Official Scripted Campaign "Achtung Spitfire!"

[Cleo9]

11 hours ago, Juri_JS said:

I have the same problem in my Ivan's War campaign. Apparently there's a bug affecting Flash objects like the skip option that can be added to missions. I've already reported the problem to the devs.

I have just completed the first two missions of your campaign. No issue here. The campaign seems very interesting btw, tks. 

Edited March 20, 2022 by Cleo9

[SYN_Haashashin]

Hi guys,

 

As Juri said, it was reported and should be fixed soon. My apologies.

 

Haash

[Youtch]

Was this fixed with the last patch 403c?

 

Would someone be kind to explain the issue and if there is a workaround? I was intending to start this campaign this weekend.

 

Thank you in advance,

Y.

[Skycat1969]

On 3/24/2022 at 2:51 AM, Youtch said:

Was this fixed with the last patch 403c?

 

Would someone be kind to explain the issue and if there is a workaround? I was intending to start this campaign this weekend.

The original functionality is restored according to my test. The issue was, there is a unique intro slide at the start of each mission that the player should be able to skip past. The big update unexpectedly removed the ability to skip the intro which made it seem the game was locked up. The intro would eventually close after a minute or so but the long wait was irritating. There is also a slide at the end of the mission that fills the screen when you land, and it suffered from the same glitch. It should work properly now.

[Youtch]

Thanks, i have been playing it without any issue indeed, so it must have been fixed.

[mrflight107]

Hello,

 

How would I go about purchasing this Ahtung Spifire Scripted Campaign for my Battle of Kuban, which was purchased via the Steam store?

 

Thanks for the assistance! 

 

Mike

 

[LukeFF]

12 minutes ago, mrflight107 said:

Hello,

 

How would I go about purchasing this Ahtung Spifire Scripted Campaign for my Battle of Kuban, which was purchased via the Steam store?

 

Thanks for the assistance! 

 

Mike

 

https://il2sturmovik.com/store/campaigns/

[mrflight107]

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

 

https://il2sturmovik.com/store/campaigns/

Thanks for the reply, but how would that purchase magically transfer over to my Steam games stored on my local hard disk? Since this scripted campaign is not listed on the Steam site, how would any futures updates be applied? 

 

While this IL2 link-in to Steam is available, I'm starting to feel it's a bit 'lacking'.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Mike

 

Edited June 1, 2022 by mrflight107

[Skrimps]

Not sure if anything has changed with recent patches, but no matter what I cannot complete mission 5. It seems to be to be very unbalanced. Initially 2 Bf109's arrive from the northwest area of the road we are supposed to attack. But not long after, many more show up from a different area. By then, most of my AI wingmen are shot down with no kills of their own so I made a run for the home airfield. I counted 6! bf109's chasing me who would not break off, even after I was well into friendly territory. I cannot outrun them so I was not able to make it back. 

 

Perhaps nothing has changed and it's just me, but the overwhelming amount of Bf109's compared to friendly aircraft, coupled with AI wingmen who are only good at getting shot down makes for a frustrating experience.

[Regingrave-]

11 часов назад, Skrimps сказал:

Not sure if anything has changed with recent patches, but no matter what I cannot complete mission 5. It seems to be to be very unbalanced. Initially 2 Bf109's arrive from the northwest area of the road we are supposed to attack. But not long after, many more show up from a different area. By then, most of my AI wingmen are shot down with no kills of their own so I made a run for the home airfield. I counted 6! bf109's chasing me who would not break off, even after I was well into friendly territory. I cannot outrun them so I was not able to make it back. 

 

Perhaps nothing has changed and it's just me, but the overwhelming amount of Bf109's compared to friendly aircraft, coupled with AI wingmen who are only good at getting shot down makes for a frustrating experience.

Maybe there's some flaws in the mission logic or maybe it's just a bad luck.

I'll check that up, thanks for the report.

[SYN_Haashashin]

18 hours ago, Skrimps said:

Not sure if anything has changed with recent patches, but no matter what I cannot complete mission 5. It seems to be to be very unbalanced. Initially 2 Bf109's arrive from the northwest area of the road we are supposed to attack. But not long after, many more show up from a different area. By then, most of my AI wingmen are shot down with no kills of their own so I made a run for the home airfield. I counted 6! bf109's chasing me who would not break off, even after I was well into friendly territory. I cannot outrun them so I was not able to make it back. 

 

Perhaps nothing has changed and it's just me, but the overwhelming amount of Bf109's compared to friendly aircraft, coupled with AI wingmen who are only good at getting shot down makes for a frustrating experience.

Hi,

 

Sorry I didn’t see this before. I will also check and get back to you.

 

Haash

[Skrimps]

Hello, no problem either way. I noticed quite a fur ball develops near the objective, but of the three times I tried it last night it quickly developed into me running from multiple 109's with no friendlies left. It could have just been me, I am not really sure as it usually happened pretty quickly. I did eventually get victory conditions, but I had to bail out and crash....but I always like to return back to the home field. Either way thanks for checking it out.

 

ETA: I ran the mission again tonight and paid closer attention to what was going on. After the initial run in and attack on the AAA guns, 2 BF109's arrive from the northwest area and begin to engage. Not long after, 5 or 6 (? wasn't exactly sure of the number could be more) more Bf109's (or some FW190's?) arrive from the same area to add to the 2 that are already engaging us, and my squadron makes their way back into the fur ball in the center and apparently get shot down quickly. Since there is nothing left for the enemy aircraft to target, they all focus on me. This time I was being chased by 4 but I was able to evade them and finally land. One of my wingmen almost made it back but was shot down as I was evading.

 

I am not sure if this is how it was originally designed and intended but it does seem to be a bit lopsided, as the enemy AI dispatches my wing men very quickly. It may just be a limitation of the AI overall, but I am curious how the enemy AI is so effective and the friendly AI is not. Either way I was able to evade the others and make it back to the home field and land....I was the only one that made it.

Edited October 1, 2022 by Skrimps

[Swiftoholic]

Hello!

 

I really enjoy this campaign!

 

But it seems something is wrong with the AI.

The speed of the leveled formation flight is something around 180 mph which seems very slow.

I really struggle to not pass them.

Is this intended?

 

Thanks o7

[Markodds]

Can this campaign be released on Steam?

[Ulricus]

A big thx to the makers of this campaign! Very well scripted!  And especially each mission intro (diary, music, zoom to plane on airfield) helped the good immersion from take-off till landing (screen shot). It was great fun playing it  - and IMO this campaign is every cent worth!

 

Edited April 10, 2024 by Ulricus

[FoxbatRU]

5.108 Achtung - Spitfire! campaign updated;

 

What has been updated?

[Ulricus]

@FoxbatRU Please see here @Jaegermeister answer to my same question:

 

 

[Jaegermeister]

7 hours ago, FoxbatRU said:

5.108 Achtung - Spitfire! campaign updated;

 

What has been updated?

 

Change List for Achtung Spitfire Scripted Campaign:

 

* Ground smoke and fires are changed to _loop effects to improve frame rates

* Added player flight Tactical ID numbers

* Assigned Tactical ID numbers to all AI aircraft

* Added 2 new Generic 57th GIAP skins for player and AI Spitfires

* Revised waypoints and corrected where needed

* Corrected GUI mission briefing map so waypoints and patrol areas display correctly

* Changed subtitle size and color so they are more visible and consistent

* Revised player and enemy aircraft AI levels so gameplay is more balanced and you don't get mauled due to improved AI behavior.

* Revised numbers of enemy aircraft for the same reason as above.

* Reduced wind speed in various missions to reduce or prevent AI takeoff and landing errors

* Changed primary mission goal complete 1 minute after player takeoff so you do not have to return to base on every mission to progress to next mission.

* Repaired mission logic so all waypoints and attack commands proceed according to mission plan.

* Corrected takeoff flares so they fire when player flight is ready for takeoff. 

* Corrected grammar in English mission briefings

* Various minor mission logic changes to fix timing errors   

 

 

 

This should have fixed all the previously noted issues above and updated this campaign to current standards regarding player flight skins, tactical ID codes, AI balance, GUI interface and effects.

 

[Spidey002]

15 hours ago, Jaegermeister said:

Revised player and enemy aircraft AI levels so gameplay is more balanced and you don't get mauled due to improved AI behavior.

Yes! 

[syn7ax]

Cant we get this one on Steam?

[Anonymousgamer]

The Autopilot will not land the plane.

 

[Jaegermeister]

10 hours ago, Anonymousgamer said:

The Autopilot will not land the plane.

 

This has also been reported in Battle of the Hurtgen and Lightning Strikes. It appears to be a new bug. I doubt I can do anything about it in the ME, so someone or multiple people will need to submit a bug report

 

Edited June 14, 2024 by Jaegermeister

[AndreiTomescu]

Only 3 missions onto this campaign, driven at first by my love for the Spit and Hurricane.

first of all, it has such a lovely intro for each mission, and the text is pilot centered, which i personally greatly enjoy.

The missions start gradually, are well written and give you the feeling that you are tested before sent into real combat.

And the pilot's name is Andrei Simionov, so.....love it.

The campaign design gives you the feeling of telling a story, not just "jump into cockpit and do your job" and that's awesome. Kind of the difference between reading a diary vs a history book. (Allmost, War in the channel, Fire and ice, The little brother also do this, just to name a few.)

[AndreiTomescu]

On the mission number four

Finally i've got to get to war.

The encounter was so cruel

That i forgot nr one rule:

Don't tunnel your eyes and mind

Or another from behind

Will make you burn and quite regret

That in the skyes you ever met.

Several birds of Messerschmitt

Came down to us so fast and neat.

Too scared to cry

Too raged to die

I took one out of burning sky

But burning lead, too, burnt me down

A crying bird that scorched the ground.