Mission 5 Wingman issue

[Ralphk]

Hello, i am having an issue with the wingman not forming up with me at Rock on departure... he is wandering somewhere close to Beirut.

Edited April 13 by Ralphk

[baltic_dragon]

AFAIK this is working correctly - but AI is getting wonky quite often because of 3rd party mods (unofficial) or things like Voice Attack or even TacView. Do you have any of these installed?
Also, before you do anything else - try to run a repair. Let me know if that helps. I'd say with 90% chance this is something on your end (and not your fault, just how DCS works sometimes). There was no patch for quite some time and we tested this mission not that long ago. @Jakes any ideas?

[Jakes]

Hi @Ralphk

I am unable to reproduce this issue.
Here are the steps I followed:

- Battery and APU on
- Salute for engine start up (deck crew raises arm)
- Finish Starting Up
- Wait for the on screen pop up that says I can start taxiing OR As per the mission brief - Designer Notes at the end
- Salute Again for taxi clearance
- Follow Taxi director orders
- Took off, flew 240 until I passed 2.5 then flew direct WP1
- Levelled at 20k and got the pop up to check in with Knight and did so
- Had to do an orbit for WM to join up and he was pretty much right there already
- Mission progressed

Some things to try:

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.
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[Ralphk]

Thanks guys for the input will retry tonight!