No.401_Wolverine
Dec-21-2013, 16:09
6 to 12 BLUE COORDINATED Pilots Requested for Campaign Mission Sortie!
TIME: 9:30pm EST (Toronto, ON, Canada Time) TONIGHT (Dec 21)
DURATION: About 2 hours
No.401 Squadron has recently acquired the use of a 100mb down/100mb up server so we are looking to start testing the possibility of opening up our Co-Op campaigns to more people than before and including VS play as well!
As part of that, we would be happy to host a few BLUE pilots tonight (we already have enough RED for the test) to fly a sortie as part of the campaign. See the rules and briefing below!
RULES
1. NO RE-FLY IF NOT SAFELY RETURNED TO BASE - If you fly and return home, landing safely, you can get into another aircraft and fly again. If you are shot down, or crash land, or in any other way do not return safely to a BLUE airfield, you cannot re-fly.
2. THE MISSION ENDS WHEN THE LAST RED PLAYER RETURNS HOME OR IS LOST - As it is a co-op campaign for 401 currently, when the last RED player is finished flying, the mission end will be announced and the server will be stopped
3. IF YOUR SPAWN POINT IS BAD, GET ANOTHER ONE - I haven't been able to clear all the BLUE spawns at French airfields yet, so some may be bad. Just grab a fresh aircraft.
4. YOU MUST FLY AS A GROUP - This is very important. If you intend to attend, please organize yourself with the other BLUE pilots. I recommend that you pick a comm channel on ATAG TeamSpeak server and use that to coordinate yourselves. I realize some people may not do this, but I'm hoping if you read this you do.
5. FOLLOW YOUR BRIEFING! - The briefing below is the operation you will be undertaking. Follow it. It is not intended to tell you exactly what to do, but to give you an idea of where and when things could happen. Your courses and altitudes are up to you. There will be friendly AI fighters in the mix to assist and defend airfields. It is possible that, depending on how you choose to fly the mission, you will not come into contact with enemy fighters. It's possible you'll come across an entire enemy wing of 24 Spitfires! Exercise judgement and know when to fight and when to run.
6. HAVE FUN AND LEAVE FEEDBACK - This is a test to see what our server can handle. I'm hoping it performs well. If it does, we'll start designing things a little more specifically for PvP play, but for now it's just a 'let's see what happens'.
SERVER: No.401 Squadron Campaign Server
PASSWORD: test
BRIEFING
October 21, 1941. Early Afternoon. Moderate cloud at 900m, good visibility above to 10km
SITUATION: With the shift of forces away from the coastlines near England, the enemy has begun to take advantage of their air superiority and are sending fighters on sweeps over France with increasing regularity. We must protect our coastal airfields and other assets within their striking radius.
OPERATION: Patrol the coastal airfields and cities from Boulogne in the SW to Oostend in the NE. Enemy fighter sweeps are typically being sighted at altitudes of 5km and above.
DURATION: Attempt to provide coverage over the patrol area for approximately 2 hours.
TIME: 9:30pm EST (Toronto, ON, Canada Time) TONIGHT (Dec 21)
DURATION: About 2 hours
No.401 Squadron has recently acquired the use of a 100mb down/100mb up server so we are looking to start testing the possibility of opening up our Co-Op campaigns to more people than before and including VS play as well!
As part of that, we would be happy to host a few BLUE pilots tonight (we already have enough RED for the test) to fly a sortie as part of the campaign. See the rules and briefing below!
RULES
1. NO RE-FLY IF NOT SAFELY RETURNED TO BASE - If you fly and return home, landing safely, you can get into another aircraft and fly again. If you are shot down, or crash land, or in any other way do not return safely to a BLUE airfield, you cannot re-fly.
2. THE MISSION ENDS WHEN THE LAST RED PLAYER RETURNS HOME OR IS LOST - As it is a co-op campaign for 401 currently, when the last RED player is finished flying, the mission end will be announced and the server will be stopped
3. IF YOUR SPAWN POINT IS BAD, GET ANOTHER ONE - I haven't been able to clear all the BLUE spawns at French airfields yet, so some may be bad. Just grab a fresh aircraft.
4. YOU MUST FLY AS A GROUP - This is very important. If you intend to attend, please organize yourself with the other BLUE pilots. I recommend that you pick a comm channel on ATAG TeamSpeak server and use that to coordinate yourselves. I realize some people may not do this, but I'm hoping if you read this you do.
5. FOLLOW YOUR BRIEFING! - The briefing below is the operation you will be undertaking. Follow it. It is not intended to tell you exactly what to do, but to give you an idea of where and when things could happen. Your courses and altitudes are up to you. There will be friendly AI fighters in the mix to assist and defend airfields. It is possible that, depending on how you choose to fly the mission, you will not come into contact with enemy fighters. It's possible you'll come across an entire enemy wing of 24 Spitfires! Exercise judgement and know when to fight and when to run.
6. HAVE FUN AND LEAVE FEEDBACK - This is a test to see what our server can handle. I'm hoping it performs well. If it does, we'll start designing things a little more specifically for PvP play, but for now it's just a 'let's see what happens'.
SERVER: No.401 Squadron Campaign Server
PASSWORD: test
BRIEFING
October 21, 1941. Early Afternoon. Moderate cloud at 900m, good visibility above to 10km
SITUATION: With the shift of forces away from the coastlines near England, the enemy has begun to take advantage of their air superiority and are sending fighters on sweeps over France with increasing regularity. We must protect our coastal airfields and other assets within their striking radius.
OPERATION: Patrol the coastal airfields and cities from Boulogne in the SW to Oostend in the NE. Enemy fighter sweeps are typically being sighted at altitudes of 5km and above.
DURATION: Attempt to provide coverage over the patrol area for approximately 2 hours.