"Blood Sweat & Tears" Bug [Archive] - Bohemia Interactive Forums

My_Shortcoming

Feb 17 2007, 09:21

An amazing mission that comes with the UK version of the game, If you choose to not drive the truck into the town and go into the bedroom you can pick up a sniper rifle. However, if you die and auto load back to that point the weapon is invisible, you can pick it up and fire it but you see no gun in your hands and when you look through the scope you are just zoomed with nothing there, but you can still fire, just cant aim lol.

Simple bug and awesome mission so far but DAM veteran mode is hard. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/nener.gif

Duffers

Feb 17 2007, 20:04

Had the same problem. The contact actually directs you upstairs to get the rifle but I'm holding air.

Amusingly, as I ambushed the truck and killed the four occupants, I think one of them tried a 'nade but blew up the truck and himself. The truck was on fire and I got 'OBJECTIVE COMPLETE'. The contact went to drive the truck which was on fire, walked through it, hung around and walked off. Had to restart.

Rumsfield

Feb 18 2007, 03:27

I had the same bug, but on a different mission. I was swimming across some water, and when I reached land I noticed I had absolutely no weapons, nothing at all in my inventory. I assume I experienced the infamous bug where you lose your weapons at some point while swimming in the water. So anyway, I needed a weapon fast. I saw a corpse with a M4 ACOG, so I took it, saved the game, got killed by a T-72. Reloaded the game to just after I pickup the M4 ACOG, and when it loaded, my M4 was invisible, but it was still there and working. 2 bugs in one mission, I guess I'm just that lucky!

Greg147

Feb 18 2007, 08:20

I was swimming across some water, and when I reached land I noticed I had absolutely no weapons, nothing at all in my inventory. I assume I experienced the infamous bug where you lose your weapons at some point while swimming in the water.

Thats not a bug, thats ment to happen. Even says in the manual 'You may not be fast ands its possible you will lose some of your equipment, but at least you can handle getting back to shore after you've parachuted into the ocean.'

The other bugs I havn't noticed yet. Although I used the 4x4 to block the road, and when I opened fire on the truck, it hit the car, stopped, and just sat there as I stood in front of it, picking off its crew one by one. You would have thought they'd get out, but anyway. Its a great mission so far, much better than any of the others in the campaign or SP. Still havn't quite finished it yet.

Oh, also, the briefing does not go to the next page, so you cannot see your last 2 objectives. Anyone else notice this?

Armalite666

Feb 18 2007, 11:02

jtg91

Feb 18 2007, 20:00

i also have this bug when i go into the bedroom to get the gun i can pick it up but i can not see it the man has is arms like his holding it and i can shoot etc but cannot see it. also i noticed in the cut scene a man in it has a 2d gun?

Spliff

Feb 19 2007, 21:50

i also have same prob.same in the mission where u av to stop thje convoy.....no gun....all i can c is the pistol.....arm the snr or whatever its called......left holding a bag of wind

Spliff

Feb 19 2007, 21:54

its cool though.....paid £25 for a glorified demo......usally pay £5.99 for a mag and a demo.....wish i had a strategy plan for making money
ffs...

razor7

Feb 20 2007, 14:43

What is more annoying is the CTD when the harrier flys over in a cutscene later on.

I manged to get through it once and chose the special ops guy to carry on.

The harrier bombs the town, then you get a bit of rubbish dialogue 'say hello devil' (what the hell is that supposed to mean?). Then the cutsene just stops.
I have the same issues...the ghost weapon and after "say hello to devil" the game continues, you can fire up some grunts but after some SECONDS a cutscene will apear showing a AA soldier getting down your Black Hawk, so, being saved from the crash, you and the co-pilot survive but before you can do ANYTHING, another cutscene appears showing you a burned BlackHowk falling from the skyes directly to yours, so yo get smashed by it and guess what...you are death and the mission failed...no mather how far you run from the crash site....

Damn Bohemia and ArmA.

Moricky

Feb 20 2007, 15:19

... the game continues, you can fire up some grunts but after some SECONDS a cutscene will apear ...
It depends ahow successful was harrier in bombarding Ixel base. In you case only few enemy soldiers survived, so mission continued.

