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DCS World singleplayer/co-op dynamic campaign.
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Frontline attack feedback #21

Open SomethingSimpl opened 6 years ago

SomethingSimpl commented 6 years ago

Hi,

About Frontline attack mission. Would you consider spawning groups of tanks assaulting groups of tanks instead of 1 on 1 as it is right now? Is that even possible with the current system? I have a good database on potential group compositions that you could implement to make the missions seem a bit more believable. US and Russian tank companies, motorized infantry platoons, recce platoons etc. as realistically arranged as I could get it from various sources.

This would probably require changes to recruitment as well as now we buy singular units - this would need to be changed to deployment of whole companies/platoons. Would that be feasible? - it would add a lot to the general feel of the mission and would make it a lot more believable.

Also we felt like the Frontline CAS could use some opposing Interceptors to intercept the CAS planes generated in the missions now that we have an option of multirole so that the CAP guys in campaign have something to shoot at.

shdwp commented 6 years ago

About Frontline attack mission. Would you consider spawning groups of tanks assaulting groups of tanks instead of 1 on 1 as it is right now? Is that even possible with the current system?

It is possible, but there are problems with that - group pathfinding are pretty finicky. I've got a lot better results by using individual units. I'll look into spawning a few of them closely so they could resemble a group.

I have a good database on potential group compositions that you could implement to make the missions seem a bit more believable. US and Russian tank companies, motorized infantry platoons, recce platoons etc. as realistically arranged as I could get it from various sources.

This is a good suggestion, but things like that could only come later in the development. Right now there are other priorities.

This would probably require changes to recruitment as well as now we buy singular units - this would need to be changed to deployment of whole companies/platoons. Would that be feasible? - it would add a lot to the general feel of the mission and would make it a lot more believable.

This is something that I already had in mind. It's probably going to be like that some day.

Also we felt like the Frontline CAS could use some opposing Interceptors to intercept the CAS planes generated in the missions now that we have an option of multirole so that the CAP guys in campaign have something to shoot at.

The idea to combine CAS + CAP missions into one. This is planned atm.

wsethbrown commented 4 years ago

Not sure if any changes have been made to this, but I did have two enemy planes arrive on a frontline attack mission after I had been at the bullseye a while.

wrycu commented 4 years ago

I believe @Khopa is working on this in the rewrite.