External tanks not feeding after cold start when equipped from the editor

[Derbysieger]

As per the titel. External tanks won't feed when performing a cold start and they're already equipped at mission start. Attached is a track showing the problem. You have to remove the tanks and then re-equip them in order for them to feed into the internal tanks.

 

Tanks not feeding.trk

[Zabuzard]

Can you reproduce the issue on Caucasus? I still havent gotten access to Kola

(If I do what you describe, it works just fine)

Edited October 21, 2024 by Zabuzard

[Tomcatter87]

Did you put the tank feed switch into the right position? For my part, I didn't know for quite a while that you have to manually select the external tanks on the left console.

[Zabuzard]

Huhu, we checked ur track and it looks like you spawned with empty tanks. Did you possibly select the empty-variant in the Mission Editor? Please doublecheck or send the mission file, thank you.

Edited October 21, 2024 by Zabuzard

[Derbysieger]

22 minutes ago, Zabuzard said:

Huhu, we checked ur track and it looks like you spawned with empty tanks. Did you possibly select the empty-variant in the Mission Editor? Please doublecheck or send the mission file, thank you.

 

No, that was the first thing I checked. This happened after a recent patch. I already tried deleting the tanks save mission and then reapply the loadout to no avail. I will probably not get around to it before Friday but I'll get back to you.

[Derbysieger]

On 10/21/2024 at 3:24 PM, Zabuzard said:

Huhu, we checked ur track and it looks like you spawned with empty tanks. Did you possibly select the empty-variant in the Mission Editor? Please doublecheck or send the mission file, thank you.

I got around to do some more testing and apparently all I have to do is rip out the groups that are affected and replace them with new ones. My guess is something got messed up after a patch or when saving this mission. It only affects a few select groups within the mission and not all of them so it's a pretty quick fix. Thanks anyway!

[Derbysieger]

Well wouldn't you know it the problem reared its ugly head again and I decided to look into it some more and it seems to have something to do with default A2A loadouts. This time it's the Marianas Map so no problems with other payware terrains. Apparently the "fix" for my Kola mission has more to do with using a different loadout than the fact that I placed completely new groups.

On this map I used the A2A MEDIUM RANGE loadout with AIM-7E2's and AIM-9Ls as a standard for all F-4E spawns (see screenshot). I also placed an airstart F-4E ( called "*debug F-4") with the same loadout. Weirdly enough the tanks on this one appear to feed normally but for the cold start F-4s it doesn't. I have no idea what's going on maybe you can shed some light on it @Zabuzard

 For now I'll use a different loadout which fixes the problem.  Mission is attached as well as a short track file.

Marianas_Training_v1.0.24.miz Tanks not feeding1.trk

[Zabuzard]

Its possible that a default loadout is too old and contains invalid definitions. @IronMike FYI