Hi,

i've been playing LOCK ON for a while now, and started with the SU-27 campain. but mission 4 is impossible for me.
i can destroy any enemy fighter without any losses on my side. but then, the aicraft that i need to escort always crash, whatever i try. they are always shot by air defenses on theground, the Shilka. and i have seen in my debriefing that one su-24 shot the other su-24 :S and i always have a "partial succes" at my debriefing. so mission 5 never appears.

is there a simple way to get to mission 5?
or is it possible to attack that shilka?

Well, I think the SAM/AAA defences are supposed to be dealt with by the Su-24 anti radar flight. I've looked at my version of that campaign (years since Ive flown it) and that should ahppen. However I used to mess around with the stock campaigns in the past, so cant say for sure that my one is unaltered.


But anyway, you are getting frustrated with the whole thing and just want to fly and get further on in the campaign....

There is a possible workaround, so lets get into it.

You can declassify the campaign in the Mission Editor and fly the campaign missions in any order you want (plus change skins, weapon loadout, etc). I use this method all the time to cherry pick the fun missions in a campaign and miss out the dull ones.

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

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

Top left click on EDIT, then DECLASSIFY, enter the password EAGLE. Now all the missions in the campaign should appear on the right hand side, so select the mission you want to fly. If you wish, you can select your aircraft, select PAYLOAD and pick different weapons / fuel load / skin.

If you have downloaded 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, then you can still get in by overwriting the password with your own. Use keystrokes rather than the menu to do this.

Press "ctrl + left shift + C" then type in a password e.g. 1234.

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

NOTE that Lockon does not seem to remember this, so you may have to do it each time you restart Lockon.

Hope this helps....