Issues in mission 8

[f4tca7]

Hi @Badger633 sorry to trouble you again, but could you check mission 8? I encountered two issues, on three attempts:

1) Dodge/Joker never push, they keep in hold at WP1 (Happened on 2/3 attempts)

2) In a subsequent attempt, Joker does their job and I was able to attack my target. JTAC told me "both warehouse and truck destroyed" (or similar, but my bombs definitely hit my target, I saw that in the pod). However, at egress I got a mission failed notification that the targets weren't destroyed. On the tacview, it seems like 420 is attacking my target instead of the warehouse, but not sure.

Thanks for having a look.

Tacview-20240816-162724-DCS-ROPL2 M8 NU CLEAR IT.zip.acmi Tacview-20240816-180639-DCS.zip.acmi

[Badger633]

Hi @f4tca7

Yes I am aware point 2. He is definitely attacking the wrong target. He is down to bomb his own. Same old story I’m afraid as we get updates the AI is acting differently. I have fixed this now so this won’t be an issue in the future and will be in next main update.

As to the first point I cannot get it to happen this end. Will look into it.

Thanks for the files i will check them out.

 

[Badger633]

@f4tca7 are you using automatic start as you appear to be very quick after Dodge? This timing could be part of the problem with your point 1 above. 

[f4tca7]

@Badger633 I'm starting up manually, but I'm also not looking to waste time. I gave it another try, if I hang around on the ship a bit, it seems that Joker is reliably pushing. Another weird thing I noticed: I tried to self-lase the warehouse and hit it with my second bomb. But the bomb always hits the convoy, no matter the laser code I use (tried 1588, 1788. Bomb and pod are matching). Any idea what that could be, or am I missing something obvious?

[Badger633]

@f4tca7 Thought it might be the speed. I have adjusted things now so speed shouldn't make any difference in the future. Again in next main update. 
 

Not sure about the lazing matter. In the script the JTAC is lazing the convoy with 1688 and will remain doing so. Not sure if the 1688 might be hard wired in the new fuses, could well be wrong on that, but it would explain your issue . To be honest got enough problems keeping the missions working with the DCS updates so don't go looking for other issues.  

[f4tca7]

Thanks @Badger633. I managed to succeed the mission by hitting 420's target with a JDAM. I'm really enjoying the campaign, but the bugs are quite annoying (appreciate it's ED's mess, and also appreciate your quick responses). For the future, maybe you could consider a function to skip ahead in the missions, that would help with the startup/ingress time. It gets a bit repetitive after the 5th time.

[Badger633]

@f4tca7 To be honest its not normally as frequent as this but DCS over the last few months have done what appears to be a lot of AI changes. So really you shouldn’t have to be jumping through these hoops. You will note in  mission 9 next I have split this in to 2 parts so you are not having to replay the ingress.