Reflected Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Roosterfeet said: Ha! spent 15 minutes looking for a keybind. Haha me too Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXsenna Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 10 hours ago, Reflected said: For everyone who ever wished there would be a way to replay some messages that they missed, it's now a core DCS option. Thanks, ED! Nice addition! Don't like it being paused, but thanks to @Taz1004 we have a solution! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflected Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 Update to the Zone 5 campaign! The next OB update will bring a new feature to the campaign: there will be a slight chance that your wingman Hammer may be able to spot the wild card and call it out. It's a SLIGHT chance, not gonna give you an exact % though. The wild card is there to test YOUR lookout, not the AI's. So until now only YOU could call it out. I thought it would be a bit more realistic - and forgiving - if I added a random factor so that at least the possibility of your wingman calling it out should be there. 2 5 Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lax22 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 On 2/3/2022 at 8:33 AM, Reflected said: Update to the Zone 5 campaign! The next OB update will bring a new feature to the campaign: there will be a slight chance that your wingman Hammer may be able to spot the wild card and call it out. It's a SLIGHT chance, not gonna give you an exact % though. The wild card is there to test YOUR lookout, not the AI's. So until now only YOU could call it out. I thought it would be a bit more realistic - and forgiving - if I added a random factor so that at least the possibility of your wingman calling it out should be there. This will make a great campaign even better. Thank you very much! 1 System: 7800X3D / Asus RTX 4090 OC / 64GB 3600mhz / Pimax Crystal / VKB GF3 Ultimate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflected Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 Campaign building - behind the scenes: 6 Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudel_chw Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 3 hours ago, Reflected said: Campaign building - behind the scenes: Great video ... I swear I will never complain about a Campaign price ever again ... by the way, it would be great if you could spare the time to make that video about the livery making process, that you hinted at 2 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600X - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia GTX1070ti - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar - Oculus Rift CV1 Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlikely_spider Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 10 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said: I swear I will never complain about a Campaign price ever again Absolutely not. Campaigns are really the biggest bargains in the DCS store, especially with the long term support that a lot of these creators provide, Reflected especially. 1 Modules: Wright Flyer, Spruce Goose, Voyager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzLine Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Super amazing, @Reflected ! All the thought and attention to detail shows in the final product so keep up the good work. I'd love to hear more about Mission Editor techniques from wizards such as yourself or Baltic Dragon. I like to dabble a bit to build missions for own enjoyment but my skills are not in the same league as yours. Looking forward to your future work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dggoofy Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Nice video. Very interesting. I did only 2 small campaigns, fully voice-over (for Yak-52 and just for fun - available in User files). I know how long it takes. It's just crazy! Anyway, I'm a bit curious, so I have 2 questions : - How many time do you spare just to answer all requests on this forum and to update the campaign after each major DCS update ? - I imagine creating campaign for DCS is not enough to pay all bills, so, you have another job on the side. So creating campaign is a 20%, 25%, 50% time job ? Cheers. Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflected Posted February 16, 2022 Author Share Posted February 16, 2022 The answer is the same to both questions. There are times when I don't even open DCS for a week because nothing changed, but sometimes I need to update every mission and it takes up 100% of my free time. 2 Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobie Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) Great video, thanks for sharing how the magic is done! I had a rough idea how much work it probably takes to make such a campaign, namely: "hell of a lot", but now I can see I still underestimated it! We're lucky to have such a firm "club" of great campaign authors - sorry for missing a few names, but BD, Reflected, Ground Pounder, Bunyap and... a dozen or so more talented folks who do it for us. And what they do is so often just mind blowing. For me campaigns are the epitome of fun in DCS, they utterly change the