Dying in campaign?

[Itkovian]

Salutations.

 

Assuming I have an immortal pilot, what are the negative consequences of dying or losing missions in the campaign?

 

Can you retry a mission without fear of setting back the campaign? What if you can't retry the mission right away but need to quit for the day?

 

Thank you.

 

Itkovian

[sweinhart3]

Dying in and of itself doesnt set you back a mission. Mission failure sets you back. If you die after completing the objective the campaign will still move forward. If you die on takeoff before your friendlies are killed off, your mission should stay the same when you restart. If you sit on the farp and do nothing and the AI destroys your buddies, youll probably be playing the previous mission the next time around.

 

Once upon a time before patches you could refly the current mission till you passed it if you died. Now (at least for me) refly isnt an option. If you didnt make it, well, that sux.

[Itkovian]

Bah. Very unfortunate indeed. I was hoping there was a better option than killing the mission process. :)

 

I don't mind failure having consequences, but flying the same mission over and over can be rather brutal. :)

 

Itkovian

[sweinhart3]

Yep. I end up flying the same 3 or 4 missions all the time because its always back and forth with failure/success.

[ObvilionLost]

When you get badly hit or you feel that you will die, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and end the simulator.exe process, that way you can replay the same mission.

[GRoss]

^^haha good one!

[PhoenixBvo]

Or backup players.lua and overwrite the update one after a failure and update the backup after a success...