Flying in circles

[CTIDchrislivesey]

I apologize in advance if this has been addressed. I have created a campaign several times now, but I can't complete the first mission, the scenario is always the same: I take off behind the squadron leader/flight officer and follow him faithfully while he circles the airfield. After several minutes of this I hit autopilot and 8x acceleration and the squad just keeps circling, on and on. Also, and I don't know if this is related, but there are no waypoint targets  (the yellow ones) in the air unlike the game campaign missions. I must have this setup incorrectly but I've checked and checked and I just can't figure it out. Can anyone help me? 

[Varibraun]

24 minutes ago, CTIDchrislivesey said:

I apologize in advance if this has been addressed. I have created a campaign several times now, but I can't complete the first mission, the scenario is always the same: I take off behind the squadron leader/flight officer and follow him faithfully while he circles the airfield. After several minutes of this I hit autopilot and 8x acceleration and the squad just keeps circling, on and on. Also, and I don't know if this is related, but there are no waypoint targets  (the yellow ones) in the air unlike the game campaign missions. I must have this setup incorrectly but I've checked and checked and I just can't figure it out. Can anyone help me? 

 

Based on several other posts, this appears to be a bug in the new PWCG version 13.10.0 and Pat is working to try to recreate it so that it can be addressed.  See here:

 

 

[CTIDchrislivesey]

Thanks for the reply Varibraun. I would include my files as well but I don't know how. The files don't meet the attachment criteria and one is greater than 5mb anyway.

It seems I need to post this in the correct forum. Thanks for the link Varibraun.

[Varibraun]

3 hours ago, CTIDchrislivesey said:

Thanks for the reply Varibraun. I would include my files as well but I don't know how. The files don't meet the attachment criteria and one is greater than 5mb anyway.

It seems I need to post this in the correct forum. Thanks for the link Varibraun.

 

Sure...also you can see if switching to airstarts is a work around until Pat squashes the bug (I am currently in a PWCGFC campaign where I use airstarts and haven't had the circling problem with 13.10.0).  Here is how you get to that selection:

 

From the main screen for your campaign:

 

Configuration=>Advanced Config=>Mission Limits=>Start type: 1

 

Good luck! 

 

 

[Winkysmith]

8 hours ago, CTIDchrislivesey said:

I apologize in advance if this has been addressed. I have created a campaign several times now, but I can't complete the first mission, the scenario is always the same: I take off behind the squadron leader/flight officer and follow him faithfully while he circles the airfield. After several minutes of this I hit autopilot and 8x acceleration and the squad just keeps circling, on and on. Also, and I don't know if this is related, but there are no waypoint targets  (the yellow ones) in the air unlike the game campaign missions. I must have this setup incorrectly but I've checked and checked and I just can't figure it out. Can anyone help me? 

I had the same issue. I happened to have a zip file for the previous version, so I unzipped it, effectively downgrading PWCG. I then created a mission in the campaign that had been causing me trouble, started it, and to my amazement it worked fine. After a few missions of running 13.9.0, I tried to create a Bodenplatte career with the Ar-234, but I forgot that it wasn’t in 13.9.0. So, I updated PWCG to 13.10.0 for the second time. After failing to take off in the Arado, I went back to flying fighters again, and for some reason all of my missions have worked fine since.

 

TL, DR: I updated to 13.10.0, had trouble, downgraded to 13.9.0, and everything worked, and then updated again to 13.10.0, and everything worked fine still.

[Stonehouse]

1 hour ago, Winkysmith said:

I had the same issue. I happened to have a zip file for the previous version, so I unzipped it, effectively downgrading PWCG. I then created a mission in the campaign that had been causing me trouble, started it, and to my amazement it worked fine. After a few missions of running 13.9.0, I tried to create a Bodenplatte career with the Ar-234, but I forgot that it wasn’t in 13.9.0. So, I updated PWCG to 13.10.0 for the second time. After failing to take off in the Arado, I went back to flying fighters again, and for some reason all of my missions have worked fine since.

 

TL, DR: I updated to 13.10.0, had trouble, downgraded to 13.9.0, and everything worked, and then updated again to 13.10.0, and everything worked fine still.

 

Probably not relevant but how did you do your update of PWCG? Unzip the new over old? 

[Winkysmith]

15 minutes ago, Stonehouse said:

 

Probably not relevant but how did you do your update of PWCG? Unzip the new over old? 

Yes, I just unzipped the new version into the IL-2 root folder, and then I replaced all of the previous PWCG files with the new ones. I did the same when I downgraded it, too.