Quick mission, career, and single missions

[Yogiflight]

In the 'Schlachtflieger' career, flying the Bf 109 E7 on the Moscow map, our aircrafts were not equipped with the additional armor, when we transfered to another airfield. I would guess, that, like in fighter missions with the Bf 110 E2, the Bf 109 E7 ground attack version should be flying with the additional armor in non ground attack missions as well.

[LukeFF]

2 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

In the 'Schlachtflieger' career, flying the Bf 109 E7 on the Moscow map, our aircrafts were not equipped with the additional armor, when we transfered to another airfield. I would guess, that, like in fighter missions with the Bf 110 E2, the Bf 109 E7 ground attack version should be flying with the additional armor in non ground attack missions as well.

 

There's only one template for airfield transfer missions, so that's why you saw what you saw. If they were the only E-7 unit on the map I could set it up so they are fitted with the extra armor on transfer missions, but as I recall there is at least one fighter E-7 unit on the Moscow map that conducts transfers. 

 

That said, I'll double-check it this weekend while I make some other updates.

[Yogiflight]

3 hours ago, LukeFF said:

There's only one template for airfield transfer missions, so that's why you saw what you saw. If they were the only E-7 unit on the map I could set it up so they are fitted with the extra armor on transfer missions, but as I recall there is at least one fighter E-7 unit on the Moscow map that conducts transfers. 

That makes sense. Yes I think the Spanish fighter unit is there as well. But do they really fly transfer missions? I would think they fly their fighter missions and simply are based at a different airfield at some point, without really flying the transfer to the new airfield. So it shouldn't matter.

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Yogiflight said:

That makes sense. Yes I think the Spanish fighter unit is there as well. But do they really fly transfer missions? I would think they fly their fighter missions and simply are based at a different airfield at some point, without really flying the transfer to the new airfield. So it shouldn't matter.

 

Yes, I'll look at it and see. 

[LukeFF]

Alright, so I had a look, and the Spanish Bf 109 staffel on the Moscow map makes several airfield changes, so I'm not going to be able to change the loadout for airfield transfer missions. 

[Yogiflight]

9 hours ago, LukeFF said:

Alright, so I had a look, and the Spanish Bf 109 staffel on the Moscow map makes several airfield changes, so I'm not going to be able to change the loadout for airfield transfer missions. 

Sorry, I forgot, that the Spanish unit isn't an AI only unit. So yes, they surely have a few transfer missions, when the player flies for them.

[Yogiflight]

On the first combat day of a Stalingrad career with the Hs 129, we had an 'Advancing troop support' mission. As you can see on the map, the German troops should be in the north, attacking Soviet positions in the south. Unfortunately, it was the other way round, German tanks and StuGs were attacking from the south, with the russian AT guns positioned on the German frontline, directed to the south.

Advancing troop support mission.zip

 

A second bug appeared in this new started career, I was awarded with 'Flugzeugführerabzeichen' not only on the first combat day, but on the second one again.

 

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Yogiflight said:

On the first combat day of a Stalingrad career with the Hs 129, we had an 'Advancing troop support' mission. As you can see on the map, the German troops should be in the north, attacking Soviet positions in the south. Unfortunately, it was the other way round, German tanks and StuGs were attacking from the south, with the russian AT guns positioned on the German frontline, directed to the south.

Advancing troop support mission.zip 609.03 kB · 0 downloads

 

A second bug appeared in this new started career, I was awarded with 'Flugzeugführerabzeichen' not only on the first combat day, but on the second one again.

 

 

Thanks, I'll pass along these reports.

[Rassmussen]

I wanted to play the scripted campaign Hell Hawks Over the Bulge again and found that missions 5 and 6 were no longer displayed and could no longer be accessed.

[Billsponge1972]

You can Go into your data subfolder and delete the "ttreecache", "mtreecache" and "ctreecache" files and restart.

It might do the trick.

[Yogiflight]

I was just flying an Airfield bombing mission in my Bf 110 Stalingrad career, which obviously was mixed with a night mission, as you can see in the briefing

 

 

 

 

[LukeFF]

39 minutes ago, Yogiflight said:

I was just flying an Airfield bombing mission in my Bf 110 Stalingrad career, which obviously was mixed with a night mission, as you can see in the briefing

 

Are you running any mods? I am at a loss with this sort of thing, because there are no night missions listed for the Bf 110 unit on the Stalingrad map during that time frame.

