Official Scripted Campaign "Lightning Strikes!"

[DD_Perfesser]

Only in the campaign?  Something in the realism settings perhaps..

[Gambit21]

There’s no such thing as a campaign or mission-specific control issue - the end.

[1111mark*norma*]

My throttles will not work on my P-38 in Lighting Strike. My mapping is correct. Any help??    Thank you......

[RedKestrel]

Have you selected the engines using the select engine key Binding? It may simply be that you are used to the engines already running when you start the mission.

[Jaegermeister]

On 9/15/2020 at 5:54 PM, 1111mark*norma* said:

My throttles will not work on my P-38 in Lighting Strike. My mapping is correct. Any help??    Thank you......

 

There is nothing different in these missions than flying the P-38 in any other mission. It’s a control issue that is not specific to this campaign.

[MurrayCod]

Just completed the second mission and.....WOW.  Congrats to the mission builder and the creators of the sim. 

 

It is so challenging, but so very worthwhile, at 8000ft to:

- admire the sun breaking through the clouds

- admire the ground scenery through gaps in the clouds below

- fly in tight formation

- ride the throttles to stay in formation

 

...all at the same time while also trying to take good screenshots while not pausing the game.

 

I'm loving this game/sim.

 

[Jaegermeister]

Thanks, nice screenshot.

 

Enjoy the campaign!

[MurrayCod]

Have just finished the campaign.  Died a few times along the journey, and crash landed with significant battle damage back at the home airfields a few times too. 

 

My bombs didn't always hit their targets, and my air-to-air gunnery "skills" need polishing, but I'd like I think I did my bit to help win the war.

 

Thanks very much for putting the campaign together.

 

 

[Alexenyanna]

I have a problem with engines randomly getting damaged, on first try just right on second first left and then right one

Plz help

[Jaegermeister]

You are probably running your engines above recommended parameters.

 

If you run too high rpm, boost or both, you will burn out your engines. I would suggest you watch Requiem's YouTube video on flying the P-38, and take notes on engine settings, or set up automatic engine control until you get the hang of it.

 

 

On 10/24/2020 at 7:09 PM, MurrayCod said:

Thanks very much for putting the campaign together.

 

You're welcome... Sorry I just saw the post. I missed it before.

 

Glad you enjoyed it!

 

 

Edited March 31, 2021 by Jaegermeister

[Alexenyanna]

Excellent campaign, having a lot of fun and its immersive.

My first airplane shoot down Me262, second Captured P51 ? 

But in mission 12, the Overcast is at 4000ft and its all fine to target but on return last waypoint is at 4000ft so formation is flying inside clouds.

[Jaegermeister]

On 4/22/2021 at 3:07 PM, Mario30 said:

But in mission 12, the Overcast is at 4000ft and its all fine to target but on return last waypoint is at 4000ft so formation is flying inside clouds.

 

I’ll take a look at it. That should be an easy fix.

[mrflight107]

I have IL-2 BOBP, and am looking to purchase the Lightning Strikes campaign. I'm running within the Steam environment, and I can see the campaign listed, but it is locked. It appears that I can purchase it thru the Steam store, but I'd rather do the purchase directly thru the IL2 store, where the devs get a better allocation of the sale. 

Any idea how this can be done, as I can't seem to find the LS campaign in the IL2 store. Does this scripted campaign require the purchase of the P38J-25 Collector Plane ?

 

Thanks.

Edited May 12, 2021 by mrflight107

[Stolle]

6 minutes ago, mrflight107 said:

I have IL-2 BOBP, and am looking to purchase the Lightning Strikes campaign. I'm running within the Steam environment, and I can see the campaign listed, but it is locked. It appears that I can purchase it thru the Steam store, but I'd rather do the purchase directly thru the IL2 store, where the devs get a better allocation of the sale. 

Any idea how this can be done, as I can't seem to find the LS campaign in the IL2 store.

 

Thanks.

Make sure you own the P-38. Unless you have the Premium version of BOBp you need to purchase it as a collector plane. 

[Jaegermeister]

2 hours ago, mrflight107 said:

I have IL-2 BOBP, and am looking to purchase the Lightning Strikes campaign. I'm running within the Steam environment, and I can see the campaign listed, but it is locked. It appears that I can purchase it thru the Steam store, but I'd rather do the purchase directly thru the IL2 store, where the devs get a better allocation of the sale. 

Any idea how this can be done, as I can't seem to find the LS campaign in the IL2 store. Does this scripted campaign require the purchase of the P38J-25 Collector Plane ?

 

Thanks.

 

Yes, if you own BoBP and the P-38 collector plane, the campaign is free. It will be available automatically when you own both components.

 

It is currently being updated to address any issues with the new railyard scenery and AI improvements.

[mrflight107]

Thanks Guys, for the quick replies! 

Edited May 13, 2021 by mrflight107

[WatRed511]

Finally got this to work after getting errors with winter sky bmp (??).  However, when I start up my lightning seems just to be factory skin (IE nothing but USAAF emblem).  Was it supposed to have a wrap that I am missing?  I have downloaded the skins and put them in the skins folder so hopefully did that right.  Just looks really plain, although I can just select from other official and custom made, just want to make sure not missing anything.  Thanks

[WatRed511]

This is the plane...should there be a campaign skin to start it off or do I just put one on?? Thanks

[Jaegermeister]

When the campaign was written, you had to select a skin manually in the arming screen. That has been updated and in the first mission you should be assigned p38j25_485th_7f_n.

 

See if you can select the skin manually. If not, you do not have the skins installed correctly. You may have put the entire folder in the P38j25 folder.

[justin_z3r0]

On 5/12/2021 at 9:48 PM, Jaegermeister said:

 

Yes, if you own BoBP and the P-38 collector plane, the campaign is free. It will be available automatically when you own both components.

 

It is currently being updated to address any issues with the new railyard scenery and AI improvements.

I've been wanting to go back and play this one again. I'll wait for the update though. Any estimates on when it'll come out? I'd guess it needs to coincide with a game update since its an official campaign?

 

Justin

[Jaegermeister]

I can not tell you when. Yes, it would have to be updated first and then perhaps in the next official update. It also depends on whether there are even any issues to update.

 

I have not found any concerns yet, but time is scarce these days for those of us working in the food service industry. I have been working 12-14 hours a day, 7 days a week with no days off for about a month now. 

[justin_z3r0]

On 5/21/2021 at 12:08 AM, Jaegermeister said:

I can not tell you when. Yes, it would have to be updated first and then perhaps in the next official update. It also depends on whether there are even any issues to update.

 

I have not found any concerns yet, but time is scarce these days for those of us working in the food service industry. I have been working 12-14 hours a day, 7 days a week with no days off for about a month now. 

oh wow - no rush here. Take your time. Hopefully you get a break soon. those are some serious hours your logging. 

 

 

[greybeard_52]

On 5/19/2020 at 11:27 PM, Jason_Williams said:

the Lightning Strikes! Scripted Campaign released in Update 4.006 built by Jaegermeister

My warmest congratulations on this excellent campaign! Only three missions played so far, but I'm thrilled! And I assure you that it is not easy to please me!
Finally something done right in this game! If only careers were done so well!
I love the big green writings that update on the mission, the custom skins, the starting from the tarmac, the reasonably limited number of planes in the mission, the suited formations during flight, the not excessive difficulty, and above all I love not being the leader!
Are there any other scripted campaigns made by Jaegermeister available in the game? I would gladly buy them!

Edited May 23, 2021 by greybeard_52
Added some text.

[LukeFF]

5 hours ago, greybeard_52 said:

Are there any other scripted campaigns made by Jaegermeister available in the game? I would gladly buy them!

 

All of the campaigns available are listed either right here in this forum or on the Store page.

[Jaegermeister]

On 5/22/2021 at 7:18 PM, justin_z3r0 said:

oh wow - no rush here. Take your time. Hopefully you get a break soon. those are some serious hours your logging. 

Yeah, it’s messed up, but I’m sure it will get better before too much longer

 

13 hours ago, greybeard_52 said:

My warmest congratulations on this excellent campaign! Only three missions played so far, but I'm thrilled! And I assure you that it is not easy to please me!
Finally something done right in this game! If only careers were done so well!
I love the big green writings that update on the mission, the custom skins, the starting from the tarmac, the reasonably limited number of planes in the mission, the suited formations during flight, the not excessive difficulty, and above all I love not being the leader!
Are there any other scripted campaigns made by Jaegermeister available in the game? I would gladly buy them!

Thanks for the kind words. I made it the way I wanted to fly it, so I’m glad you agree.

 

i would recommend you give my free campaign Greek Fire a roll in the Spitfire Vb. I revised it recently with lots of improvements. You can download it here from the Scripted Campaigns forum.

 

i will go ahead and say that I have a few more things in the works too. More details to follow, some FC1 content is ready for release, and another full WWII campaign is in process.

 

 

[Na-zdorovie]

Ok, just got his with plane, but have a prob, I do realize it's not the campaign prob....I think so bear with me.

As not used to the plane yet I leave the engine control on auto,

E to start, and wait for about 10 mins to heat up while others are trying to push me along, then no engine controls?

So I think it's to do with the heating,start again with engine pre heat on.

Fine all starts! But again no control? Most I can get is around 13% so he plane goes no where, throttles don't move past this point in the cockpit, 

Now tried quick start etc and all works fine, obv I don't do the green hints on screen as all auto, is hat he prob?

Thanks for help guys

 

 

[Jaegermeister]

3 hours ago, Na-zdorovie said:

Ok, just got his with plane, but have a prob, I do realize it's not the campaign prob....I think so bear with me....

 

You are correct, it's not a campaign issue. I can't help you with your individual engine controls in this thread. Wrong section and topic.

[Na-zdorovie]

ah silly sorted, just one thing does the runway ever clear on mission 1 landing, flew around for about 5-10 mins, couple of planes off to each side?

