Mercury Atlas 6 - Can't complete

[PB666]

I'm having trouble completing the Mercury Atlas 6 historic mission.

It seems very hit and miss as to whether I get told to perform some of the checks during the mission.
Sometimes I get told to complete the day horizon check, sometimes not. I've never been told to do the night horizon check, and even if I do re-enter sucessfully, I always have "Orbit the Earth" mission objective unchecked, and so therefore can never complete the mission.

I'm assuming there is some step I am missing that is causing the day and night horizon checks to not trigger.
I have run the missions with various levels of time acceleration. Might this be a factor?

[PB666]

I thing I have noticed - after the control systems check, I get told to standby for KNO, but on the first orbit, I miss the KNO area slightly. I don't get any comms until I get all the way around to KNO again on the 2nd orbit.

I wonder if this is causing a delay in the comms scripting so that it all gets out of sync.

[Sotamakkara]

Thanks for reporting, will look into this! Sounds like it's the KNO that is the issue here. Can you test and make sure the radio is set to UHF and HI mode selected?

[PB666]

I think I may have found the issue.

I was loading from a saved state, and although the UHF was in HI mode, the circles on the map were indicating I was in LO mode. Recycling the switch to LO then back to HI reset the circles on the map to the larger circles, and I was able to contact KNO on the first pass.

I didn't realise that the size of the circles changed with the comms mode - very impressive that such small details have been included. Usually in programs such as these the radio always works whatever mode it's in!

[PJ Freeman]

We're you able to get all the requirements after setting the UHF to HI power Phill666? I attempted this mission many times and always had UHF on HI but could never get the orbit the earth or the night horizon checks.
I did splash down though so was happy about that:)

[PB666]

Nope, still can't complete it.

I was having issues loading from some of the early saves I made (just after the control systems check) as it would wait an age to repeate the "control systems check complete" message, which would then delay all of the other messages.

I started the mission from the start again, and on the 3rd orbit, failed when I had a message to "stand by for ZZB" yet the orbital pass meant I didn't get in range of ZZB (even with UHF on HI), so didn't get anymore messages and therefore couldn't complete the night horizon check.

I've just loaded a saved state and a similar issue occured - massive delay in the first comms message, meaning that you having flown by the next station when told to contact them, you only contact them on the next orbit, but the messages are an orbit behind, and everything ends up just failing to work.

[aquila1987]

At this point I have to ask: How do I perform a horizons check? I don´t find the buttons to do so.

[Zetsubou]

I have the same problem with this mission. I was given order to do the day horizon check while over CYI. (I also have no clue how to do it) and then I was told to wait for ATS which is one station behind so I don't get any instructions after this point except one orbit later when I reach ATS again. Then I'm told to go to the forward facing position until I reach KNO but KNO is out of reach in the third orbit. After that nothing happens until retro time.

[PJ Freeman]

I think horizon check is done in prograde -capsule facing orbit direction or retrograde -capsule facing away from orbit direction. There is no button. The horizon should be horizontal near the bottom of window markers, with your attitude pointers roll =0, yaw = 0/180, pitch = 0.
For this mission the daytime horizon check simply asks you to go prograde and gives you some attitude settings with a timer. You can't fail it but you need it to trigger.
I never got the nighttime horizon check to trigger.
I did this mission a bunch of times and I also had one where KNO wouldn't trigger either.

[PJ Freeman]

I just looked up the actual transcripts for friendship 7. Looks like John Glenn mentions a night horizon check at 02:15:06.
It should trigger from Indian CAPCOM if the sim goes by the transcript.

I highly recommend checking out this transcript. Very interesting read. Whoa did John Glenn have a whale of a time controlling his capsule at the end. I have a new respect for those early astronauts.

http://mercury6.spacelog.org/00:02:04:19/00:02:17:24/

[aquila1987]

aquila1987님이 먼저 게시:

At this point I have to ask: How do I perform a horizons check? I don´t find the buttons to do so.

I have now solved my issue. My fault was, that I didn´t managed to get into Manual Proportion Control. The Manual from the Website helped me a lot.

But now, I´ve got another Problem. After going through the pre-dark Checklist, there happens nothing until my Oxygen went out. There is no response from the stations on the ground. Anyone with the same Problem here?

[PJ Freeman]

How long did you orbit after doing pre-dark and your oxygen deplete? I did this one I think 4 times and my oxygen was always about 60% primary/100%secondary at the 4:30 hour mark. Are you sure you didn't hit the decompress/compress valves by accident?
Those will deplete your oxygen quickly.
What was your time to Retro clock reading? Even if you don't get any ground station triggers you should still get the retro to occur.

[aquila1987]

PJ Freeman님이 먼저 게시:

How long did you orbit after doing pre-dark and your oxygen deplete? I did this one I think 4 times and my oxygen was always about 60% primary/100%secondary at the 4:30 hour mark. Are you sure you didn't hit the decompress/compress valves by accident?
Those will deplete your oxygen quickly.
What was your time to Retro clock reading? Even if you don't get any ground station triggers you should still get the retro to occur.

My Oxygen went blank after nine Orbits with silence on the radio. After four and a half hour, my oxygen levels are the same as yours.
After my third orbit, the transcript went blank (bug?). My task is to wait until the next station. It is ZZB But this station is not on my orbit at this time (retrograde time is 1:02:07). I will fly not fly above it, for more than four orbits. The light for retrograde went on after my fourth orbit and then I splashed down somewhere over South-Africa. And that happens after four and a half orbits.
The next time I flew over ZZB my main Oxygen tank is depleted. Then ZZB control tells me, that I have to wit till IOS, which is in range after another eight orbits...

The Problem lies within the Mission itself, its a programming bug

[Sotamakkara]

Many of the systems in Mercury has had changes since this mission was made, and more will be made. Once I have a more stable version, this mission will be updated to reflect these, such as oxygen levels. This is why I have disabled Game Over even if you don't have oxygen, but this will soon change, once the core is complete again.

[Viila]

Yeah, this mission is pretty broken. Also during early control systems check where you're told to adjust yaw/pitch/roll rates, the axes/angles shown in the tooltips are wrong. Eg, it's asking for -4 degree roll, but showing pitch axis as the radio tooltip.

I also could not finish it, the last night horizon check never activated and thus the mission script crawled to a halt.

It started to go wrong right from the beginning... This does not look like a sunset :P
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1641298332

[ChateauDav]

Thanks for the information. I have the same problem.
For the dev : amazing work but please could you indicate in-game the features/missions which are not finished. It is quite frustration not knowing if it is our fault or the game's fault. :)