[Yogiflight]

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

 

Are you running any mods? I am at a loss with this sort of thing, because there are no night missions listed for the Bf 110 unit on the Stalingrad map during that time frame.

No, I am not running any mods. Isn't it possible, that the mission termplates were mixed, because it was not called a night mission and the takeoff time was 13.17h.

BTW, I forgot to post the mission file, in the case it helps

Bf 110 Airfield bombing mission.zip

[Yogiflight]

@LukeFF there are two things I would like to add, as they might help to find the problem. First, in the 'Airfield bombing' mission last night, our pathfinder was a He 111. Are there airfield night bombing missions for the bombers? Because to that would fit the second adding, my first mission with the Bf 110 after the last update was also an 'Airfield bombing' mission, but we were flying at an altitude of 3000m in V-Formation and IIRC with full bombload, so 2x250kg + 4x50kg. So maybe somehow airfield bombing missions for bombers slipped into the Bf 110 career. All the other mission types for the 110 seem to be like they were before.

[RedeyeStorm]

I had a night bombing mission with the Ju88. Standard single plane take off and a He111 pathfinder. 

[FuriousMeow]

Brief description: Albatros D.II in AQMB fly away in a steady descent away from engagement.

 

Set up with a second flight of Halbert D.II they fly towards engagement area and fight. The Albatros D.IIs just go in a slight dive away from the fight. If player catches them they'll engage when within firing distance.

 

Actually, it appears to be the spawn point and so far only impacts the Alb D.II. it's the multiplane dogfight at Arras on the western front map. The Albatros actively turn away and begin their descent. At the spawn  near Warfusee the Albs engage.

[LukeFF]

12 hours ago, FuriousMeow said:

Brief description: Albatros D.II in AQMB fly away in a steady descent away from engagement.

 

Set up with a second flight of Halbert D.II they fly towards engagement area and fight. The Albatros D.IIs just go in a slight dive away from the fight. If player catches them they'll engage when within firing distance.

 

Actually, it appears to be the spawn point and so far only impacts the Alb D.II. it's the multiplane dogfight at Arras on the western front map. The Albatros actively turn away and begin their descent. At the spawn  near Warfusee the Albs engage.

 

If you could provide a track and/or mission file I'll forward it to QA. Thanks!

 

On 11/5/2023 at 1:22 AM, Yogiflight said:

@LukeFF there are two things I would like to add, as they might help to find the problem. First, in the 'Airfield bombing' mission last night, our pathfinder was a He 111. Are there airfield night bombing missions for the bombers? Because to that would fit the second adding, my first mission with the Bf 110 after the last update was also an 'Airfield bombing' mission, but we were flying at an altitude of 3000m in V-Formation and IIRC with full bombload, so 2x250kg + 4x50kg. So maybe somehow airfield bombing missions for bombers slipped into the Bf 110 career. All the other mission types for the 110 seem to be like they were before.

 

Yes, there are supposed to be airfield bombing missions for He 111s and Ju 88s. 

Otherwise, I think something is borked with the mission generator, but I'm still waiting to hear back from our QA and career dev guys.

[Yogiflight]

3 hours ago, LukeFF said:

Yes, there are supposed to be airfield bombing missions for He 111s and Ju 88s. 

Yesterday I had the same issue with a railroad station bombing mission. So it seems, it is not only airfirld bombing.

[LukeFF]

Yes, the culprit was a naming issue with the config files, so a fix will be coming.

[Yogiflight]

I was just flying a bomber intercept mission in my Bf 109 career on the Kuban map. As you can see on the Headquarter map, the distance to the bombers was pretty short. My flight stayed low, at an altitude of 500-600m, in waiting mode, so at a speed of under 300km/h, waiting for all 109s to catch up. It was not before the flightleader recognized the bombers, that we began to speed up and climb. IRL and it works that way in other missions as well, you climb to your mission altitude first and then wait for your flight to catch up.

Bomber intercept Bf 109 Kuban.zip

 

 

[RedeyeStorm]

I see this behavior in bomber missions a well. Both my Ju88 on Moscow and He111 on Stalingrad. Leader climbs to about 1500 m, wait for the flight to rejoin and the continues to climb. It happens on every missions so I can provide a mission if nessecary.