feel to it (and each in their own way, depending on the author) - the sterile "sim enrivonment" changes into a living world, it's like reading a book where you suddently realize you participate in as a character. If there's one thing I find... unfortunate, it is the fact that you have to fix what you haven't broken (DCS updates) time and again, and again... It's bad not only because I imagine it's an anoying and mundane work, and you have jobs, families etc., but the more campaigns you release the more a victim of your own success you become, spend more and more time on fixing them... instead of "plotting" new campaigns. You'd be happier people and we'd be a happier crowd. Well, I hope it will improve over time, especially in the AI department or generally in terms of control the author can have over what happens in the mission. Fingers crossed I know it's little, but I can only say THANK YOU, MEN *) (Reflected and others), your work DOES make a huge difference. Thanks! *) Men of both sexes, of course, voice actresses etc. Edited February 16, 2022 by scoobie i7-8700K 32GB 2060(6GB) 27"@1080p TM Hawg HOTAS TPR TIR5 SD-XL 2xSD+ HC Bravo button/pot box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClydeBigBird Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Really cool to see some behind the scenes of how these campaigns are created! I hope the video will inspire others to get into the DCS campaign game. As of now it seems like you and only 2 or 3 other guys are consistently putting out great campaigns, and it can feel like there's a bit of a drought much of the time. Going off on a tangent here, I'm curious how big of a market there is for DCS campaigns, as it seems like a niche of an already niche product. It'd be great to see campaigns get a lot more popular and become more lucrative for the developers, as we'd inevitably see a lot more high quality content if that happened. If I had to think of a single thing that keeps players away from campaigns, it'd probably be DCS' lack of a quick save feature. Probably the one thing that campaign creators could do to widen the audience is create alternate mission files that start right before the action beings, as it can be frustrating to go through the whole startup and transit process of a mission, get shot down, and have to do it all over again! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflected Posted March 13, 2022 Author Share Posted March 13, 2022 Thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately alternate versions literally double maintenance, and that's already pretty high due to the ever changing environment and code in DCS. I want to steer as clear as possible from alternate versions. If a quick save is introduced by ED, great. But it's not something worth doubling my workload for. I understand the frustration though...sometimes I wanna test an event near the end of a mission, and I die just before that 2 Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClydeBigBird Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 19 hours ago, Reflected said: Thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately alternate versions literally double maintenance, and that's already pretty high due to the ever changing environment and code in DCS. I want to steer as clear as possible from alternate versions. If a quick save is introduced by ED, great. But it's not something worth doubling my workload for. I understand the frustration though...sometimes I wanna test an event near the end of a mission, and I die just before that I feared that might be the situation, and that there is no way to easily "copy-paste" part of the mission in an alternate version. Appreciate the insight though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflected Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 Happy Apache Day everyone! I suspect all other modules will now just slowly and silently sit down in the corner and watch you guys play with the most epic simulation of the second most iconic helicopter in the world (Huey FTW!). I've given it a try myself, ED has raised the bar yet again, I was completely blown away. Anyhow, if anyone's interested, this update brought several changes to my campaigns too. Most of them were needed because recently introduced AI bugs and behavioral glitches broke several of my existing missions, but fortunately I found workarounds for most. I appreciate all the feedback, if you find anything that doesn't look right, give me a shout and I'll try my best to fix it. CHANGELOG: Blue Nose Bastards of Bodney - Mission 12 - adjusted AI so that they won't get shot down by AAA before the player arrives The Big Show - Added Balloon Barrage over London Wolfpack - Fixed the Air Sea Rescue so that the mission counts as success if you are rescued. Paradise Lost - Civilian traffic forced off in certain missions - Added safeguard triggers to mission 12 due to the unreliability of the AI - Mission 9 - relaxed the safeguard for potential mortar hits - Typos corrected - Instructions improved based on user feedback - SEA Camo Yak-52 skin by Eight Ball added Zone 5 - Added a random factor so that Hammer may be able to spot the wild card. - Mission 9 - Sniper 4 is now also immortal to SAMs. - Turned some trigger zones rectangular for more accurate triggers - Mission 11 - made sure SAMs don't fire at other flights. Fear the Bones - Mission 12 - player was moved to cat 3 to match the new AI launch order. - AI cat assignments reshuffled due to recent AI launch bug - Mission 3: failsafe trigger added, because the AI bear sometimes can't switch to its next waypoint. Hunters over the Yalu - Mission 1 - requirement for the AI to attack removed due to their unreliability. Mission will progress even if only the player attacks. 