U-2VS in career?

[gad11]

Hi all. Thinking about getting the U-2VS. Looks like fun to fly and do some low level bombing with. Curious if it's available in career mode or not.

Thanks!

[Voidhunger]

4 minutes ago, gad11 said:

Hi all. Thinking about getting the U-2VS. Looks like fun to fly and do some low level bombing with. Curious if it's available in career mode or not.

Thanks!

 

Hi, not yet, but they will add it probably into the career in the next update which is around the corner (two weeks be sure)

Edited January 28, 2019 by Voidhunger

[gad11]

12 minutes ago, Voidhunger said:

 

Hi, not yet, but they will add it probably into the career in the next update which is around the corner (two weeks be sure)

 

Thanks!

[Godspeed]

I bought it even i was not in mood to buy anything till AI is fixed.

 

But yeah it has been done well.

True quality like all ww2 planes so far.

[PatrickAWlson]

U2 campaign is up in PWCG.  At the moment it is daylight missions.

[Feathered_IV]

Now that new update has been released and the U-2 is in the career, has anybody given it a go?  What sort of flight distances and mission times are involved for a round trip?

[Elem]

7 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

Now that new update has been released and the U-2 is in the career, has anybody given it a go?  What sort of flight distances and mission times are involved for a round trip?

Yep! Looong missions, due to it's low speed. Even though you operate from the nearest front line base (Kuban), it's still an hours flying time out and back unless of course you use x8 time. All that and I didn't hit a thing! D'oh!

[Feathered_IV]

Thanks!  I did wonder about that.

[sevenless]

3 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

Thanks!  I did wonder about that.

 

I think it is quite a refreshing change. Maneuvering 50m above the ground with 110kph and dropping bombs on the enemy at night. If you take air start it is usually 30km distance to the target, so it takes some time even with 8x time acc. Airfield is about 70-90 km from the front, so if you play with start and landing, the missions will be quite long.

[Chief_Mouser]

I gave it a go. As Elem says, VERY long flight times and with no other activity, air or ground, and nothing to see as it was dark, to break the monotony. When I did get to the target area there was four blooming great searchlights waving around looking for the other U-2s so no navigation skill needed on my part there. Very hard to bomb anything accurately unless you get on the deck; I decided to strafe as well but discovered I hadn't taken the gun (loadout as per the mission default). So, for the first time ever in a career, I abandoned the mission rather than fly all the way back. Fairly disappointed with this career mission, but I guess that it's the nature of the beast. Still love the U-2 though, have had a blast with it online and am hoping that there will be some user-made missions along sometime.

Cheers.

 

Edit @sevenless Yes I suppose air starts will be the way to go for a career in this plane. Don't really like doing it that way though. I'm happy with long missions if the navigation is more challenging or if there is something else going on.

Edited February 5, 2019 by 216th_Cat

[gad11]

Ya. Very long flight times. I will stick with Pat Wilson's Campaign Generator for this little plane as with that your home airfield is a bit closer. 

[Elem]

I would like to see some forward unprepared fields added for these night harassment missions so we could get close to Nadezhda Popova's record of 18 sorties in one night.

[Gambit21]

I have something on the way for you guys -soon.

 

2 weeks be sure!

[Elem]

25 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

I have something on the way for you guys -soon.

 

2 weeks be sure!

My Hero!

[pilotpierre]

And mine too.

[sevenless]

6 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

2 weeks be sure!

 

Clock is ticking, LOL!

 

Looking forward to what you can come up with.

[Gambit21]

Done, just testing and adding a few last minute doo dads

[Napping-Man]

So uh...Gambit...whatcha got goin' on there?   ?

[Gambit21]

Done for now, but can’t release just yet. With the next update I think.

 

Busdriver has been having fun with it.

 

[Napping-Man]

[busdriver]

1 hour ago, Gambit21 said:

Busdriver has been having fun with it.

 

Yes I have...

[pilotpierre]

Of course you are if it’s full of doo dads. They make or break a campaign. Now don’tdoo mums are a different kettle of fish entirely.

 

I patiently await your doo dads Gambit.

Gambit, was it you sometime ago who was thinking of creating a P47 campaign?

[Gambit21]

13 minutes ago, pilotpierre said:

Gambit, was it you sometime ago who was thinking of creating a P47 campaign?

 

As we speak.

I probably won't start an actual build thread until I get the map and it's public.

Until then all I can show some initial progress/logic building on the Stalingrad map.

Fantastic skins courtesy of 325th_Bugsy.

 

 

Edited February 13, 2019 by Gambit21

[sevenless]

1 hour ago, Gambit21 said:

 

 

Looks like they are going after the armoured colums near Bastogne. Great Pics.

[apollon01]

On 2/12/2019 at 7:36 PM, Gambit21 said:

Done for now, but can’t release just yet. With the next update I think.

@Gambit21, what was the thing you were working on related to the U-2VS?

 

I am searching the forum for info about this aircraft and stumbled on this discussion. Thanks for an update if you have a minute ?

 

Sorry to revive such an old thread.

 

Milan

[Gambit21]

1 hour ago, apollon01 said:

@Gambit21, what was the thing you were working on related to the U-2VS?

 

I am searching the forum for info about this aircraft and stumbled on this discussion. Thanks for an update if you have a minute ?

 

Sorry to revive such an old thread.

 

Milan

 

Think of it as an infinite (or at least an ass ton) number of missions generated by a single mission file using randomized logic.

 

It’s basically ready.

...at night/very early morning.

[jojy47jojyrocks]

What kind of missions do we get in career mode for U2 since its primarily geared for Recon, scouting , target spotting etc?

 

ROF had these recon missions and arty spotting kind.

