Help with Lagushina arrest script - please

[Saint Warrior 10]

Hi all,

I need some help with Lagushina arrest as I play ArmA II through Combined Operations.

In original game that woman would stand by the church in Krasnostav for ages and in CO her red VW Golf is there but herself she is gone. I have to say that I have blown her car with SMAW though. I can't find her neither in Gvozdno nor in Olsha, or anywhere on the road.

Would anybody give me a hint where this woman could be? I would like to catch her very much. :D I have completed all other mission objectives but do not want either to revert or cheat with END MISSION code. Thanks.

[Hanzu 10]

At 12:35 P.M. she is found at GPS COORS 106209 walking on on the right side of the road from Krasnostav to Gvozdno At 15:00 P.M. she is found at Gvozdno standing northeast side of the red brick building at GPS COORS 085034.

Any other time search main road between Krasnostav and Gvozdno. Any other time search Gvozdno, Krasnostav, Krasnostav church, Olsha and the main road connecting them.

She is not walking in the middle of the road, but few meters side from it, so keep your eyes open. Hopefully destroying that VW Golf IV-lookalike (that supposedly belongs to her), did not make scripting to bug and Lagushina disappear permanently. Good luck!

If you found her somewhere, let me know what time that was and what COORDS (so I can add that to my walkthrough).

[Saint Warrior 10]

Thanks Hanzu, I found her at 14:50 PM standing by the red brick house as you mentioned in Gvozdno. It seems that destroying her VW Golf does not affect her game behavior in any way, she just walks all that long road home by foot and that's all. She does not disappear fortunately. :)

Extracted her by the Hind already, fortunately I loaded all my guys with SMAWs and M136 at Manhattan so those Chedakis attacking the LZ did not stand a single chance.

BTW, it seems to be more convenient to take her from Gvozdno and escort for 1000 meters through plain terrain field than taking her from Krasnostav.

[Hanzu 10]

Good work.

I think when she finishes her scripted routes, she stands near that brick house at Gvozdno. Atleast I can't believe she would start to repeat the scriptied route from there. Somebody correct me if you find she does repeat her routes.

I have seen her walking Krasnostav main road and same road side between Krasnostav and Gvozdno, but according to the game notes she also visits Olsha, so I figured car would be for that, but maybe not since in the end of the game it was parked in front of Krasnostav church front bumber facing east, which made me thing it was never used (unless that woman drives back from east and made hard U-turn on that narrow main street when parking to the church).

Yes it is always wise to leave "Task: Arrest Lagushina" as the second last task just because she will automatically be closer and not so much in danger

in the end. I didn't have those Two UAZ and men attacking LZ, since I cleared them earlier when removing all insurgent sentry posts.

There is a similar red VW Golf IV lookalike in the next mission, that has a place in the plot, but it is not required for completion. So hopefully it was not the same one you destroyed. ;) I guess not, I think usually mission will load all default objects, no matter what damage you have done to the items in previous mission.

[FilthyNord 10]

Hopefully this doesn't require a new thread. I've arrested Langushina, gone to the LZ and waited. And waited. About an hour in real time. How long do you need to wait? Is there a way to move the script forward? Is there a time compression command?

[Saint Warrior 10]

Hopefully this doesn't require a new thread. I've arrested Langushina, gone to the LZ and waited. And waited. About an hour in real time. How long do you need to wait? Is there a way to move the script forward? Is there a time compression command?

It seems that you have a bug there. Did you try reverting to earlier save? Also on the edge of the forest very little ahead the LZ there is a Chedaki base which will attack you as you try to appoach the LZ. You should eliminate them in order to trigger the chopper evacuation.

[Hanzu 10]

FilthyNord, what patch version are you using?

There has always been problems and bugs related to this task/objective and some of them still exist:

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/12265

Model error in Lagushina's car (grass goes through car) CIT Bug #1928

Model error in Lagushina's car (5th passenger) (CIT Bug #18076)

A few days ago, I wanted to see where Lagushina is when Manhattan mission starts, so immediately after the start I took closest vehicle and drove through Krasnostav towards Gvosdno. In GPS COORD 096032 I forced Lagushina to drive her car offroad and she disembarked it while I approached. I took her to near LZ and machinegunned two UAZ coming from northeast. After that Lagushina left us and ran about 20 meters and then disappeared like a ghost. Task Accomplished. I never even saw that Mi-24D helicopter that usually comes to pick her up, maybe it was shot down, since there were still lot of enemies still around and it was only few minutes since the mission started. I have also heard since that Mi-24D is CDF or was it NAPA, it will start to fight all enemies it sees near, so it may be lost or destroyed on they way if there is enemies it sees and so it will never come. Clear attacking UAZ atleast and put on your GPS with RCtrl+M to see orange LZ marker and walk over exactly over it to trigger Lagushina start running for a spot where helicopter usually appears.

