[RadiotelemetrieMoskau]

hi,
have mastered every mission so far but the second this mission starts my joystick does not react and all i see is my HUD, but other than looking at space, i see nothing but a black screen.

mission starts but i am completely unable to do anything. ah yes, additionally me and my fellow wingmans are present only as red circles in my hud.

in other words, game tells me i am dead and have to fly the mission?

Do you know what went wrong?

Greetings from Germany
Stefan

[Mobius]

Click on "select" before starting the mission and let us know. You're refering to the second mission of the Incursion campaign, right?

[RadiotelemetrieMoskau]

no, i am referring to another mission.
it starts with me (the player) going through a tripled knossos portal. my task is to scan some shivan base which looks like the NTF Outpost (Iceni)  from the original campain, just with another "skin" on top.

The mission before that was in a nebula and about shooting down some bombers and stupid aeshmas while defending 2 destroyers. (a hecate and a hatshepsut).

after the 2 destroyers jumped through the knossos and i jump out  i am thrown directly into the next mission, only a information screen "we are there, starting three perseus interceptors  to fill up your wing , defend us ... " . so no ship/weapon selection for me this time.

I dont know how many missions i have completed allready, guess around a dozend. It is definatly NOT the second mission of the campain.

you have a clue which mission i mean? I  can tell you the exact name in a few hours when i get back to my computer.

sorry for my bad english.

greetz
stefan

[Mobius]

Into the Dephts of Hell? That's the campaign you're refering to?

Oh, I made a mistake...I meant "reset", not "select"...reset the loadout and try again...

[RadiotelemetrieMoskau]

Campain is: "Incursion"
Mission is: "The Unknown"

before the mission i just have the info screen which tells me where i am about to go. So no choice of Weapon/Ship for me.

[Mobius]

A red-alert, right?

That's one hell of a problem. Try with a recent FS Open build

Geez...I can't find FS Open 3.6.10... try this:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,50266.0.html

Better than nothing...remember to browse it via launcher first

[RadiotelemetrieMoskau]

yes, a red alert. guess its a little moronic i did not find the right word even though its printed bolted and red straight in front of my face   

i will retry it with this build you linked.

hope this works.

[Mobius]

It should work, in case it doesn't DL the latest FS Open build(3.6.10).

That Inferno build is 3.6.10, it should be ok

[Jeff Vader]

The alternative would be to remove the red-alert flag from the mission.

[RadiotelemetrieMoskau]

how do i remove the red alert flag? last time i worked on FRED was about... 4 years ago?

[Mobius]

Open the mission. In Mission Specs, unselect "red alert"

[RadiotelemetrieMoskau]

I will try that.

changing to the new 3.6.10 build just killed my campain progress. but i guess it will come back when i go back to 3.6.9 in the first place.

[Mobius]

I doubt your previous campaign progress will be restored...

[Jeff Vader]

Hmm. Indeed. Sounds like corruption. I'm afraid your pilot is beyond help at this point.

[RadiotelemetrieMoskau]

1. that incursion build created its own folder in which i created a new pilot when i started the game.
2. when i switched back to the old build then my old pilots were back
3. removing the "red alert" status solved my problem

thanks!

[Centurian]

Could some one give me an idiots guid as how to remove the red alert flag for this mission, ive tried using note pad but i cant figure it out.

[Jeff Vader]

+Red Alert: 1

Switch it to +Red Alert: 0 or remove the line entirely. And do remember not to try and cram the mission file back into a vp. Instead, place it to, well, in this case \freespace2\incursion\data\missions.

[Centurian]

Thats what i've tried to do, but I cant find a +redalert: 1 only +redalert: 0, even the +flag: 12345 one that was further back in this post. Am I right in assuming the red alert is the big flashing red 'incoming transmition' on top of the briefing in the second part of the mission?

Thanks

[MrMittens]

I had this exact problem. Never found a way around it. Instead, I went to the mission simulator and hit "control shift s" and played the mission from there.