Kaiserschlacht and Spring Offensive Discussion

[Vapour]

Just started this today, plenty of time atm.

Nice little campaign so far, have just bombed the airfield hangers, had engine damage and had to land in no mans land in the middle of a barrage.

This mission is one of the most atmospheric missions I've flown so far in FC.

Many thanks for making this ?

[Dutch2]

Maybe I did miss something but my first mission was flying in a Fokker and noticed that after take off and being on level, I was being shot by AA and I’m 100% sure I was still on friendly terrain.

Now the other campaign, flying the Camel, icons on, and here the same, only now because icons on noticed lots of red square icons that indicate appearance of enemy ground objects. Indeed after a short burst I went down by AA. 

Is this normal or an failure. 

 

Edited April 10, 2020 by Dutch2

[1PL-Lucas-1Esk]

I think that the parameters of the AA guns were increased in the last patch. It is easier to get hit.

[Dutch2]

No I’m talking about enemy flak on the wrong side of the line on both fronts, it does not matter if flying the Fokker nor the Camel Campaign. 

Edited April 10, 2020 by Dutch2

[SYN_Vander]

6 hours ago, Dutch2 said:

Maybe I did miss something but my first mission was flying in a Fokker and noticed that after take off and being on level, I was being shot by AA and I’m 100% sure I was still on friendly terrain.

Now the other campaign, flying the Camel, icons on, and here the same, only now because icons on noticed lots of red square icons that indicate appearance of enemy ground objects. Indeed after a short burst I went down by AA. 

Is this normal or an failure. 

 

 

Do you know the location? I just checked the first mission of Kaiserschlacht and there isn't any AAA near the first waypoint, enemy or friendly???

Other explanation (when further to the west): An enemy plane jumped you and friendly AAA shooting at the enemy plane hit you instead.

 

And which mission with the Camel? Also the first one?

Edited April 10, 2020 by SYN_Vander

[Dutch2]

4 minutes ago, SYN_Vander said:

 

Do you know the location? I just checked the first mission of Kaiserschlacht and there isn't any AAA near the first waypoint, enemy or friendly???

 

Dit gebeurde al direct na het opstijgen als ik op hoogte ben met de eerste missie. Ik vlieg dan nog niet over het front. 

Met de Camel ook weer de eerste missie, had ik de iconen en map aanstaan en kon direct zien dat er rode vierkantjes onder zaten en die knalde mij en een Bristol uit de lucht. 

Als mod heb ik enkel: de scripted campaigns, gras mod met bloemen en de mods die de historische hakenkruizen geven. 

Mod swapper gebruik ik OvGME. 

 

 

[SYN_Vander]

1 hour ago, Dutch2 said:

 

Dit gebeurde al direct na het opstijgen als ik op hoogte ben met de eerste missie. Ik vlieg dan nog niet over het front. 

Met de Camel ook weer de eerste missie, had ik de iconen en map aanstaan en kon direct zien dat er rode vierkantjes onder zaten en die knalde mij en een Bristol uit de lucht. 

Als mod heb ik enkel: de scripted campaigns, gras mod met bloemen en de mods die de historische hakenkruizen geven. 

Mod swapper gebruik ik OvGME. 

 

 

 

Raar. Ik kan het niet verklaren. Ik kijk nu in de mission editor en zie geen enkel vijandelijke unit staan aan geallieerde zijde in de Camel missie. Ik zal ook eens met icons aan gaan vliegen en kijken of ik het kan reproduceren.

[Dutch2]

10 minutes ago, SYN_Vander said:

 

Raar. Ik kan het niet verklaren. Ik kijk nu in de mission editor en zie geen enkel vijandelijke unit staan aan geallieerde zijde in de Camel missie. Ik zal ook eens met icons aan gaan vliegen en kijken of ik het kan reproduceren.

 

Oja ik vlieg in VRmode, zal ik vanavond eens kijken of ik dit kan uitvoeren zonder mods? De laatste tijd heb ik nl veel problemen gehad met die mods die het terrein moeten verbeteren en al die cloudmods dus die heb ik eruit gegooid maar wie weet interferen mijn huidige mods ook met deze campaign. 

Maar klopt de onscreen map wel met de werkelijke game positie? 

