Fighter sweep in career mode: could we have it?

[danielprates]

The dev diary prior to the release mentioned that 20 out of 25 career mission types were implemented. When I saw it,  I went nuts! After all,  until them we only did half a dozen things: bombing,  striking,  intercepting, escorting....

 

The new BoK came with some new types. Ferry stiking,  troop cover.... ok!  I liked it a lot.

 

However,  we are missing what would probably be the most interesting mission type: FIGHTER SWEEPS.

 

Now that career mode allows you to set the ammount of random frontline activity,  I can imagine how fun,  varied,  caothic and unpredictable it would be to fly over the front and enemy lines,  with no certain plan other than to shoot everything that moves,  either flying or on  the ground.

 

Has anyone heard anything about that being in the works? That should be implemented!

[seafireliv]

I always found Fighter sweeps a little boring, but I agree we should have it in. Most definitely.

[Godspeed]

Also Ju-52 career is boring because only one type of mission...

I hope they add more in next patch.

[InProgress]

I hope in that 5 remaining would be ju52 med evac

But also would be nice to get this parol stuff and just engage stuff that is on your way.

[J2_Trupobaw]

I found the missions we have fitting for VVS, but hoped there will be free hunt once I switch to Axis careers. A shame.

What is the single Ju-52 mission? I'm still learning the type so I didn't made career on it yet, let me know if it's worth it :).

[InProgress]

You have only cargo mission in ju52 i think. And before you could do only 2,5 things anyway. Cargo 2x (boxes and parachute cargo) and Fallschirmjäger drop.

 

Would be really cool to get diffrent cargo, not only boxes. Fresh soldiers to frontline and back you take wounded and sick. Officers transport, stuff like that. So it would not be just 1 kind of box model.

[Bando]

Bomb damage assessment with a camera can be interesting missions.

Recon missions, to photograph something special.

Combat air patrol to deny the enemy a part of the airspace.

Ready alert missions. (may be boring if nothing shows up).

 

[seafireliv]

I`m surprised there`s only one mission for the JU52. I don`t have it, but I can think of a number of real world missions for it. I mean one just off the top of my head would be a `Transferring of high status General to a location`. Imagine being flanked by 109s as you fly to your destination or perhaps going alone secretly to avoid attention.

 

I`d even fly a Ju52 to do that mission!

[Bando]

3 minutes ago, seafireliv said:

I`m surprised there`s only one mission for the JU52. I don`t have it, but I can think of a number of real world missions for it. I mean one just off the top of my head would be a `Transferring of high status General to a location`. Imagine being flanked by 109s as you fly to your destination or perhaps going alone secretly to avoid attention.

 

I`d even fly a Ju52 to do that mission!

Awesome!! VIP flights. They must have happened there.

[Eicio]

I had a similar idea in this post 

That's similar but a little wider since you could do that with other planes as well.

20 minutes ago, seafireliv said:

I`m surprised there`s only one mission for the JU52. I don`t have it, but I can think of a number of real world missions for it. I mean one just off the top of my head would be a `Transferring of high status General to a location`. Imagine being flanked by 109s as you fly to your destination or perhaps going alone secretly to avoid attention.

 

I`d even fly a Ju52 to do that mission!

 

for me that'd be boring.

However just imagine that you're mission as a soviet pilot is to find a plane that's carrying high ranked staff, this would be pretty exciting to me 

Well I may be that kind of pilot who finds he's brain into the trigger 

[falle96]

I feel like this is going to be shunted over to the Suggestions subforum...

 

Fighter sweeps would be fun. I'm not actually sure how often you'd go up for patrols rather than for a directed mission, but I'm sure it'd add flavor to things.

 

While we're adding suggestions, I hope they make it so you can fly considerably more than just two or three sorties in a day if you chose to.

[Dakpilot]

Recently someone posted a list of all the potential missions from the proposed/intended 40+? amount

as far as I remember it included fighter sweep and more types of transport mission

as has been suggested by Dev's  these new mission types should be added later

 

can't remember which section or who posted it though 

 

Cheers, Dakpilot

[dburne]

2 hours ago, Dakpilot said:

Recently someone posted a list of all the potential missions from the proposed/intended 40+? amount

as far as I remember it included fighter sweep and more types of transport mission

as has been suggested by Dev's  these new mission types should be added later

 

can't remember which section or who posted it though 

 

Cheers, Dakpilot

 

That is about how I remember it, many more missions to come.

[ShamrockOneFive]

I'm actually surprised that a standard combat air patrol wasn't really part of either the previous Campaign or this mode. I thought it was sort of the bread and butter of most fighter squadrons. I supposed defending an objective is similar but CAP always seemed more like an offensive activity where you're actively hunting for enemy aircraft. Different names for it... the RAF called it tactical reconnaissance (or Tac R).

 

It's a great idea!

[Feathered_IV]

4 hours ago, Dakpilot said:

Recently someone posted a list of all the potential missions from the proposed/intended 40+? amount

as far as I remember it included fighter sweep and more types of transport mission

as has been suggested by Dev's  these new mission types should be added later

 

can't remember which section or who posted it though 

 

Cheers, Dakpilot

 

That was me I think.

 

Here it is again.  This is taken from the campaign files in mods-on mode. 

