same as COFFEE and vonStahlhelm, cant continue with the mission play as Mr.Gray. great campaign btw, appreciate ur hard works.

Hello AZ Coder. I have the same problem as "Coffee or corn ?". Mission briefing missing, and if i start the mission, i only see a mountain form the sky. I found your workaround on page 2 of this thread, open the log-file, but no hints on missing addons, only a whole bunch of error-messages. Would it help if i copy and paste the mission log? Seems to me, that maybe updated addons are the reason behind this truly sad error. The "Gates of Armageddon" Triology are the best campaings i ever played in the whole arma series, from the beginning of OFP on. Thanks a lot for this experience. But it is absolutley sad, that i got stucked just before the end of the great last campaign.

Hi AZCoder you have made a great campaign,but there still have some bug in the mission "Resolutions" and I have viewed your bug report page,just like other players screenshot,nothing shows on my briefing page and all i can see is a mountain form the sky.I really want to continue to play,plz let me know how to solve it,it makes me sad when the whole story coming to the climax and the bug shows.

I think it's fine to use. If the map name is the same internally, it should load ... I think it does.

@AZCoder
Hi. Will the new Namalsk [R] be used in update campaign version?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013966707&searchtext=namalsk

很长。很棒。体验很好

@Logan, Part 1 is Shadow Fall, 2 is Gambit Royale, and "Dark Tides" is 3, 4 & 5. It's the size of 3 campaigns in one. I have taken part 1 and 2 down for the moment due to major updates.I'm waiting on final playtest approval.

I keep getting an error page when I try to go to part one and two, id like to play from the start of the story, it seems too far if i started at the 3rd part

The best third party campaign series I had palyed on arma3. Amazing work, AZoder!
Looking forward your next campaign. ;)

I think that's a normal error. Probably part of CUP, but not totally sure. Sorry I don't have an answer, I am at a loss.

It looks like I'm missing the file OFP2_ ManSkeleton。 Which mod should I reinstall?

It appears that a mod is missing and the mission cannot load. You can check your log file in your Arma 3 Profiles directory, file will look something like Arma3_x64_2021-11-20_13-03-36.rpt. Open in notepad of your choice, go to the bottom and look for errors.

Yes,I put it in my screenshot showcase.

Do you have a screenshot?

In the mission "Resolutions",I can only see the top view of the map and can't do anything,how to deal with this situation?

The rendezvous in the fields? Honestly it's been half a year since I played, but I think that is correct. I have plans to switch maps in the future update due to pathing issues. Mainly it's this one mission that is a total pain.

Yet, squad one still stays at sitnik after the factory is captured, only squad 2 and 3 get to the rendezvous point

There's an artillery barrage and Tu95 bombing. Should only be max of two minutes I think. If you got this message "Wait for the all-clear before going to next objective!" then it should be ok to go. Mainly it's to keep you from getting bombed or shelled. No other groups will go with you because the AI pathfinding is horrendous.

Actually, Squad 1 doesnt move at all after reaching sitnik, since the all clear does not come. How long do I have to wait before the all clear?

I understand, thank you for the reply and congratulations its one of the best mod campaigns I've played so far!

I need to add a disclaimer to my previous post. The Moschnyi mission (which you already did) has a hard requirement for the lambs modules. I don't see any requirements in the later missions so it should be ok to remove lambs after Moschnyi.

I believe the lambs AI is causing that. It's kind of random depending on whether the AI perceived certain enemy or not. You can open the A3 Launcher, find the Dark Tides campaign -> right click open in folder -> yes I understand -> go into the folder AddOns, look for the 4 "lambs" pbos and either move them out to save them or just delete them. The main thing you get from them is some unexpected enemy AI behaviors, but impact on overall campaign is minimal. I plan to remove in next release.

Little problems in the Rain of Fire mission with the "wait for the all-clear", for the first one the all clear message takes an eternity to come and Squad 1 is always in Safe/careless mode, always walking slowly with guns down

Thanks, Undeceived. I certainly have read many Clancy books over the years. I hope we will get to see Blacklands in A3 someday.

Awesome campaign! I really recommend this to everyone.

Mixture of a good political thriller like Tom Clancy or John le Carré, the series Six about the SEALs team 6 and classical military Arma gameplay.

Thanks AZCoder!

Glad you said that. I'll keep the drones in future updates.

