Not able to re-fly mission in career after dying

[Sky_Wolf]

A couple times now my pilot has died and I have not been able to re-fly the mission. I have to restart the entire career. 

 

How do I re-fly a mission in career after dying?

 

Not playing iron man mode. 

[spreckair]

This is how I do it.  As soon as you die, hit the Escape button which should bring up the general menu; then click on the refly mission button.  If you do not want to refly the mission immediately, then after clicking the refly mission button, click the abort mission button.

[Sky_Wolf]

Thanks. That makes sense. I was under impression I would have to refly immediately but I’ll try your work around.

[Marvel]

Hello Sky_Wolf, if I can suggest you, make a backup copy of the two files in the ...IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles\data\Career folder each time you complete safely a mission or an entire day. So, if you mess somethings, you can replace the two files with the backuped ones, avoiding to lost your entire career.

Hope this helps.

 

M.

[IckyATLAS]

So here you are asking to be resuscitated from the dead. Sorry impossible.😔

You can have this in some Zombie games, where you die and your rotten body comes back to life and you have become a kind of cannibal.😁

 

But wait a second I am digressing here. 😗

[Marvel]

Maybe is possible, but you must to manage the database. I never tried, but, I say again, if you delete the data of the last mission where you died, maybe you could restart the career.

 

M.

[Stelcio]

It's possible to revive your character, but it's a bit tricky. The career is being saved in two places - one is the database file and the other is a folder with text files. I don't know the exact locations from the top of my head and I don't have access to my main computer at the moment, but you do need to find both to edit your career. If you only change the database, the game will still load data from the text files, so you either need to change everything in both places, or change the database and then delete the specific text file that holds that data and let the game load data from the database and re-generate the text file from scratch.

 

The "edit in both places" method is harder, but the "delete the text file" method means you may lose some stuff that you didn't mean to, like for example have all the portraits change.

 

This lets you edit all sorts of things though. I started a career in a Polish squadron and then changed all the British names to Polish. Then, after I died, instead of reviving myself, I assumed the role of one of my squadron mates and continued the campaign as a different pilot, PWCG style.

 

Of course messing with your save files may lead to them becoming corrupted, but I guess that's not a factor when you're dead anyway.

[Sky_Wolf]

I feel like spreckair’s suggestion is going to work. No need to edit text files. Why should there be for flying without iron man mode on? Haven’t tested yet.

[LukeFF]

21 hours ago, Sky_Wolf said:

I feel like spreckair’s suggestion is going to work. No need to edit text files. Why should there be for flying without iron man mode on? Haven’t tested yet.

 

Yes, just do as he says and you can reply a mission as many times as you want. 

[Marvel]

If I not misunderstood the Sky_Wolf career is gone and he must to starts a new one. If he wants to save the previous career the only way is to modifing the databese, IMHO....

 

M.

[Sky_Wolf]

17 hours ago, LukeFF said:

Yes, just do as he says and you can reply a mission as many times as you want. 

 

It worked, thanks.

[NooneYouKnow]

I use Alt+F4. As soon as you die. The only way to be sure. You can refly the same mission as soon as you're back in the game (for those who don't know : Alt+F4 stops the game exe - be aware, this will wipe any kills, objectives, etc. up until that point. You re-start that mission blank, you keep stats from previous missions). A quicksave would be nice, so you can restart from the same point, but alas, I don't think that's possible without painful workarounds.

Edited October 7, 2024 by NooneYouKnow
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