Manhatten Bug List

[rmoss 10]

Been unable to progress past this mission, no matter how many times i revert back or re try the mission it always bugs, either i loose support totally or it bugs out just before the game auto saves.

[rekrul 7]

Meh, I collected one evidence when I escorted the lady out with the chopper, then I found the other one on Nikitin but I never got credit for it. I assume the signed op-orders are counted as evidence (normally)?

Weird things happened here though. He was hiding inside the ins factory so I couldn't shoot him, but I ran to the tank and then he got up and ran. Unfortunately my AIs don't see him at all so several times he slaughters my guys without them even returning fire. If I shoot him and talk to him, nothing happens. I even heal him but he's still withering around on the ground so I have to kill him. When that happens I report that I he is the leader, I found some sideorders and it's the most incoherent conversation ever. When I search him, I get a replay of it but no credit for evidence. If I shoot and kill him from the tank (without talking to him) it's the same thing but still no evidence. When I reported back the mission ended though which is better than many people here I suppose.

[dizza 10]

I have played this damn mission for over 10 hours now over the last 3-4 days and still can not beat it.

I started not even bothering with the little missions and go straight for the base. Arty'd it one time to take out the tank. Boomerang finally shows up, but all they do it go straight into the line of fire of the BMP which takes out the APC with one shot. I've tried going in on foot and also with the APC. One shot from the BMP every time and we blow up.

This is ridiculous that this mission takes up so much time and have so many failures with the design of the mission. I've simply had it with this game. It looked so promising and the previous missions and training were a lot of fun, but this mission sucked all that fun out of the game. Unless I see a patch within a week that fixes this crap, it will be time to uninstall the game and fight for my money back.

-d

[rekrul 7]

Dizza: Use the UAV to take out any armour you can, then use arty. I didn't have arty so I had to steal an RPG and try a million times to take out the T-72. :)

[pantbash 0]

Only way I have found to do this mission is to find a freindly tank, slaughter its crew.

Then ride it into the enemy base.

(You can manage without support requests etc then.)

[eirulan 10]

Dizza: Use the UAV to take out any armour you can, then use arty. I didn't have arty so I had to steal an RPG and try a million times to take out the T-72. :)

Yes I confirm. This was also my workaround. I find an RPG in the tent of the enemy main base and took out the T72 (I tried about 10 times then I finally got it!).

[icq3800846 10]

Yeah. me too, I sniped off a couple of the guys with a hunting rifle I found, and took out the T92 with an RPG I found, I got lucky, I hit it with the only two RPG rounds I had on the second try, although the guys in the tent nearly took me out when I went running through the doorway like an idiot.

[Vasek7 0]

After a lot of crashes I reinstalled ArmA2 an loaded the current patch, hopefull to terminate the mission in a normal way now. But.... when I tried to catch that woman(??) who is in church until 11.30.... I found her dead in front of the church. The traces suggested a traffic accident. How can I end the mission now ?

... I hate this damned game...

I found her on the read from Krasnostav to Olsha. I think you can finish the mission even with unsuccessful objectives.

[dizza 10]

Dizza: Use the UAV to take out any armour you can, then use arty. I didn't have arty so I had to steal an RPG and try a million times to take out the T-72. :)

How do you target or shoot from the UAV? Anytime I use the UAV terminal to use the UAV, things are moving way to fast and it is almost impossible to use it to spot things.

-d

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I've taken out the T72... but what about the BMP there and the other guys? Is the mission suppose to end when you kill the T72?

-d

[Slyder73 10]

Well, I'm getting a complete crash to desktop every time I load the game from the Manhattan episone. I have gotten to the point where I save the girl and get her out from the chopper pickup at the LZ then when I tried to move on it got late. I saved my game and went to bed.

Now, next day, trying to load it back up and it crashes to desktop.

I'm able to reload from 2 missions before but I shouldn't have to. I've been playing these type of games for as long as they have been available to the public (as have many here) and this seems like an amateur mistake, a problem that occurs with low budget, low interest games. I'd hope Arma2 is not one of these.

