Where's my payment?!?!

[JRD]

Well... this is a first time to me...

Assassination of a moving target NE of Bowa.
Took the bus as it would leave me right on the spot to ambush the target... As I got there I heard the GLAT that patrols the road approaching from west. Before they could blast me I sent an explosive arrow on them... right at that time the convoy escorting the target appeared from east... needless to say a huge firefight ensued. I missed another arrow on the front AT, but they crashed at the smoldering carcass of the GLAT and hopped off to shoot at me. The jeep with the target disappeared in the distance. I quickly dispatched the two guys at the front AT and the other two of the back AT who, by then, were drilling me up.
As soon as my beloved Dragunov finished its speech I rushed to grab one AT and give chase to the now lonely target... Before I could even start the engine I got a "Mission Complete" message... but a quick look at my pocket revealed only two diamonds...
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WHERE ARE MY ROCKS, MISTERIOUS VOICE?  >:(

The worst thing is that I don't even know whose knees I should break this time  :(

[fragger]

Geez mate, only 2 rocks? You got dudded on that mission >:( That's a genuine weirdie ::)

Funny you should bring this up though, I had an interesting experience two days ago, doing that very same mission. In my case, I got up on the rocks behind the Weapon Shop with a Mac, a Dragunov and an RPG. As the convoy approached from the east, I sniped the gunner off the lead AT, then fired an RPG at the Jeep, but missed it. By then, the gunnerless AT pulled up under the rocks and I got into a firefight with the driver, during which time the target and remaining AT got away up the road. After dealing with the driver, I thought, "what the hell, I'll just get back up on the rocks and wait for them to come around again". So I got up onto the rocks again just in time to see the remaining two vehicles disappear around the bend in the distance. A few seconds later I got a "Mission Complete" message (?), and I ran up the road on foot to see what the story was. Turns out they ran into the patrolling GLAT, and a merc war had ensued. The Jeep was on its side in the bush along with the guard AT, the GLAT was abandonded in the roadway and a merc and the target guy were dead on the road. A few surviving mercs were still poking around and I ended up getting into an argument with them.

This was a new one on me, as I'd always thought that: a) the GLAT patrol wasn't around during that mission, and b) the mercs in that area were all on the same side. Wrong on both counts.

I think though that I actually got paid the correct amount, but I'm not sure - I was too busy being confused to notice what went into my account.

[PZ]

Maybe the mercs are even dumber than we first thought - maybe the GLAT mercs didn't recognize the convoy because there was one vehicle missing and attacked them.  Naturally, the mysterious stranger wouldn't think that full payment was in order (because a dumb merc did the job), but that the time you spent was worth something, ergo the two diamonds (what a cheapskate).  ;D

[fragger]

(what a cheapskate).

;D ;D

I'll say! Let's find out who "he" is and sic the Jackal on him ;D

[JRD]

The two rocks is what I already had with me when I took the job!!
I had just been to the arms shop and purchased a few upgrades, leaving me with small change in my pockets.
I never got any rock in payment...  :(
I realised that cos I was actually doing that mission to buy new weapons/upgrades and as I got the "Mission complete" message I didn't hear that clingclingcling

[Art Blade]

Sounds like what I described in the infinite arms dealer missions topic. What happened to me was, I got the same job offer again. I didn't pay attention to whether or not I got paid, but I believe I got payed once I did it properly (ending the endless routine).

[Dweller_Benthos]

Another "wouldn't it be cool" thought....

You have one, maybe two chances (depending on difficulty setting) to get those roving assassination missions, then instead of following the same predicable route, they take off like their a$$ is on fire. You then have to chase them down to get your loot.

Now that would be cool. Maybe even on the highest difficulty setting, they don't ever use a standard predictable route, but can appear anywhere on the map and move along any path.

Then after you kill them, you have to search the wreckage/bodies for the diamonds instead of them "magically" appearing in your inventory. I mean, what is there, some kind of electronic diamond fund transfer going on?

One can only dream......

[Art Blade]

I like your idea/dream  :-X :)

[wexer9]

I've had this bug happen before. I suddenly got 'Mission Complete' while waiting for the convey to come. I didn't get my diamonds, so I reloaded and hunted down the convoy myself. I got the diamonds, that time. :)

[Art Blade]

Indeed, best way to do it if the game cocks up: reload.  ;D

[wexer9]

Yup! A good tip for any game, really. :)

[fragger]

"If in doubt - boot it out" ;D

[KingRat]

Just ran this mission and got stiffed twice  >:( Here's how they went down>>>

1] Arrived at the bus stop just as the convoy was going by. I guess the rear AT saw me so they stopped and I took'em out and got the mission accomplished with no payment....since I'd saved when arriving I restarted>

2] This time the rear patrol was already on foot, and once again I took them out, again receiving mission acc. I then headed on foot toward the armory and ran into 2 mercs on foot, and again dispatched them...don't know if they were convoy guards or ATGL mercs....going down the road I notice a line of dead wildebeast in the road and an empty AT just past the 'Y'. It's then I start getting shot by the suit WTF? So take him down and still no pay  :D

3] This time I get smart and instead of taking out the rear patrol mercs I back out and head up the hill...while they're beating the brush looking for me I scan the area and see the suit running toward the bus stop from the armory...I tag him and cha-ching mission accomplished and diamonds increase from 67 to 82  ;D ...if you thought the story ended there, guess again  :) I still had to take out the patrol and while doing that the ATGL spotted me and promptly ran me down, fortunatly Andre was there to bail me out. Still had plenty of mop up to do and Andre got tagged and popped smoke...I healed him and finished off 2 more mercs. Took a walk down to the armory and saw the Jeep; when I got close I could see the Jeep was stuck on top of a wildebeast  ;D

This was one crazy/fun mission  8)

PS: This was with the unpatched V1.00

[Art Blade]

Nice story, KingRat :) I've once speared a wildebeest with my buggy and I drove around with it for miles  ;D

If it wasn't such a hassle, I'd downgrade to patch 1.02 instead of 1.03, but I can't be bothered right now. There is one advantage you get from 1.03 though, an official no-cd patch.

