Lowrider

I posted a fix for this mission in the thread "Fix for The Great Battle?" The fix may be more trouble than it's worth, though -- you have to unpack the campaign, edit the mission, and then repack the campaign. Hopefully, BIS will fix it in an update...

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

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.

Has anyone out there successfully finished this mission?

I noticed something... After I destroyed the last tank in the second base, I got the radio message "good job, now hold the base." I saved at this point. When I looked at the objective marker on the base (after the "hold the base" radio message) it still read "Capture the base." First try: I waited outside the base, destroyed the T-72 and BMP that came over the hill, and then moved to the objective marker on the base. When I got to the marker, it changed to "hold the base", but the mission didn't end...and it never did, no matter what I tried. I reloaded the game, and went to the objective marker before the T-72 and BMP came over the hill (so it changed to "hold the base"); after I destroyed the T-72 and BMP, the mission immediately ended. I haven't re-tested it, it could just be a coincidence...but could this explain the problems people are having? You have to go to the marker before the counter-attack, or you'll be stuck in limbo? I guess I'll have to open up the script file, and look at the triggers. BTW, I'm on 1.02 Czech version, and I didn't get the script error. HTH, Lowrider