Fix for The Great Battle?

[Lowrider 0]

Hi all,

Sorry for creating yet another Great Battle topic, but I didn't want this to get buried...

I hated not being able to finish the mission, so I un-pbo'd the campaign, and poked around in this mission. I noticed that the trigger for switching to the counter-attack on the east base is:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">expCond="(((count units e1)+(count units e2)+(count units e3)+(count units e4)) < 5) && hlaskajsoutu==1";

I believe the problem is that there is no group e4. e1 and e3 are groups of T-72s; e2 is a group of BMPs; but if you search the mission.sqm for e4, the condition above is the only reference.

I changed the condition to:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">expCond="(((count units e1)+(count units e2)+(count units e3)) < 5) && hlaskajsoutu==1";

and the mission worked fine. After I destroyed the last BMP, I got a radio message to attack the east base. I went over there, blew up the armor, and got the mission complete.

If you want to fix your own campaign:

1. Get a pbo utility (e.g. download Kegety's ArmA Tools in the download section at http://www.armed-assault-zone.com)

2. Go to \ArmA\Campaigns\

3. Back up your ca.pbo! Make a copy, call it ca.orig.pbo. (You'll probably need to put the original ca.pbo back before you run the next official patch.)

4. Un-pbo ca.pbo

5. Open the file \ArmA\Campaigns\ca\Missions\08Gryphons.Sara\mission.sqm in a text editor

6. Search for "e4" -- you should see the first line of code above. Replace with the second line of code.

7. Re-pbo the ca directory.

I'm running the Sprocket CZ 1.02 version. The usual disclaimers apply: try this at your own risk. Be sure to back up ca.pbo!

Hope this helps.

-LR

[EdGrrr 0]

Sorry, haven't tried this yet, but if e4 doesn't exist, then the result of

(count units e4)

should be zero and hence the lines of code are the same. Then again, I may not be right - good job though.

[Sakman 0]

Thanks for this, I've tried and it worked. Too bad the last mission where you take bagango don't finish properly neither.

[Lowrider 0]

Sorry, haven't tried this yet, but if e4 doesn't exist, then the result of

(count units e4)

should be zero and hence the lines of code are the same.  Then again, I may not be right - good job though.

That's a good point. I tested it out in a dummy mission, and it didn't seem to work that way. I suspect the undefined variable makes the entire expression undefined.

[NetWalker 0]

Hi !

Tried here and it worked! Thanks Lowrider!

BIS should definately add this fix to next patch. Even more, fix all errors on the ArmA campaign.

Rgards!

[k1ng 0]

i dont think the arma campaign is finnished yet anyways... wait for the 505 releace/patch (gonna buy the game again myself.. i cant understand german and a reinstall is needed every patch) and it should be much better

[Raz0rx 0]

Any way to fix the ridiculous hellfires, too?

Seeing as they fire fine in any other thing involving choppers, except this mission. (That i've experienced, anyway).