[Jaegermeister]

5 hours ago, Na-zdorovie said:

ah silly sorted, just one thing does the runway ever clear on mission 1 landing, flew around for about 5-10 mins, couple of planes off to each side?

I'm looking into it. It's not the scenery, but something is in the way since the last update. It's not the craters, wind sock, static planes or the moving jeep. I'll keep looking until I find what it is blocking the runway.

 

It's strange since they take off correctly so maybe it's a vehicle getting in the way. 

[Na-zdorovie]

ah cool thanks, i only noticed on a low flyby 2 planes on the edge as you come in for approach and a truck further down, but you can end the mish so not all bad, thanks for looking

[Alexenyanna]

Hey me again ?
Mission 16, Bullay on landing approach I got landing permission but on runway there was one plane rolling at the left edge next to parked planes.

[Gambit21]

20 hours ago, Jaegermeister said:

I'm looking into it. It's not the scenery, but something is in the way since the last update. It's not the craters, wind sock, static planes or the moving jeep. I'll keep looking until I find what it is blocking the runway.

 

It's strange since they take off correctly so maybe it's a vehicle getting in the way. 

 

There’s been a silly, frustrating problem with vehicles stopping landings if they’re with a certain distance of the runway - like 20 to 30 meters. I reported multiple times in beta but they apparently didn’t give a rip (at least never enough to acknowledge the issue to me...over a few years) so I gave up. It’s gotten worse, then better, then worse again.

 

Not sure if this is the issue here - just FYI.

Edited May 28, 2021 by Gambit21

[Jaegermeister]

4 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

 

There’s been a silly, frustrating problem with vehicles stopping landings if they’re with a certain distance of the runway - like 20 to 30 meters. I reported multiple times in beta but gave up as they apparently didn’t give a rip (at least never enough to acknowledge the issue to me...over a few years) so I gave up. It’s gotten worse, then better, then worse again.

 

Not sure if this is the issue here - just FYI.

I'm about to go through the airfield by groups. I'll try that first. 

 

Thanks for the tip! 

[Jaegermeister]

@Gambit21, you are correct. I deleted everything on the airfield and they landed fine. I added back in the vehicles and got failure to land. You can clearly see that the vehicles are nowhere near the runway.

 

 

 

 

I will report this as a bug, I am disinclined to go back through and delete all vehicles from airfields at the end of all missions. They need to fix this. Thanks again for the heads up.

[Gambit21]

4 hours ago, Jaegermeister said:

 I am disinclined to go back through and delete all vehicles from airfields at the end of all missions.

 

As you should be - it’s ridiculous at this point.

 

4 hours ago, Jaegermeister said:

 

 They need to fix this. Thanks again for the heads up.

 

Yep - they needed to fix it 3 years ago too but they didn’t.

And no problem.  

[Na-zdorovie]

just trying to help here :), but when you come into land the airfield has been bombed, so the planes i had were on the runway, 2, opposite each other near the beginning and 1 truck further down, could the craters have moved them forward?

[Jaegermeister]

2 hours ago, Na-zdorovie said:

just trying to help here :), but when you come into land the airfield has been bombed, so the planes i had were on the runway, 2, opposite each other near the beginning and 1 truck further down, could the craters have moved them forward?

 

No, it's not that. I moved the static planes first and still had the issue.

[Patricks]

FANTASTIC Campaign Jaegermeister! I'm relatively new to IL2 and in Mission #22 "Celles" you return to base to rearm\refuel, which I wasn't even aware was possible. Looking for where to do this got me a YT video saying stop\kill egine\open canopy and using the chat window and a ">rr100" (similar anyway) and in SP there is no chat window I see. Where\how do you rearm? 

[justin_z3r0]

3 hours ago, GPatricks said:

FANTASTIC Campaign Jaegermeister! I'm relatively new to IL2 and in Mission #22 "Celles" you return to base to rearm\refuel, which I wasn't even aware was possible. Looking for where to do this got me a YT video saying stop\kill egine\open canopy and using the chat window and a ">rr100" (similar anyway) and in SP there is no chat window I see. Where\how do you rearm? 

I think you found instructions for Cliffs of Dover (thats how you do it there anyways). For Great Battles use:

Rearm - RCtl-A

Refuel - RCtl+F

 

And if you like the rearm refuel function I recommend you give Tips Campaign 'Lullaby for a dream" a try. Its using the P-51 and feature Rearm / Refuel in each mission.

Edited June 19, 2021 by justin_z3r0

[Patricks]

15 hours ago, justin_z3r0 said:

I think you found instructions for Cliffs of Dover (thats how you do it there anyways). For Great Battles use:

Rearm - RCtl-A

Refuel - RCtl+F

 

And if you like the rearm refuel function I recommend you give Tips Campaign 'Lullaby for a dream" a try. Its using the P-51 and feature Rearm / Refuel in each mission.

 

Do I need to find the R&R "area" or just pull off the runway, shut down, open canopy, and hit the RCTL-x keys? As for "Lullaby", I definately will try it as I love the idea of RTB\rearm\refuel and return to the battle!

Edited June 20, 2021 by GPatricks