Mistermann

Great find, @Antix70. I'll get the text updated to match the voiceover. That feature isn't something I thought many would use, so I am glad to see someone that does. I've never been one who liked the walls of text on screen when voiceovers played. But is nice to have the message history there in case players want/need to look back at what was said. I feel I came up with a decent compromise by finding a way to send the text to history, but not have it appear on screen. I am working on a Kiowa experience modeled after this and thus far haven't incorporated this feature. I may decide to go back and add it. How is your group liking the overall experience? You're more than half way through at this point, so congratulations on making it this far. Moonlight (M05) is one of my favorites along with Broken Wing.

You are welcome. I enjoy creating these for my buddies. I figure if anyone else gets enjoyment that's icing on the cake. I added the link to the first mission in the OP.

FAQ Q: The RELOAD MISSION menu option isn't working for me, is there a special trick? A: Yes. The reload option is only available for MP dedicated servers. You must load a small script from @cfrag that you can find in this link below. A must have for any MP dedicated server team IMHO. Q: When I start the mission in SP I spawn in over the top of some statics, how do I correct this? A: The entire campaign is designed for MP Coop so every mission expects to run in a multiplayer server session. Make sure you start each mission from the "Launch Multiplayer Server" option in order to spawn in the intended spot(s). NOTE: Ensure your multiplayer Advanced Settings have "Resume on load" selected.

TLDR: There’s an ALPHA MP Kiowa Campaign available to check out. This post will link all 8 missions at the bottom of the post Overview My buddies and I really enjoy flying together and experiencing story driven content. We’ve been fortunate to find some likeminded content creators over the years and thoroughly enjoyed our experiences playing MP campaigns like Griffins Original and Remastered - Hormuz - I only wish there was more content like this – created for MP, but also consumable by SP. This is our contribution to the community in this regard. As some of you may know, I am responsible for the Griffins Remastered. Now that the Kiowa is out, my small group embarked on a Kiowa MP/SP campaign in the spirit of the Griffins Remastered called Operation Silent Thunder. See attached PDF for the first mission brief. We are making this for our group but also wanted to share with the community. As the group’s resident ME “expert”, I am currently 4 missions into this campaign. We have storyboards for 8 missions so far. Instead of waiting for all 8 to be written, tested, produced and polished the team thought we should release as we went along. This way interested parties could get their hands on content sooner and provide feedback to us along the way. I consider this content to be pre-release content so you may encounter a bug here or there. You may see a debug statement flash on screen, but all voiceovers are there and the mission has been flown by my group at least once. In other words, you’re an early adopter. Given the Kiowa is still relatively new, I hope this campaign can be enjoyed by more people who are just getting into this helo. Looking forward to people’s comments and feedback. Big shout out to the fellas for content, testing, and willingness to get shot down [ @Devil 505 @Wulf103 ]! Campaign Features 1-4 Aircraft OH-58D COOP/Mulit-Crew up to 8 total Players Module(s) Required: Polychop OH-58D Kiowa, Syria Map Mod(s) Required: Noted in mission download if any leveraged Additional topics: Fully voiced missions using AI (elevinlabs), mission brief PDFs, scaled difficulty based on number of Helo’s in mission. This is a fictional based campaign set during the 2006 July War historical timeframe on the Syria map and is designed for COOP play. The campaign can be done solo if you desire. Mission Mission 01: Prey [v1.01 -- August 18, 2024] -https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3339666/ Mission 02: Fish Barrel [v1.02 -- August 12, 2024] - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3339695/ Mission 03: Dawn’s Light [v1.02 -- August 25, 2024] - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3340031/ Mission 04: Uniform Justice [v1.01 -- August 28, 2024] - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3340180/ Mission 05: Wild Hunt [v1.00 -- August 26, 2024] - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3340351/ Mission 06: Darkness Falls [v1.00 -- September 26, 2024] - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3340783/ Mission 07-08: Storyboarding & Brainstorming M01 Prey_v1.0.pdf

Actually I never ever used the kneeboards and didn't even realize they were there. They appear to be pretty simple renditions of the mission brief. I am going to remove them from the downloads to avoid confusion until I can update them. Looks like M04-M09 have kneeboards from the original campaign. These should be ignored. This is especially true for M05 (Moonlight) as the entire mission was rewritten and won't match the original even remotely. For those that already downloaded, you can simply delete the KNEEBOARD folder from the MIZ files of missions M04-M09. For those that don't know - the MIZ file is just a ZIP file with an extension the mission editor recognizes. Open the MIZ file with your favorite zip tool and delete the KNEEBOARD folder. That's all you need to do to remove the bogus kneeboards.

Besides echoing other's above - appreciate you and your contributions. As ED and partners release more content I can't imagine the pressure you feel from the community to deliver X, Y, and Z. I'd definitely be up for a Kiowa "quick" guide. Not sure how popular that Helo is with the community as a whole so you may prioritize others instead which I completely support. Of course even a quick guide adds to your workload and maintenance commitments.

It is, but that doesn't get you access to Alpha releases which are much more frequently released. Also you don't get access to the 3D view, which is one of the big features in my mind. Personally, I am still debating if/how I might support this. I am a big ME user and continuously find myself frustrated by the poor UX experience and infuriating lack of basic editing features. @dtruck260, are you a supporter?

IDK, @BEXHAUSTED, the link is working just fine. Maybe an ED forum glitch you experienced. Give it another shot.

Yes. $15/month

50% Darn that's disappointing and disheartening.

Now that's strange.....v1.1 is back even though I updated it yesterday. I'll redo when I'm back at home. It's almost as though there was a rollback of sorts.

For those vehicles that turn on their headlights at night, is there a way to conditionally turn them on/off? Thanks!

Haaa! Yeah I am hoping for same FOV but am willing to sacrifice a small amount of FOV for glass lenses, eye tracking and all the other goodness packed in there. I think we'll be okay, but would love all the FOV we can get. As for 5090 ... yeah, I am hoping my current 4090 can keep up. I suspect you're right though, I'll be looking at those once they become available.

Interesting ... Well replacing the headset works too! I'm at 90hz as well. I'll keep your method in mind if/when this headset starts acting up. Looking forward to getting the super when it releases. Thanks for the assist!

Thanks. One of my flying buddies had an 8KX sitting around (he upgraded to the crystal). He sent it to me and I no longer have issues that I described above. Great news for me. I made ZERO changes to my machine. Old headset has issues, replacement headset works as it should. I'm fairly convinced this is a headset issue. My HMD is 18months old and in pristine condition. Only used for DCS and while heavy use over those 18months, shouldn't be behaving this way. @WipeUout - you still experiencing the white/black out on the 8KX?

File updated to v1.2. Removed the EA-6B and replaced with an A-4E. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3338197/

Oh man, @Eight Ball, that's great! Appreciate the tease.

https://www.patreon.com/DcsWebEditor

Absolutely agree, Beirut and T! One person should not have the power to rage quit and shut that thread down. ED, please reconsider your decision to hide the thread. Lots of us rely on that for news

Oooh, that's unfortunate. I would imagine the author doesn't want people hosting his work. I am away from the computer but when I get a chance I'll remove it. That asset is flavor only and I can replace. Thanks for the heads up. I'll post here when I upload a new version of the mission.

Reason I ask was my buddies and I experienced this very thing the other day. The moon was setting and looked immense. I'll see if I can find the recording. It was on Syria.

Was this when it was on the horizon or low in the sky?

Thank you, Bailey! As someone who doesn't embrace this launcher and can't figure out why my old command line parameters no longer work, this is perfect.

I definitely don't want to ask ED for thousands of assets in a market. Not because I don't want it, but because ED cannot deliver that. I believe history shows us it is simply an unrealistic ask in this day's DCS technology. I believe a reasonable request is handful of combatant models for a post 2000 time period. I'd like to see some of these combatant models offer skins that show the ambiguity of the conflict and allow mission makers to put choice and decisions into the DCS experience. Without that, we have what we have today which is, if it has two legs shoot it. @Massun92 or @Eight Ball I am inviting you to the conversation to see what opinions you have on this topic. Thanks.

... and with the request from the OP we'd cover from today all the way back to the 60's. I'd suggest this "isn't that difficult" to do in the grand scheme of things. We're not talking about writing MT or Vulkan here. Sometimes the small things go a LONG way. I remain hopeful that something like this is on ED's radar - clearly they are working on at least one new asset based on what we saw in the Afghanistan trailer. @BIGNEWY - is this topic something you can comment on? If the answer is something like "ED is not adding human assets beyond what was in the trailer", maybe the community can convince someone like Massun92 or 8Ball to whip something up if ED doesn't have interest in this initiative.