Claims denied for U2-VS

[Five_By_Five]

I've had six claims denied for this aircraft.  All of these were shot down within view of other German aircraft and ground units.

On this last mission I shot down four of these while my wingman brought down none (that I saw).

At the debrief all of my claims were denied . . . but he was given one U2 kill (there were only four in the flight).

What gives?

[Flashy]

Havent you heard? The U-2 is immune to interception from superior enemy aircraft! Its the Soviets secret weapon and cannot be destroyed by conventional means.

Edited July 12, 2019 by Flashy

[PatrickAWlson]

I'm going with @Flashy explanation.  Couldn't possibly be a bug in the code.  OK, maybe it's a but in the code.  Noted.  Out of curiosity, do the P.O 2's show up as ground kills?  If PWCG cannot identify a destroyed object as an aircraft it will default to ground kill.

[Utopioneer]

I actually had this same experience in two flights recently, and then checked logs and didn't have a single successful claimed U2 kill. I figured if it happened a third time I would post about it. I checked the personnel file and they aren't credited as ground kills in the personnel files. Is there somewhere else to check for that?

 

Also, unlike other claim disparities, the AAR will actually say something to the effect of "Claim denied".

[Five_By_Five]

Nope, not credited as ground kills.

I did get the "claim denied"  text in the debrief.

Seems like it must be some kind of bug.  The other weird thing is that I believe these were the aircraft that I was supposed to "intercept" as per the mission brief as they had a red square box around them when I'd check the ID tags.

[PatrickAWlson]

Thanks for the info.  Since it is saying "claim denied" PWCG definitely knows it's an airplane.  I'll look into it.

[Murleen]

There was a similar issue with the Ju52 where it would always deny claims - was caused by the name in PWCG not matching the name appearing in the game logs.

[Yogiflight]

But the issue with the U-2 not get claimed must be new, as I had one U-2 kill in the first Alpha, flying the 190.

[PatrickAWlson]

2 minutes ago, Yogiflight said:

But the issue with the U-2 not get claimed must be new, as I had one U-2 kill in the first Alpha, flying the 190.

 

Shouldn't be as I have not changed that.  Could happen though if PWCG decided to award you a victory on grounds other than the logs say you killed the target (fuzzy victory assignment).  Anyhow, simple enough to . figure out and, if it is a simple name mismatch, to fix.

[Five_By_Five]

I still have the mission files etc. Be happy to send them to you if they'd be helpful (I'm no techie so I don't know if they would or not).

[Five_By_Five]

Also just noticed that all of the aircraft that I destroyed were noted as "damaged" in the debrief but none of them were listed as kills.  

They all definitely went down.  Hard.

[PatrickAWlson]

Fixed.  Will be available in the next release (today or tomorrow).  Thanks for the report.

[Five_By_Five]

Thanks Patrick! 

Stupid question . . . where do I get the update and can I install it over the old program without affecting my current campaign?

[Poochnboo]

"But I know I shot it down! I SAW it crash!"

"Then you have the pleasure of knowing that you have served the Fatherland!"

[Yogiflight]

@Five_By_Five

PWCG 6 went final on Thursday. It replaces PWCG 5.1.3 at this point.  

 

Easiest thing to do is save the campaigns if you want to, delete PWCG 5, install 6 and then recopy the campaigns.  PWCG6 has a built in 5-6 converter.

 

Download link is in Patrick's first post in the PWCG 6.0.0 Released thread

[PatrickAWlson]

PWCG 6.0.1 is out with a fix to this problem