Lexe Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 Worlds apart review. (i must warn you there may be spoilers here, so...) Mission 1 I enjoyed it, and i like the little details everywhere to be seen, i liked my copilot tuning the radios for me, hehehe. Overall nice intro mission, introduction to formation flying and landing on boat and a little trickier on the bridge. I liked it. Looking forward to the next mission! Issues I had two issues, wolf1 shooted the 2 trucks on the power station and they went a little bit into the forest scared. I had to come back to the power station and shoot them. The last issue was wolf1 landing too near to me and clipped rotor. I think i will remember more exactly next time my take off spot to occupy the same on my back so it doesn't happen again. Score showed 90. Mission 2 This mission is a cargo delivery that trains you on how to sling load, and managing of different load weights, and be fast and efficient, it teaches you to reach to your engine max performances and not go over them. Issues Listen to your copilot, do no rush things. The lamission is scripted to follow events, if you skip one instruction, you can screw all the events after it. I had to repeat this mission 3 times until i passed it, first time i snapped main rotor on the last high altitude delivery when grounding engineers. The second time IA helicopter leader didn't want to land on the second base due to a problem with a bush (set up grass/bush option under 1000 and IA will land np). And the third time around i got cocky on the sling loads and smashed a load, heheh. So take it easy, be efficient, and manage cargo fast but with care. Did i say i am enjoying this campaign a lot? Misión 3 Well, after completing the mission 2 the other day, today the campaign manager sent me again to mission 1. I don't feel like redoing mission 1 and 2 again, so i will play the mission 3 and rest like individual missions. Unfortunately i had no more play time today. Will report back when i complete this mission. Ok so i had some time today to give it a try. I failed it because i crashed at the final approach on rtb for being careless. Nice mission, and i liked the little problems at start up. Issues I did not see or ear the message that tells you to disembark troops over there bridge after the combat with the infantry (i just found out later reading the kneeboard), maybe it overlapped with other messages in the combat, not sure.still, after killing so the troops i was ordered to rtb. I recorded myself while doing the mission, maybe it gives you a hint of the problem. Mission 4 Fun mission, navigation and spatial awareness mission, but seems something is off at the end, missed visual on wolf 1 after bridge blow up, and did not know what to do after arriving to camp sierra. Felt kind of a bummer, i tried refueling there to no available, hm, dunno where could be the problem, still, challenging mission. I streamed the gameplay. Mission 5-1 Heheh, took me some tries to beat this mission, the problem i had was i was following wolf1 after deploying the first troops on the top of the mountains, instead of going a little bit down to the camp to get more soldiers up. A bit confusing, but the ambient of the war really really well done! my compliments. Then i got the message to go look for the convoy in trouble, and got mission success on the way there. Sorry no video today! So my little tip would be, pay attention to what you are being told, hehehe Mission 5-2 Rescue a trapped convoy operation, nicely done, eliminate enemy troops blocking convoy and then escorting them out of the forest, nice action. Mission 6 Ok, this is a tough one… This mission is hard for you if you are a freebird kind like me, i mean, you really need to follow the line of events, and be in the loop of the spected things to happen, so listen closely to lines of text, or it will happen you this, and get stuck without possibility to advance. I joined the campaign creator discord and asked him about my mistake, and he pointed it out to me (thank you!), i was not following the steps the way its meant, so i tried again today, and still failed the mission, but advancing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4bMC2I-sSQ, and i must tell you this is a tough mission, i want to get out of that valley! :-) getting there! --- So another try, i managed to advance a bit more in the mission, right when i get the choice to land at a powerstation or go straight to batumi, i landed, and after a while the fuel convoy catched me, but i could not refuel, a pity, i will try straight to batumi next time! the video of the try --- Ok i managed to beat the mission, let me tell you this, best mission, but hard, be prepared to use navigation and spatial awareness plus focus on your duty, all while being pressed by enemy, hard weather and fuel consumption, i loved it. oh, the video Mission 7 A naval recce and support for strike mission, all went smooth, and seemed easy flying compared to last one, hahaha Mission 8 Naval operations and some navigation at night, i had some trouble with a msg that when approaching senaki told me to proceed direct bearing 140, i did for a while, wich sent me off course, so had to ignore it and head straight to beacon again, which i guess was the plan, so misleading message there. After delivering the wounded, nice touch with the taxi and parking procedures, i like that. Mission 9 Night transport of a high ranked officer, navigation mission, and i had a problem to find kobuleti airfield because, lights were not lit, and because ADF beacon was not working properly, dunno if it is intended or not, but i had a hard time finding it. Then a flare at the drop of camp for the officer would not be bad as well, but i guess the point of this mission is this, finding things in the night, heh. Mission 10 Seems i am a bit lost, i tried today, but got no where in the line of expected events or triggers, seems i am off somewhere, i will try again when i have some free time! ---- Ok, so try number 2, i think this is the way to go, but is that landing zone real? seems, a bit slope! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMNCXvuky9s will try again tomorrow. ---- So another try today, i managed to advance a little more into the mission, seems it's gonna be a hard one like mission 6, still, making progress but not enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHUxiT7Q3_4 --- I managed to pass it!, you made a great work with this mission, it's hard, if at all, i would change the fact that all countermeasures get launched in the auto program, and let it go manually, but it's a nice touch, and makes you take another approach, more conservative, for second landing zone, and things at war go wrong sometimes!. Also loved the detail of broken navigation and having to rely on magnetic bearing and spatial awareness from previous missions. You Low Level Heaven give this campaign missions a lot of love, and it shows. The video (i fast forwarded to the area of operations, too many travels xDD) https://youtu.be/3hLYy591cdc It kinda sadden me that there is only one more mission. Mission 11 I did not succeed on my first try, got up to the area of operations, and killed some AAA but it got me head on with some shots that sent me down, too bad, will try again some other day! https://youtu.be/rssxc-gSN5M ---- So i gave it a try today, and managed to beat the mission, its a hard one, and ended it with many new holes, top management of engine needed for this mission, and accuracy on weapons, i .did not like the TOT and PSI script running all the mission, was a little distracting. The video of last mission of the campaign. https://youtu.be/L7_5KZLKK88 Overall thoughts, on the campaign, you will iron your skills with the huey beating this missions, some of the missions, are definitely a challenge, for example i remember navigation IFR inside the clouds, hard, but beautiful moments. I see creators have put a lot of work and testing into creating this missions. I must say they did a superb work. If anything, i would point the fact that some of the missions where too rigid with the line of events (triggers) and forced you to some specific approach to solve a problem, but i understand some of his decisions, and the need to tell a story inside of the mission. Would i recommend you to buy and play this campaign? Absolutely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHPL Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Congratulations Youth has been through the campaign in a short time. Many thanks for the review and the videos made. Great job. I have been surprised that in some missions, there are different ways to get through without breaking the mission. Maby we can implement that in the future by intention. Learned a lot out of that an will consider that when improving this campaign, and in the creation of the upcoming SUMMER 2025 campaign, we hope to release in about one year. Always happy landings ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyJoJoJunior Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 I'm on Mission 7 and really enjoying the campaign. The world feels so much more alive than many other campaigns, and I like the little attention to details like your crewmates leaving the chopper to inspect something suspicious, etc. And the best thing about the campaign is that it solves the issue I had with other helo campaigns which is too much dead air while flying from A to B. There's always some radio chatter going on in this one which keeps things from becoming boring. Definitely the best Huey campaign available. Great work! i7 6700k @ 4.6, Gigabyte Z170X-UD3, 32GB DDR4 2666, GTX 1070, Rift S | MS Sidewinder FFB2 w/ TM F-22 Pro Grip, TM TWCS Throttle, VKB T-Rudder Mk. IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHPL Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 I'm on Mission 7 and really enjoying the campaign. The world feels so much more alive than many other campaigns, and I like the little attention to details like your crewmates leaving the chopper to inspect something suspicious, etc. And the best thing about the campaign is that it solves the issue I had with other helo campaigns which is too much dead air while flying from A to B. There's always some radio chatter going on in this one which keeps things from becoming boring. Definitely the best Huey campaign available. Great work! Thank you :thumbsup: We are so glad about all the positive feedback and highly motivated to make the next Campaign even better. We knew there are still many rooms for small and big improvements they will be made in the next one. But we still implement small improvements like F10 Marks into this campaign, to make it a little bit easier to find the right LZ for example. These work, together with some other surprises will be implemented until early 2020.:music_whistling: So I hope you like the remaining missions as much as the ones already have flown and the campaign will be motivating enough for a second or third round. Ther are still some details to discover for sure :thumbup: Always happy landings ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rge75 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Mission 5-2 Rescue a trapped convoy operation, nicely done, eliminate enemy troops blocking convoy and then escorting them out of the forest, nice action. I had a short look at your video from this mission but I think you missed a lot because your door gunner did all the work. Actually, it was intended to land at the orange smoke marker (tight LZ) to pick up troops. Then you had