[KingRat]

I'm running FC2 v1.03 on my main rig upstairs. Had to re-activate when I upgraded from XP to Win7....hope I didn't lose my DLC download; guess I'll find out a bit later.
:)

[Art Blade]

good luck :)

you mention something... w7. I'll have to get and install that, soon. Planning a dual-boot system, and that would allow me to install FC2 on w7... I'll need to prevent FC2 from patching... firewall might help :)

[fragger]

Cool mission story, KingRat ;D :-X

[KingRat]

good luck :)

you mention something... w7. I'll have to get and install that, soon. Planning a dual-boot system, and that would allow me to install FC2 on w7... I'll need to prevent FC2 from patching... firewall might help :)

Thanks  :) DLC is working fine. Both FC2 installs are on Win7 upgrades; one from XP (used Laplinks PCMover to save the apps) and one Vista. Running v1.00 on the w7/vista box....ran the fc2.exe (made shortcut) from the bin so it bypassed the update launcher...

v1.00 has been running fine while I've been having lockups with v1.03....think my gtx275 is crapping out  >:(

[Dweller_Benthos]

Seems a lot of weird things happen on this mission. If you recall, it's the one I wrote about a while ago, that started the whole "journal entry" thing. In my case, a wildebeest was involved, then the convoy jeep carrying the target ran into a tree and I got the credit and the diamonds for that though. No need to reload.

[fragger]

Yay! Finally got one of these:

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(Ahem) Anyway...

I jumped back into FC2 last night after a hiatus of almost a couple of months. Man, I still love this game! I picked up where I last left off, which just happened to be the very mission this thread was started about, i.e. cell tower mission to bump off the travelling suit in NE Bowa.

So there I was, in the Weapon Shop armoury alongside the road that the convoy takes, when I hear the local patrolling GLAT going past. A quick look at the map revealed that the convoy was fast approaching from the opposite direction. Smelling a merc war in the offing, I ran outside and up into the rocks behind the Weapon Shop, which affords a great view down the road, and settled in to watch the show.

They didn't disappoint. That ran into each other right outside the Bus Stop, and immediately, three ATs and a Jeep were playing dodgem cars with each other. The GLAT was too close to the others to use its GL, so the dude got out and said "Hur-huurrrgh" as he promptly got squished between two other vehicles. Then the gunners from the other two ATs got out and began shooting at the GLAT driver while the other drivers kept up their game of close-quarters vehicular tag. Finally, everyone got out of their vehicles for a roadside téte-a-téte and to exchange some lead pleasantries. Three of them were now ganging up on the poor lone GLAT driver, but the other three apparently decided they'd had enough mayhem for one night and began running away in three different directions. And who should be running up the middle of the road, straight towards my position, than the dirtbag I was contracted to whack, evidently seeking the perceived shelter of the Weapon Shop. All I had to do was wait until he delivered himself, then let him have it with a few Desert Eagle rounds. I never even needed the Dragunov or the RPG launcher that I'd brought with me - at least, not for the suit. In the meantime, the GLAT driver had gotten out of his AT and had done an admirable job of eliminating his three remaining attackers and was just standing there looking pleased with himself, until a Dragunov round delivered from the rocks ended his self-congratulatory reverie. As soon as I fired, the two remaining runners curtailed their panicked flight to make long-distance targets of themselves while they stood around thinking, "Gee, what was that?" Two Dragunov barks later, they briefly knew, as one fell among some rocks and the other dropped amongst the water buffaloes.

All in all, it was a fun welcome back to Africa ;D

[mandru]

Good story fragger.  :-X

I too enjoy the way that FC2 can always throw an amusing surprise at you like that.

[Art Blade]

Excellent, fragger, quite amusing that story  ;D :-X

[Ricamundo]

I think i may have that mish coming up. ive just started doing cell tower mish'e on map 2, but ive been wandering around doing the Gun Dealer and Pred mish's and opening up safehouses.

[Dweller_Benthos]

Hey, Fragger, mind uploading that save game somewhere? I want to see if I can get the same thing to happen. If it works and I can repeat it, I may make a video eventually. Looks like a job for IgnoreAI as well, to really get in the action to see what's going on.

Usually, from what I've seen, when a convoy mission is activated, the local road patrol goes on vacation to avoid this sort of thing, then comes back after you've completed the mission and the area resets. I've never seen, that I noticed, a road patrol and a convoy in the same place.

[Art Blade]

I did, more than once, always the same location: North Bowa, Outpost, arms dealer convoy passing through there, and near the Airfield in Bowa. A couple of times it resulted in the place burning down to the ground, a patrol blowing up, and the big truck or its escort disappearing. When the escort disappeared, I could repeat the arms dealer mission. See "infinite arms dealer convoy missions" topic :)