Can we get some official word on one of these threads, preferably this one, on what the progress is on fixing these common problems as identified by the community. (Yes, we all know it is obvious that the couple programers tested their own game and clearly fell for the obvious trap of not looking beyond thier own thinking for their own mistakes and never had a public beta with players who would test the limits of the missions....obviously....since the missions are a complete failure due to bugs.)

Any word at all BI? What are you doing to fix this? What is the timeline?

[Archamedes 10]

I found that when using the chopper as soon as you board and try to use the map for some reason it brings up the artillery menu which is probably the reason why soo many people have complained its not in the support menu because regardless of you selecting one of the artillary options or cancelling out the menu, this glitch cancels artillery all together so if you want to use this option make sure you bomb a town BEFORE using the chopper. However this doesn't always happen the first time you use an extraction but there is a fair chance it will happen within the first 3 call outs

[R3MF 0]

if i have no uav or chopper, nothing but my guys and a rpg, and i have trawled the entire map unsuccessfully, how do i find the damned base so i can finish the mission?

cheers

[Archamedes 10]

not really a bug but when you meet the officer at the beginning and he asks you if you want him to fill you in, say no and he still stands there for 5 minutes explaining the same thing, and even has the stupidity of saying "outstanding, you just saved me some time" then tells you everything anyway. So its a bit pointless having the option if you have to go through it anyway

Edited July 10, 2009 by Archamedes

[n0bby 0]

not really a bug but when you meet the officer at the beginning and he asks you if you want him to fill you in, say no and he still stands there for 5 minutes explaining the same thing, and even has the stupidity of saying "outstanding, you just saved me some time" then tells you everything anyway.

I think that is a bug Archamedes - because I tried this myself the second time I had to re-start Manhattan, and when I said "no" he skipped straight to the "outstanding, you just saved me some time" statement.

[engel75 10]

-MrFreeze;1335195']Every time I get to FOB Manhattan Cpt. Shaftoe is dead. I get a task complete for arriving over his dead body' date=' and have the task to find evidence. No options for helicopter, mortars, etc... Thoughts? I tried restarting at [i']One Week Later[/i] and seeing if he was alive, but no joy. Did he die in Razor Two somehow and it's screwing me?

happened to me too and I recognized his dead after finishing the LAST object... 4,5 hours gameplay with lots of fun ended in 100% frustration... Do I really want to play it again. Not to mention I restarted the mission several times because of bugs:

- The Lady was not in front of the church

- After reloading a saved game the mission ends after some seconds telling me I did a murder???

- Starforce21 was no more available

- The UAV was gone and I never used it.

OMG - Bohemia - what have you done to me :)

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He couldn't take this game's bugs anymore so he decided to end it once and for all. :D

No it was a heart attack I guess - happend to "my" Cpt. Shaftoe too - so I ended Harvest Red at this point... too much frustration for an old man like me :)

Sorry Bohemia - if I would have enough motivation I would give the game to my lawyer to get my money back.

[Slyder73 10]

My Manhattan got bugged and would Crash to Desktop after I was about halfway through (can't remember what order). So I started it over again. I got out of the chopper, went to the gate, drove to the base and lo and behold, my Shaftoe had also had a heart attack or OD'ed or something. He was dead and I hadn't even done anything in the mission yet. Had to end it as well and working on the next mission.

Manhattan was a fun mission if it worked and it's too bad it's completely unplayable.

[Archamedes 10]

I got around the transport vanishing off the support menu. Now this is a spoiler but it also gets you the use of both transport and barrage and recovers transport if it vanishes from your menu

I tried to use the barrage on the enemy base as soon as possible (most times its spotted when you take the prisoner to the LZ) If you try to arrest the woman at krastnostav as your very first mission priority you will find her wandering around there, take the apc from the manhatten base. Now take her to the LZ and do not get out of the apc. When you get ambushed easily waste the enemy UAZ's within the safety of your APC. When she is lifted/killed during take off etc... you may detect the base, if not move towards the direction where the UAZ's came from until cooper radios it in. Now use the barrage on the enemy camp. This is where a bug sometimes comes in where transport is erased from the support menu. If this happens, go back to manhatten, get in the helicopter and the pilot will ask where you want to go and the transport option comes back up again.

