[FIXED] Problems with MDSP tutorials 4 & 6

[slbm]

I have not played CMO since pre-MDSP days, and now returning to the game I wanted to first do the tutorials to see how it works.

The problem is, that I can't get two of the tutorials to work as advertised.

In tutorial 4, attack method selection does not seem to work. I tried different ones, but while all the off-axis options do, indeed, produce a flight plan with different attack paths for each plane in the flight, it does not work in reality. Once the formation reaches the waypoint where they should split, they do split for a couple of seconds, and then the planes form up on the leader again. But worst of all, while they do follow the leader, they do not bomb at all, only the leader does, and the formation brings the other 12 JDAMs back to base. I tried countless iterations and configurations of waypoints, manually shifting them, to no avail. I read that such an issue was reported a long time ago, and then reported as fixed, but it does not work for me now.

The other issue is with tutorial 6 and patrol flightplan. I believe I do everything as I should, but then once my planes take off for a patrol, the leader of every flight only goes to the assembly waypoint and circles it endlessly until running out of fuel and crashing. Meanwhile their wingman/wingmen proceeds as expected. This happens to 2- and 4-ship flights, and no matter if I have one or two flights airborne on the mission. Again, tried different things, repositioning the waypoints manually, it does not help.

The only thing temporarily resolving the situation, is deleting the assembly waypoint, then the leader returns to the route. But the next flight flying the next rotation of the patrol falls into the same problem.

It's build 1328.18, files integrity verified by steam.

I feel that perhaps I'm doing something very stupid, but I used probably a better part of two hours trying to resolve these issues and failed. Other tutorials worked as advertised. I have not tried any of these techniques outside tutorials yet.

I'll be very grateful for any advice.

[Dimitris]

Hi,

The first issue is a known problem which sadly has not yet been fixed.

The second problem has been fixed on the current public beta, give it a try if you can: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 2#p5190642

Thanks.

[slbm]

Thank you!

[slbm]

I just checked the public beta (directly from Steam), and discovered that actually both those things seem fixed, or maybe I was just lucky with bombing, but it worked directly as advertised this time (only one try).

One thing that bothers me though is that the planning for the patrol routes only works for the first rotation. Next rotation gets an automatic flight plan and more or less straight route. So, unless I'm micromanaging, the "avoid dangerous spot" functionality won't really work for patrols anyway.

But that's probably not a bug, but how the planner works.

In any case thanks once more, it's great to see continuous refinement and development!

[Dimitris]

Thanks for checking back!

[Karejar]

Very grateful for your work.
Thank you.