Into the Storm

[zembla8400 10]

Hey all

Well i just started playing Arma 2 and i like it a lot the only problem is that im kinda stuck.

im in the mission into the storm and laser marked all the three targets but i can"t do anything atm

any body that can help me out here?

Is this a bug?

Did i do something wrong?

Greetz

Zembla

[slambo239 10]

I have already lasered and seen the targets destroyed. The indicator up top popped up and said complete...yet the tasks in the map section does not check the "designate targets" as done. Yes i have done all three. I now get a yellow marker directing me to formation with my mates but when i get there nothing triggers. When i select more mass garve evidence, i dont even get a new marker. Game is stuck...help. This is the very first mission and i know this game has been out a while. This has not been addressed yet? I have done all the latest patches as well.

[LRK89 10]

Hi I got exactly the same problem I have destroyed the builing, the tank and the shilka under the camo. But task still says "designate targets" is not done and when I too go back to my squad they just stand there and maybe say 'clear' or go prone. ??

Im thinking about starting again or have I missed something?

[slambo239 10]

I figured it out...i think. I redid the mission and this time i did them in order as called out by "Battlemage". This was The House, the tank hidden in the netting, then the mobile tank. When i did them before i did the house then the mobile tank next. Somehow this threw the program off...even though the title up top said the mission was complete. Try it and see if it works.

[LRK89 10]

Hey thanks, I started again too and this time took the woman and doc to the safe house and found the mass grave, only thing that annoyed me that it said i failed to meet at point liquid when i was standing there. regardless I went on and this time i too did the targets in order and it worked so now i just got to get threw mission 2 which was a laugh,

miles sent us in to the village and i hear a tank near by, looking around I see nothing so I crouch by a building when i hear Enemy. Man. Close. In Front. Of Us. x6 then Tank in front of us. *gulp* I then see two guys running towards me. I look threw my scope and I dunno if this is a graphic glitch but this is glare in my scope so i could barly see where i was aiming but I manage to kill one guy.... mean while machine gun fire was all around me "Oh no 1 is down" "This is 2 taking command. "sh1t 5 is down!" then before i could even say the sh1t has hit the fan. I took two bullets and hit the floor heavly injured and then presented with the option to start again...

next time round I saved it just before the point I died but it was too late to try again so will try again later. How well did you do when you played mission 2?

[slambo239 10]

I actually did not have a problem with mission 2. Once i got through the beginning and made it to the rally point i was ok. Had to hunt down a sniper. It takes a long time to get where you need to be to get him so you need to start running to the direction as soon as you can...before you are even told about the sniper. If you dont get to him in time, a NPC will kill him for you. I guess that means you dont get a good score:) I had to replay this a few times so I could get the sniper.

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By the way...i read something about a woman in a walkthrough online and I never saw this woman. I played this mission twice and didnt see her. I saw the Doc and escorted him and i did get the report about the mass grave. What benefit does this woman bring?

[jeffroland 10]

I actually did not have a problem with mission 2. Once i got through the beginning and made it to the rally point i was ok. Had to hunt down a sniper. It takes a long time to get where you need to be to get him so you need to start running to the direction as soon as you can...before you are even told about the sniper. If you dont get to him in time, a NPC will kill him for you. I guess that means you dont get a good score:) I had to replay this a few times so I could get the sniper.

Actually, that's mission 3. Mission 2 is to make it to the city from the woods.

[LukeB 10]

If you save the woman, she reappears in a later mission and provides you with some helpful information.

She is in the building across the road from where you destroy the communications tower.

Be careful in the discussion with her though because if you say the wrong thing when you find her she will think that you are going to abuse her and will run off.

Actually, this was one of my favourite missions.

Cheers,

Luke.

[Muad'Dib 10]

I'm extremely stuck in this mission. I lasered all the targets in the correct order and each one of the tasks was completed. I go back to Miles and nothing happens, he just stands there or goes back into prone position occassionally.

There is a task which says designate laser targets or something beneath each individual target I lasered but this option is greyed out and does nothing.

I've tried everything I can think off, reverting to various saves before lasering and going through it over and over in the correct order: house, net-AA gun, moving tank; going back to Miles does nothing.

I also completed every single objective in the tasks list before this except ordering the air strike since I used the satchel charges. If I skip the lasering tasks I can move onto mission 2 but if I do the laser missions it simply does nothing.

Does anyone have any clues outside of targetting them in order which I already did?

I'm using patch 1.04

Thanks

[jeffroland 10]

Sorry, can't help because I chose to take blow up the target myself.

[Muad'Dib 10]

I want to blow them up with the laser and do this part of the mission, I do not want to skip it. I'm just clueless as to why the mission doesn't end since I do target them in the correct order.

I tried e-mailing their tech support and I got a failure to deliver message. This really sucks sigh.

If anyone has any clues what I could do different I appreciate it.

Thanks!

[jeffroland 10]

do you have to call in via radio to tell them you've targeted them?

[Muad'Dib 10]

When I arrive at the peak of the mountain I receive a task that tells me to use the laser marker to target vehicles for missile attacks.

I then receive each target individually in order as a brand new task; a house, a AA gun beneath a net and finally a moving T-72 tank. I proceed to target each of these in order and they are all destroyed.

The individual tasks (House, net gun, tank) are marked complete while the original task that simply says use laser marker to target enemies as called by radio is greyed out.