[Erskin71 0]

wish I would have read this before I called for arty support. I want to like this game I really do. I may shelve it for a few months. Of course, by the that other game will be out whats it called....flash2 or something.

[Greg 0]

This mission has completely changed my opinion of the game. I was on a high after the previous mission, then spent an entire night wasting time until it dawned on me I was stuck in a bugged game.

The first time through...

:-( No artillery

:-( No main enemy base

:-( No lady to meet at the church or elsewhere

The second time through...

:-) My one artillery shot destroys entire enemy main base!

:-) Finally figured how to use UAV! (after googling)

:-) Found little bases and enemies near some

:-) Found smugger - even if mission success was delayed by 10 minutes from killing them.

... was all looking good until ...

:-( No way to call support for coordinated attach on main base, simply no option

:-( Transport chopper crashed on Manhattan pad

:-( Arrest person not home, villiage woman stuck in doorway, no boom

:-( No mission end even with all but 2 objectives accomplished

Lots of stupid bugs encountered...

:-( Driver runs over civilians on road

:-( Driver 'avoids' parked vehicles way off the road, causing destruction and unnecessary crashes

:-( Driver does 100 point turn but still cant get out of drive way

:-( Gunner ignores enemies

:-( Gunner attacks friendly troops

:-( Rifle shots don't pass through tree leaves

Not sure what to think now. I really want to play but I know I will suffer.

(BTW forum won't allow more than 5 icons per post, so you get silly face bullets.)

[Orlics 10]

I played about 30 minutes of this then found my artillery non-working after using it once. Yeah I'm not touching this until it's patched. I hope we can get an ETA though...

[max power 21]

After a while, I found Nikitin milling around the airport aswell. I think that maybe he leaves the base and tries to lead a mission to kill the woman you captured if you do the base after you arrest her. Or, maybe it's just random.

[yannara 1]

Oh crap... one question - is the campaign playable at all? I collected 3 players to play this campaign as a multiplayer game, we had some difficulties at Razor Two mission, and we past it with great luck (someone of us shot the car with the bad guy (not lepotev but the other one) from the chopper's minigun = succsess complite). Now we are stuck at manhattan, if we meet the lady at the church and bring her to land area - everyone dies because of the huge attack.

[v11cu96 10]

I lost Starforce alright, not shot down, but i can no longer radio them, the command has vanished from the support menu.

Second issue is the safe house mission - it wont end, the waypoint is inside the building (which cannot be entered) i kill all the guys around and seach their corpses, but nothing, seems like the trigger is broken..

[eirulan 10]

I lost Starforce alright, not shot down, but i can no longer radio them, the command has vanished from the support menu.

Second issue is the safe house mission - it wont end, the waypoint is inside the building (which cannot be entered) i kill all the guys around and seach their corpses, but nothing, seems like the trigger is broken..

The mission at the safehouse ended regularly. The trigger activated and I collected atrocities evidence "2/2". Don't know why: this is what happened to me.

It appears the game is very case sentitive.

In statistics you call them "combinations": maybe the programmers were not able to foresee all these "combinations"...

By the way I liked the campaign.

ARTILLERY SCRIPT + STARFORCE 21 (HELICOPTER): they disappear after you find Lagushina. This what happened to me.

SO: the later you'll find Lagushina, the better.

[theukmoog 10]

Oh crap... one question - is the campaign playable at all? I collected 3 players to play this campaign as a multiplayer game, we had some difficulties at Razor Two mission, and we past it with great luck (someone of us shot the car with the bad guy (not lepotev but the other one) from the chopper's minigun = succsess complite). Now we are stuck at manhattan, if we meet the lady at the church and bring her to land area - everyone dies because of the huge attack.

Nope, it's a buggy POS... congrats on getting past Razor Two, we're stuck on that in co-op :(

Personally, I'm going to uninstall it and wait for 1.03 (which had better be soon and had better address the co-op/campaign issues!) or for Flashpoint2.