[LukeFF]

On 11/13/2023 at 10:16 AM, Yogiflight said:

I was just flying a bomber intercept mission in my Bf 109 career on the Kuban map. As you can see on the Headquarter map, the distance to the bombers was pretty short. My flight stayed low, at an altitude of 500-600m, in waiting mode, so at a speed of under 300km/h, waiting for all 109s to catch up. It was not before the flightleader recognized the bombers, that we began to speed up and climb. IRL and it works that way in other missions as well, you climb to your mission altitude first and then wait for your flight to catch up.

Bomber intercept Bf 109 Kuban.zip 651.05 kB · 1 download

 

 

 

VikS got back to me on this and said that this is a side effect of having waypoints so close to the front lines:

"checked it - and all seems fine, because of the short distance and alert start and the leader had to wait for wingmen to hold the formation  - the player group just unable to climb over enemy bombers before the attack - which basically may happen in RL"

[Yogiflight]

I just started an artillery bombing mission with the Bf 109 E7 at the second day of a Moscow career. It looks like our fighter escort started the mission on the runway of our base airfield Seychevka, too. Unfortunately both flights were mixed on the runway, which lead to an escort fighter crashing into an aircraft of my flight, which was waiting in front of him.

 

Bf 109 E7 runway crash.zip

 

 

[jeanba]

I am playing a 10thFS P47 campaign the date is 10th of July

 

EDIT : Despite time is 6:20 pm (around) in Summer, the mission is treated as a night mission (see briefing).

Of course, it occurs fully during daytime

 

messages.zip

Edited November 26, 2023 by jeanba

[FuriousMeow]

On 11/6/2023 at 11:49 AM, LukeFF said:

 

If you could provide a track and/or mission file I'll forward it to QA. Thanks!

 

 

Apologies for the delay, haven't played much or checked forum. Screenshot to show the spawn point. Two tracks, first one shows First flight of Yellow Halb DIIs and Second flight of Alb DIIs. Halb DIIs fly on to engagement point, Alb DIIs turn off and slowly descend away. Second track is reversed with First flight of Alb DIIs flying to engagement, and second flight of Sky Blue Halb DIIs also flying to the engagement point. For some reason second flight of Alb DIIs with those QMB settings is missing some flight path command.

 

first_qmb_mission.rar

Second qmb track.

second_qmb_mission.rar

[LukeFF]

6 hours ago, FuriousMeow said:

 

Apologies for the delay, haven't played much or checked forum. Screenshot to show the spawn point. Two tracks, first one shows First flight of Yellow Halb DIIs and Second flight of Alb DIIs. Halb DIIs fly on to engagement point, Alb DIIs turn off and slowly descend away. Second track is reversed with First flight of Alb DIIs flying to engagement, and second flight of Sky Blue Halb DIIs also flying to the engagement point. For some reason second flight of Alb DIIs with those QMB settings is missing some flight path command.

 

first_qmb_mission.rar 4.31 MB · 0 downloads

Second qmb track.

second_qmb_mission.rar 3.86 MB · 0 downloads

 

Thanks!

 

@Regingrave, I reported this one internally sometime last month. 

[jeanba]

Playing 355 FS career, ennemy air superirority, dense frontline (I started with parity) and I nearly met no ennmy and no ennemy were attacking me or the bombers I escorted.

In previous career, this happened nearly all the time.

Sky is nearly empty. Here is my latest mission:

emptyys.zip

[jeanba]

On 12/10/2023 at 7:38 PM, jeanba said:

Playing 355 FS career, ennemy air superirority, dense frontline (I started with parity) and I nearly met no ennmy and no ennemy were attacking me or the bombers I escorted.

In previous career, this happened nearly all the time.

Sky is nearly empty. Here is my latest mission:

emptyys.zip 2.2 MB · 1 download

It is still more or less the same problem with version 5.201, even if difficulty = max, frontline = max and aidensity = max

In the following mission, I did not see the ennemy, even using CTRL F2 (though it seems there was 4 FW190As against at least a douzain P51B)

empty5201.zip

[Tony_Kito]

Grp 3 Romanian IAR 80 campaign in Kuban, bridgehead phase
Got a "transports escort" mission to the area around Malaya Zemlya, no ground or air targets whatsoever despite the following settings:

 

Mission gen files attached (I think, if these are wrong let me know) 

Missions.rar

Edited December 25, 2023 by Tony_Kito

[Tony_Kito]

Exactly the same problem as above on a I./JG 53 Campaign for Stalingrad, 24th of August 1942

No ground or air targets whatsoever.