 

MissionTypes
{
 101 = "Intercept bombers";
 102 = "Intercept ground attack aircraft";
 103 = "Intercept cargo aircraft";
 151 = "Escort bombers";
 152 = "Escort ground attack aircraft";
 153 = "Escort cargo aircraft";
 201 = "Enemy column attack";
 202 = "Enemy artillery position attack";
 203 = "Enemy train attack";
 204 = "Enemy airfield attack";
 301 = "Ground troops support";
 331 = "Cargo delivery";
 332 = "Cargo supply drop";
 351 = "Special mission squad paradrop";
 401 = "Enemy artillery positions bombing strike";
 402 = "Enemy railway station bombing strike";
 403 = "Enemy airfield bombing strike";
 404 = "Enemy supply dump bombing strike";
 405 = "Enemy bridge bombing strike";
 701 = "Skirmish";
 702 = "Duel";
 703 = "Free flight";

 1101 = "Intercept bombers";
 1102 = "Intercept ground attack aircraft";
 1103 = "Intercept reconnaissance aircraft";
 1104 = "Intercept transport aircraft";
 1121 = "Area patrol";
 1122 = "Ground troops cover";
 1123 = "Free hunt";
 1124 = "Ships cover";
 1125 = "Ferry cover";
 1151 = "Escort bombers";
 1152 = "Escort ground attack aircraft";
 1153 = "Escort transport aircraft";
 1154 = "Escort reconnaissance aircraft";
 1155 = "Escort artillery spotter";
 1201 = "Enemy transport column attack";
 1202 = "Enemy armor column attack";
 1203 = "Enemy artillery position attack";
 1204 = "Enemy frontline attack";
 1205 = "Enemy railway junction attack";
 1206 = "Enemy airfield attack";
 1207 = "Search and destroy";
 1208 = "Attack enemy ferry crossing";
 1209 = "Enemy troops concentration area attack";
 1301 = "Advancing troops support";
 1302 = "Defense lines support";
 1401 = "Battlefield reconnaissance";
 1402 = "Communication lines reconnaissance";
 1403 = "Photo reconnaissance";
 1501 = "Enemy artillery positions bombing strike";
 1502 = "Enemy frontline strong point bombing strike";
 1503 = "Enemy troops concentration bombing strike";
 1504 = "Enemy airfield bombing strike";
 1505 = "Enemy ferry bombing strike";
 1506 = "Enemy railway junction bombing strike";
 1507 = "Enemy supply dump bombing strike";
 1508 = "Enemy bridge bombing strike";
 1601 = "Cargo delivery";
 1602 = "Cargo paradrop";
 1603 = "Special mission squad paradrop";
 1901 = "Relocate";
 1902 = "Moving out";
}

[JG4_Sputnik]

Thanks for posting it. Looking forward to have more options in the future. The career is really fun (though the AI...) and it will benefit from more variants! Fighter sweeps is a must have imho

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

"701 = "Skirmish";
 702 = "Duel";"

 

Ah, they're going for the Safonov I see!

[danielprates]

9 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

1121 = "Area patrol

 

9 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

1123 = "Free hunt

 

9 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

1207 = "Search and destroy"

 

Now were on business! This is what I mean. Since now you can configure the ammount of frontline activity,  it makes all sense to have at least some aimed at random encounters.

 

Now,  one thing I did not understand: what is that list? The 1C intended full list? A community-created list?

[Feathered_IV]

2 minutes ago, danielprates said:

Now,  one thing I did not understand: what is that list? The 1C intended full list? A community-created list?

 

If you extract the packaged game assets from the scg.gtp file, there are folders 13, 14 and 15 that deal with the respective chapters of the campaign.  The above list is what is found there when you open the briefing.cfg with notepad.  It appears to be the full list of existing and future mission types.

[JG4_dingsda]

5 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

[...] of existing and future mission types.

10 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

1401 = "Battlefield reconnaissance";
 1402 = "Communication lines reconnaissance";
 1403 = "Photo reconnaissance";

 

Yay!

 

[danielprates]

48 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

 

If you extract the packaged game assets from the scg.gtp file, there are folders 13, 14 and 15 that deal with the respective chapters of the campaign.  The above list is what is found there when you open the briefing.cfg with notepad.  It appears to be the full list of existing and future mission types.

 

Got it. Like a skelleton of what is to be added in the future.

 

41 minutes ago, JG4_dingsda said:

 

Yay!

 

 

 Double-yay!

[Bando]

Is this perhaps a leftover from ROF. Duel and free flight were pretty typical for ROF back in the day.

[InProgress]

Guess nothing new for ju52

[Micromagos]

Really hope we get ship attack missions as I have yet to see that in it and more JU52 missions.

Edited April 6, 2018 by Hydra01

[Feathered_IV]

VIP transport would be another one for the Ju-52.  As well as bringing reinforcements to other airfields. These would be especially interesting in bad weather.  

 

Medevac missions ons where you need to fly a round trip would be the dream, but I don't know if we'll ever see something like that.  

[danielprates]

 Hey @Feathered_IV,  since we're at the subject...

 

I just got today,  for the first time,  a "intercept recon plane" mission. Was it recently included, or I was just unlucky to never get it before?

[Feathered_IV]

Hi! 

I think they have been there from the start. A number of my squadron pilots were assigned the mission as I progressed through the ranks over the last couple of weeks. 

When I finally made commander I tried to get one for myself, and skipped a lot of missions to try.   I skipped so many that I got demoted and somebody else is in charge now...   

[dburne]

9 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

Hi! 

I think they have been there from the start. A number of my squadron pilots were assigned the mission as I progressed through the ranks over the last couple of weeks. 

When I finally made commander I tried to get one for myself, and skipped a lot of missions to try.   I skipped so many that I got demoted and somebody else is in charge now...   

 

Lol, now that is cool.

 

[danielprates]

Didnt know that was possible!