would it be possible to split mission for replayability ?

[lefuneste01]

Hello.

There is a frustrating lack of save feature in DCS that makes campaign also frustrating.

At first : I want the campaign as they are, with as much as possible realistic missions, a lot of audio dialog, and so on, so it's normal to have long missions.

But on second hand, I do not have so much time because of job, family, and so on. So it may be difficult for me to find a timeslot of at least 2 hours to play a mission, but it's more easier for 1 hour... 

Then when the mission failed because of my poor skills, I'm really frustrated because I know I will have to redo the longest part (take off, navigation,...) which is interesting 1 time, but a bit boring if you have to do it again and again...

So I wonder if it would be possible to split long missions in 2 parts :

• the first one going untill just before "action" would occure
• the second one starting just before action, at the end of the first part.

So if I failed the first time, I will restart just before the real thing, and can try to improve far more easilly.

It could be arrival at a WP that do the split  between both.

The question is also to handle it into campaign mechanism. If some finished the mission in one time they may be able to start directly the next mission, if some (like me) need multiple time to finish the current mission they should restart on second part of this mission...

An other option should be to split the mission into 2, so in all cases you will stop the first part when arriving at the  trigger, and start the next mission just after, but that mat break the immersion...

I know it will be more work for mission designers, but I think I'm not the only one who lack free time and is not able to do the mission in a row. So this kind of things may be worth because it may create more customers, by removing frustration. You will know that if you purchase a mission from xxx, you will have this kind of intermediate restart to ease your gamer life.

For example, I plan to switch to your AV8 or F18 campaign, once I will finish the A10C, but as it is going now it will take me a lot of time...

 

[baltic_dragon]

There is an option to do that and I am trying to implement it (and may also do it "backwards" to old campaigns), but not for all missions. There are two reasons:

 

1) This would make the campaign much larger in terms of size

2) This could also change into updating nightmare - as everytime there is a bug, I'd have to update not only the full, but also short version of each mission.

 

So I could do it for really long missions, but not all of them. There always is an option of time compression.. I know this isn't perfect, but until we have a real save game feature, there is not much more that can be done. 

[lefuneste01]

Well, no one is bound to impossible !

If you do it for the longest missions that will be a great addition.