Edited February 20, 2020 by jojy47jojyrocks

[Feathered_IV]

From what I gather, you take off from an established airfield far behind the frontlines and drop some tiny bombs before flying all the way back.  While doing so you get to contemplate things like forward landing grounds, artillery spotting, reconnaissance and communications flights, medical evacuation and resupply missions.  

Edited February 20, 2020 by Feathered_IV

[PatrickAWlson]

3 hours ago, jojy47jojyrocks said:

What kind of missions do we get in career mode for U2 since its primarily geared for Recon, scouting , target spotting etc?

 

ROF had these recon missions and arty spotting kind.

 

Working on some things for PWCG.  First U2 missions were all daylight because PWCG didn't support night missions.  When PWCG started supporting night missions the U2 was all ground attack at night since that is how they were used.  Version 8 of PWCG will bring back recon and contact patrols.  Those should be fun in a U2.  Since we do not have the photo thingy from RoF recon missions  are just fly a route.  Contact patrols are fun.  They are also fly a route but at very low altitude with lots of activity below, while looking for the flares that mark your units positions.

 

Then there is artillery spotting.  Once again we do not have the grid from RoF so I can't use that.  I am thinking about something that gets the artillery to fire based on the location of your plane.  Not simple so no promises on a timeline.

[Lusekofte]

U 2 is really great. But time wise I only fly it in QMB. 

[Gambit21]

I hung on to my all night U2 project because re-arm and refuel was added, and that functionality is just MADE for the U2...all night ops.

Haven't had time to go back in and mess with it.

 

Soon however I'm going back into that project and adding re-arm and refuel not only for the player, but for the AI.

 

So AI will land, park, re-arm/re-fuel, start up, take off.

That will take a minute...but in the works again. I have 3 things in the cue right now, priority being the Jug campaign which is in final testing.

[Avimimus]

On 2/5/2019 at 7:38 AM, Elem said:

Yep! Looong missions, due to it's low speed. Even though you operate from the nearest front line base (Kuban), it's still an hours flying time out and back unless of course you use x8 time. All that and I didn't hit a thing! D'oh!

 

I found that with Syn_Vander's FC/WWI mission generator as well... the airstart wasn't close to the front and the missions were long due to the low airspeed.

 

The game could really do with an option where campaign missions were reliably completable in the 12-15 minute range regardless of airspeed.

[jojy47jojyrocks]

23 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

I hung on to my all night U2 project because re-arm and refuel was added, and that functionality is just MADE for the U2...all night ops.

Haven't had time to go back in and mess with it.

 

Soon however I'm going back into that project and adding re-arm and refuel not only for the player, but for the AI.

 

So AI will land, park, re-arm/re-fuel, start up, take off.

That will take a minute...but in the works again. I have 3 things in the cue right now, priority being the Jug campaign which is in final testing.

 

 

Hoping that at least some day they'd add those ROF like recon mission and arty spotting...coz that makes more sense with this aircraft's which was its true main role IRL.

[Gambit21]

2 minutes ago, jojy47jojyrocks said:

 

 

Hoping that at least some day they'd add those ROF like recon mission and arty spotting...coz that makes more sense with this aircraft's which was its true main role IRL.

 

Read a book.

 

It was used to bomb and harass German troops all night long during Kuban.

[jojy47jojyrocks]

29 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

Read a book.

 

It was used to bomb and harass German troops all night long during Kuban.

 

 

I only said recon was its intended role (primarily as a liaison, medevac and general-supply aircraft). It may have been used to harass or whatever considering Russia improvised a lot during such times.

 

 

[Gambit21]

35 minutes ago, jojy47jojyrocks said:

 

 

I only said recon was its intended role (primarily as a liaison, medevac and general-supply aircraft). It may have been used to harass or whatever considering Russia improvised a lot during such times.

 

 

 

“Harass” meaning drop bombs.

Read up on the Nightwitches.

[jojy47jojyrocks]

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

 

No offense, but you really need to read up more on what the U-2's role was during the war. Saying it was used "to harass or whatever" is, well...ignorant.

 

 

I did not mean it that way...It came of wrong, pardon my poor choice of words.?

 

What I was trying to STRESS is that since its a slow aircraft. Its primary role was, as a liaison, medevac and general-supply aircraft. Secondary since its slow was as you've said to ground attack role. Being slow it could be shot down easily by air defense, most of its ground attacks being conducted at night to overcome its handicap of being slow to get away. This is why I kept stressing that its true or primary...not secondary...was to do recon and arty spotting as this plane with its slow speed fits that role and yes, supplying plus transportation.

 

I am aware that this could do the ground attack role in career mode, the same missions we do with other planes.

 

Also stressing that since this discussion is about U2VS in career mode. I was merely stating that maybe if and when the developers do decide to add recon missions and arty spotting like in ROF, it would be more engaging to fly this plane, and other recon optimized planes. This plane being agonizingly slow gets shot down fast by air defense.

[Lusekofte]

You got to look at it as your having it for this

 

[Feathered_IV]

On 2/22/2020 at 3:53 AM, Gambit21 said:

 

“Harass” meaning drop bombs.

Read up on the Nightwitches.

 

The game could do with Harassment Points.  Even without expending ordnance, the longer you stay in close proximity to a designated area and keep them awake and active, the more points you earn.  Playing chicken with searchlights and flak gunners could be a rewardable feat. 

[Lusekofte]

3 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

 

The game could do with Harassment Points.  Even without expending ordnance, the longer you stay in close proximity to a designated area and keep them awake and active, the more points you earn.  Playing chicken with searchlights and flak gunners could be a rewardable feat. 

Like ju 52. You aint fetting points ever in this. 
however in a couple if actions in multiplayer I got a couple of 109’s expending time and ammo and fuel. Toatally fixated to get me. They did after a looooong time

that is points to me

Edited February 23, 2020 by LuseKofte