Operation "Blue Flag" - 24/7 PvP Campaign

[Monkey21]

They seem blue on the map. They are also on a "repair" state. I think we spotted something similar earlier today. We will investigate.

Thanks.

 

Yeah sorry, I think it's because they were closed initially, my bad.

[fatbooboo]

How come no Mig-29s?

[gregzagk]

How come no Mig-29s?

 

Hey, this is the 1st round of the Campaign and it begun with specific features.

In the next ones new additions and surprises will come ;)

 

Greg

[zaelu]

Just a thought, is a setup like:

 

RED: Mi-8, Su-25A, Su25T, Mig 21bis and Su27 vs BLUE UH1H, A10A, A10C and F15 too "imba"?

 

Ka-50 could play for both.

 

I'm saying this because Mig-21 is not seen as a proper fighter anyway, SEAD capability of Su25T can apparently be very well replaced by flying into BUKs and make them fire and consume missiles, Su-27 are almost a match for F15C and to somehow balance the super power of good A-10C drivers maybe the supersonic ground attacks capability could be allowed for 27s.

 

This way we would have no artificial rules that invite to "blue on blue" situations. For example last night we were 7 or so red planes above Sochi and someone panicked on TS that he saw also a blue Mig21, although I said there is a red Mig 21 in the red furball, although it was a green one... I still got an R73 up my pipehole :D

[Mason12]

Is the server down? I can't find it on the browser

 

Edit: Never mind just popped up

Edited September 5, 2015 by Mason12

[Rivvern]

Master Arms had great time last night.

 

First mission was to take-off from Vaziani to attack Mozdok with A-10s and F-15 as escort but quickly changed to target to Beslan as it was being contested.

 

Escort engaged 373vFS aircrafts somewhere over the mountains while our A-10s tried to find a way in. Me and my wingman Justin Case managed to take some bandits out before we had to RTB. On final the server crashed. The lag was really bad during this mission.

 

Second mission consisted of 2xUH-1H and 3xKa-50. We took of Gudauta and the target was Nalchik/Sukhumi-Babushara farp. It was really long flight for the Huey. We managed to climb over all mountains and reach our target.

Ka-50s engaged targets at the farp and we also had help from a A-10 from the 31st Combined Ops group. When all units cleared we landed our hueys and deployed infantry and shorad groups. Farp Captured.

 

We then tried to engage the Maykop farp to the northwest. I requested CAP over the area but nobody responded. We were intercepted by a SU-27 and our poor choppers didnt stand a chance. Game over.

 

 

BIG THANKS to all you guys who made this possible! Its awesome!

Now some feedback.

*You already know this, the lag can be terrible! I do think that moving vehicles is a big no-no on this server.

*Pilots flying in an unrealistic manner, like taxing in 100knots just to crash into a bunker killing themself. Password on server maybe?

[gregzagk]

BIG THANKS to all you guys who made this possible! Its awesome!

Now some feedback.

*You already know this, the lag can be terrible! I do think that moving vehicles is a big no-no on this server.

*Pilots flying in an unrealistic manner, like taxing in 100knots just to crash into a bunker killing themself. Password on server maybe?

 

Hello! Thanks for the feeback Rivvern.

 

About the lag yes. The ground movement produced an issue yesterday and once we spotted we took care of it. But I think it was for 10 minutes. Trying to improve things to prevent this.

 

We believe that passwording the server won't make it as interesting as it is and it won't change much things like this as registered and squadron members are involved also in such tactics. So they will be in again with the password :D

 

What we try and will do as Xcom said in previous messages is to implement features that make your aircraft worthy so you don't see kamikaze events etc. We did it in the past but couldn't add it in this event due to performance issues. Working on it.

 

Overall we believe that the issues can only be solved with features and not by rules etc cause they can lead to frustration and the events won't be such interesting as they are now.

Thanks again.

 

Greg

[arkroyale048]

Flew in for the first time. It was an awesome experience (still no idea how that Flanker found me; me being in a Ka-50 and down on the weeds).

 

May I suggest that Intel reports with regards to cities being attacked, under attack or general info to include the F10 grid square so as to drive home the need to assist instead of the text usually getting zoned out.

 

As for those who taxi a lil too fast. Do it like the Virtual Aerobatics server maybe ? Force-kick out when travelling at over 80 kts on non runways.