File attached below

Missions.rar

[Tony_Kito]

A little less serious, but the 1st GAP DD's honor name is misspelled, should be 1st 'Bryansky' Red Banner, etc etc

 

As it's spelled in the description of the regiment in the Career unit description.

 

 

[jeanba]

Actually, for the last two months, I do not remember any of my escort mission being really intercepted.

I mostly had opportunity encounteres against ennemy aircraft over the frontline (usually escorting their own strike package), which were quite fun anyway but my bombers were never intercepted, whether as soviet over Kuban, US over Normandy or Romanian over Stalingrad

[Voxman]

Not sure if this has been addressed before, as I couldn't find it with the search engine, specifically for this issue.

 

Brief description: Radio volume not working in certain QMB situations.
Detailed description, conditions: When flying from a dual scenario spawn point, in air start, one can't adjust the radio volume.  If flying from a single plane spawn point, the radio is adjustable.   I've encountered this with
Additional assets (videos, screenshots, logs):  Didn't include this.
Your PC config data (OS, drivers, specific software): Windows 11, i7-10700K, Varjo VR, RTX3080ti

[Yogiflight]

On 4/9/2023 at 4:00 PM, Yogiflight said:

When in a Stalingrad career with the Bf 110 I get a mission to bomb the western Volga bridge, my squadmates drop only one bomb and then get stuck flying circles in 1000m over the target. As far as I remember, this happens every time with this mission.

 

circling 110s.zip 599.73 kB · 1 download

I had this bug in a 'River crossing bombing' mission at the same bridge

Bf 110 circling over target.zip

[Yogiflight]

Would it be a big thing to correct that mistake, like shown in the screenshot, a Leutnant being the squadron commander and in that case a Hauptmann the deputy commander. I also had a Leutnant being commander, an Oberleutnant the deputy commander and the Hauptmann, after he had recovered from an injury, being a simple pilot.

 

Another mistake to improve is the commander or his deputy flying as wingman in a flight instead of being the flightleader.

[LukeFF]

On 1/27/2024 at 2:19 PM, Yogiflight said:

I had this bug in a 'River crossing bombing' mission at the same bridge

Bf 110 circling over target.zip 598 kB · 0 downloads

 

19 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

Would it be a big thing to correct that mistake, like shown in the screenshot, a Leutnant being the squadron commander and in that case a Hauptmann the deputy commander. I also had a Leutnant being commander, an Oberleutnant the deputy commander and the Hauptmann, after he had recovered from an injury, being a simple pilot.

 

Another mistake to improve is the commander or his deputy flying as wingman in a flight instead of being the flightleader.

 

Passed along to QA, thanks. ?

[Voxman]

Brief description: IL2 mission with AI not heeding commands
Detailed description, conditions: Bridge attack with IL2s.  Orders given through pilot commands...AI going round in circles and did not follow through with attack.
Additional assets (videos, screenshots, logs):
Your PC config data (OS, drivers, specific software): Windows 11.  All the latest cobbler.

Russia 1942-04-17.zip

[Calos_01]

Normandy carreer, 308 sgn, various density settings. In six bomber escort missions, no enemy fighter ever showed up. Bug or feature? Perhaps too much historical accuracy ?. 

_gen.zip

[LukeFF]

On 2/24/2024 at 2:15 PM, Calos_01 said:

Normandy carreer, 308 sgn, various density settings. In six bomber escort missions, no enemy fighter ever showed up. Bug or feature? Perhaps too much historical accuracy ?. 

_gen.zip 1.18 MB · 0 downloads

 

It's a known issue, thanks. ?

[jokash]

On my sixth mission in Ju52 carrer,starting from bottom rank,first formation mission,drop cargo at night.3 airplanes (leader,ME,one wingman who was trailing behind).We come to the spot,drop cargo(the trailing wingman also),and now my leader is circling the area for 10th time.Is this a bug or problem with formation asembling?Why arent we heading back to base?

EDIT:Finally after about 12 circles we head back...Love the campaign so far though

Edited March 8, 2024 by jokash