Campaign Completed: My thoughts

[Mistermann]

Here’s a few thoughts after finishing this campaign. 

For anyone wondering, this campaign is absolutely outstanding!  Any campaign from BD is worth purchasing in my opinion.  This one is no different and holds up to the high standards he has earned.  This did not disappoint.

I have been learning the A-10C alongside the campaign, so anyone wondering if you need to have mastery of the jet before purchasing, the answer is No.  This was a great way to solidify what I had already learned or was learning along the way.

Here are my PROs/CONs

I’ll start with the constructive feedback.

-          10 missions that averaged 2hrs a mission.  Several were almost 3 hours in duration.  That’s a significant time investment.  How we’ve reached 2023 without a way to save a mission and pickup where you saved is a real pain.  ED if you’re listening, PLEASE correct this.  You shouldn’t burden your talented campaign creators by forcing them to create/maintain multiple versions of a single mission to provide “jump points” like exist in M06 where you can jump to refueling or to landing.

-          The campaign success wording was odd.  Seemed out of place, like it was a boilerplate placeholder as it had nothing to do with the 10 missions I had just flown.

-          Several of the late missions had typo’s mistakes that led to minor confusion (like LOTUS saying the TGP should read M1 instead of M4).  Not a huge problem, but something someone should go back and verify/correct.

Elements I really liked

-          ATC.  BD made sure we have a realistic ATC for this campaign.  Communicating with ground, tower, departure, approach and range controllers made the experience memorable.  Thank you for developing the framework allowing us to experience more of the “real” environment around Nellis.  Extremely cool.

-          The amount of information packed into these missions is insane.  It is clear you did your homework and I appreciate the efforts you put into these missions.  I know this is why the missions are so long.  They never felt long until after I landed and checked the time (I am a VR player).

-          The approach to training was unique and innovative.  Having BIFF walk KERMIT through the training real time was brilliant.  Writing the scripts and then having excellent Voice Acting really separates the campaign from the average ones out there. 

-          The missions never felt repetitive.  Yes, we’d take off and land at the same airport and taxi/park at the same spots, but you made it all feel real and exciting with ATC and compelling training topics.

-          Without going though each mission, there were several “never forget” moments in this campaign for me.

                            o   4^th of July - That was one heck of a show.  Especially in VR.

                            o   IFR landing in the Soup

                            o   Brrrrt and A2A training

Looking forward to pt2!

Thanks.

 

[Rudel_chw]

2 hours ago, Mistermann said:

The campaign success wording was odd.  Seemed out of place, like it was a boilerplate placeholder as it had nothing to do with the 10 missions I had just flown.

 

This is not BD fault, the Campaign Builder tool that ED provides, allows you to select a pic to display at success or failure, but as you can see:

 

 

.. no text for sucess or failure ... the text shown at that event is an ED invention and has nothing to do with what the Campaign is about   .. pity, I'd love for ED to make this pretty simple improvement.

[Mistermann]

18 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

.. no text for sucess or failure ... the text shown at that event is an ED invention and has nothing to do with what the Campaign is about   .. pity, I'd love for ED to make this pretty simple improvement.

What?!?  Strange I've never noticed this before ...

So my boilerplate theory was right ... just created by ED and not something any creator can change.  That's really disappointing on ED's part.  Thanks for the response, @Rudel_chw

[baltic_dragon]

@Mistermann thank you for taking the time to write this and appreciate your feedback! With this amount of text the discrepancies between what is written and what is said is unavoidable (especially that many voice actors having real world military experience are sometimes creative with how they interpret the script, and it is not always possible to catch it all). 

Yeah, I'd love to have the "save" option too. Having 3 versions of mission (one full and two shorter) really triples the amount of work we have to put into fixing stuff, and recent updates tend to break a lot of our campaigns... so this is an exceptional thing for us to do. Hope ED adds some new features soon. 

Thanks again!