Mission 1. On mission start. Falling into the ocean

[DarkTempest]

Hi. Having some issues with mission 1.   Immediately on mission start.  Its like my jet has no carrier underneath it. And I'm just spawning into the ocean.      Triggers are still coming up giving me messages about starting up, telling me about my knee board etc.  But I'm watching an ai heli fly around cuz im swimming.

[DarkTempest]

Incase it's helpful.  Just tried a mission from another campaign and I failed at mission start due to friendly forces dying somewhere on the map. So im guessing it isn't directly related to this campaign.

[rob10]

Remove your mods (especially plane mods).  Very common issue after the last patch and has nothing to the do with the campaign.  If you search around the forum you'll find which ones are the problem, but some of the SU-xx and at least one VSN are causing issues.

[Jakes]

Hi @DarkTempest

Definitely sounds like something has gone wrong on your end. Not able to reproduce this on my side.
Here is my go-to troubleshooting list:

The No.1 Rule with DCS Campaigns... If you have ANY mod that is NOT purchased from the DCS Store, it will probably cause issues.
SRS and OpenKneeboard(Mostly VR users) seem to be ok, as we test these missions using both.
Make sure to remove any and all mods before flying campaigns. (Check out OVGME, I use it daily and it works well)

If you have no mods, or if removing all mods still does not fix the issue, take the following steps(Test after each step):
1) Delete fxo and metashaders2 folders in your saved games. Can get gummed up with old files.
2) Rename you DCS Saved Games folder, run DCS and let it create a new one. Close DCS and then just copy the Config folder from the old to the new so you don't lose your bindings and also copy your logbook.lua from saved games mission editor folder, that way you don't lose campaign progress.
(Some mods can write to places like your scripts folder in your saved games location as an example. Also seems to help sometimes even if you never run mods at all)
3) Do a full deep repair of DCS to clear up any unwanted stuff in your main game folder.

Some settings to check:
1) If you have easy comms enabled, disable it.
2) Under Gameplay options, make sure the tick box on the bottom right for "No force from mission, use mine" is NOT ticked.
3) Try disabling TacView under special options. It can cause issues, usually performance, that can lead to bugs if your cores are overloaded/too busy and it misses a trigger point due to that.