Small suggestion to this campaign?

[Hammer1-1]

Ive had 2 engagements with scored hits on a severely damaged opponent flee the training area while on fire. The F-14 in particular likes to accellerate out of the training area and makes it almost impossible to count as a kill, and had similar issues with the Mig-29. Can these units be made scripted as to count as a kill if the aircraft is no longer serviceable? I mean I had these aircraft dead to rights AND ON FIRE but couldnt catch up to them when time ran out...and the major was very...VERY upset.

[Sabre-TLA]

Thanks for the feedback!

 

When designing the missions we debated on having damage be considered a kill but it opened up too many different possible use cases that would be difficult to code.

 

For example a damaged unit can still be lethal if you get in front of him (overshoot). Likewise you still want to be in the fight if your wing takes a few bullet holes.

 

The mission editor only has unit damaged and unit dead trigger conditions that are either on or off.

 

If someday ED adds a percent damaged trigger to a unit then we could leverage that and dial in the kill success value at say 80% damaged or similar.

 

So unfortunately for now you do have to actually kill the target within the vul period to register a kill.

 

Hopefully the AI improves over time so that a damaged aircraft can't accelerate away from the fight (as it would be too damaged).

 

We will keep monitoring the mission editor triggers and implement changes if it becomes possible to make the kill determination better.

[Hammer1-1]

How about a trigger that activates after the fights on is called if any fighter leaves the engagement zone? If the damaged fighter just RTBs and accelerates out of bounds, then that can be counted as a victory condition. I know nothing of script writing, so not sure if thats a logical idea or not.

[Sabre-TLA]

That might be doable. We will investigate and report back.

 

We are testing some new campaigns so we can try it in there and see how it works. If successful then we can port it back to the other missions.

[Cornflex]

What bothers me most is the long flight to the combat zone and back to base. It is nothing but boring. The time you spend fighting is way too short compared to the time you spend getting there.

[Hammer1-1]

Thats what Lctrl Z and Lctrl x are for.