Smerch Hunt

[CptTangerine]

Hi

 

I have updated to V1.2 with DCS World. Since I have a couple of issues have arisen with Smerch Hunt:

 

1. My wingman will not take off - there are some trucks in the path of the route he wants to take and so when he reaches them he just sits the mission out there. Not a massive problem as such but it would be nice to have him take out air defences while I'm dealing with the main event.

 

2. I'm not getting any audio for the targets assigned by CAOC.

 

If anyone has any ideas / solutions I'd appreciate it. This is my favourite mission.

 

Thanks!

[marcos]

Have you tried giving him a target to attack and setting ROE to 'OPEN FIRE' or 'OPEN FIRE, WEAPONS FREE'?

 

This means he will only take out the intended target (OPEN FIRE) or will take out the intended target first (OPEN FIRE, WEAPONS FREE).

[CptTangerine]

I haven't, but the problem with that is that it would require him to be off the runway.

 

At the moment he's stuck on the apron facing the runway but unable to proceed due to a clutter of trucks in the way of his set path.

[zacklaws]

Oddly enough, I have just come across this problem with the wingman not taking off, I tried a few messages to try and get him moving but it did not work. I don't think its because he's blocked in though, because I inadvertantly crashed, and transferred to his aircraft and there is nothing blocking his route in front of him. The vehicles are to the side.

 

As for the Audio it was working for me.

[CptTangerine]

Ah. Weird.

 

Can you get him going again by transferring to his aircraft and moving to the end of the runway or does he continue to sit there looking stupid?

 

As far as the audio is concerned, that might be my PC, I'm having all kinds of problems since I upgraded it. I have a new PSU coming which will, hopefully, fix a few things.

[zacklaws]

I never got the chance to try as I had to go out unexepectantly and it was only an experiment to see if I could change aircraft and did not have plans to try, I cannot even recall if his engines were turning. I'll give it another try tommorow.

[zacklaws]

Finally retried this mission, and this time the wingman did move, but his route to the runway was blocked by some static trucks and he remained there and would not move, regardless of any messages I sent.

 

But the whole mission was "Porked", despite having weapons visible under the wings, nothing was showing on the DSMA page. On the first target I was sent to by JTAC, I could not find nothing there, no matter how much I searched in the surrounding area, after about 10 minutes and many low passes, the enemy appeared unexpectantly on the JTAC grid and as I only had my gun I became too badly damaged with not being able to keep a distance from the AA and had to RTB.

 

I then needed azimuths from ATC etc as I had no MFDS etc, but then after a frustrating 20 minutes, I was just sent back and forth, every azimuth given would be 180 degrees to the previous one, eventually I found the airbase and just as I was about to land, the game froze and CTD'ed

Edited September 11, 2012 by zacklaws

[Revelation]

Zacklaws what do you mean nothing was visible in the weapons page? Can you provide a screenshot or be more detailed in your description? Did you change your ordinance?

 

Can you provide a track file? Since that mission crashed, you obviously can't on that one. Try flying it again and see if the same problems persist and if so save the track file and upload it.

[derelor]

1. My wingman will not take off - there are some trucks in the path of the route he wants to take and so when he reaches them he just sits the mission out there. Not a massive problem as such but it would be nice to have him take out air defences while I'm dealing with the main event.

This is a bug and has already been reported.

[zacklaws]

Zacklaws what do you mean nothing was visible in the weapons page? Did you change your ordinance?

 

Just replayed the mission, apart for the wingman bug, it played flawlessly. Ref the weapons page showing nothing visible, all weapon stations were blank and outlined in red. I have a feeling something may have gone wrong with the Data load yesterday. Yesterday and today, I started using the auto engine start etc, but today the Auto load page on the MFDS seemed to stay displayed longer.

Edited September 11, 2012 by zacklaws

[Revelation]

zacklaws, if you run into the issue again with the weapons page just simply go through the procedure of manually loading the munitions and creating profiles for them. Once you have done it a couple of times it becomes quick and easy. (if you have never done it before)

[zacklaws]

Played it a few more times now and the problems have not reoccured. Also edited and saved the mission to move the three static vehicles to another location and the wingman will now taxi to the runway and take off.