Veteran66 Campaign: Luftkampf um die Chir Front

[aus3620]

Well received SP mission by Veteran66.


http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/13182-veteran66-campaign-luftkampf-um-die-chir-front/

[hnbdgr]

Did anybody play this? How is it? I haven't played BoS for a month, this might be a good reason to hop back in at some point this week.

EDIT: I remembered it's still 2x compression and it bores me out of my mind. never mind.

[1lokos]

This "campaign" is a set of 8 individual missions not linked (maybe the game engine are not able to handle then as continuous campaign... ?).

The missions are very well done, with good use of scripts/triggers and ME objects - like the "battle simulation": explosions, smoke, tracers to simulating a front line.

The missions show a special game feature, that allow start some mission with a "movie" animation before player take control - some players have problem with this, but seems the usual "behind keyboard bug". :D
- Due this "bug" the author add for some missions option to start parked or in runway.

A small part of this animation is in this video, and at 1:15 how use the full screen (O) map (the micro/mini map in (M) is useless for VFR, worth only for "GPS" users).

Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=707bfORD5DQ
http://s27.postimg.org/3oyb3bfkj/Chir_Front.jpg
http://s30.postimg.org/k8uimbp01/Front.jpg
http://s30.postimg.org/b7t0xcbbl/Chir.jpg

The mission maker was include a set of German voices, adding "climate" to the missions - despite the "beep beep" on radio. :)

These missions is ideally to play "full switch" done the navigation VRF, leaving ON only the screen messages in "HUD", a mission typically last ~30 minutes, or you will see the "red lamp". ;)

I think that lack of time compression behind 2x - limited to 1x if you are recording track - no harms.

One thing that bothers is the lack of any type of after action report, stats... Is just Refly or Leave (this is not mission maker fault, but limitation).

I am not fan of SP campaigns, but like these missions, at least a good variation to the limited QM. :thumbsup:

Sokol1

[hnbdgr]

thank you sokol for the comprehensive summing up. I'll be trying them out at some point. I'm sure these are not the last ones either. But that lack of compression does bug me still.