Well I didn't have problems with drones in missions where they worked (e.g. in Pecher). It's just a matter of keeping distance and zoom :)

UAV faction should be correct now. I have 2 versions of the campaign, this one and a future major update. It's kind of a headache to track 2 branches :)

Ok I added a discussion for bugs.
Thanks regarding Blastcore. I rarely ran with it due to FPS drops.
I fixed the drone problem at least 3 times. Maybe it never gets into the campaign build LOL. Honestly the drone is next to useless, the enemy spots it easily and focuses fire on it.

Do you consider opening bug report discussion?
IMO subtitles are disappearing too quickly, and I'm unable to operate the drone in Knight missions (maybe it's because drone terminal is AAF and the drone is NATO).
btw, regarding 0xC0000005 access violation error crash - the problem disappeared when I stopped using Blastcore mods for this campaign.

OK, thank you. I will try it. It is a good campaign thank you for your work.

Here is what BI recommends on that error: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Unusual_process_exit#0xC0000005_-_ACCESS_VIOLATION

For anyone getting a 0xC0000005 access violation error crash, it is still a mystery to me. Know that I spent 2 years working on this campaign, tested every mission 50-100 times or more, and never had this crash. My 2 testers never had a crash. I am running an i7-9700K with 32GB of RAM. Under launch settings parameters I have 64 bit selected, and I let the game automatically determine CPU and threads and allocator. The only thing checked is Enable Large-page Support. I don't know if any of this matters, but the crashes only happen to a few players as far as I know. Some early crashes reported were caused by running Shadow Fall at the same time although that should be fixed now. It is a large campaign with some heavy mods ... does that matter? I don't know.

Thanks for the info. I have never experienced it myself, but I know it has happened in New Management before. I made some changes a few weeks ago, and the reports on the error stopped. Problem is I still don't know why. It is rather frustrating. Maybe the PC is low on resources? Maybe virus scanner is running? The campaign uses a lot of RAM so maybe.

In mission convergence, when I meet those militants the game breakdown, error 0xC000005. In mission New Management when I approach the building which Viktor in, sometimes the game breakdown too. In mission Four Horsemen, I wait the squad A in named place but sometimes they don't come. sometimes even though they in place but the task of wait others don't accomplish. It is a good campaign, but I meet some problems.

What is mission 20?

When I player mission 20, I always meet error 0xC00005 , I have tried many methods but it still doesn't work. I only meet this situation in this campaign, the others are normal. And some mission let me to wait other squad but when they in place, the mission will not continue.

Thanks to the author, this series of battles is great.

Why can't you leave earlier? Once you know there's a choice, you can just leave. You already have the exfil task. There's no reason to go to the door.

i forgot to reach the door

Does anyone know why I couldn't get into the cutscene at the chenical plant in Episode 2

Just finished all 3 campaigns and want to say awwwwwwwesommme!!!!

@flankymanga Wow, thank you! I was so dumb I didn't check the map!

@mason77 Look on the map. Mr.Gray is located SE of the town in a house next to farm. He should have a infantry squad marker on him.You have to reach him first and then he will tell you to go to safehouse to retrieve intel.

I'm facing a show stopper in the Extract agent mission:
Nothing happens when i reach the safehouse. Sometimes there's nobody inside. Even when i found a civilian inside the task does not complete. I also tried approaching multiple civilians to no avail. Cannot proceed further with campaign.

I forgot to put the link in above. Added it. Also here: https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/222733-sp_camp-dark-tides/

Future plans: I am working to update the first two campaigns and may release a "complete edition" of all 3 combined. I have an idea for a cold war spy campaign but it may be awhile before I can start on it.

@AZCoder I found some bugs / suggestions which i could sent you are interrested? Do you have a topic on Bohemia forums? If you would plan a future campaign - count me as a betatester.

I appreciate the comments. Really nice to hear from players that see the numerous details, thank you. Lately I have been chasing down mystery CTD crashes in the older campaigns, it's good to hear something positive.

@AZCoder: Bravo! This was one of the best (if not the best) player made campaign for Arma 3 together with Shadow Fall and Gambit Royale! It was simply amazing! The immersion and options, the depth of the story, the maps, scripts and ideas! Nothing short of amazing! It was seen how much time was spent in the making of this campaign!

Every true Arma 3 player should play this and all the previous campaigns of the storyline.
The HALO mission with the dog was a brilliant setup also the camera script and the vest!. Other notable mentions: the Bear bomber script, venomous snakes, the chemical bioweapon cloud in the Livonia mission, AAF reporter in CDF revenge, numbers station sample recording for Ninjas backpack in the Ultimatum mission.. Splendid!

ООО, продолжение Shadow Fall? Должно быть круто, спасибо чувак!