Sortie 4 - Squadron does not take-off

[Sluggish Controls]

Hola Reflected,

First of all, let me say that I very much enjoy your WW2 campaigns. The atmosphere gets me instantly, and this is the 3rd or 4th time that I'm flying Beware, Beware.

I just started Sortie #4 and followed my Leader up the taxiway and took-off. Then circled around the airfield (with my flight slightly ahead of me) and waited beyond the regroup time. No other aircraft rejoined, besides 2 distant dots I could not ID. Then I did a low pass over our airfield and observed 5 or 6 Spits with engines running, but all "stuck" on the taxiway, unable to move forward.

On a side note, Sortie 3 seems to get me in trouble with an instant "Fratricide" . Two guards in my blister hangar get crushed under my wings as soon as I spawn in LOL Mind you, not a game breaker, I still flew Sortie 3 successfully and returned in one piece. Never cared much about my kills count anyway.

Sortie #4 is however broken at this time. Probably a recent DCS update screwed things up.  

Please have a look, soz no track.

Cheers,

Slug

[jackill]

I had the same - traffic jam on taxiway. But I restarted the mission and let one more plane to taxi before me, then it didn't happened again. Unfortunately I don't have track to investigate for ED, but @Sluggish Controls try mission again, but start taxiing in different order.

 

Edited November 20, 2024 by jackill

[Reflected]

Hi!

Thanks for the report. AI taxi was bugged often a year or so ago but I thought ED fixed it. 

Mission 3: ground AI pathfinding has been broken for about 4 years, the soldier shouldn't go anywhere near you, but they jsut do whatever they want. I removed it now, but it will make the scenery less alive of course.

Mission 4: I played it 3 times, and only saw what @jackill's video depicts once out of the 3 times. I rearranged the parking spots to make it less likely to happen. If it happens again, please post a track. I cannot fix these AI taxi bugs, only ED can, but they won't even talk to us without a track.

Thanks!

[jackill]

Thanks! I will remember to save track if any issue will happen

[Sluggish Controls]

Thank you both, appreciated  

Cheers,

Slug