Extra tasks within SP missions

[Kommiekat 11]

I got an extra task with FOB Manhattan:

Save downed helicopter crew and escort from Shaftoe.

Anybody else get this?

Any more from other missions?

[rothy 0]

Wow! I never got this and I am going on my third time playing FOB Manhattan. How did you get this mission?

[nominesine 0]

It's one of the standard random missions that comes from the Second Operations manager (found under F7 in the editor). The SOM should be disabled in Manhattan, and isn't supposed to hand out side missions. It's only there to give you access to Starforce21 and the artillery. But there's a glitch in the game engine, that sometimes let's the sidemissions slip through, even if they were disabled by the mission designer. I suspect that what's happened. Or maybe the SOM is switched on from time to time via one of the scripts running in the background. I haven't searched all of them for SOM references.

[Jezuro 452]

Actually, this one isn't triggered by the SecOp Manager (which is disabled throughout the whole campaign).

You get this task only if the chopper gets shot down, which of course doesn't have to happen every time ;)

[Kommiekat 11]

Happened a second time around.

Different crash location.

They were shot dead about 1 minute before my ETA and the task is auto-canceled.

Pisser. I like doing LONG LONG missions.

[jakerod 254]

I got this one one time. Only thing that sucked was that it crashed about 1km off shore. Needless to say I never went to get them.

[the unknown 0]

It crashed in one of the forests north off that town north of the base.

Managed to get them out safely to the pick up point but then the chopper to pick them up never arrived so I let them there to do what ever they wanted to do.

[Zombie_Mod 0]

Actually, this one isn't triggered by the SecOp Manager (which is disabled throughout the whole campaign).

You get this task only if the chopper gets shot down, which of course doesn't have to happen every time ;)

See, I like that idea in game where something might happen, it might not, and no 2 games are the same... I wish OFP: CWC had that kind of thing going on in its campaigns back then.

The excellent campaign + side missions would have enhanced the classic.

[Kommiekat 11]

I got this one one time. Only thing that sucked was that it crashed about 1km off shore. Needless to say I never went to get them.

You mean you didn't have "camo speedo's" in your gear?:butbut: