peterwinship Posted March 29, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020 Have been trying the AV-8B today and I really love the cockpit graphics. Love everything about it, in fact. Fantastic work, just like the Mirage and the Mig19, which I already have. Was thinking of buying it, but - there's no campaign? There's not even a campaign you can buy? Is that right? So if, as I do, you mainly fly SP, then there's not too much you can do with it, unless I start creating my own missions for it? Thanks.
Ramsay Posted March 29, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) So if, as I do, you mainly fly SP, then there's not too much you can do with it, unless I start creating my own missions for it? More or less but the Harrier is flexible so it's easy enough to take a A-10C, Ka-50 or Gazelle mission and convert it. My logbook shows the AV-8B has the highest flight hours of all my modules, so lack of SP content has never been an issue but YMMV. Note: There are 5 user made campaigns for the Harrier. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/?set_filter=Y&arrFilter_pf%5Bfiletype%5D=3&arrFilter_pf%5Bgameversion%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Bfilelang%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Baircraft%5D=501&arrFilter_DATE_CREATE_1_DAYS_TO_BACK=&CREATED_BY=&sort_by_order=TIMESTAMP_X_DESC&set_filter=Filter Edited March 29, 2020 by Ramsay i9 9900K @4.8GHz, 64GB DDR4, RTX4070 12GB, 1+2TB NVMe, 6+4TB HD, 4+1TB SSD, Winwing Orion 2 F-15EX Throttle + F-16EX Stick, TPR Pedals, TIR5, Win 11 Pro x64, Odyssey G93SC 5120X1440
Sedlo Posted March 29, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020 I've got a campaign and several single player mission you can try... https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/?set_filter=Y&arrFilter_pf%5Bfiletype%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Bgameversion%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Bfilelang%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Baircraft%5D=501&arrFilter_DATE_CREATE_1_DAYS_TO_BACK=&CREATED_BY=sedlo&sort_by_order=TIMESTAMP_X_DESC&set_filter=Filter My Youtube Channel MY DCS MISSIONS
Rudel_chw Posted March 29, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020 Was thinking of buying it, but - there's no campaign? There's not even a campaign you can buy? Baltic Dragon has a Campaign on the making, called "OTTOMAN COURIER" set on the Caucasus and with 10 missions. It is expected on Q4 2020. He is also currently writing the definitive Manual for the Harrier that could be here on Q2 2020 Also, currently the Harrier has one of the most complete set of Training mission available for a DCS aircraft. Finally, learning to edit simple missions is a skill that has enormously increased my enjoyment of DCS .. it is totally worth it to dedicate some time to learn at least the basics of the Editor. The new manual of DCS is now a pretty good introduction to the Editor. 1 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 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
peterwinship Posted March 29, 2020 Author Posted March 29, 2020 Many thanks all. I will check out your campaign and missions, Sedlo. And await more from Baltic Dragon. And....I guess I'll buy it! Thanks.
aleader Posted March 29, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020 I noticed there was no campaign too, but ended up buying it anyways...free trial successful ED! Should be more of them throughout the year, and MAKE THEM LONGER than 2 days please...5 to 7 days like other, much easier-to-learn games do (I know it wasn't practical with this trial schedule). I was thinking of the F16 too, but didn't get a chance to really try it out. Harrier has been on my radar since it came out. As has been said, the training missions for the Harrier are the best I've seen, and it looks like there's 100+ hours just doing them. "I mean, I guess it would just be a guy who you know, grabs bananas and runs. Or, um, a banana that grabs things. Why would a banana grab another banana? I mean, those are the kind of questions I don't want to answer." - Michael Bluth
HankCzinaski Posted March 29, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020 Also, currently the Harrier has one of the most complete set of Training mission available for a DCS aircraft. Indeed. I was very impressed with this. 20 missions but with 62! variations. Way to set a bar.
peterwinship Posted March 29, 2020 Author Posted March 29, 2020 Bought it and just looked at the training menu. Wow. Incredible. Great stuff.
baltic_dragon Posted March 29, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020 Hey guys, thanks - I hope these training missions will get you up to speed. Once you finish them, make sure to check Sedlo's missions! My campaign is indeed in the making: first 5 missions will be included with the module for free (and should be ready by June); then further 10 will be available as DLC. For more information, please visit my website. If you want to reach me with a bug report, feedback or a question, it is best to do this via my Discord channel. Details about the WinWing draw can be found here. Also, please consider following my channel on Facebook.
Rudel_chw Posted March 29, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020 My campaign is indeed in the making: first 5 missions will be included with the module for free (and should be ready by June); then further 10 will be available as DLC. That's nice to know, I wasnt aware of the 5 missions included with the Harrier ... so the Campaign is actually 15 missions long :thumbup: ... can't wait to fly it. Best regards. 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 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Hawkeye_UK Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 would highly recommend Seedlo missions they are very well done. Go to user downloads on the website filter by mission and harrier and there is plenty of content for you to enjoy. Operation Broken Cauldron on the PG map is also a good one, with realistic ATO missions for harriers. Also operation clear field is a sandbox style mission which you can alter yourself in ME if you so wish to change time of day etc, load out . Has lots of spawning missions which is probably the next best thing to multiplayer away from the Single player missions by seedlo. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DCS & BMS F4E | F14B | AV-8B | F15E | F18C | F16C | F5E | F86 | A10C | JF17 | Viggen |M2000 | F1 | L-39 | C101 | Mig15 | Mig21 | Mig29 | SU27 | SU33 | F15C | AH64 | MI8 | Mi24 | Huey | KA50 | Gazelle | CH47 | OH58D | P47 | P51 | BF109 | FW190A/D | Spitfire | Mossie | CA | Persian Gulf | Nevada | Normandy | Channel | Syria | South Atlantic | Sinai | Kola | Afgan | Iraq Liquid Cooled ROG 690 13700K @ 5.9Ghz | RTX3090 FTW Ultra | 64GB DDR4 3600 MHz | 2x2TB SSD m2 Samsung 980/990 | Pimax Crystal/Reverb G2 | MFG Crosswinds | Virpil T50/CM3 | Winwing & Cougar MFD's | Buddyfox UFC | Winwing TOP & CP | Jetseat
Shepherd Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 I tried as well and I ended up buying it. The vast amount of training mission were enough to get me to pull the trigger. That should be the strategy moving forward...include a good training regiment and i bet it would lead to better sales for the modern jets at least.
stuart666 Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 I've got a campaign and several single player mission you can try... https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/?set_filter=Y&arrFilter_pf%5Bfiletype%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Bgameversion%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Bfilelang%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Baircraft%5D=501&arrFilter_DATE_CREATE_1_DAYS_TO_BACK=&CREATED_BY=sedlo&sort_by_order=TIMESTAMP_X_DESC&set_filter=Filter I played that a year or two ago, and it was good enough to be payware.
TAW_Impalor Posted April 11, 2020 Posted April 11, 2020 Came back here after completing Sedlo's campaign. Amazing stuff!!! Radio communications are as true to life as they can be, the missions are not too long and very well scripted. Made me laugh when the tower noticed that I broke left instead of right, and the pilot apologized! Together with the great training missions it makes the Harrier module one of the best. 12900KF@5.4, 32GB DDR4@4000cl14g1, 4090, M.2, W10 Pro, Warthog HOTAS, ButtKicker, Reverb G2/OpenXR
Gunnar81 Posted December 4, 2021 Posted December 4, 2021 Hi everyone, Just thought I would alert fellow Harrier drivers that I've updated my free campaign 'Operation Broken Cauldron'. Its still nothing compared to the masters of our community but I feel it is better now than it was over a year ago and I've learned sooo much with the editor since I've finished these missions. I am hoping my next idea will bring even more for the community to enjoy. 2 2
FupDuck Posted December 4, 2021 Posted December 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Gunnar81 said: Hi everyone, Just thought I would alert fellow Harrier drivers that I've updated my free campaign 'Operation Broken Cauldron'. Its still nothing compared to the masters of our community but I feel it is better now than it was over a year ago and I've learned sooo much with the editor since I've finished these missions. I am hoping my next idea will bring even more for the community to enjoy. Woohoo! Downloading now, thanks for your work man! "...I just wanna fly; put your arms around me baby, put your arms around me baby" - Sugar Ray RTX 3090, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, MSI MPG B550 Gaming mobo, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB game drive, VKB STECS Standard throttle, Winwing Ursa Minor Fighter stick, Oculus Quest Pro via ersatz link cable, Standalone DCS. VR only.
