Separatists Aggression The Campaign

Oh gosh that reminds me i need to put in a PGM loadout on one of those in mission one, i have them in mission 2 for the version 1c thats going to be released soon..... Grimes and I are testing out some stability issues with the second mission.... For some reason the server overloads on sound errors cumulatively until she croaks. The DCS Log file on the servers end gets up to be hundreds of MB size wise, all full of these sound error logs... very odd.... the number of units is very similar, if not LESS than in the first mission. So we are a tad stumped. The only thing left that we can think of is some of the AI aircraft. maybe too many? hmmm

Who all has had the second mission crash on the server side?

Enjoy hearing your flight stories Aries :D Its crazy how strong command centers are now! O.o Grimes and I had a similar experience with the one in the second mission.

Rearm at FARP is not working. Place a M818 Transport at each FARP and it works.

Version 1c changes

original post updated

*Adjusted SEAD flight's path and hopefully they will not drop all their weapons when fired on by a little Igla.

*Strengthened Badger 3.1.

*Invasion to only start in an hour or by command AFTER a client aircraft has taken off.

*FARP's should hopefully work this time... third times the charm right? Even though the FARP's are Georgian, apparently i have to use some western tech... maybe because its on blue coalition?

*Chinooks should now hopefully drop off troops correctly.

*Added Senaki-Kolkie freq to briefing

*improved stability in multiplayer, number of weather systems reduced

Nice work, thanks a lot for share it!

So... on to Day 2...

Ops briefed us short on the battlefield picture, and it was all milk and honey... A beautiful sunny day to pour some on the scared and retreating Abkhazian bad-boys, nevertheless there was this strange feeling tickling my spine...

Me and my brethren aligned for take-off in an orderly fashion, engines warmed up... sharp, bloodthirsty... Abkhazian bloodhirsty... :gun_smilie:

And then, a split-second before I call my roll... number 2 frantically yells: "Incooomiiiing, REAR!!!"

I take a fast glance, and I freeze... Some crazy Georgian SU-25 "Grach" pilot thundering over our canopies... :shocking:

Turbulence shook my Hog so hard I got a Master Caution warning...

Of course, nothing a subtle "onboard computer reset" couldn't iron out... :lol:

We hastily plunged towards the border, our ground pounders already rolling...

On arrival, scattered over the rivers, JTAC pointed to some armour coords, fangs out...

None of us knew, what was actually out there... :music_whistling:

And then, JTAC calls in a Tunguska and an SA-9, OMFG!?!??! Everyone, gain altitude, fast... Fly, you fools...

Then another cry is heard on Victor frequency... dustbangers are gettin' rained uppon by some evil arty...

I call the heavy-duty Hog to pull out, to take care of those 2K pounders, for a time of need may come... And the first thing I hear back is his cursing, popping flares & chaff already, they're byting for him... Even Tunguska spraying some paint on, she must be close... One engine shattered, number 4 was pulling out, for good...

By now, we're all getting touched by the devilish S6, but none can lay sight on it... scanning the already smoking terrain... Anxiety clutching my mind, our boys are being decimated and all we can do is run & hide or - die... :helpsmilie:

The SEAD flight was coming in ten minutes... The too long ten minutes...

Badger group going for Gali is haywire over the radio, can't listen no more, we're going in... Our eyes are on the arty, our lives are on the dice, my last thoughts are those of a Berserker, letting his warcry out in a suicidal leap... :gun_rifle:

My Mav hits them long guns, number 5 lays a cluster on my mark... Tunguska missile launch!!!:fear: And another one!!! :cry:

Breaking and cramming the skies with aluminium foil, to no avail... S6 knows no forgiveness...:(

A strong thud and some blackness, my sight returns... I'm spiralling down... flames, wing gone...

...Eject! Eject! Eject!

Clinging from my sheet... looking at number five's burning trail in the distance... hope he managed to burst out too...

Arty is gone... but so are we... And then, the corner of my eye catches some fast, white trails, ending in the spot that took our wings...

Numer 2 reports Tunguska is no more on RWR... My dear SU-25s, you got here seconds too late...

Ops calls in some transport planes at Gudauta to be taken care off...

Number 2 pushes on, a pair of LGBs left... and what beutiful presents will they be...

TGP on mark, they will never know he was there... silent, high, untouchable...

Wait?! What's going on? They're rolling, bugging out... Pickle! Fast... Damn, they're speeding... GBU one...Miss!!! Second one - miss!!! Arrgh... time to pull 'em little snakes out... cause you ain't going nowhere, big boys... Nowhere!!!

