My AI flight takes off only after long delay.

[Wolferl_1791]

Our campaign generated mission is to escort some ground attackers. After starting the mission, lots of flares shoot out, as the flight of attackers approaches our airfield, the lead asks for permission to take off, starts engine and then just sits there. If I take off alone, the rest of the mission seems to be fine, but other planes in my flight never take off. Attached is the mission file.

Missions.zip

 

EDIT: seems they do take off, but with a big delay.

Edited March 19, 2018 by Wolferl_1791

[komakino]

Same happens to me. Was fine at the beginning of the Soviet Career (Moscow map), the issue appeared since im taking off from Tushino airfield. 

 

Edit: The take off from Khimki airfield was ok, so maybe is Tushino the only one (for me at this moment) bugged.

Edited March 15, 2018 by komakino

[Wolferl_1791]

1 hour ago, komakino said:

Same happens to me. Was fine at the beginning of the Soviet Career (Moscow map), the issue appeared since im taking off from Tushino airfield. 

 

I restarted the mission a few times and this is what eventually happened:

- my flight 3x Mig 3 we all started at Tushino with engines running

- as the IL-2 flight approached, the lead asked for permission to take off. Granted

- lead increases rpm, i can see dust from the propeller, but he stays still.

- I take off and join the IL2 squad.

- halfway to the target we get attacked by 4x 109s. Somehow I take them all out alone. The Mig's a beast.

- I try to rejoin the IL-2 squad which is now at the target area

- my 2 missing migs finally show up and we all merged on the IL2 squad. They even helped take out another flight of interceptors that attacked us as we left.

- at the end we landed together.

 

All in all, a fantastic mission, especially since I was listening to Olga Voronets. As we approached Moscow with the sun still at about sunrise, I could really feel the Motherland praying for our success. But I digress...

 

The squad clearly took off with a huge delay. I wonder if WE were supposed to trigger the midway fighters, not the IL-2s. Otherwise, the delay would mean that the poor Sturmoviks would've had to fend them off by themselves while my lead was sucking his thumb back on the airfield.

 

 

Edited March 15, 2018 by Wolferl_1791

[komakino]

29 minutes ago, Wolferl_1791 said:

The squad clearly took off with a huge delay. I wonder if WE were supposed to trigger the midway fighters, not the IL-2s

I dont think we are suppose to delay the take off since we get the green light, in my opinion Tushino airfield is bugged. Try to transfer to another squad and airfield (theres one or two more squads with Mig-3 in service, dont worry ) and see what happens.  

[Wolferl_1791]

28 minutes ago, komakino said:

I dont think we are suppose to delay the take off since we get the green light, in my opinion Tushino airfield is bugged. Try to transfer to another squad and airfield (theres one or two more squads with Mig-3 in service, dont worry ) and see what happens.  

 

On the next mission the flight took off immediately without problems from the same airfield, but it was a different type of mission. As soon as I get another escort one I'll report back. I've changed the title as well, to better describe the problem.

Edited March 16, 2018 by Wolferl_1791

[komakino]

Well, I had delay issues on Ground Attack missions too. Its really annoying, cause if you don't want to track the mission alone, squad mates keeps you waiting for a while doing nothing but flying in circles above the airfield like a vulture until they finally takes off 

Edited March 16, 2018 by komakino

[Wolferl_1791]

On 3/16/2018 at 11:48 AM, komakino said:

Well, I had delay issues on Ground Attack missions too. Its really annoying, cause if you don't want to track the mission alone, squad mates keeps you waiting for a while doing nothing but flying in circles above the airfield like a vulture until they finally takes off 

Indeed, happened to me as well on a ground attack mission, from Tashino (again). We were supposed to take off at 14:54. First planes took off at 15:03, and the rest about 3 minutes later. The first group flew towards Moscow at first, about 5 km before turning back. The second group (which I was a part of) turned immediately to follow them. It was all fine after that. But since I was flying an i16, and it was a long range mission, I just shut down my engine while I was waiting, to save up some fuel on the runway. Still, it is annoying to have to wait 3-4 minutes (with time acceleration at 2x) just to take off.

[Wolferl_1791]

Ok, new behavior. It seems that the I16 takes off without problems, but it's the Mig3 which waits, probably for engine temperatures? Anyway, I've attached a campaign mission with the following behavior:

- flight lead is in an i16, takes off immediately. The third planes is also an i16 that wants to take off, but waits for the second plane, which is a Mig3

- lead flies away, but then returns over the airfield about 7 minutes later and begins to circle

- rest of the flight takes off almost 13 minutes after leader. Funnily enough, towards the end of the mission, the leader actually ran out of fuel

Missions.zip