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Yes it's the main problem with the Gazelle : Making long flights ^^

As long as I like to give a nice and intensive environment, edition is very hard and long even for 1h of flight.

Voice acting was fine, I don't see what the fuss was all about. Bon boulot Nicolas!

I have some problems with mission 2.

Thank goodness for logbook.lua and Notepad++, otherwise I'd have gone insane already. ;)

Quite strange, I'll check this and tell you.

Did you land on the LZ before going to the combat zone ?

Did you land on the LZ before going to the combat zone ?

Erm, nope. :music_whistling:

I saw all those choppers down there but didn't realize I was supposed to land there as well.

However, I did hear a radio call indicating that the other choppers were going to assist my flight and cover our flanks. Not sure if I broke something by not landing, though.

I had the same issue regarding failing a mission, due to a slight lapse in concentration I may or may not have nicked the main rotor off :p

Anyways I exited out and went to retry the mission but it seems to remove my progress and sent me back to mission 1, which is extremely frustrating until I can get the logbook.lua thing working that lets me skip missions.

Other than that, I'm loving what I've seen, the chatter definitely helps make things nicer. I think this is gonna be a fun one!

mission 3, what the hell??? :D

What the bloody hell * :D

Yeah I'm bleeding indeed.

Okay, flew mission 2 once again, landed at the LZ near WP2, and this time it all progressed smoothly. ;)

As a suggestion, though, I think if you award 50 points right after mission start, players would no be set back one mission if they fail the current one for whatever reason, but would simply have to re-play the same mission.

Edit:

[...] until I can get the logbook.lua thing working that lets me skip missions.

Check this file:

C:\Users\{Your Username}\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\MissionEditor\logbook.lua

I'm sure there are lots of explanations around the forum on which changes to make in order to progress in a specific campaign, but basically I think it's more or less self-explanatory. :thumbup:

Mission 8 "New Playmates" (flown in 1.5 Release Version, after logbook was transferred manually)

On a more general note:

Several missions use a lot more than 9 waypoints. For all I know, the NADIR can't hold more than 9 at a time. So without being given coordinates for the remaining waypoints, how are players supposed to navigate the later parts of these missions?

Also: The mission planner tends to show some enemy units and several trigger zones (labeled something like "blabla" ;)). That means I ruin some of the surprises. But with no good way to navigate past WP9, if I can't even look at the mission planner, I'm almost flying blind.

Besides these (smallish, I think) issues, I must say though that I'm thoroughly enjoying the campaign, it's great to fly it, and the narration, both in terms of Voice Overs and in terms of how things progress, is really great and a lot of fun. Good job so far! :thumbup:

So without being given coordinates for the remaining waypoints, how are players supposed to navigate the later parts of these missions?

Kneeboard, RShift + K

Use your kneeboard, the way you things happened for you remind me when Pat tried this mission and didn't turn on the right side. He made whole part of the mission in the opposite way.

Nicolas

Me and my new BFF Meatboy will be tearing this campaign up this weekend. We did our first mission together last night and I was afraid there was going to have to be a fratricide incident when I first heard his accent, but he quickly grows on you. We can all learn a lot from Meatboy. Tally-Ho chaps!

Kneeboard, roger that, thx! :thumbup:

I don't like it that much, TBH. The map is not very detailed, in fact it is often quite wrong, showing roads or rivers that don't exist and not showing big landmarks, roads, villages, that do exist. Marking the aircraft's own position still feels a little bit like cheating IMO (but just a little bit. I try to argue to myself that it's the navigator who just marked the position on the map in order to improve my SA ;)).

Campaign looks great Dimitriov.

 

I actually like the voice-overs, had me smiling through it, well done Brixmis :thumbup: I was waiting for the "Broadsword calling Danny Boy" bit.. lol.... nice work guy's.

 

 

 

Water off a ducks back mate, take no notice. I thought the humour was great, it got me smiling. Well done chaps!

 

 

 

I guess you haven't come across many English military Officers? I knew LOTS of RAF aircrew that sounded just like that, on and off the radio!

 

 

 

Nooooo!!!

Seriously, this community should be VERY GREATFUL to guy's like these, the effort they put into this stuff is award worthy in my view.

 

Really enjoyed that video, thanks for posting it gents :thumbup:

+2

kneeboard on the pilots leg would be sickkk (also if u could manage its content)

Mission 11: Face to face

Mission 12: RTB

****, WWIII wasn't planned... Nice bug anyway, will look at it ^^

Dimitriov love the campaign I am still in early stages but nice done with much French love...

But there small thing that could be better, sometime you gone lost in space when you play first time the campaign, example mission 3 Tatars going nuts in the mission against allied forces.

Would be nice we have coordinates on the kneeboard for emergency like helipad Paris, there is always enough time to play with the Nadir Doppler radar and for mission with more then 9 waypoints a flight plan with coordinates.

And for story driven campaign when you fail to fly the previous mission again is a no go, always hate this Future in all late appeared campaigns that kill your motivation.

A new version will come soon for the campaign progress issue.

Waiting for this, you can simply edit the mission, and add the following trigger :

Once/Time sup 10 sec/Add marker 8765, value 50

Like this if you die, you should come back to the beginning of the mission.

I'm working on the multi version, but due to my personnal work being currently very important (exam periods) I can't spend a lot of time on it. Should be nice by Mid-June.

Depending of the general feedback, I may try to produce a 3rd chapter on this campaign, called "7 days" (French soldiers should understand what it may mean). Script is already written, but it may be a separate campaign from the module with additional aircrafts.

Have every one success with mission 3? after engagement with Abkhazian forces have to flee from tatar forces but I allways get mess up against the shilkas and AAA around Ochamchira i can't find any way out to Paris AFB.

Have every one success with mission 3? after engagement with Abkhazian forces have to flee from tatar forces but I allways get mess up against the shilkas and AAA around Ochamchira i can't find any way out to Paris AFB.

For me it was a close call IIRC. I didn't know about the kneeboard, or how to enter coords if I had even been given some, so it was very rough navigation, trying to steer clear of all the AAA sites and just very generally heading for the base. My copilot didn't make it, but for the amount of damage the chopper had taken, it held up pretty well.

Can't really give any precise advice, except to fly erratic while under attack so that the gunners have as hard a time as possible to predict where you'll be when their salvos reach you.

Normally, I'd advise to use the Mission Planner in order to get a good mental picture of where the bases are, but since the enemy units show up there, that would probably be close to cheating. :(

Ah ?

You want me to hide the ENI units ?

no I seriously ask it, because I decided to keep them shown as some players may use the F10 map. (Gameplay reason, simmers who don't like F10 map don't use it, others can), but I hadn't thought about the mission planner.

For the 3rd mission, refer to the global map on the Miz1 (I will precise it on the brief, wrote it on my paper), so you will know where is the Paris FARP and where is the London FARP. By the way, did you well study the .pdf before flying ? It's very important, don't hesitate to yuse maps which were from a previous mission, as long as the campaign focuses on the same region.

Nicolas