Mission: Operation Helping Hand - request for feedback

I've put together a mission for the Huey (Caucasus)

Difficulty could be considered medium

Mission duration ±30-45mins (depending on the choices you make and your chopper handling skills)

The player is to help out allied forces, either by providing CAS, and/or sling load supplies to the front, and/or fly in reinforcement anti tank teams. All drop zones will be marked with smoke.

Before throwing it in the user files section, I'd like to know what you guys think. Feedback/tips are very welcome. I thoroughly tested it myself, but I obviously know exactly what to do, where to go and what triggers what. So it would be good to know how someone with a clear mind experiences it.

Oh yeah, no mods required (SC module also not required, despite the dude you see in the picture below)

Operation Helping Hand v0.1.miz

Really nice visuals, tracers looked great.

I was a little unsure where to drop the crates, my adf seemed to be taking me past the red smoke that was just west of the river. Is that where the crates should be dropped?

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Hi Andrew. Thanks for the feedback.

No, ADF 525kHz is just indicating general direction of the target area. You actually don't need to use it though. It's easier to use landmarks. Just follow Inguri river downstream to the large bridge, and the drop zones will be marked with smoke. For the infantry drop zones it's important to land close to the smoke markers

(I'll remove the ADF radio frequency from the briefing text, as it might just be confusing)

Thanks, I thought it was there.

I fly in vr, on the briefing page the 2nd or 3rd image, the one of the terrain/ map isn't very clear, I can't read the labels. Is it possible to have a sharper or zoomed in image.

The lighting in the mission was spot on.

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I also fly VR only. Due to using a very old and crappy monitor aside that, the briefing images look poor.

I made the main mission briefing screen (the one with the title) on my work laptop. Is that better quality?

Thanks for the mission...just a few comments so far.

1) I first did the ewr to the location...found the flags and went to drop the load. However another huey tried landing on me.

2) restarted - picked oil drum....went to location...green smoke dropped for reinforcement location....couldn’t find any flags so just dropped near green smoke....rtb...Did first troops...found orange smoke...dropped troops n rtb. Picked up 2nd group....went to location but no smoked popped. Had done it before when just doing orange troops then green troops...green smoked dropped that time.....but got shotdown.

Really like the time of day.

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Thanks Sunwukong. I'll look into both :thumbup:

Oh...just thought....the AO looked shot to shit though (via plane attack)...would that stop the smoke from popping?

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Oh...just thought....the AO looked shot to shit though (via plane attack)...would that stop the smoke from popping?

 

 

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Hmm no it shouldn't. But I'll look into it.

Thanks guys

I processed your feedback, did some more tweaking on redfor and bluefor balance and uploaded the mission to the user files section

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Excellent, I'll have another look

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Nice one, dropped off the reinforcements but came down a little too hard with the oil, that went off with a bang!

Good mission, I like the short transit times. Lots of action.

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came down a little too hard with the oil, that went off with a bang!

Yeah I had that quite a few times as well :P

But if you do manage you'll have a powerful tank added to the allies :thumbup:

I certainly improved my sling load skills while testing this mission

I get some stutters at the start but it smooths out.

Are we supposed to take all three loads?

Thanks for the mission!

It's totally up to you :)

You can take as many as you like, or none at all. Same with the anti tank squads. You can also rearm, choose other/better weapons and try to kill em all by yourself (however I don't recommend it, because it'll be hard :P)

I pimped this mission a bit. (hence the 2.0 )

Hope you guys will give it a go and let me know what you think

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3311394/

(@forum moderator, please move this thread to the UH-1 mission sub-forum. I didn't know it existed when I opened this thread)

Will give it a shot.  Might want to insert the date in there after the 2.0 on the download page so people know when it was last updated.  Still says 07/2020 in the header also.

Thank you for your mission  

I just find it lacking guidelines, in RL, is it the pilot to decide what to do?

The choices are theoretically ordered by the QG to organize the CAS,

As a pilot I have trouble having a vision of the real need to succeed the mission.

But the action is nice, I will do and redo the mission to try not to fail  

Keep going 

@Zap921; I can't seem to change that date..

Added the date behind "version 2.0"

7 hours ago, Tanuki44 said:

Thank you for your mission  

 

I just find it lacking guidelines, in RL, is it the pilot to decide what to do?

 

The choices are theoretically ordered by the QG to organize the CAS,

 

As a pilot I have trouble having a vision of the real need to succeed the mission.

 

But the action is nice, I will do and redo the mission to try not to fail  

 

Keep going 

 

 

 

I purposely don't give specific orders on what to do, to give the player as much freedom as possible.

Honestly there is no good or bad in what decisions you make.

This way you could fly the mission multiple times and try a different order of sling load, to see what works best.

Spoiler:

Ran one load of soldiers up to the front and on the way back to base got called to assist with some medevac at Camp Charlie.  Unfortunately, I couldn't respond due to time restraints IRL, couldn't sleep last night knowing I didn't help those guys.  Anyway, time of day and traffic in the area was nice!  Looking forward to a couple more runs, good job!!

1 hour ago, Zap921 said:

Ran one load of soldiers up to the front and on the way back to base got called to assist with some medevac at Camp Charlie.  Unfortunately, I couldn't respond due to time restraints IRL, couldn't sleep last night knowing I didn't help those guys.  Anyway, time of day and traffic in the area was nice!  Looking forward to a couple more runs, good job!!

Thanks for the kind words. Much appreciated! 

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