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So...mission 7 done. Sort of.
I killed a tank and then managed to get myself blown up while trying to strafe a helicopter. Would've been nice if HQ had given us anti-air support for this mission...
I watched the remaining friendlies do their thing on high time acceleration.
My wingman flew all the way back to base to hit the first waypoint, then back to the engagement area, where he Vikhr-d a AAA site and then circled the front line launching flares and being useless until a SAM took him out.
I then watched the tanks proceed to mop up all the enemies and arrive at their final destinations intact. Apparently, my air support was largely optional for this mission.
Thinking this might still at least get me a passing result, I exited the mission at this point.
And then DCS World crashed. I start it back up, and it says the campaign is inactive and I'd have to restart. Screw that. I looked up info on how the campaign is stored on disk online and discovered it's in "logbook.lua" in the MissionEditor folder of the DCS saved games dir. In the campaign record, it shows all the missions you've done with basic stats, and the next mission with no stats.
The mission I'd just failed was listed there (amusingly, with a 100 result--apparently I was truly optional, or the tank I killed was pivotal or something), but there was no "next" mission. Rather than trying to figure out what the actual next mission should be, I'm going to reset this last mission and fly it again--since it already had the 100 result, I can't exactly do any better, and at least now I know to avoid those evil helicopters...
Edit: still had some trouble getting the campaign to work, so I hunted a bit more. I'd switched "Invulnerable" to "No" in the Logbook in DCS World, thinking it was a game setting or something. Turns out, what that actually does is forcibly retire your profile (and any campaign progress) when you die.
So yeah, unless you enjoy having to start the campaign over, make sure "Invulnerable" in your user profile in the logbook is "Yes." I mean, if you're a masochist maybe keep it that way, but yeah.
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---------- Post added 10-31-13 at 01:01 ---------- Previous post was 10-30-13 at 23:21 ----------
Campaign mission 7 do-over complete. Sort of.
Mission success, took out all targets, lost wingman to MANPADS beathead. Landed fine, was shutting down the plane and DCS froze up. Close it, it comes back to the main DCS window, where it states that it can't find the debriefing file.
:compbash:
But the campaign still wants to progress...I check the LUA file, and it turns out that somehow it reset the mission 7 progress to my first go-round, with one A2G kill, one death, and a 100% result. So the last two hours I just spent re-doing the mission properly have vanished, but oh well--a 100's a 100 and the campaign is progressing forward. Apparently the missing "next mission" in the LUA file wasn't the issue before, it might've just been the profile thing. D'oh.
Also, I tried to pay attention to Vikhr behavior in crosswinds, both with making a point of crabbing into the crosswind to maintain a ground track and just pointing straight at the target. Only Vikhr miss of 16 shots was when I fired just beyond the minimum range, so it didn't really have time to catch the beam. So no idea there...
Edit: ohhh, I just checked the next mission. Apparently the coalition has finally joined on the Georgian side, and I'm no longer facing exclusively ex-Soviet hardware. Now I'll need to re-learn visual identification of all the various threats... and dang, the US SAM hardware seems to be better than the Russian equivalents. Will need to be a lot more careful approaching SAM sites...
I killed a tank and then managed to get myself blown up while trying to strafe a helicopter. Would've been nice if HQ had given us anti-air support for this mission...
I watched the remaining friendlies do their thing on high time acceleration.
My wingman flew all the way back to base to hit the first waypoint, then back to the engagement area, where he Vikhr-d a AAA site and then circled the front line launching flares and being useless until a SAM took him out.
I then watched the tanks proceed to mop up all the enemies and arrive at their final destinations intact. Apparently, my air support was largely optional for this mission.
Thinking this might still at least get me a passing result, I exited the mission at this point.
And then DCS World crashed. I start it back up, and it says the campaign is inactive and I'd have to restart. Screw that. I looked up info on how the campaign is stored on disk online and discovered it's in "logbook.lua" in the MissionEditor folder of the DCS saved games dir. In the campaign record, it shows all the missions you've done with basic stats, and the next mission with no stats.
The mission I'd just failed was listed there (amusingly, with a 100 result--apparently I was truly optional, or the tank I killed was pivotal or something), but there was no "next" mission. Rather than trying to figure out what the actual next mission should be, I'm going to reset this last mission and fly it again--since it already had the 100 result, I can't exactly do any better, and at least now I know to avoid those evil helicopters...
Edit: still had some trouble getting the campaign to work, so I hunted a bit more. I'd switched "Invulnerable" to "No" in the Logbook in DCS World, thinking it was a game setting or something. Turns out, what that actually does is forcibly retire your profile (and any campaign progress) when you die.
So yeah, unless you enjoy having to start the campaign over, make sure "Invulnerable" in your user profile in the logbook is "Yes." I mean, if you're a masochist maybe keep it that way, but yeah.
---------- Post added at 23:21 ---------- Previous post was at 23:18 ----------
Odd, I've never noticed an effect like that. I'll keep an eye out...Strangely poor Vikhr performance (as mentioned before on this thread). However, I believe I know the reason. They don't like being launched cross-wind, and there was a hefty breeze from the south in the first mission. It is actually quite a reasonable deduction; the designating platform (ie; you who launched it) is drifting with the mass of air and the Vikhr is having trouble riding the constantly changing angle of the beam on target (ie; cannot maintain co-linearity). I know the Vikhr is in the same mass, but the ground target isn't, and the changing beam angle defeats its guidance, it seems. As I had already cleared the southern flank (from the south, with no Vikhr inaccuracy evident), I reverted to attacking the main offensive up the valley from the same direction and presto, regained Vikhr accuracy.
Glad they were useful to you!Well, again, thanks for the introduction to this cracking simulator, and the help and advice (in particular Hielor's debriefs!).
---------- Post added 10-31-13 at 01:01 ---------- Previous post was 10-30-13 at 23:21 ----------
Campaign mission 7 do-over complete. Sort of.
Mission success, took out all targets, lost wingman to MANPADS beathead. Landed fine, was shutting down the plane and DCS froze up. Close it, it comes back to the main DCS window, where it states that it can't find the debriefing file.
:compbash:
But the campaign still wants to progress...I check the LUA file, and it turns out that somehow it reset the mission 7 progress to my first go-round, with one A2G kill, one death, and a 100% result. So the last two hours I just spent re-doing the mission properly have vanished, but oh well--a 100's a 100 and the campaign is progressing forward. Apparently the missing "next mission" in the LUA file wasn't the issue before, it might've just been the profile thing. D'oh.
Also, I tried to pay attention to Vikhr behavior in crosswinds, both with making a point of crabbing into the crosswind to maintain a ground track and just pointing straight at the target. Only Vikhr miss of 16 shots was when I fired just beyond the minimum range, so it didn't really have time to catch the beam. So no idea there...
Edit: ohhh, I just checked the next mission. Apparently the coalition has finally joined on the Georgian side, and I'm no longer facing exclusively ex-Soviet hardware. Now I'll need to re-learn visual identification of all the various threats... and dang, the US SAM hardware seems to be better than the Russian equivalents. Will need to be a lot more careful approaching SAM sites...
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