... another cutscene appears showing you a burned BlackHowk falling from the skyes directly to yours ...
Hmm, it seems that one cutscene was executed twice.

Messiah

Feb 20 2007, 21:06

this mission more than made up for the arma campaign in my eyes - an excellent and epic example of mission making - I spent an hour making why way through it, following the SF guy, then the grunt and then finally the SF for the chopper part

I cant wait to play it again following the grunt through the last part

rebuilder

Feb 21 2007, 15:00

I got to the part with the specops character where the harrier bombed the enemy base, and then the character runs off somewhere, camera pans to some scenery, sounds of vehicles driving around... and nothing happens. After a few minutes, the view fades to black, and sound continues, and nothing happens.

EVIL-SCOTSMAN

Feb 24 2007, 06:05

Hi, first post around here, but I get this just before i jump into the helicopter to use the mingun and then i get an unending burned out chopper landing on my crashed chopper killing me continuously http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif and i get this text staying in the corner of the screen all the time, any ideas, pic below. Just to add, when I took the pic, the screen just went black, I can normally see the whole game when that error text shows but it just so happened when i took screenie the screen went black http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif
The problems seem to start whe the airport has been taken iover and the blackhawks come into land 3 of them, 1 of them crashes then the harriers come over and the text appears and then the game starts to screw up.

http://www.wtfnub.co.uk/arma bug.JPG

mikupoiss

Feb 25 2007, 17:28

Okay. After loading my savegames for the 6th time(saved it, when choppers came to the airfield), I saw the "right" cutscene - chopper landed, and SpecOp boarded it. BTW, in the "right" cutscene, Harrier destroyed the back side of the base. So, all of the troops survived.

Then I had some fun with minigun, and i was shut down. I hid myself and the pilot in the church ruins. Popped some opfors. Then heard gunshots, went out, sow the "rescue" team by the chopper wreck. Went there. And?

The mission should end according to the briefing. Why doesn't it? Guess I have to reload 6 times again http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif

And the base attack with the grunt? Attacked the base, SpecOp was shot down. Why the hell does my officer run towards our field base and send us to rescue, while noticing AA infantry (enemy) about 30 metres away from him, 2kliks away form us, tell US to whack that sucker?
Of course the squad just ran around a bit and then objective appears (yellow box) to go back to enemy base (pilot and SpecOp don't follow, by the way).

Okay, thought maybe well be picked up, but now. Just stand there, and listen to: "3:Ready/3: Waiting".

Gaaa... I'm losing my mind with this.

typos

Ti0n3r

Feb 25 2007, 17:31

I just love this mission! It has everything that the CWC campaign missions had http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/inlove.gif

Just too bad about the sniper bug O.o

Frans

Feb 26 2007, 08:23

Had a different problem myself. I failed the first part where you have to stop the truck and get the uniforms. I guess I was too slow. I then got to choose between the two soldiers, I chose the same one that I started with (Mike?).

I went on to Masbete and killed everyone there (thank BIS for the save game option). I then got another movie where two M113's head off towards Pita (I think).

Next thing I know, I'm reincarnated as a civilian on the island Antigua, in the northeast of the map. Nothing there except a blackhawk wreck, a couple of sheds and a water tower. And a message warning me that I have left the area of operations.

I guess I could try swimming to the mainland, but I can hardly believe this is the way BIS meant it... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif

ThudBlunderQ8

Feb 26 2007, 14:15

For me, the missing-weapon bug occurs during the mission where you've been shot down in the Blackhawk and are trying to hold off the enemy searchers. Well-nigh impossible to finish - can't go and retrieve weapons off the dead enemy 'cos I'm warned I'm leaving the area (which I would've thought was pretty high on my agenda...)!

Turtlefarm

Feb 27 2007, 14:57

I also have the bug that won't let this mission to finish. I hide into the church and blast off anyone who comes around to take a peak. After a while the chopper lands and the friendly troops come to the church killing enemy soldiers along the way that made it to their base. When they make it to the church the troops just stand there for a while and then start heading back north leaving me and the pilot behind. They never even go all the way to the downed chopper.

