hi everybody,

I have LOMAC for a long time now but I have got a couple of problems.
With the Su-25 Campain mission 3 (take out electric facilitees) the rusult is always 'mission failure'. But there are no more ground targets left and i killed everything I could that was registed in my target list. I the town Ihave to attack, there are no buildings that look like a fabric ore somting. In fact, there are no buildings at all. Can you please help me??

my second problem is with the Su-27 campain. Mission 3 loads ok. but when I am on the runway and the blue box says: press s to start and I do so, noting happens . Please help me also with this problem.

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hi everybody,

I have LOMAC for a long time now but I have got a couple of problems.
With the Su-25 Campain mission 3 (take out electric facilitees) the rusult is always 'mission failure'. But there are no more ground targets left and i killed everything I could that was registed in my target list. I the town Ihave to attack, there are no buildings that look like a fabric ore somting. In fact, there are no buildings at all. Can you please help me??

my second problem is with the Su-27 campain. Mission 3 loads ok. but when I am on the runway and the blue box says: press s to start and I do so, noting happens . Please help me also with this problem.

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Su-25 Campaign Destroy electric facilities Mission 3?

Do you mean Mission 4 - Destroy Power Plant?? In the town of Gorjachij Kljutch??

If you do mean Mission 4 then I can maybe guess what the problem might be. For some people (includes me) there is a problem with some missions where the target jumps 100's of kilometres away from the proper place and so it is impossible to get SUCCESS because Lockon thinks the building you have to destroy is on the other side of the map.
I think I remember that Su-25 Campaign Mission 4 is one of these broken ones.


In Lockon, many missions and campaigns are classified with a password so that they cannot be easily/accidentally changed. The missions and campaigns that come with Lockon use the password EAGLE.

Go into Mission Editor, upper left of screen click on the open button, bottom right of screen, TYPE OF FILE select CAMPAIGN, navigate the folder structure to the campaign you want and select it. Bottom right of screen, click on MAP. Now you will see the 1st mission of your campaign.

Top left of screen, click on EDIT, then DECLASSIFY, enter the password EAGLE. Now all the missions in the campaign should appear on the right hand side. Select the mission you want (Mission 4), zoom in th emap until you can see the route of your aircraft (it will be a white colour on the map) click the mouse on the ATTACK WAYPOINT, the triangle shape (I think it is waypoint 3?). Now press the TARGETING
button (top right of screen). Find a building at 44.37.11N 39.06.46E you may need to zoom the map in (and you can see where on the map your mouse is at the bottom of the screen (a box called COORDS). Click on ADD (bottom right) then click your mouse on the building. This adds it as a target for your flight. It is a building with 4 chimneys, some of which are smoking (though I think this may depend on your graphic settings?). Now your AI wingman will know about the target you have to destroy.
If there was something already shown as targeted when you first click on TARGETING, you want to DEL (delete) that one as it is the messed up one.

So far so good, but mow we need to set MISSION GOALS (the thing that decides SUCCESS/FAIL). Look on the left of the screen and you see a button that looks like a sniper scope. Put your mouse over it and it says "Add New Mission Goal". Press that button. Now look at the left hand box that just popped up. If it has any targets listed, then DEL (delete) them. NOw we can add the correct one in.

Left side of screen, halfway down, press ADD, now put the mouse over the same building as before, the mouse icon is now the sniper scope. Click on the building. it should have now added this building as

NUMB 1 OF 1
TARGET Building
COORD 44.37.11N 39.06.46E
GOAL DESTROY
LIST Building

This is what we want, so save the changes, top left pulldown menu FILE, SAVE.

While we are here, a quick talk about mission goals. Notice that you can set goals as destroy or survive. This is so that you could design a mission to defend a friendly building / ship / aircraft / vehicle convoy etc. and your mission is to stop the enemy destroying it.


In the Mission Editor, if you want to, you can select your aircraft, select PAYLOAD and choose different weapons/fuel load/skin if you want to try the same mission but with a different loadout. Remember to use SAVE AS and a new name so you don't loose the original mission/campaign.



For your future reference, if you download any of the excellent missions/campaigns designed by the Lockon community, then some may be classified. Either the briefing notes or the readme file may tell you the password. Some may not.

If not, and you really want to change from what the campaign designer wanted then you can "cheat" by overwriting the password with your own. Use keyboard (instead of pulldown menu) to do this.

Press "ctrl + left shift + C" then type in a new password of your own choice e.g. 1234.

Now press "ctrl + left shift + D" and enter your password e.g. 1234.

Hope this helps.....