1 3 Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqqfrank Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 On 3/18/2022 at 11:18 AM, Reflected said: Happy Apache Day everyone! I suspect all other modules will now just slowly and silently sit down in the corner and watch you guys play with the most epic simulation of the second most iconic helicopter in the world (Huey FTW!). I've given it a try myself, ED has raised the bar yet again, I was completely blown away. Anyhow, if anyone's interested, this update brought several changes to my campaigns too. Most of them were needed because recently introduced AI bugs and behavioral glitches broke several of my existing missions, but fortunately I found workarounds for most. I appreciate all the feedback, if you find anything that doesn't look right, give me a shout and I'll try my best to fix it. CHANGELOG: Blue Nose Bastards of Bodney - Mission 12 - adjusted AI so that they won't get shot down by AAA before the player arrives The Big Show - Added Balloon Barrage over London Wolfpack - Fixed the Air Sea Rescue so that the mission counts as success if you are rescued. Paradise Lost - Civilian traffic forced off in certain missions - Added safeguard triggers to mission 12 due to the unreliability of the AI - Mission 9 - relaxed the safeguard for potential mortar hits - Typos corrected - Instructions improved based on user feedback - SEA Camo Yak-52 skin by Eight Ball added Zone 5 - Added a random factor so that Hammer may be able to spot the wild card. - Mission 9 - Sniper 4 is now also immortal to SAMs. - Turned some trigger zones rectangular for more accurate triggers - Mission 11 - made sure SAMs don't fire at other flights. Fear the Bones - Mission 12 - player was moved to cat 3 to match the new AI launch order. - AI cat assignments reshuffled due to recent AI launch bug - Mission 3: failsafe trigger added, because the AI bear sometimes can't switch to its next waypoint. Hunters over the Yalu - Mission 1 - requirement for the AI to attack removed due to their unreliability. Mission will progress even if only the player attacks. Thanks Reflected for keeping the "other" world moving on...:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowbagger Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 I never made the connection before! I played the $%^& out of this one. Thanks for all the updates to the current campaigns, and a very, very belated thanks for this classic too. Maybe it's because of the current world situation, or the state of the sim, but my DCS has lain ignored and neglected for the past few months in favour of exploring tropical islands, mountains, and jungle grass strip STOLs in msfs. But I'm very much looking forwards to a return to a Reflected 611 Sqn. 1 CPU:5600X | GPU:RTX2080 | RAM:32GB | Disk:860EVOm.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflected Posted March 26, 2022 Author Share Posted March 26, 2022 Thanks, I'm so happy people actually remember 'BHW' There's a big difference though: that one was just fictional, the DCS version is 100% based on original documents 1 Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Reflected Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 Let's play through mission (sortie) 9 of 'Beware! Beware!', my upcoming DCS: Spitfire IX campaign. I'll show you some tips and tricks that will help you successfully complete the missions and you can also listen to me randomly ramble about interesting details about this campaign. 2 2 Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Slice313 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Hey Reflected! Is Fear the Bones campaign already using the new SC lightsabers or do we have to wait for an update? thank you :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflected Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 4 hours ago, Slice313 said: Hey Reflected! Is Fear the Bones campaign already using the new SC lightsabers or do we have to wait for an update? thank you Hey, the campaign uses DCS, so as soon as they’re available in DCS you’ll see them in the campaign too 2 Facebook Instagram YouTube Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scooper91 Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 On 2/15/2022 at 1:29 PM, Reflected said: Campaign building - behind the scenes: Great video! Unbelievable how much work goes into the making of your campaigns. I was intrigued when you said you listened to so many books. Got any suggestions on F-14 books to listen to on Audible? Or just other aviation books in general that were particularly captivating? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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