PWCG Cooperative mission multicrew - join as a gunner?

[=BiA=Diskobolos]

Hi,

I am new to PWCG. Thanks to the PWCG author for the great service he is providing, the PWCG seems to be working without any major issues.

 

I am curious - is there a possibility to allow my non-flying friends to join in the coop campaign as gunners in say He-111 in the same plane I am flying?

This seems to be supported on other servers (those are dogfight servers maybe?).

I did some quick test with a generated bomber coop mission and unfortunately, all my friend was able to do was to join another airplane, but not the one I picked.

 

Is there some quick obvious fix I did not think of?

Would running a dedicated server help? (I think I read somewhere here that PWCG coop mission can be run only via the in-game UI, is that correct?)

 

If not, Is there anything in the mission editor / the generated mission file I can manually set in the generated mission to add the gunner slots?

 

What about somehow changing the mission type to dogfight, if that makes any sense?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Edited December 29, 2018 by =BiA=Diskobolos

[PatrickAWlson]

First time I have got this request.  Presumably if a human does not join the gun is crewed by AI? 

 

There must be a setting.  If somebody can explain how to do it I can look into making this possible.

 

[Sketch]

99% certain you can not join any coop mission as a gunner. It may be possible to join a gunner position after you die though.

[=BiA=Diskobolos]

Thanks for the quick replies.

I think this question is more appropriate in the mission editor section since the restriction is probably on the Sturmovik side.

 

FYI: I tried the suggested hack - opening a PWGC-generated mission in the editor and saving it as type=Deatchmatch, putting it into Dogfight folder - it worked - I was able to run the mission as a dogfight mission with the "become a gunner" button. However, there would have to be more tweaking since I did not see the player planes to join to and also the mission objective was completed right away and the mission ended.

Note: the converted mission will not show up in UI if it has some extra characters in the filename (mission name?) - like spaces (or numbers?). Once I re-saved it with just alphabet characters, it did show up.

 

If there is some simple way to "dress up" the coop missions as dogfight missions and be able to fly it with buddies (+get the PWCG AAR results), please let me know.

Thank you!

 

[ZKXChris]

I literally just wanted to do this last night with my friends and after some reading found it wasn't possible.

If there's anyway to get this to work it would be friggin awesome.