At one try those troops just stood in the church while their team leader kept shouting "attack that officer" (there were no enemy troops left anywhere, believe me I checked). I've tried many different ways to complete this mission: gung-ho attack to the attacking enemies, hiding without killing anyone, attacking their base once they made it back there. At one try an elderly looking officer was standing in the enemy base after those airborne troops had again left towards north, but he just stood there and gazed at me vaguely.

Any ideas on how to fix this? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif

Also I have the ghost gun bug at the beginning of the mission (and also in one campaign mission).

Moricky

Feb 27 2007, 15:07

Mission should end when most of enemy soldiers are dead (3 or 4 can alive). They probably fled away (which is weird, because they were not allowed to - allowfleeing 0).

Next patch (tomorrow?) could fix it.

BroK3n

Mar 1 2007, 18:14

how did you guys get so far?

It seems like i could only have one save and that's it.

I start off after getting the uniforms, and after that, take a bike to the town of masbete. Once the fighting starts i take a save.

In the scene after that, where we have to capture the airfield, i cant save anymore.

The AI is already equipped with heat-seeking vision as it is and all these loading from wayyy back in the scene is frustrating.

Do you guys get this one-intentional-save-only thing too?

mikupoiss

Mar 2 2007, 06:01

I'm playing with Regular - unlimited saves. Don't remember, though, how many saves are allowed for Veteran.

Moricky

Mar 2 2007, 06:03

Only one save pos is allowed for Veteran status.

BroK3n

Mar 2 2007, 08:01

oh snap. That explains everything. Thanks for clarifying!

HyperBart

Mar 4 2007, 23:20

how can people love this mission? sure it's well build and all, better than campaign and gives you good CWC feel, but besides that, it STINKS!

this mission should really have been cut up in at least 2 or 3 separate missions. because now the sheer size of the mission makes all kinds of triggers and stuff go wrong, it makes the mission slower (more units to load) and more complex to build. keep it simple, just make it a small mini-campaign of 3 missions!

then, the mission is totally unrealistic in the way that it takes like dozens of times trying to complete this. okay, i may not be that good a player. but in big assaults, lots depend on how the forces are balanced. when attacking the airfield, i cannot help my the M113's being shot to pieces by a single BMP2 because those stupid teammates who carry the AT cannot take the damn thing out. also AI still seems to make 1 shot kills all the time. stupid shit. well planned attacks by US military take minimal casualties, taking on a force that is simply put TOO strong is far, far unrealistic. mission designers should know that.

and about that sniper gun bug, i got something similar, when i reload the gun has a muzzle flash in the scope. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

anyway... stupid mission

Fred DM

Mar 5 2007, 00:45

i just tried this mission myself, and man was i blown away!

how come this mission so greatly resembles the classic Flashpoint campaign while the rest of the ArmA missions seem so lifeless and uninspired? no way this mission was created by the person responsible for the ArmA campaign.

i love this mission, i want more of it!

BTW: i haven't finished it yet, i managed to get through the first part with the SpecOps guy and then continued with the grunt, but i got killed by a T-72. but i'm looking forward to trying it again. this rocks. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

OldFossil

Mar 9 2007, 05:22

Hi all!
yesterday night, after a very successful part as the guy that had to steal the Ural and the soldier's uniform and let the allied intruder get into the enemy base and destroy the communication system, I automatically passed to wear the shoes of the other guy inside an M113 to continue the assault to another town...until into the M113 all things has gone right, but at the moment to disembark: here it is the mission bug...when the guy touched the terrain he is died without any apparent reason!!!

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif WHY?! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

Did I done something wrong?

Does someone can explain that?

Thanks in advance!

PS: ArmA version: the shining new 1.05

Moricky

Mar 9 2007, 07:37

Automatically? Wasn't there dialog where you could select role for next part?

OldFossil

Mar 9 2007, 11:55

Automatically? Wasn't there dialog where you could select role for next part?

Yes, I also expected a dialog, but nothing.
The automatic change happened after I ended the mission objective of the SpecOps guy, apparently triggered by the end of the beach assault at the opposite side of the town...very strange game behaviour.
I also tried to disembark from M113 before order was given, but with the same bad result.

Heatseeker

Mar 9 2007, 22:07

I havent experienced this bug in that part (i also selected the grunt) but i have the script error in the helicopter mission http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif .

First stop the truck, then took the town with the grunt squad, then the airfield, now the blackhawk ride.

The town and the airfield were a pain in the butt!
Im going for the blackhawk part now (hope the script error will go away), i went up hill but aparently i cant stray far from mission area? Doesnt make all that sense.. im gonna try the church ruin but that area seems a little too obvious.

The infantry squad could use a medic, im injured and usually the missions end before i can get to a medical tent.
This mini campaign is pretty cool, love the cutscenes and everything so far.

edit: Finished it, i didnt understand the first part with the truck and the uniforms, im replaying it soon and try diferent role selection combinations.

Anyone found the scared civilian in Pita?

Un_FriendlyFire

Mar 10 2007, 21:51

mikupoiss

Mar 10 2007, 21:53

Also how do i unlock the extra single player missions definitely curious of them?
Complete some unlocked mission.

CatMangler

Mar 19 2007, 07:49

hotsteward

Mar 20 2007, 07:26

My problem starts almost immediately. In the blood, sweat and tears mission. First you have to block the opfor and steal a uniform. So i drive a car and tractor on the road. The opfor shows up at 5:26(or something like that) and i kill three soldiers that come out. (this took me a few times, remind me to not join the army in real life). I walk up to the dead soldier but all i can take from them is gear, no uniform. Also there's no option to get in the opfor like with the car/tractor. I decided to wait hiding myself in a house. After about 20 minutes some 8 soldiers on foot show up, from about the same direction as the opfor came. Again i kill all of them but nothing happens, after i waited with time x4 the next mission starts at 6.36 but i'm still at the ambush site with no enemy uniform and no opfor under my ass.

any tips would be highly appreciated http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

Heatseeker

Mar 20 2007, 07:37

You just have to intercept the truck and kill the ocupants, i think you will have to shoot atleast one of them in the head so that the uniform thing works, you dont have to pick any uniform...

There is a colision/geometry bug in 1.05 that makes head shots hit the body instead but not if you shoot them while they are inside a vehicle so just head shot the driver..

I never understood the uniform thing and its relevance to this mission, it triggers a diferent dialog in the cutscene and thats it.

hotsteward

Mar 20 2007, 07:49

jeej! thanks for the quick reply http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

ok so no uniform taking, i thought i headshot at least one nice and clean (couldn't discover any blood on the uniform). the opfor truck do i need to get in, or is that same story and do i just need to walk in the direction op the town? well i've got to go to work, i'll try a bit when i get home.

thanks again.

Frans

Mar 20 2007, 07:56

Kill the fourth guy from the truck as well :-) You should then get a cutscene where you take the truck to the guy that's waiting for that uniform.

It's a really nice mission, but very, very buggy.

hotsteward

Mar 20 2007, 08:01

yes that kind of was the problem there wasn't a fourth guy :s i searched every house and bush in every direction until the "you're leaving the mission area get back" appeared. than instead of finding the fourth guy, 8 soldiers show up (happend twice). anyway i'll try it when i get home.

officially late for work now.

Heatseeker

Mar 20 2007, 08:07

Kill the fourth guy from the truck as well :-) You should then get a cutscene where you take the truck to the guy that's waiting for that uniform.

It's a really nice mission, but very, very buggy.
I dont remember that and im sure i killed them all http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif , at the start of the mission i saw a civilian sitting in a sand box behind a house...

blankfish

Mar 20 2007, 08:41

Heatseeker

Mar 20 2007, 11:06

Well i had all the previous problems, but my most annoying one is that after getting to the last part to protect the crashed helicopter guys, cant end the mission.

I've run all over looking for any enemies I may of missed, but cant end it :-(
Try to load it again, imediatly after the last part starts tell the pilot to follow you and hide with him in the church ruin, set him to "danger", from this safe position he killed a bunch of SLA for me.

Its possible that the allowfleeing comand isnt working correctly and the enemy is.. well... fleeing when they shouldnt.

tiberius_7

Mar 25 2007, 03:20

I had the same issue with the 3-4 guys on the truck. After kiling them and getting no cutscene, I took the dirtbike to the base. I received the "leaving mission area" warning but just kept going. When I got to the base, I scored a headshot on the first enemy I saw and presto uniform cutscene starts and I am back at the house with the invisible gun.

