem is when we get a heads up from fellow pilots like yourselves. We can usually get a fix quite quickly but we have to wait until the next update until we can get it out to yourselves.

Unfortunately not, I believe normal and beta versions are one and the same now. 

[QuasarZero]

I've noticed a workaround for this issue (If you don't want to wait until ED releases the next version update to solve it).

By manually landing my aircraft (110) at Ras Al-Khaimah (despite not being required to do so), I've found that the 410 will then proceed to follow the scripted sequence and attempt its emergency landing.

You can try.