Saving halfway through a mission

[Wayc00lio]

Is there anyway to save a mission and go back to where you left off later on? I'm just starting out here and many times I've got halfway through mission one of the Georgian Oil War and had to restart it as something came up. Is this possible?

[Eddie]

No it's not.

 

And hi Waycoolio,

 

Long time no see.

[Wayc00lio]

Hey Eddie - hope you are well!!!!

 

Oh, and thanks for the answer :-)

[zdXu]

Is there anyway to save a mission and go back to where you left off later on? I'm just starting out here and many times I've got halfway through mission one of the Georgian Oil War and had to restart it as something came up. Is this possible?

 

- save the missiontrack after interrupt your mission.

- load the saved track

- go fast forward (with timeacceleration) to the your last point.

- press the "esc"-button and entering the helicoptor with the continue-button.

 

 

I haved played so 6 - 7 hours long missions (with 3 interrupts). Had no issues with that.

I thing after the 1.0.1 patch the track-creation is more stable but i can be wrong.

[Eddie]

Hey Eddie - hope you are well!!!!

 

Oh, and thanks for the answer :-)

 

Not bad mate, still flying around the virtual skies making things go away with high explosives.

 

- save the missiontrack after interrupt your mission.

- load the saved track

- go fast forward (with timeacceleration) to the your last point.

- press the "esc"-button and entering the helicoptor with the continue-button.

 

 

I haved played so 6 - 7 hours long missions (with 3 interrupts). Had no issues with that.

I thing after the 1.0.1 patch the track-creation is more stable but i can be wrong.

 

 

Well, you learn something everyday. I'd never have thought of trying that, always forget about tracks, the number of missions I've lost due to having to quit halfway through! I'll definatly have to try that.

 

EDIT:

 

Just a thought, does this method still work in campaigns? ie Will the next mission in the campagin be triggered if you complete a mission using this method of saving

Edited April 7, 2010 by Eddie

[zdXu]

Just a thought, does this method still work in campaigns? ie Will the next mission in the campagin be triggered if you complete a mission using this method of saving

 

To hop in a track give you general no credits, no flighttime, no kills and all that statistic stuff (own death unsure). To continue a track definitly does not affect the campaign-mission-logic.

 

Maybe i am wrong here. I dont know this exactly.

Edited April 8, 2010 by zdXu

[Eddie]

To hop in a track give you general no credits, no flighttime, no kills and all that statistic stuff (own death unsure). To continue a track definitly does not affect the campaign-mission-logic.

 

Maybe i am wrong here. I dont know this exactly.

 

Yeah, that's what I thought. So at the moment there is no way to save mission progress and preserve campaign progress.

 

Not an issue to me mind you, no other sim I've flow has had that ability either.

[Ramstein]

does this work in multiplayer, save the mission and continue later? :joystick:

 

thanx..

[Booger]

To hop in a track give you general no credits, no flighttime, no kills and all that statistic stuff (own death unsure). To continue a track definitly does not affect the campaign-mission-logic.

 

Maybe i am wrong here. I dont know this exactly.

 

I'm confused.

 

On one hand it definitely does not effect the campaign/mission logic. In the other, you're not sure.

 

:doh:

 

So there's still no clear answer?

[Frederf]

It's just a feature of the track playback. No campaign progress, no statistics, and definitely multiplayer incompatible.

[PhoenixBvo]

Well, I just got a medal awarded after a flight which I started from a track. The medal was also shown in the main menu. Not sure if any points or kills were recorded. But that feature seems very flaky anyway. Often I don't get kills even after campaign missions. Not that it's a big deal...

 

But it got me thinkin' that maybe the campaign does accept missions resumed from a track, but that you'd have to:

1. not die in the part which you record as a track;

2 and resume before going back to the main menu.

 

I'm going to try this...

[topdog]

Some details about your pilot log are global, and some are campaign specific.

 

Your progress in a campaign 'game' is recorded in its own section, each mission you do along with the next mission to try (if you've just progressed to a new one but not yet flown it) are held in their own block of data related to each campaign associated with your pilot. It will record multiple entries for the same mission if you have to redo them (so I have over 20 missions recorded against Deployment campaign because I ended up doing mission08 some 8 times, and a few other missions I failed first time and had to redo as well).

 

Flying missions out of the campaign 'system', such as when taking control of a watched track, aren't registered there.

 

You could likely review the content held in your Ka-50\BlackShark\data\scripts\Logbook\Players.lua file (that's where all the above is derived from), though don't change anything if you're unsure, could corrupt your pilot file and need to wipe and restart it.

 

Some longer missions that include a fair bit of flying to the target area before you get into any action, so long as you're flying a course that's unlikely to see you impacting the ground or a mountain, I'll fast-forward along a way point to save up some time. Just try to turn it off again before you reach any FACs, bases/FARPs, convoys, etc., as you may fast-forward through some useful mission dialog too. You can turn a 2 hour flight into a 30-40 minute one that way, and still not miss any of the action.

Edited April 12, 2010 by topdog