Campaign change log

[Sandman Simulations]

Change log for June update 2023

Documentation – typos fixed

All missions – typos fixed

All missions – planning charts included in in-game kneeboard

All missions – sidenumbers changed to be more realistic

[BoFrost]

Just trying to update DCS. Looking forward to the improvements ! Thanks !

 

Regards

Frank

[ataribaby]

Thanks for side numbers fix.  All that small details matters

[BoFrost]

Finally I could proceed on the Campaign. Had some issues with Vaicom after the OB-Update......

So Thanks a lot for the Information added to the kneeboard ! Now it is much easier to assign tasks to the Devils as I can see the Maps for CAS, CAP and so on in parallel on the kneeboard. Remember, I fly in VR, and so the complete planning and assignment is done in VR now. Exept the the very first two step, air superiority and air defence level, were I have to peek, what I wrote down. But hey, thats OK for me.

So I am happy to go forward in the campaign, although I had a setback in my last planning, which failed more or less completely. Will see, if I can turn the battle to my advantage again.   

Regards Frank

 

[Sandman Simulations]

Change log for July update 2023

All missions – AI voice overs replaced by human actors

[Sandman Simulations]

Change log for August update 2023

All missions – SAM-site not active if another site destroyed in the same mission - Enemy Air Defense Level calculation logic fixed

[Pyrocumulous]

On 8/16/2023 at 6:08 AM, Sandman Simulations said:

Change log for August update 2023

All missions – SAM-site not active if another site destroyed in the same mission - Enemy Air Defense Level calculation logic fixed

I've been noticing that if destroy a SA6 and then sneak up to the SA10, it's not present. Is that intended or is that a bug?

 

[Sandman Simulations]

1 hour ago, Pyrocumulous said:

I've been noticing that if destroy a SA6 and then sneak up to the SA10, it's not present. Is that intended or is that a bug?

 

Hi,

Thanks you for report. With that last update it shouldn't. Please give an example about Enemy Air Defence Level it happens and which SAM-sites. Even better if you can provide name of the miz.file as you did before.

[Pyrocumulous]

3 hours ago, Sandman Simulations said:

Hi,

Thanks you for report. With that last update it shouldn't. Please give an example about Enemy Air Defence Level it happens and which SAM-sites. Even better if you can provide name of the miz.file as you did before.

On STAGE 6 85 perf.miz with Air Defense at 70-80% on DCS World 2.8.8.43704 OB MT. I've been struggling to get my AI wingman to attack the ground target that I intend, so was experimenting with trying to get him to take out that Bandar Lengeh SA6 but without much luck so I happened to notice in reviewing Tacview that when I give up and take it out for him, the Bandar Abbas SA10 is not present. Here's a couple of Tacview recordings as well as a screenshot that I took to verify that I had correctly set the Air Defense while sitting at 8000' trying to get an RWR hit to locate the site. 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wem6TlvJASldmwB47LhZ4OaGFIYCABRZ?usp=drive_link

Edited September 30, 2023 by Pyrocumulous
add DCS version

[Sandman Simulations]

3 hours ago, Pyrocumulous said:

On STAGE 6 85 perf.miz with Air Defense at 70-80% on DCS World 2.8.8.43704 OB MT. I've been struggling to get my AI wingman to attack the ground target that I intend, so was experimenting with trying to get him to take out that Bandar Lengeh SA6 but without much luck so I happened to notice in reviewing Tacview that when I give up and take it out for him, the Bandar Abbas SA10 is not present. Here's a couple of Tacview recordings as well as a screenshot that I took to verify that I had correctly set the Air Defense while sitting at 8000' trying to get an RWR hit to locate the site. 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wem6TlvJASldmwB47LhZ4OaGFIYCABRZ?usp=drive_link

 

Thank you. I will take a closer look into this.