[SYN_Vander]

Net gevlogen met icons aan en zie niks raars. Alles blauw aan mijn kant. Gisteren ook in VR gevlogen en niks gemerkt. Wel zie ik dat de front markers nog zwart/wit zijn ipv rood/blauw. Heb ik gemeld bij devs, maar nog geen fix gezien.

[Dutch2]

I do nu via de missie editor een resave van mijn complete campaign folder, wie weet is deze corrupt. 

[Dutch2]

Ik heb het volgende gedaan, resave campaign, uitschakelen van alle mods en daarbij kreeg ik ook nog een game update  er overheen. Het is nu wel goed. 

Ik heb het vermoeden dat er nog een rest was van deze mod, maar dat ga ik later nog achterna.  

 

Edit: Even een waarschuwing ik beweer niet dat dit de schuldige was, maar die JSGME laat resten achter, ik had al het vermoeden in RoF, WoFF en nu merk ik dat dit ook waarschijnlijk geldig is in FC. Als voorbeeld heb ik mods gehad die JSGME niet meer herkende,  ik heb dit gehad met een cloudmod & Lefuneste mod en nu denk ik ook met de onderstaande mod. Het is dan wel terug te vinden als filenaam in het JSGME menu maar de file data zelf kan hij niet meer terugzetten. Of dit wordt veroorzaakt door een game update weet ik nog niet. Maar ik ben nu wel overgestapt op de modernere OvGME maar dan alleen voor campaigns, skins ed. Mods zoals cloud, terrain, Lefunste mods ga ik zeker niet meer gebruiken. 

 

Sorry voor alle werk dat ik even veroorzaakt heb en bedankt voor het testen. 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2020 by Dutch2

[TP_Fritz]

This is great so far.  Started with the Kaiserschlacht mini campaign.  1st mission was great - stupid me over revved the engine tho and had to glide it all the way into our new aerodrome.

 

However, the 2nd mission I can't get started.  The lead Pfalz starts up his engine, revs it like he's going to take off, and then just sits there.  At first I thought it was due to the craters on the runway, so I edited the mission to remove them just to see if that would fix it, but it doesn't.  It looks like they get stuck in the ground or something... and the runway is extremely bumpy, requiring me to have to fishtail the Fokker at full power to get it to start moving.  When I was editing it I made sure they all were hit with the "Set on Ground" button to make sure they weren't clipped into the surface, but that didn't do anything either.

 

I don't know if this is due to the patch this week or not.  Sorry to have to report this - so far it looks like a great campaign, and the detail you've put in is really amazing.

[SYN_Haashashin]

Hi Fritz,

 

We will take a look, thanks.

 

Haash

[TP_Fritz]

Hi SYN_Haashashin -

 

I can state the issue now... it was that odd issue where the Surface.dat and SurfaceDat.txt files were being screwy.  So I don't think it has anything to do with the campaign - it was on my end.  Off to fly it now. 

[SYN_Vander]

Bedankt voor de heads up!

[Dutch2]

Even een correctie die OvGME swap laat nog meer resten acher, het lijkt wel ofdat deze swapper totaal niet overweg kan met grote files. Scripted campaigns zoals the Butcher, de map met enkele files blijven gewoon staan. 

 

Leuke missies trouwens, ik zit nu weer dankzij deze missies weer op FC, maar verdomme wat is die hele FC in VR een draak van een game. 

[Hellshade_68]

Really appreciate this.  Thanks!

[Dewbert-p38]

This looks to be great.  However, I have not been able to install the folders and find the campaigns.  I have extracted the folders to C:\Program Files (x86)\1C Game Studios\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad but they don't appear anywhere once I start the sim.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks

[CB77Don246]

Thank you so much I am on the 5th mission and what a great mission it is.

 

Please Please more more.

 

I am going to get my act together and try to make a mission.

[Dutch2]

Nearly finished Kaiserschlacht, only one mission to go so up to the other side of the line.  Weer zeer goed gemaakt toppie. 

 

Just an idea, why not make one campaign were you are the leader and one the same campaign, only here you are only a wingman or lowest rank. As I think for starters and flyers like me who prefer to “ follow the leader” could appreciate that. 

[jollyjack]

Heb ook zoiets met OvGME gehad, laatste versie. Nu weer JSGME gebruikt, toto nu toe geen problemen. 