My problem now is, I have killed everyone at the base and the town after he destroyed the radio tower, but I am not getting the next cutscene. Any suggestions?

Cloth Ears

Apr 28 2007, 12:23

I completed mission, and then when it goes to cut scene, i just fail the mission apparently i've "left mission area". During the Cutscene highly irritating http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

Also how do i unlock the extra single player missions definitely curious of them?
I chose to continue as the sniper and climbed the hill SW of the army base, and sniped in a anticlockwise direction around the town. I finished with the BMP using a fallen comrade's antitank weapon. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

Annoyingly the cutscene proceeded to take me outside the mission area and I die instantly on spawning http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif

Oh well...I guess I will try again, switch to the other character and find the other bugs too http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif

Overall I think the game is great, but look foward to the patches. Nice to get away from the bf series...getting fed up of being 'pwned' by hax0rz . Cant really see such people enjoying this game since they wont understand it because it is a sim rather than an arcade fps.

Thanks BIS for you hard work so far. Keep up the good work. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/inlove.gif

xxbbcc

May 5 2007, 19:51

I'm playing the "Blood, sweat & tears" mission and saw multiple bugs so far - I have the US version.

1.
After taking the first town (Mabeste or whatever) and get into the M113 - all my gear disappears and when we get to the airfield, I have no equipment. After reloading, I can pick up a weapon in the M113.

2.
When the M113-s arrive at the airbase, the second one always (without a single miss after reloading it 9 times) hits the first one (in which I'm riding) and I get injured. I actually avoided being shot during the entire mission (several reloads, of course) to be injured by the dumb AI driver.)

3.
When boarding the helicopter as a gunner, I got a script error - "Error Zero Divisor" - it stuck to the top left screen and comes back when reloading the mission. It stays there even after the chopper is shot down.

I agree with those who mention that enemy soldiers lock in on the player - it does feel that way. When I'm hiding in a bush (and grass), making no noises and not moving at all, I still get shot very frequently from large distances with a single shot. (And because of the terrain, there are trees/bushes/grass all around. In many cases I cannot even see the attacker. Granted, I'm probably not the best player but I was able to play through OFP on veteran.)

So far, ArmA looks like a very nice game but it feels very unbalanced. Also, does anybody know a way to lessen the effects of grass (or the height?) Going prone is completely useless now - I cannot see anything and it's impossible to shoot with any accuracy.) http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

Edit:
Here is the script error that I get:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">actual=_allteams |#| select _n;
if(canstand _actual) then {[...
Error Zero Divisor
[/QUOTE]

Cormega

May 8 2007, 00:54

hey xxbbcc, not sure about that code thingy, but you can turn the grass off by setting your terrain level to Very Low. This turns the grass off and helps with FPS as well.

xxbbcc

May 8 2007, 03:50

Cormega,

Thank you for the advice - I was hoping for an option to turn it off (or preferably lessen its impact on targeting in a prone position.) I don't want to turn down the visual quality (I really like the improved detail of ArmA http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif ) and I actually like the grass when standing, it adds to the game. It's just a bit over the top when going prone. (And from a standing perspective, the grass looks significantly shorter than it appears from a prone position.)

karl76

May 9 2007, 03:39

How can you complete this mission? Once I arrive at the airport (with the M113s) all my soldiers are slowly but surely killed and there are no AT guys left that could get rid of the BMPs, T72 reinforcements, Shilka etc. I manage to kill most of the enemy soldiers inside the base but there is no way past the Shilka or the tanks.

Edit: Nevermind, managed it, just stole an RPG and killed the T72 and was done with that part of the mission.

pukey123

May 14 2007, 18:11

I successfully completed this very interesting mission. First off, I attacked the Shilka with my grenade launcher, which did not hurt the Shilka but flushed out the two gunners, who I then killed. Then got into the Shilka and blasted the BRDM(?). A cut scene then came up and I proceeded to the enemy camp, sniped away until another cut scene came up where our chopper went down. Then I had to rescue/defend the survivors,which I did. Killed the enemy in and around the chopper and the mission was completed. Good luck.