to deploy them at the northern bridge and they would take out the APC ;-) After that, another landing at the orange smoke marker to pick up a 2nd troop which will be deployed south of the southern bridge (yet another tight LZ). Don't get me wrong, I don't say it was wrong what you did since you managed to finish the mission, but I think you missed some of the "real" fun and challenge by avoiding those tight LZ. So just in case you want a real challenge, I recommend to refly this mission again with the intended troop transport/landings. It was quite a cool mission btw. I enjoyed it. The only "bad" thing was the civilian traffic. You really had to make sure you land at the bridge when no car was around. Had to redo it once because a truck damanged my blades. With the other LZs, it was at least possible to slide left or right of the road to avoid the cars. My DCS videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJX2av4UE4xqWto3y8EZWMw [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexe Posted October 22, 2019 Author Share Posted October 22, 2019 Oh yes, i know i did it in an unexpected way, creator told me heheh, i will replay it entirely when i have some time. Enviado desde mi ALE-L21 mediante Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rge75 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Mission 6 Ok, this is a tough one… This mission is hard for you if you are a freebird kind like me, i mean, you really need to follow the line of events, and be in the loop of the spected things to happen, so listen closely to lines of text, or it will happen you this, and get stuck without possibility to advance. I joined the campaign creator discord and asked him about my mistake, and he pointed it out to me (thank you!), i was not following the steps the way its meant, so i tried again today, and still failed the mission, but advancing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4bMC2I-sSQ, and i must tell you this is a tough mission, i want to get out of that valley! :-) getting there! --- So another try, i managed to advance a bit more in the mission, right when i get the choice to land at a powerstation or go straight to batumi, i landed, and after a while the fuel convoy catched me, but i could not refuel, a pity, i will try straight to batumi next time! the video of the try --- Ok i managed to beat the mission, let me tell you this, best mission, but hard, be prepared to use navigation and spatial awareness plus focus on your duty, all while being pressed by enemy, hard weather and fuel consumption, i loved it. oh, the video Just finished this one. Well, I don't think it was "that hard" to follow the commands, but I'm probably not such a free bird as you. The real challenge became the bad weather in the end when it was hard to follow the road. In fact, I followed the power lines because they were better visible. I flew back to Batumi because I did not really see the first, alternate LZ. The landing lights of Batumi were a much clearer target. Also, checking out the orange smoke marker was a bit of a challenge because I approached into the wind. When the co-pilot said "clear of trees" I thought I had to go down in the small clearing which was terrible. I almost touched a tree on the left side. I then noticed that the actual "spot" is maybe 50m further to the front, away of the trees. That made it easier ;-) In the end it was simply a bit exhausting because the flight was quite long. Overall, a very enjoyable mission though, but I would have prefered it split into two missions like mission 5. To me, those missions are a bit too long. My DCS videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJX2av4UE4xqWto3y8EZWMw [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rge75 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Mission 7 A naval recce and support for strike mission, all went smooth, and seemed easy flying compared to last one, hahaha Yeah, agree on that one. Not that difficult but very enjoyable. When I read the briefing, my first thought "a boring patrol mission, flying a long way", but things turned out different. A lot of stuff going on and some interesting, cool tasks. IMO the missions are getting better and better. This one was also quite good concerning the lenght of the mission. More like that please ;-) My DCS videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJX2av4UE4xqWto3y8EZWMw [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rge75 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Mission 8 was indeed a very cool one. The atmosphere and the transition from day to night was just cool. And I anyway like naval operations. Mission 9 was ok but not that special. Finding Batumi was not an issue IMO, but finding the correct LZ at Berlin was another topic. Mission 10 was really cool on the other hand even though it was sometimes not 100% clear what to do. It took a while until I get the marker for LZ Alpha (great LZ btw). Also, LZ Bravo was announced to have red smoke but there was only a blue smoke marker. Luckily, that was LZ Bravo ;-) I agree with Lexe - I'm used to use the countermeasures myself. But I'm pretty sure many people whold have been shot down because they may not have been prepared for incoming rockets. My DCS videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJX2av4UE4xqWto3y8EZWMw [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ppler Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Great campaign so far! I've done 8 missions so far, and I've enjoyed every piece of it! And great news about a new campaign in the horizon! A-10C, AV-8B, Ka-50, F-14B, F-16C, F-5E, F/A-18C, L-39, Mi-8, MiG-21, MiG-29, SA34, Spitfire, Su-27, Su-33, UH-1H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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