[Jason_Williams]

Here is where you can discuss the Kaiserschlacht and Spring Offensive Scripted Campaigns released in Update 4.006 built by The Syndicate.

 

 

 

Skin Pack

 

Jason

[J5_Adam]

Looks cool, Jason. The storm clouds look awesome. Maybe one day....

Edited May 19, 2020 by Adam

[310_cibule]

Thx. Where shall we find the skins?

 

[Trooper117]

Great stuff... well done all in getting this out today!

[the_dudeWG]

1 hour ago, 310_cibule said:

Thx. Where shall we find the skins?

 

Jason included the link in his post (or maybe updated it as per your question). Click on:  Skin Pack

 

S!

[ST_Catchov]

It's been a long time coming but this is surely a game changer for FC. I really do hope it translates into increased sales to keep FC development going. 

[310_cibule]

7 hours ago, the_dudeWG said:

Jason included the link in his post (or maybe updated it as per your question). Click on:  Skin Pack

 

S!

Yes, he did later. Thx anyway.

[blitze]

Thanks Jason for the skin pack link.

 

Looking forward to checking this out.?

[SYN_Haashashin]

Hi all,

 

Hope you enjoy it if its the first time you try it and if you did try it in the past, remember there are new missions!!! So give it a go again.

 

Please leave any comments and/or bugs here so Vander or I can take a look.

Enjoy!

 

Haash

[Dutch2]

On 5/20/2020 at 2:14 AM, catchov said:

It's been a long time coming but this is surely a game changer for FC. I really do hope it translates into increased sales to keep FC development going. 

 

Sorry to put in an negative remark on your reply about the scripted campaign, I still think not, because most players can read English, ( yep also Italians, Spanish, Greek and French), nor do read the text and this scripted campaign was already as an download available. 

Something more should be done to make FC more interesting for potentially buyers, reducing the price to $40,- can be the first step. But releasing all the available RoF planes even as only AI controlled could be the next step.  But that would be another discussion that does not belong in this topic. 

 

Back to topic: thanks @SYN_Vander you did do a GREAT job, please keep continue to the next scripted campaign. 

 

Edited May 21, 2020 by Dutch2

[ST_Catchov]

2 hours ago, Dutch2 said:

 

Sorry to put in an negative remark on your reply about the scripted campaign, I still think not, because most players can read English, ( yep also Italians, Spanish, Greek and French), nor do read the text and this scripted campaign was already as an download available. 

Something more should be done to make FC more interesting for potentially buyers, reducing the price to $40,- can be the first step. But releasing all the available RoF planes even as only AI controlled could be the next step.  But that would be another discussion that does not belong in this topic. 

 

Back to topic: thanks @SYN_Vander you did do a GREAT job, please keep continue to the next scripted campaign. 

 

 

I think the scripted campaign is a good start Dutch particularly being in-game. A lot of people couldn't be bothered installing Vanders download themselves or don't feel comfortable doing it. And it has extra missions. So this is the first step to attract more chaps into the game.

 

And then, if sales are good enough we might just get what we wish for. I mean, you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.

 

I'm enjoying the Spring Offensive campaign. Hats off to Vander, Haashy and all the Syndicate guys and anyone else involved. Great job.

 

 

14 hours ago, SYN_Haashashin said:

Hi all,

 

Hope you enjoy it if its the first time you try it and if you did try it in the past, remember there are new missions!!! So give it a go again.

 

Please leave any comments and/or bugs here so Vander or I can take a look.

Enjoy!

 

Haash

 

Haash, I've noticed when I'm shooting at an EA from close behind, I can hear, very loudly, my bullets striking metal on the EA. It gave me quite a start at first as I thought I was being attacked. But I wasn't. I mean I'm not a total noob falling for that target fixation thing! Well, a bit.

 

Anyway, thought I'd mention it. If you could check it out, that would be great.

 

[SYN_Vander]

Just now, catchov said:

 

Haash, I've noticed when I'm shooting at an EA from close behind, I can hear, very loudly, my bullets striking metal on the EA. It gave me quite a start at first as I thought I was being attacked. But I wasn't. I mean I'm not a total noob falling for that target fixation thing! Well, a bit.

 

Anyway, thought I'd mention it. If you could check it out, that would be great.

 

 

It has already been reported in beta test forum.

