Su33 campaign mission

[Valinor]

So. No one answered me in the bug section, i'll try here, maybe i'll be more lucky.

 

In one of the missions, you have to protect the fleet from an anti ship strike of F18s with Harpoons.

 

We manage to kill all the F18s, same for the Harpoons that never reach our ships, i even get the "Mission was successful" message, i tried following all waypoints, landing back to the carrier also, and yet, mission result in a failure regardless. It sounds bugged.

 

Anyone else experienced this?

[PE_Tigar]

Not specifically in the Su-33 campaign (haven't played that one) but in MiG-29S or F-15C you have some missions that are clearly poorly balanced or plain undoable, because they were created before some updates have changed the game's behavior.

 

Case in point - MiG-29S mission number 2 relies on a Su-25T strike destroying a SA-11 site - but they never engage, just fly over there and return. I had to examine what the trigger was, then make the Su-25s attack the SA-11 site - and voila! Another example - mission number 4 (I think) where you scramble to intercept 16-airplane strike package with your wingman and two other pairs of MiG-29S. You'd think that fending off the strike would be enough - wrong, it doesn't even matter. The condition is that all strike aircraft need to be destroyed. So in one of the attempts, 15 out of 16 enemy airplanes were shot down, no bombs fell on the base, only one crippled F-4 made it home - and here we go again... This is a joke - in real life, if you faced such overwhelming odds, and had 3-4 kills, and prevented the strike and made it back alive you'd be made Hero of the Russian Federation and promoted.

 

F-15C - I won't even waste time on this one, almost every mission after the first one has you fighting the whole Russian airforce with a semi-competent wingman, and missiles that have a kill ratio of 10%. The scramble mission takes the cake though - the strike reaches your airbase approximately 5 minutes after you start cold from the ramp.

 

So my advice to you - try finding what the condition is for successfully finishing the mission, then either try to fulfill it, or change it to something more realistic. In general, I think the campaigns need to be built more carefully, maybe even forking like Su-25T is.