So my conclusion is this task/objective has a lot of weak points. The only thing you can do is to use earlier save or restart the whole mission and complete this task as the second one right after going to see Capt. Shaftoe. You can then return to FOB Manhattan to do more preparations, but if you want to catch Lagushina between the road near LZ and Krasnostav, be there about 7 minutes after mission start.

[FilthyNord 10]

Thanks for the suggestions. I am at work now so I don't have current version number, but since I installed Combined Operations only about two weeks ago it must be the latest patch. I already eliminated the nearby camp with UAZs, so there has been no attack.

One possibility is that Langushina didn't come with me after she was arrested. I never saw her actually get into the LAV 25. I switched to ride in the back and she wasn't there but I don't know if that is just because Bohemia never bothered to put an animation of her there. But the task list said she has been arrested and to take her to the LZ. The LZ is marked in yellow on the map. I had everyone exit the LAV 25 and she was not there.

Looks like I am just going to have to go back to an earlier save and try again. I am really enjoying this game and I hope the rest of it won't be as buggy.

Again, thanks.

[Hanzu 10]

I have transported Lagushina to LZ with AAVP7A1 [uSMC], black sedan and VWGolf Hatchback. If I am not mistaken I have transported Lagushina with LAV-25 [uSMC] too.

If she does not come out of any vehicle after you, I'm pretty sure she never got in and maybe tried to follow on foot and got killed.

You may want to check if she could still be found at Gvozdno standing northeast side of the red brick building at GPS COORS 085034.

Not sure if enemy will even try to kill her. Atleast we know she is evidence against Chedaki and that is why CDF wants her.

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Do not let the bugs spoil your enjoyment. There is always some kind of workaround. I just completed the whole campaign without ever using campaign or endmission cheat.

[Saint Warrior 10]

As for me Lagushina has never entered any of my vehicles, neither LAV-25 nor HMVV. She always travels on foot and you have to escort her on foot. Same goes for the Chedaki informant in the last mission, while Lopotev will gladly enter the helicopter to fly in. It's a completely different AI behavior though situations are identical.

[Hanzu 10]

As for me Lagushina has never entered any of my vehicles, neither LAV-25 nor HMVV. She always travels on foot and you have to escort her on foot. Same goes for the Chedaki informant in the last mission, while Lopotev will gladly enter the helicopter to fly in. It's a completely different AI behavior though situations are identical.

It seems to depend on vehicles.

Lagushina has entered all civilian cars I have tried, but not all military vehicles.

Chedaki informant entered UAZ, Ural and BRDM-2 after me. But not BRDM-2 or T-72.

I think Lopotev is scripted to enter that Mi-17 (Civilian) helicopter, because otherwise you would have to take long swim and walk with him following you.

If I ever have time, I will make a list what vehicles you can use to transport those VIPs.

[FilthyNord 10]

I replayed the Lagushina arrest. I was able to get her into the LAV 25 if Cooper was the first to enter (I usually had him enter last). If the rest of the team was already in the vehicle, she wouldn't follow Cooper. So both Hanzu and Saint Warrior are right, depending on how they did it. Thanks for the help!

[Hanzu 10]

Thanks FilthyNord. Now that I think it, she may be scripted to always take the seat that is next to Cooper (like she would not trust anyone else to be near her).

So if rest of the Razor Team is in the vehicle already, there is usually no 2 free seats available next to each other and even if Cooper enters vehicle, she does not because she has no AI intelligence that would allow her to choose any seat.

Same goes with Dogs Of War POW. I remember him sitting next to Cooper like some wannabe co-driver.

[surpriser 1]

For me lagushina just sit there after being arrested but never follows... Only ways to fonish the mission now seem to kill here sitting which i am reluctant to do...