 

[unreasonable]

After a long break from flying, apart from a bit of testing and joy riding about, just started the "Spring Offensive" pack.  Completed the first mission, limping my Camel back across NML through the plinkling of the ground fire, after losing my rudder controls - how I know not - leaking fuel, eventually managing to get past the wire and down into a field in friendly territory. The RFC experience.....  

 

During the mission lost my flight, found them again, spotted large force of enemy planes, huge fight, I cannot see anything due to the Camel's top wing position, span twice, recovered at tree top height: but somehow managed to down two of the Fokkers molesting my Bristols.  One of them was an Albatros.  

 

Now I need a lie down to get my pulse back to normal.  

 

A big thank you to the mission designers for getting this content into FC!

 

(OT:  Developers - Please, please, please get an RE8 and something similar on the German side into the game - then you have the full potential for a great WW1 SP career as well).

[ST_Catchov]

10 hours ago, unreasonable said:

but somehow managed to down two of the Fokkers molesting my Bristols.  One of them was an Albatros.  

 

 

It is good. The guys have done very well. Perhaps Pat Wilson's career mode will be implemented at some point (depending on those blasted secretive sales figures of course).

[J2_Steve]

This is a great step forward for SP. What I'd really love to see is a career mode being added.

In the meantime Kaiserschlacht and Spring Offensive is a welcome addition and I 'm really enjoying them.

[unreasonable]

Finished Spring Offensive and now three missions into Kaiserschlacht.  A couple of observations:

 

1) The briefing and maps make no mention of the altitudes of waypoints. It is not desperately important in these missions since ~ 10,000ft is as much as you usually need, but it was a bit puzzling occasionally if you lost your flight and wanted to find them again at a waypoint. 

 

2) The AI Dr.1s are having a terrible time with formation flying unless the leader - player or not - is at full power throughout.  They seem unable to settle on an rpm but continually overshoot, vertically as much as horizontally.  One of them collided with me in the last mission when I had been flying straight and level for several minutes.   The Camels seemed much better at this.

Not sure what if anything can be done about this.

 

In game I am coming to the conclusion that the easiest way to play Kaiserschlacht  might be to command "continue the mission" ASAP and then just tag along. 

 

3) The "extend away" tactic for the SE5s and SPADS AI is not working. They are getting massacred by the Dr.1s, at least 5:1, just now a flight of three all shot down by myself (1) and a wingman (2) with none of them firing a shot. The AI Camels are doing a lot better. 

 

This might be because the AI are too good shots - I suck at shooting in a Dr.1 since it is so hard not to yaw -  or that planes are too fragile.  I suspect, though, it is mostly because this "tactic" is completely unsuitable for planes that have a very small speed advantage compared to the  speed of bullets.  Mannock's rules -  14) "Pilots must never, under any circumstances, dive away from an enemy, as he gives his opponent a non-deflection shot — bullets are faster than aeroplanes". If diving away is a no-no, how much worse is flying away straight and level? 

 

The Campaigns are very well made and very immersive, so thank you again. I had forgotten the special thrills of a WW1 game. They are, however, showing up a couple of problems with the  AI, which I expect are, unfortunately, hard to solve.

[Varibraun]

On 6/8/2020 at 8:28 AM, J2_SteveF said:

What I'd really love to see is a career mode being added.

 

These are wonderful campaigns and a great addition for SP.  Also, just in case you aren't aware of PWCG and what @PatrickAWlson brings to Single Player and Coop FC:

 

 

 

Edited June 11, 2020 by Varibraun

[J2_Steve]

I'm aware of Pat's campaign and have used it since it's very early inception in RoF.

I still use it when I play RoF. But moving to FC coincided with a move to VR flying..

Using PWCG in FC and VR has been problematic for me. On the one hand it's a pain having to keep going back and forth to my desktop. Also I've been plagued by undefined object issues. When they pop up in VR it's a real pain to clear..

 

An inngame carreer mode would mean you could manage and generate the next mission from within the game with headset still on. flying 2 or 3 missions straight.

[Varibraun]

13 hours ago, J2_SteveF said:

I'm aware of Pat's campaign and have used it since it's very early inception in RoF.

 

Sorry for taking this off topic, I completely agree these are great SP content - Career/PWCG reply here: