papaskot Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 I finally (after more than half a dozen tries/restarts) was able to past the first mission of the first campaign. I flew home landed and then pressed escape and quit the mission. it says the campaign score is 51. ever other time i've done it (and crashed), it would show campaign score of 50. what does that mean? did i complete the first mission correctly? thanks in advance,
Grimes Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 Mission scores in the campaign are all determined by whatever the designer wants a score to be. Most campaign missions start with a score of 50%. This is because a score of 50% is neutral it is neither a success or a failure. 0-49% = Failure 51-100% = Success It varies between mission to mission, but I've noticed in some of the missions they give you a single point for landing (aka surviving) thus it gives the mission a success. All of this matters because a success means you move on to the next campaign stage, a neutral result means you stay on whatever mission you are on, and a failure takes you back a stage. The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world. Current Projects: Grayflag Server, Scripting Wiki Useful Links: Mission Scripting Tools MIST-(GitHub) MIST-(Thread) SLMOD, Wiki wishlist, Mission Editing Wiki!, Mission Building Forum
zamboni Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 In that mission you need to delay the tank column(s) a bit. I've opened up the mission in the mission editor and looked at the mission goals. You get 50 pts for just starting the mission. You get 1 pt for landing. There are two columns of enemies and you can get a maximum of 25 pts for delaying column 1, and max of 25 points for delaying column 2. Delay them for some time and you get 5 pts, delay them longer get another 5, up to 25. Thing is unless you destroy all of the tanks in the first column JTAC assigns you to attack, I dont think you will get targetting for column 2. With only a single wingman, you will be lucky if he survives and you get destroy the first tank column. If you only delay a single column for the max time (I cant figure out what the max time is though), you can only get a max 76pts. To be honest, with this mission...anything you can do to advance to the second mission I would consider to be a success :). I personally was able to get a 76 out of this mission by being able to kill the first tank. All of the following vehicles bunched up, fired off a bunch of mavs at the tanks in the big clump, and then used some CBU-105s to kill off a bunch more from above the clouds. Of course I changed the loadout to give me a TGP + 6 mavs + 4 105s. (I targetted the standing clump from under the clouds, circled back and then climbed to like 9000ft and dropped the 105s from a safe distance). On some of the missions is is difficult to tell just what you need to do to advance. The mission briefing sometimes doesnt help. Sometimes you need to open up the mission editor to find out just exactly what the mission designer wants you to do.
Irregular programming Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 Yeah that mission is confusing, as said delay the tanks for one hour after they spawn.
papaskot Posted March 5, 2011 Author Posted March 5, 2011 Ahh cuz I hit a few tanks and they stopped. I targeted a different column, and called out a contact to jtac, but he said that the other column was not my target. So I called out attack over and jtac told me to depart. I could see that there were two columns to stop from thw map. So after you stop them you have to loiter around for a while to rack up points? Wish I had known. I assume you don't have to kill all tanks cuz they only give you 4 mavs
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