Parasiticus Posted December 18, 2021 Posted December 18, 2021 Hi Gunnar81, in the old version there was a air to air refueling in every mission. Why did you change?
Parasiticus Posted December 19, 2021 Posted December 19, 2021 3 mission: why the wingmen don't land at Al Daphne, but fly to Tarawa?
Draken35 Posted December 22, 2021 Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) On 12/4/2021 at 4:45 PM, Gunnar81 said: Hi everyone, Just thought I would alert fellow Harrier drivers that I've updated my free campaign 'Operation Broken Cauldron'. Its still nothing compared to the masters of our community but I feel it is better now than it was over a year ago and I've learned sooo much with the editor since I've finished these missions. I am hoping my next idea will bring even more for the community to enjoy. Thank you! This campaign has been in my list for a while but never got to it till now... I'm up to mission 6 but I've found a couple of issue (besides the one @Parasiticus posted above): 1) Tanker's TACAN is not working: either set to a different channel than briefed (mission 7 iirc) or it is set as the last option on tanker's WP2 and does not get activated (5,6,8,9) (I peaked in the ME ) 2) Mission 4. When you receive the coordinates for tasking (trying to be vague to avoid spoilers) you might be in a different major UTM zone than the one for the coordinates and if you enter the coordinates at that moment, well, estrange things happens (like a WP at 1000nm - Harrier's fault, not yours) 3) Up to mission 4, you give us the tasking and keep the coordinates accessible in the F10 menu (pretty cool feature if you ask me) but that changes in mission 5 and 6 and you have to note then down. Not really an issue but consistency is a good thing It is a really good campaign so far and I'm having a lot of fun with it! Can't wait to finish those 3 mission left for me ! Edited December 22, 2021 by Draken35
Parasiticus Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 On 12/22/2021 at 4:53 AM, Draken35 said: Thank you! This campaign has been in my list for a while but never got to it till now... I'm up to mission 6 but I've found a couple of issue (besides the one @Parasiticus posted above): 1) Tanker's TACAN is not working: either set to a different channel than briefed (mission 7 iirc) or it is set as the last option on tanker's WP2 and does not get activated (5,6,8,9) (I peaked in the ME ) 2) Mission 5. When you receive the coordinates for tasking (trying to be vague to avoid spoilers) you might be in a different major UTM zone than the one for the coordinates and if you enter the coordinates at that moment, well, estrange things happens (like a WP at 1000nm - Harrier's fault, not yours) 3) Up to mission 4, you give us the tasking and keep the coordinates accessible in the F10 menu (pretty cool feature if you ask me) but that changes in mission 5 and 6 and you have to note then down. Not really an issue but consistency is a good thing It is a really good campaign so far and I'm having a lot of fun with it! Can't wait to finish those 3 mission left for me ! Hi Drakeen35. I corrected takan in the air refueler, and corrected the coordinates 63677 to 93667
Draken35 Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 @ParasiticusThanks! Are you are aware that the campaign was updated on the 22nd? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3307835/
Parasiticus Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Draken35 said: @ParasiticusThanks! Are you are aware that the campaign was updated on the 22nd? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3307835/ No aware ))) Edited December 23, 2021 by Parasiticus
Gunnar81 Posted March 27, 2022 Posted March 27, 2022 Hi all. Just thought I would pop back on and let you know Broken Cauldron has been updated again(its up in the user files), probably the last major update! With the help of @Gretsch_Man robo voice overs have been added, which in my opinion are outstandingly well done, and some in mission extras have been added by him as well. I've also done a bit more bug fixing and added some better briefing images. I hope you all enjoy the extra effort we've put into this one and once again hats off to @Gretsch_Man who really went the extra mile to get this campaign updated to where it should be. 1 3
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