I then return to Miles at the top of the peak and he does nothing nor say nothing. Every once in a while he'll say the area is clear or if I ask his position he will tell me the coordinates. But aside of this he just stands there.

I have repeated the part of the mission with the laser 7 times with no change. Twice it was from an even earlier save where we rallied at the extraction point and they ask me whether I want to do the laser mission or not. Every time the result is the same.

I haven't a clue what I did wrong, if anything. If you can think of something I appreciate the help.

Thanks!

[Alex72 1]

Did you update the game between this? (went back to earlier saves). That would be a cause. If you update with a patch or beta then you have to restart the mission. Not the campaign - but from the start of the mission you are on. Saves are no good.

[jeffroland 10]

Did you investigate the town after the targets were blown up? See if there are any survivors in town, civilian or otherwise.

[Muad'Dib 10]

@Alex72: No I started the game from the very beginning with the latest released 1.04 patch, I acquired the game for the first time barely 4 days ago.

Would mods perhaps be a problem? I had 2 mods from armaholic.com active via the Arma 2 launcher which added new weapons to the game and a second which unlocks additional units that exist but are hidden within the game. They are called:

1) FFAA Weapons 1.1 (Adds new weapons)

2) Extra Units and Vehicles (Unlocks vanilla vehicles and weapons hidden within the game that weren't accessible)

I have since deleted those mods in case they were the problem. However if its similar to having a new patch, then I'll have to restart the mission over again.

@jeffroland: I did not go down to the town after I destroyed the targets, I remained on the mountain awaiting orders or like the walkthrough I read stated for Miles to speak to me which he doesn't.

I can see from the mountain that there are numerous patrols of enemy soldiers on foot throughout the valley, usually in groups of 2 or 4, but I can't engage them unless I climb down the mountain. I have not seen any civilians.

I will attempt a complete restart of the mission now that I deleted the 2 mods just in case one or both were causing the issue and the earlier checkpoint saves weren't enough to fix the problem.

Thanks for any other ideas you can come up with and all your help; I'll retry the mission again tonight and post if I had any success by tomorrow.

[LRK89 10]

I had the same problem but i just restarted the mission and it worked fine. just start again and see if that helps

[jeffroland 10]

You probably don't need to restart. You need to clear the town of all enemy soldiers and investigate the town.

[Muad'Dib 10]

Thanks for all the help guys, I really appreciate it.

Since I had no idea whether the mods were the cause or not, probably not but I deleted them anyway, I did restart the mission just in case. This time the mission did complete successfully so I don't know if the mods were an issue or if it was some random weirdness.

The only thing I did different was I escorted the doctor by himself to the cabin first and then escorted the woman after. Before I would take them to the cabin at the same time. Don't know if that had anything to do with it since the game is a bit borked about completing tasks in order sometimes?

Tech support sent me an e-mail stating that they know that part of the mission has problems and that it is on a wishlist for a fix for a future patch.

@jeffroland: How would I go into the town in mission 1? Doesn't the squad go through the town in the next mission Amphibious Assault?

[jeffroland 10]

@Maud'Dib,

Since I had no idea whether the mods were the cause or not, probably not but I deleted them anyway, I did restart the mission just in case. This time the mission did complete successfully so I don't know if the mods were an issue or if it was some random weirdness.

Sounds like it was the right thing to do. Sometimes mission triggers don't fire in ARAM II which seems to be the case the first time you played the mission. I didn't laser the targets when I played - I chose to take out the radar myself to limit civilian casualties.

BTW, we are talking about the very first mission where you have to take out a radar or radio truck? Your description of the targets (house, T72, and AA gun) doesn't ring a bell.

Amphibious Assault is the mission to get from the woods to the bigger city, IIRC.

[Muad'Dib 10]

Hi jeffroland,

The part I'm talking about is the very last part of the first mission. After you destroy the radio truck in Pusta, escort the hostages to the cabin and reach the extraction point at Point Madison, you will receive a call from Battlemage asking whether you can help the invasion of the beach with the laser marker.

If you decline, you move onto the next mission Amphibious Assault; if you have the laser marker and accept the mission, the squad is directed to the peak of a mountain, from there you are instructed to laser 3 targets 1 by 1 for bombers to hit.

The first target is a large house which serves as a Chedaki field HQ and an operative on the ground has marked with red smoke.

The second is an ZSU-23 Anti-Aircraft Shilka self propelled gun platform being hidden under a camouflage camel net.

The third target is a T-72 tank which patrols a street.

Apparently you have to destroy each of these exactly in that order or the mission end will not trigger. Problem was I did do them in order and the mission didn't end so I was confused as to what I did wrong.

I still don't know if removing the mods was the reason for fixing the mission, since I would need to restart it just to have those changes take effect or if I just needed to restart the mission from scratch at all without removing the mods. Or even if I fixed it by escorting Dr. Sova to the cabin first and then Valentina as I would always escort them together and each is marked as a different task.

Nonetheless restarting the mission seems to have fixed it. I'm currently in mission 3 hunting the sniper but the lag almost paralizes my computer and I had to take everything down to low settings just to be able to run through Cherno. I'm gonna have to buy at least aother gig of RAM, can't really enjoy a lot of the game as it is right now sigh.

[jeffroland 10]

ahh, I see. I declined that option I guess, hence my confusion.