Number 2 hurls down, unleashing a hissing deadly little snake... Oh my God, he never saw so much flares... the Sidewinder bytes and the big ones don't even blink... Let's see what happens with a second one... There it is, one of them transports sinking, slowly...

Switching to depleted uranium... getting a little closer... BWHAMOOSH!!!!

But the remaining big boy is still floating, and number 2?!? He is no more... :cry:

He just bought an AMRAAM to his ass by a trigger-happy F-15 flyboy... :poster_oops:

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And thus ends my little story... hope you enjoyed reading it as I enjoyed flying it... :thumbup:

Aries OUT! :smilewink:

I checked this thread, I certainly didn't expect that. Simply amazing Aries. :pilotfly:

LMAO Awesome read Aries! Always enjoy your after action reports :D

Lovin these on my lowly pooter, Grey. Can you tell me the average time length on these? Played for 4 hrs last night but had to shut er down cause of work today. Plan on running it for longer tonight.

hehe, well the first one is pretty long. possibly six hours on the first one with 2 people... Second one around 4 to 5 hours with 2 people.... Less time the more aircraft because you can handle more tasks. Its set coop 8, so flying one jet would take a long... long time. Glad you are having fun! :)

We found out what was with the case of the crazy Georgian SU-25 pilots... they invented this game called "Touch the Hog" few days after we arrived in the theatre of operations to help them... One would never believe... but I saw it with my own eyes and felt it on my "skin"... :megalol:

BTW. graywo1fg, you should test some more the behaviour of the SU-25s... last night, two of us flew Day 2, the SEAD flight never took off on our request... guess they were arguing on the taxiway about who was the day's winner of "Touch the Hog"... (see pic).

By some miraculous way we destroyed all the threats, even the Tunguska biatch... only the two of us... but then, our Badger groups reached all invasion goals and they all stopped... We went for some gun runs on the remaining umbrella-less schmucks... but one BMP got cocky and teared my wingman's hm... wing... :(

I landed, refueled and rearmed, went for some more... but the units were still standing still and I was expecting at least a confirmation of sucessfull CAS for the invasion (as opposed to the hillarious failure notice)...

Nevertheless it was great fun... :thumbup:

Especially the part when I brought my bird home and landed it on scrap metal... Abkhazia is really a poor county... The hungry bastards, they stole my wheels while I was flying too low on some gun runs... :D

BTW. graywo1fg, you should test some more the behaviour of the SU-25s... last night, two of us flew Day 2, the SEAD flight never took off on our request... guess they were arguing on the taxiway about who was the day's winner of "Touch the Hog"... (see pic).

Hmm.... Yeah I'll have to test a bit more with that, i have already done piles upon piles of testing, and i think the issue here is maybe somehow the ATC got screwed up. If several clients are taxiing to the runway without permission, ect... it can really really FUBAR that airfields ATC..... if others report this as an issue i will have to have them spawn in the air, or at a different airfield...... For the meantime i recommend trying to play a bit more by ATC rules, space yourselves far out when taxiing, everyone request, ect ect.... See if it still happens....

LMFAO on those "Touch the hog" Photos, but that very thing could possibly screw up future AI flights out of that airfield. :smilewink:

I landed, refueled and rearmed, went for some more... but the units were still standing still and I was expecting at least a confirmation of sucessfull CAS for the invasion (as opposed to the hillarious failure notice)...

omg... derp, Thanks for reminding me to put in such message. There is a "Great success" Message that plays when everything is done, side tasks and all, but not one for just the invasion.... I will make one! :thumbup:

Aries, when AI get on finals they STAY on finals. Even when they get shot at while trying to land they just drop chaff/flares and keep on their approach. As per taxiing, you just had bad luck with timing.

Aries, when AI get on finals they STAY on finals. Even when they get shot at while trying to land they just drop chaff/flares and keep on their approach. As per taxiing, you just had bad luck with timing.

Don't worry Grimes... I was just kidding about all that "Touch The Hog" stuf... If you look more carefully at the pictures, that is just my brand new "SU-25 Raven" SEAD pod mounted on-top of my wing... :D:D:D

I flew this for the first tme the other day, and actually my first MP game period! It was a lot of fun, great work with the layout and voiceovers, the whole thing for that matter!

Speaking of ATC. We had some dude crashed on the runway and were diverted to a nearby field. I did the proper approach and permissions and on final I had ATC saying "check gear(etc.), go around, check gear, go around, check gear, go around and on and on and on..... Almost lined up for a strafing run on the tower.:chair:

Hi, Excellent mission thanks to the developer!

How to back up the fighter jets in the air?

F 15 fighter aircraft sat on the Kutaisi and will not take off. Su 30 was shot down all including AWACS and UAV ;-(

P.S> I apologize for bad English ;-)

Thx

which mission did this happen in? I recommend trying to follow the ATC's orders the best you can. If ignored, the ATC will become bugged and think your somewhere your not, then AI aircraft wont be able to move because the ATC will think your still there ect. ect and will just tell them to stop.

Mission 1 - The Breakout.

The second time when flying was all fine. When our troops crossed the river, they stopped and did not move. Is this normal?

Performed the task only by following the instructions of HQ deep behind enemy lines. Enemy at the front was all destroyed. Our tanks were ....

that happens when the area has not been cleared in time for when they reach the bridge. The friendlies must have taken a loss on the bridge and the vehicles behind him have nowhere to go :cry:

Thank you for your help!

Good luck!

Mission 3 complete! :smartass: Enjoy my friends! Let me know if there are any issues as its brand spankin new. I highly recommend using SL mod, though it is not required.

I also updated the first and second missions.

Ran Mission 1 a couple of times tonight. The first time it crashed about after about an hour. The second time it ran 2 hours and crashed with 6 players.

I haven't figured out how to read the crash log yet. Any common problems that cause this?

Machine is an 2600k clocked to 4gig on water, 16 gig ram, GTX-680 video card, 1000 watt PS, Fios connection reading 30meg down 20+meg up.

I wasn't playing either time, just let it run.

Thanks

Edit: SL mod not installed.

The crashes in multiplayer are specters..... I have seen missions 1 and 2 run all the way past 6 hours, and seen them crash within an hour. As in other missions as well. My game likes to crash on me when hosting, right as I hit the launch button to fire off a mav after about 2 hours. Mutliplayer is not 100% stable and thats just how it is for the moment :( from what i have seen, any time you have both A10's and KA50's it tends to cause crashes after x playtime.

Did you have KA50's flying with you?

Also, did you have many players that would leave and join a lot?

Also, if you were just letting it run, were you doing other things while it was running int he background?

Did you have KA50's flying with you? YES, there was 1

Also, did you have many players that would leave and join a lot? One or 2 did but things looked like they were ok until the crash

Also, if you were just letting it run, were you doing other things while it was running int he background? I had the F10 screen and chat window open.

Here's the text from the crash log. Both logs had an Access_Violation.

Is there anything that is found to help it run without crashes or is it hit/miss?

# -------------- 20120428-012517 --------------

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\Flight.dll

# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 01E41DC9 01:00020DC9

00000000 00000000 0000:00000000

01E41DC9 0012F080 0001:00020DC9 C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\Flight.dll ?Reset_HelBirthValid@woATC@@QEAAXAEBV?$cPointerTemplate@VwControl@@@@@Z()+79

01E50EDF 0012F280 0001:0002FEDF C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\Flight.dll ?clearToTaxiToRunway@woATC@@IEAAXXZ()+8EF

01E567BD 0012F4C0 0001:000357BD C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\Flight.dll ?setClientStatusServer@woATC@@IEAAXAEAUClientData@@W4ClientStatus@@W4wMsg@@@Z()+F9D

01E5A249 0012F760 0001:00039249 C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\Flight.dll ?Control@woATC@@QEAAXXZ()+1539

01E347FA 0012F790 0001:000137FA C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\Flight.dll ?Control@wAirdrome@@QEAAXXZ()+CA

01E34C0C 0012F7C0 0001:00013C0C C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\Flight.dll ?NextEvent@wAirdromeActivity@@UEAAXXZ()+2C

005A7B34 0012F840 0001:00006B34 C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\World.dll ?DoAction@wTime@@KAXPEAVwTimeNotifier@@@Z()+4A4

005A7F99 0012F8B0 0001:00006F99 C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\bin\World.dll ?DoActionsUntil@wTime@@SAXN@Z()+109

4030C4BD 0012F940 0000:00000000

4030FB9F 0012F9A0 0000:00000000

4039F1BC 0012FEA0 0000:00000000

403A06EB 0012FF50 0000:00000000

7725652D 0012FF80 0001:0001552D C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll BaseThreadInitThunk()+D

774EC521 0012FFD0 0001:0002B521 C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart()+21