[Sandman Simulations]

4 hours ago, Pyrocumulous said:

On STAGE 6 85 perf.miz with Air Defense at 70-80% on DCS World 2.8.8.43704 OB MT. I've been struggling to get my AI wingman to attack the ground target that I intend, so was experimenting with trying to get him to take out that Bandar Lengeh SA6 but without much luck so I happened to notice in reviewing Tacview that when I give up and take it out for him, the Bandar Abbas SA10 is not present. Here's a couple of Tacview recordings as well as a screenshot that I took to verify that I had correctly set the Air Defense while sitting at 8000' trying to get an RWR hit to locate the site. 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wem6TlvJASldmwB47LhZ4OaGFIYCABRZ?usp=drive_link

 

I need you approval to get into your google drive. Could you attach Tacview files direclty or give a permission to get in.

I still thought about that Air Defense Level calculation and even after last update it might be possible to get into situation you described if you destroy the SA-6 radar and damage or kill at least three other units of the SAM site. I may still need to change the calculation method to avoid that.

[Pyrocumulous]

I fixed the Drive sharing permissions and added a similar track for STAGE 7 80 perf.miz  with Air Defense at 50-60% on DCS World 2.8.8.43704 OB MT. Devil 1-2 hit the Abu Musa Rapier site but didn't kill it, and then the A-10s destroyed it, which seems to have prevented the Jask S10 from spawning, but not the S6.

Edited October 1, 2023 by Pyrocumulous
added air defence level

[Sandman Simulations]

6 hours ago, Pyrocumulous said:

I fixed the Drive sharing permissions and added a similar track for STAGE 7 80 perf.miz  with Air Defense at 50-60% on DCS World 2.8.8.43704 OB MT. Devil 1-2 hit the Abu Musa Rapier site but didn't kill it, and then the A-10s destroyed it, which seems to have prevented the Jask S10 from spawning, but not the S6.

 

Thanks. I checked your Tacview-files and it seems to be just as you said.

At the moment the Enemy Air Defense Level calculation is real-time. It felt a good idea first but it wasn't because it can cause things like you described where SAM that should be there is not because you already have got the Air Defense level down enough by destroying something.  With last update I changed it so that it needs you to really take the level down to next level but it still is not enough.

I think I try to make the whole calculation changed so that there is no more real-time changes but level stays the same you set it in the beginning of the mission and affect to the Air Defense Level will become active only when you proceed to next mission. 

 

[Pyrocumulous]

Makes my head hurt just trying to think about trying to make dynamic missions work! Your explanation above about real-time air defense levels explains what just happened:  I "forced" the Jask SA10 to come up by getting out east far enough to get an RWR hit before the Kerman SEAD strike occurred, and then back to Texaco3 for fuel, and then made the low-level SEAD run into Jask, but only got an RWR hit from the SA6 site. I did happen to stumble across the SA10 and destroy it with rockets and guns but it never responded, presumably because the defense level had dropped as a result of the Kerman SEAD strike.

[Sandman Simulations]

19/10/2023 update

DCS: F/A-18C Flaming Sunrise Campaign by Sandman Simulations

• All missions – A complete overhaul of Enemy Air Defense Leven calculation
• All missions – Some inaccurate unit callsigns – FIXED
• Old side numbers in one mission - FIXED

[Sandman Simulations]

Change log for 19/12/2023 update

• All missions – JTAC frequencies fixed.
• Frequency information in kneeboards and charts updated.

[Sandman Simulations]

Change log for 10/04/2024 update

• All missions – Air defense visibility adjusted to get AI SEAD flights attack higher priority targets over Rapiers and AAA

[Sandman Simulations]

30/9/2024 update

 

• Stage 4 missions. INS alignment messed up – fixed
• All missions. Static aircraft side numbers fixed

[Sandman Simulations]

4/12/2024 update

• All missions updated for taxi director combatibility

At the moment the taxi director update causes late activated squadron mates to taxi only after the player. This has changed during the taxi director development process and might change again later. If this will be the final version I will update intructions later. At this time you don't need to wait AI to taxi but you may need to hold at the rendezvous if you have planned a timed tasks for your squadron.

[Sandman Simulations]

24/12/2024 update

 

• Campaign documentation – Updated for the taxi director compatibility
• Mission 2 – Tutorial fixed for the taxi director update

[Sandman Simulations]

05/02/2025 update

• All missions – taxi sequence adjusted to prevent collisions if taxi director disabled