Wuddo you want? --a medal?

[mooshim]

Checked around and in the manuals for criterion for receiving medals, but no joy...

 

I wonder if there's any significance to any of these (and am looking for a cheap reason to feel good about myself).

 

Cheers,

 

Moosh

[Speed]

Checked around and in the manuals for criterion for receiving medals, but no joy...

 

I wonder if there's any significance to any of these (and am looking for a cheap reason to feel good about myself).

 

Well then, here you go. I award you the Distinguished Flying Cross!

 

[Speed]

Personally, I always forget that this is not Falcon (where score was kept only in dynamic campaign missions), and, for example, I'll be testing some mission and I need some friendly ground forces to die to simulate something. So they'll die and I'll exit the mission, and it will say something like "You committed Fratricide! All combat scores deleted!". I might actually care about this if I ever played single player.

[CEPEGA]

Lol, i was flying a GAU8 practice mission (selfmade). And i got a Purple Heart Medal awarded, but i don't know for what :) Nobody was shooting at me (the targets were trucks) and i finished the mission alive. Little strange...

[mooshim]

--made my day Speed. THX!

[Irregular programming]

*plane just exploded*.. HAVE A MEDAL!!!

 

 

Happened to me I don't know how many times.

[rud]

Personally, I always forget that this is not Falcon (where score was kept only in dynamic campaign missions), and, for example, I'll be testing some mission and I need some friendly ground forces to die to simulate something. So they'll die and I'll exit the mission, and it will say something like "You committed Fratricide! All combat scores deleted!". I might actually care about this if I ever played single player.

 

The "All combat scores deleted" message only pertains to your currents sortie. If you go out and kill enemy 8 tanks, then kill a friendly AWACS you lose your kills on those tanks. You don't lose all the combat scores you got from other missions thankfully!

[cichlidfan]

The medals appear to just be awarded in sequence based on unknown criteria. The criteria just cause you to get a medal. Which one depends on which one is next in line from what I can tell. I found some traces in the files awhle back but I don't recall the details.

 

Ranks do not appear to be much different.

[Speedbrake]

CEPEGA you most likely were flying too low over the target when your weapon exploded and you caught some flack. Consider yourself lucky and enjoy your medal? LOL!

[CEPEGA]

CEPEGA you most likely were flying too low over the target when your weapon exploded and you caught some flack. Consider yourself lucky and enjoy your medal? LOL!

 

HOW, can i hurt myself with my own GAU8? LOL! And fired it from 2.0 - 1.5 nm distance :megalol:

[VincentLaw]

Maybe it was a bird strike on your windshield?

[Newt]

Ya know, it would be nice if we could learn the reason for the medals. My best guess is just that it's based on your score. But it'd be cool if they were actually awarded for something instead.

[mark35444]

Reminds me of that episode of the simpsons where they are at the airshow, Sideshow bob has the blimp with the atom bomb, and two F-16's are inbound to shoot him down. The flight lead calls fox 2, his missile launches, flies about 100m then slams into his wingman...He wavers for a second then fires again only for his second missile to shoot himself down. Scene ends with both pilots attempting to beat each other up whilst decending in their chutes :megalol:

 

Edit: I tried to find a clip of the scene but couldn't sorry. My brilliant descriptive writing will have to suffice :thumbup:

[Speedbrake]

You wouldn't get a Purple Heart from a score. Maybe you got a paper cut after the flight filling out all the forms! Better yet you got a finger bruise from holding down the trigger.

[CEPEGA]

Maybe it was a bird strike on your windshield?

 

You would laugh, i set the birds to 150% from that mission on for testing :)

 

Btw, are the birds only simulated? I haven't seen any birds in the game till now

[Irregular programming]

You would laugh, i set the birds to 150% from that mission on for testing :)

 

Btw, are the birds only simulated? I haven't seen any birds in the game till now

 

Yeah birds strikes are just set to a chance of getting hit. There are no actual birds in the game modeled.

[fzfq3m]

Well, I've got that purple heart medal a few times... mostly by getting my A-10C broken in half after destroying many targets in missions flown through Mission Editor... I had never been awarded a medal during campaign or "normal" missions.

 

I also did some research and apparently in real life Purple Heart medal is awarded if you get KIA or WIA....

 

P.S Had somebody notice that in mission debriefing sometimes it says you got ejected after dying? I mean the thing goes like this

 

Actor Target Action

Put your favorite AAA/SAM Here Player A-10C Shoot

Put your favorite AAA/SAM Here Player A-10C Hit

Player A-10C Failure

Player A-10C Dead

Player A-10C Ejected

Player A-10C Crash

 

How can I get ejected if I'm dead?

 

Sorry for hijacking the thread

Edited July 26, 2011 by fzfq3m
just realized that I hijacked the thread

[VincentLaw]

If you die in the game it says "Pilot Dead", not just "Dead". I guess that means your airplane died. Those messages confused me at first too.

[fzfq3m]

If you die in the game it says "Pilot Dead", not just "Dead". I guess that means your airplane died. Those messages confused me at first too.

 

I though same but was not sure...not criticisms intended but I think it should say destroyed instead... :huh: (Just kidding, there are more important things to care about)

 

Anyway to continue with the thread, this ranking and medal awarding system adds more enjoyment to the sim :thumbup: "You've been promoted"... Nice :D

[RodBorza]

The medals appear to just be awarded in sequence based on unknown criteria. The criteria just cause you to get a medal. Which one depends on which one is next in line from what I can tell. I found some traces in the files awhle back but I don't recall the details.

 

Ranks do not appear to be much different.

 

Well, that may be true. Not to brag myself, but just to make a point, I show below my logbook. Got many of those medals while testing a mission I was making. By repeatedly bombing enemies with their AI turned off, I ended up getting promoted and all. I believe that the medal and promotion system is based on points you get by destroying enemy vehicles and infantry. Much like an arcade (i.e. 10,000 points - Air Medal. 20,000 points - promotions..and so on...)

 

[NineLine]

HOW, can i hurt myself with my own GAU8? LOL! And fired it from 2.0 - 1.5 nm distance :megalol:

 

 

Perhaps you fell exiting the plane? :)

[thaisocom]

Lol, i was flying a GAU8 practice mission (selfmade). And i got a Purple Heart Medal awarded, but i don't know for what :) Nobody was shooting at me (the targets were trucks) and i finished the mission alive. Little strange...

Similar thing happened to me. After the mission there wasn't a single scratch on my aircraft but I was awarded with Purple Heart. :wassat:

[Harzach]

Similar thing happened to me. After the mission there wasn't a single scratch on my aircraft but I was awarded with Purple Heart. :wassat:

 

Probably just a bad MRE.:pain:

[Laurius]

Hi there ! Just to add a word, but this has been probably noticed already, the medals you get are really those of the country you choose for your pilot. Otherwise, I think you are awarded medals mainly on your score. I mainly flew single player missions included within the game and several downloaded from here, and I have one profil very similar to the one of Rodborza. Wouldn't be funny to see equivalent medals from all countries represented in DCS A-10C ?? Just a thought...

 

Thank you for reading

 

Laurius