Edited September 5, 2015 by arkroyale048

[Esac_mirmidon]

I suggest all american buddies came here to Europe to sleep. I have a very big house. So all could play at the same UTC time. XD.

 

Day belongs to red side.

 

Night to blue side.

[xcom]

Flew in for the first time. It was an awesome experience (still no idea how that Flanker found me; me being in a Ka-50 and down on the weeds).

 

May I suggest that Intel reports with regards to cities being attacked, under attack or general info to include the F10 grid square so as to drive home the need to assist instead of the text usually getting zoned out.

 

As for those who taxi a lil too fast. Do it like the Virtual Aerobatics server maybe ? Force-kick out when travelling at over 80 kts on non runways.

 

We will enforce more restrictions in the future.

There is a lot of feedback we are getting, and it is important to us for future campaigns.

 

Thanks!

[fox3]

Just a thought, is a setup like:

 

RED: Mi-8, Su-25A, Su25T, Mig 21bis and Su27 vs BLUE UH1H, A10A, A10C and F15 too "imba"?

 

Ka-50 could play for both.

 

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (!!!)

[Sierra99]

I think these mission will look a lot different once Blue has a fast mover Air to mud assets like the F-18 or F-16. Tooling around in an A-10 with cap is nice...but trying to support start missions is a slow process.

[Fri13]

Probably not reasons to ask, but I guess there is no possibility to be just a lonely observer in these servers exactly for the "security" reasons?

 

(btw, couldn't that thing be solved by checking the IP between clients, so there would not be a two players/clients from same IP? And of course it can be avoided with streaming one's to everyone else etc but...).

[zaelu]

What if someone plays with his wife from same house? They would have same IP for sure...

[Nirvi]

Had great fun playing on the blueflag server, here's some unedited footage of this afternoon when we took sochi.

[xcom]

Great job Nirvi :)

[plaiskool]

Hi there,

 

May i join blue side in F15C please?

 

Thanks you!.

[fox3]

Hi there,

 

May i join blue side in F15C please?

 

Thanks you!.

 

wrong way... be red, join su-27! :thumbup:

[plaiskool]

I dont want to fly the SU27 fencer

[104th_Maverick]

Gents,

 

Please edit the AI aircraft in the ME if possible and add "silence" with the condition ticked to true to the aircraft advanced options.

 

There is an existing bug that means one AI aircraft will start spamming messages for hours until it lands or crashes. This happened several times today and is very frustrating to hear "Enfield11 RTB at 3000" over and over again.

[xcom]

Thanks, we already got a report about this and we are planning to fix it.

 

As this is a good time as any, tomorrow morning we will put the server down for maintenance for around 1 hour.

 

We will try to do it as fast as possible so the server will be back up, we know it's Sunday :)

[fox3]

Thanks, we already got a report about this and we are planning to fix it.

 

As this is a good time as any, tomorrow morning we will put the server down for maintenance for around 1 hour.

 

We will try to do it as fast as possible so the server will be back up, we know it's Sunday :)

 

do it now, while reds is sleeping ;)

 

33 pilots online: 25 to 6

[Esac_mirmidon]

This is one of the main problems of this fantastic online campaign. When the red side has his peak moments because the time difference the balance isn't very disfavourable for blue side. There are always enough blue pilots to maintaine a minimum force

 

 

But in blue peak moments the numbers are totally unbalanced. Something like 30 vs 2 sometimes. I know it's very hard to find a good solution for that but it's very frustrating to fight very hard to make progress agains a very skilled blue side and loose the gains at night because lack of any red pilots to fight.

 

Rght now is 42 vs 7.

Edited September 5, 2015 by Esac_mirmidon

[gregzagk]

This is one of the main problems of this fantastic online campaign. When the red side has his peak moments because the time difference the balance isn't very disfavourable for blue side. There are always enough blue pilots to maintaine a minimum force

 

 

But in blue peak moments the numbers are totally unbalanced. Something like 30 vs 2 sometimes. I know it's very hard to find a good solution for that but it's very frustrating to fight very hard to make progress agains a very skilled blue side and loose the gains at night because lack of any red pilots to fight.

 

Rght now is 42 vs 7.

 

Edited September 5, 2015 by gregzagk

[TRITATUTTO]

Play the Huey = make a 40/50min travel and than death from nowhere.

 

It's a week that i m playing the campaign...same story over and over again , very frustrating .

 

Choppers have no support , there is only Air to Air going on or nobody care about us ?