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I am on my fourth mission (the artillary one), and only one target away from beating the mission, my game crashed and by the time i get back to the game, for whatever reason, the campaign ask me to start with mission 2. i did press save every time after a mission, but this crash somehow erased all the saves and i have to start again from mission 2 (yeah, the painful SAM barrage one).

i would like to know a way to somehow unlock all the missions, so i can play them without worrying about a setback. if possible, can someone tell me the correct way to save your progress after each mission, since none of my ingame and outgame saves works.

 

thank you

 

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let me ask some more questions, is there a way to replace the default pilot picture with one of my own? if yes, where should i put the file?

 

i know that we can record the game before we start the mission, but is there a in game feature where i can choose where to start and stop so i can make little segments of clips?

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i did press save every time after a mission, but this crash somehow erased all the saves ...

 

very weird

 

and i have to start again from mission 2 (yeah, the painful SAM barrage one) ...

 

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i would like to know a way to somehow unlock all the missions, so i can play them without worrying about a setback...

 

you need to play the campaign in edit mode

 

1/click open

2/select Campaign files

 

note : the campaign has to be declassified to do so

 

can someone tell me the correct way to save your progress after each mission, since none of my ingame and outgame saves works.

 

when you finished the mission click on save (floppy)

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very weird

very painful is the word

 

 

 

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well, i'm sure you know that mission...i got chased all over the sky by those sams.

 

 

 

you need to play the campaign in edit mode

 

1/click open

2/select Campaign files

 

note : the campaign has to be declassified to do so

it's the offical campaign, is it classified?

 

 

when you finished the mission click on save (floppy)

exactly what i did, but the save disappeared after the crash

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let me ask some more questions, is there a way to replace the default pilot picture with one of my own? if yes, where should i put the file?

 

Yes you can, I did it myself.

 

I am from the UK so I wanted my picture as a UK pilot, so I put it in

 

....\lockon\PilotLogBook\Pilots\UK

 

Make your picture the same size as the default ones in the game - 128 x 128 pixels.

Make the name of the picture the same as your pilot name, for me my pilot name is Brit_Radar_Dude so the picture was Brit_Radar_Dude.jpg

 

Here are my standard logbook hints and tips you may find useful.

 

Log Book Problems.

 

To get your logbook working you should create a pilot and make sure the "default" box is ticked.

 

Also notice that even if you checked the "default" box on your pilot his stats are only updated when you fly for that pilot´s country or when your pilots country is in the same coalition, meaning that if "your" pilot is American the stats of missions you fly for Russia for example will not be stored in "your" pilot´s log unless you make sure USA is on the same side as Russia.

 

Some missions and campaigns you download from Lockon Community websites may have the pilot name already in, so you would need to edit it to your pilot name to make sure you get the mission stats logged to you.

 

 

A couple of things......

 

1) He must be alive. Once he is dead, then you might still be using his name as the pilot name, but he won't log any time. Each time he dies, you have to use notepad or a similar text editor to edit the file

 

C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\Lock On\PilotLogBook\Pilots.xml

 

Search for your pilot name, then move a bit more along the line until you see Status=

If it says 0 (zero) then your pilot is dead, change it to say 1 (one).

This is a real pain in the *&% to have to do . Try to bale out when you get shot down, so you are still alive. If you can't, hit ESC and quit before you die. Having to constantly edit the Pilots.xml gets old real fast.

Remember status = 0(dead), status = 1(alive and kicking).

 

2)You may have a problem regarding which country your pilot is from and which planes you try to fly. Overcome this by making sure that your pilots country is in a coalition of the side he is flying for. For example I have made a British pilot, but there are no flyable British aircraft in Lockon. I like to fly Su-27, so in any missions/campaigns I make myself (or D/Load from the Internet) I always edit them so that UK is in the same coalition as the Russian or Ukrainian Su-27 I want to fly. That ensures my flight gets logged.

 

Some missions/campaigns are classified so you cannot change the details including pilot name. To declassify them so they can be edited, use password EAGLE for the stock ones that come with the Sim. Any missions or campaigns you download from Lockon Community websites may have the password in the Readme file or the mission briefing. If not, then overwrite the password by pressing

 

CNTRL SHIFT C and putting in your own new password eg 1234, then declassify with

 

CNTRL SHIFT D 1234,

 

Now you can change weapon loadout, fuel load, aircraft skin, pilot name, etc, etc.

 

Note that Lockon doesn't seem to remember that you've replaced the password, so each time you restart Lockon you'll likely have to do it again.

 

 

 

 

i know that we can record the game before we start the mission, but is there a in game feature where i can choose where to start and stop so i can make little segments of clips?

 

Yes, the recording is saved as a track file. You can mess with it afterwards.

 

Here is my standard Track editing info.

 

 

Track Editing

Record your track as normal and save it with some suitable name. To be super safe and to ensure you preserve the original track, copy it to another name before you start the editing process.

The default location where tracks are saved is (I think)

.....\lockon\missions\tracks

 

Go into the Mission Editor, choose OPEN, then bottom right of screen you will see TYPE OF FILE, choose TRACK FILES. Navigate your folder structure to wherever you saved your track and choose your track by clicking on it, click on MAP, then (instead of pressing FLY) you choose (top left of screen) FLIGHT, VIDEO EDIT.

Now you can go through the track, pressing S to pause / unpause the track whenever you want to make a change. While it is paused you can change camera views with the usual F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 etc view keys, zoom in / out, etc, F6 weapon view, F7 vehicles, F8 target view, F9 ships, F11 for airfield view - whatever you want. Shift F10 to switch labels on / off etc.

 

If you use F2 external view, press Y twice to get rid of the status bar at the bottom of the screen before unpausing.

 

You can use CNTRL/A to speed up the running through the replay if you have a long bit you don't wish to edit, ALT/A to slow down and SHIFT/A to return to normal speed.

 

Be warned, occasionally changing views can change how the track replays and alter the outcome of the track ie a missile might miss when it hit previously! I think things like the use of helmet mounted sight is one of the problem areas, ditto the padlock command.

 

Once you finish, save it with a different name to preserve your original track. Always best to delete / overwrite nothing till you are 110% sure you dont need it again ;)

 

Sometimes a tracks views are locked, use a utility to unlock them.

The original utility was called LOTU, then came LOTU v2.0, then LOME, then LOME v1.1 which is the latest version, link below...

 

http://www.lockonfiles.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownloaddetails&cid=82&lid=789&ttitle=Lock_On_Mission_Editor_LOME_v1.1#dldetails

 

Hope this helps.....

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thank you thank you thank you....that answered all my questions in a well organized package...i was about to ask what would happend if my pilot got killed...but you already gave me the answer.....

 

plus 1 reputation for you.

 

do you known any software that i can use to resize pictures to 128x128 with out too many complexity?


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yeah, mine short cut is the pilot xml file itself........

is it normal for a new player to LOMAC die multiple times during the default campaign?? it seems i can never finish the default campaign with out die once....my longest streak took me all the way to the fifth mission (AWACS hunt)....then i got nailed by a su-27 escort....never got the chance to punch out......

 

i am having trouble fighting more than 4 fully armed air superiority aircraft like the 29 or 27....if i am taking on 4 or 6, i normally die after shooting down the first two.....

 

is it reasonable or it just my skill still need improvement? i have about a few weeks of experience on this game.


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is it normal for a new player to LOMAC die multiple times during the default campaign??

i have about a few weeks of experience on this game.

 

Mate, I've had Lockon since Christmas 2003 and I still die all the time. :music_whistling:

 

Since I die so often, pilots.xml is always on the "recently accessed files" in my text editor.

 

As for getting into big furballs with multiple bandits, try and avoid that. While the bandits are as far away as possible, try to sort out where they are and what plan of engagment you will have. Try to take them on one or two at a time. That may involve something other than simply flying into the middle of the lot of them, you might be better going around one side of them. An AWACS in the mission on your side can help you figure out where they are, ditto your RWR.

 

Use your AI wingman wisely. You can instruct him to pincer left/right and manouevre yourself the other direction, then come back in and and try and catch a bandit between you. You can also lock up a particular bandit and tell your wingman to engage him, then you unlock and pick a different one to engage yourself. IMHO your AI wingies will do better if you tell them what to do than if you leave them to do it themselves.

 

And when you get to the last mission in the default F-15 campaign, dont worry if you do not get a mission success, it is pretty much impossible for the AI that you are escorting to kill the ship, it has too many SAM's. Count it a success if you shoot down the bandits.

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do you known any software that i can use to resize pictures to 128x128 with out too many complexity?

I wasn't bothered about the quality of picture I ended up with so I just used Paint. Click on Image, then stretch/skew and "unstretch" the picture. Click on image, attributes to see how big your picture is.

 

Something I've found since then is a freeware tool called "visualizer photo resize" Just google that exact spelling and you'll find it.

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