Mission 18 cant progress. (1.5 open beta)

I cant progress past mission 18 (Under cloud of night).

I wait around for the Su-24's to take off and escort them to WP2. There are another pair of Su-24's, who I believe are supposed to flare the area. But they just fly out to WP3 (WP4 for them, according to the radio) and just head straight back to base.

Then the Su-24's that I am escorting, fly out to WP3 and just fly straight back to base without doing anything. Meanwhile, while I am loitering around WP2. A load of Su-25's arrive, and just start circling around WP2 with me.

There doesn't seem like there is much on the ground for any of these planes to attack. I have gone through it twice now. First time I waited till I was bingo fuel.

Is there a way to skip the mission through the logbook?

I don't remember the problems you mentioned, but if you want to advance the campaign manually, open logbook.lua, find the section for the "Ultimate Argument" campaign and in it there is a table called

["history"] = 

The entries are not ordered but the last one is shorter than others (it does not have "result" value among other things) and it looks like this:

                       [3] = 
                       {
                           ["stage"] = 2,
                           ["mission"] = "en02_A10Sturm.miz",
                       }, -- end of [2]

You can change the "stage" value to the next one (or any other) and the "mission" to any mission from the new stage (look in the .cmp file to see what missions are in each stage). Do not the change the entry number itself ("3" in this example).

Bolek

Sweet, thanks a million bolek!

have you tried using labels and seeing if all the targets are destroyed? i have seen that hang up lots of missions.

I have finished the campaign now. I just skipped that particular mission.

None of the jets attacked anything. This post was mostly just to let the campaign creator know there might be an issue in 1.5. With this particular mission.

I don't think that campaign has been updated to work with 1.5 yet.

There are some known bugs in the 1.5 BETA effecting AI aircraft. For example they will take off in the direction of the wind (instead of against it).

Yeah. That is completely understandable.

I have the exact same problem as OP. Thanks with the lua tip anyway but it is not the idea to skip a mission to play the campaign. Is there any hint about this campaign receiving a patch for 1.5?

same here.

Anything new on this toppic? The original post is now 10months old!!

(The lua patch might help....but to be frank: This is payed content and I expect it to work. Yes, bugs happen - but they need to get fixed)

I think the change log in the latest patch included a line saying this problem had been fixed.

Hi to everybody, I had also this problem, and my fix was to change my payload so the plane had some ground attack ability (2 rocket pods were enough), and made the work the SEAD Su 24 should have done, destroying at least two air defences of three which were defending the airfield. Once the second air defence was destroyed it triggered the next phase in the mission.

I had to put labels on, but think it is better than just skipping the mission