Arma 2: Private Military Company

Arma 2: Private Military Company

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JakeURb8ty 2 Sep, 2019 @ 1:21am
Stock campaign seems broken... mission two (01 receptIon)
On stock install(non-beta branch) or updated beta branch of OA (I removed the beta because it made the first mission of OA Impossible entire team wiped out in first min repeatedly starting from mission start not a save either... ) with Combined Arms during the second mission after the first wave of enemies my AI commander "stranger" starts heading north and doesn't stop when we are supposed to be waiting for a helo to arrive with Ion's client. Mission just hangs... waiting for some trigger that relies on him.

I know im a weirdo playing any single player arma - i like the multi level management of troops and simultaneous combat. I've had this system a couple of years and its handled everything i throw at it like a champ. So I just went back and finally finished the A3 campaign and then went back to do A2's(an exercise in patience to be sure. Due to the bugs, save scumming is a must which makes the save system so maddening...)

Both games emphasized guerrilla warfare and asymmetrical warfare in a story that had you on the back foot as a fighting force. As someone who grew up reading the original Tom Clancy novels I loved every min of it. Might help future sales if people were able to go through a back catalog of some frankly unique gameplay and get some fun out of it instead of infinite frustration.

Unless there is a hidden folder somewhere from an install with mods somewhere besides the steam /gamefolder or my documents as both were totally deleted and Im pretty sure I haven't even run Arma on this system until a few weeks ago. Again no mods...
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I was stuck for years bro, you have to stay with the 2 guys at the airstrip and kill the second wave of guys. then you get in the suv,grabe the sniper from the tower, you get to keep it. enjoy the rest of the campaign. I just beat this mission myself :steamfacepalm:
Last edited by Dr.FragensteinM.D.; 8 Sep, 2019 @ 2:17am
GHOST 19 Sep, 2019 @ 11:27pm 
I don't have any problem, everything works perfect, after many years I went back to play the campaign to test if the same thing happened to me, but everything works fine.

I think that maybe you are missing some part of the mission and that is why you do not give them as completed, but if you continue to have problems, you can simply skip the mission.

press the shift + minus key on the numeric keypad
and type: endmission

in this way they will automatically finish the mission

Edit: Or maybe you're using some mod that makes the mission not work properly.
Last edited by GHOST; 20 Sep, 2019 @ 12:07am
Mr Noseybonk 4 Jun, 2021 @ 9:17am 
No, the mission IS broken. Simple as. Those fking greedy money grubbing baboons at Bohemia couldn't even code 10 Print "We're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" 20 Goto 10 without fking it up.

Ghost and Fragenstein, you must be on some completely different versions to the ones me and the OP are on!

The fault is with the character "Tanny (Sword 4)" in this scenario. He starts the scenario positioned as a sniper at the top of a nearby ruined building. ArmA 2's wank AI cannot even work out how to get him to come down from this position. So the full team never stay together, and the mission triggers never trigger. That is why you constantly, non-stop, hear "4, form on me", "4, form on me" over and over. "Four" is stuck. Solid. No point restarting the scenrario...... the fk-up is hardwired from second zero of it!

The only option is the cheat.
Last edited by Mr Noseybonk; 4 Jun, 2021 @ 9:17am
GHOST 4 Jun, 2021 @ 10:14am 
I recently replayed the campaign to test a mod, and it works fine, have you tried using the legacy version?

Right click on the game, click on properties, click on the betas tab and select legacy.

Many people had problems with the campaigns with version 1.64, the legacy version is 1.63, it is only a few megabytes, and if you need to go back to 1.64 also download a few megabytes
Mobius 1 28 Oct, 2021 @ 1:26pm 
The missions broken ive seen it myself stop saying its mods the game hasnt been cared for in years. There a technical that shows up and no one kills the driver of it usually and if you go up to the window and shoot him it helps continue the mission also do not follow him he literally walks all the way to the two helos that are hovering on the north side of the map ( you see them fly over in the start of the mission) The third mission is also broken as it will never let you load a checkpoint save so everytime you die you must restart. DLC has been left to rot unfortunately.
SonukYildiz 16 Jul, 2023 @ 1:27am 
I had this problem and the main reason this happens is there will be some stragglers left after the battle, including the vehicle. Make sure you killed everyone including the enemy driver then kill the sniper, that should help

Edit: Realizing I necro'd. Will keep this here tho, maybe it'll help someone
Last edited by SonukYildiz; 16 Jul, 2023 @ 1:29am
GHOST 16 Jul, 2023 @ 1:31am 
Originally posted by delta48:
I had this problem and the main reason this happens is there will be some stragglers left after the battle, including the vehicle. Make sure you killed everyone including the enemy driver then kill the sniper, that should help

2 years later... literally, the last time we talked about this 2 years ago, you just raised a dead thread.
Last edited by GHOST; 16 Jul, 2023 @ 1:32am
Jungfaha 3 Oct, 2023 @ 10:33am 
Originally posted by Mr Noseybonk:
No, the mission IS broken. Simple as. Those fking greedy money grubbing baboons at Bohemia couldn't even code 10 Print "We're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" 20 Goto 10 without fking it up.

Ghost and Fragenstein, you must be on some completely different versions to the ones me and the OP are on!

The fault is with the character "Tanny (Sword 4)" in this scenario. He starts the scenario positioned as a sniper at the top of a nearby ruined building. ArmA 2's wank AI cannot even work out how to get him to come down from this position. So the full team never stay together, and the mission triggers never trigger. That is why you constantly, non-stop, hear "4, form on me", "4, form on me" over and over. "Four" is stuck. Solid. No point restarting the scenrario...... the fk-up is hardwired from second zero of it!

The only option is the cheat.
why cheat? another option would be to edit the mission in editore and fix it...

there is a saying; " we are never better served, then to be served by one's self"

if others cant do it right, do it right your self.

look forward to seeing the fix :)

Jungfaha 3 Oct, 2023 @ 10:34am 
Originally posted by GHOST:
Originally posted by delta48:
I had this problem and the main reason this happens is there will be some stragglers left after the battle, including the vehicle. Make sure you killed everyone including the enemy driver then kill the sniper, that should help

2 years later... literally, the last time we talked about this 2 years ago, you just raised a dead thread.

Necro necro necro... why bother complaining? just gonna keep the thread alive longer....
Mug Maniac A 19 Sep, 2024 @ 2:01pm 
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Dieter 19 Sep, 2024 @ 2:22pm 
This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.
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