Victory triggers: Mission accomplished but no end/victory

[Bahger 11]

I played the village sweep mission today, my first in ArmA 2. Good tactics/fighting but having cleared the village (including calling in an airstrike on a BMP) there was no conclusion to the mission, no indication of whether I had won or what to do next, I was just marching about with my squad looking for a victory trigger. This is a pain. It's something that always bugged me in OFP and ArmA 1. I cleared the village and preserved my squad; how/why did I fail to trigger the victory? it was so inconclusive and in the mission menu the square beside the mission title is unfilled, which indicates an incomplete mission. This took me an hour (including save/restarts); grrr. Help, please?

[mrcash2009 0]

I had the same, yet it did mark of as complete in the list.

[Cellus 10]

Did they change this mission in 1.02? When I played it the player was not the squad leader and did not call in the airstrike. After the village/APC, the squad continued on to the airfield. Can't remember the final objective, but I just followed them. Probably still the same. I'm not confident of your powers of observation, as you posted in General instead of Official Missions.

[jakerod 254]

If it is the same mission in the demo, don't you also have to take out an AA battery or something?

[Bahger 11]

It's not the same mission as the demo, or even a different version of it. It's a four-man village sweep (with NPC support).

I will try it again today. I think that saving games often erases necessary triggers in ArmA, a problem that reared its ugly head for me in ArmA 1 and OFP. I'm hoping this is an aberration, as it would be a shame if the the much-improved gameplay were to be sabotaged by broken event triggers.

[cream-t 10]

Hi

i am trying now, 9am no end to mission. All men live so did not get extra "reenforcements" task. Maybe thats the bug.

[Bahger 11]

Hi

i am trying now, 9am no end to mission. All men live so did not get extra "reenforcements" task. Maybe thats the bug.

I think you're right. It's frustrating and a bug they should have caught. Last night I swept the village successfully but by 8:30 (the end of the briefed "Take and Hold" time) no sign of a victory notification. I had asked for reinforcements after losing one man but why would I want to break cover and run back across the open to rendezvous with the reinforcements when I'd probably get shot?? Shouldn't they come to me? So I stayed put and the reinforcements appeard to disperse and do their thing. The mission only ended after the village sweep when I went to where the reinforcements had landed and triggered the victory that way. Goofy but typical ArmA sp.

[cream-t 10]

Mission ended for no reason in end. But i ran to second landing spot up hill forward abit from crossroads (it was not marked in map) . I did pick up a reenforcement ealier. There was still opfor according to tasks.

[shataan 1]

This mission frustrated the crap outta me. I dunno how many times I called for an airstrike, and none came. So I used the jeep mounted `zook to kill the apc. Kept repeatedly trying to win this mssion. Eventually the Airstrikes actually came. Killed all enemy, still no victory. All I can think of is some enemy A.I. somewhere that we can`t see is stopping us from mission completion. aarrgghh

Between this and the tutorial mssions being buggy, oy`ve.

[Kamikazeoi 10]

This mission drove me nuts for hours not being able to complete it...until just now I realized it was "High Command" mission. Press Left Ctrl and Spacebar and you can order all the other friendly units to attack the village. Makes this mission really really easy.

[Bahger 11]

This mission drove me nuts for hours not being able to complete it...until just now I realized it was "High Command" mission. Press Left Ctrl and Spacebar and you can order all the other friendly units to attack the village. Makes this mission really really easy.

Very useful info, many thanks. I will now replay the mission in an attempt to get to grips with High Command.

Edited July 20, 2009 by Bahger