Finally completed the campaign

[Blackbird7]

After a long pause I got back to DCS and was surprised how little I forgot about the Spitfire. Except landings, they were a bit rough.  

The biggest problem in early campaign were AI issues in some missions, but it seems this has been solved by ED, I didn't notice it in second half of the campaign. Still there are AI issues, I had few mates diving and crashing for no obvious reason (but very rare).

All in all, I liked the campaign very much. Great voiceovers, smart scripting, some missions feel repetitive, but at same time so realistic. Biggest problem was probably missions with extreme clouds. First getting lost going through clouds, which is something I still have to improve. But then expected to dogfight. I think there was just one mission where it was almost impossible, looked like AIs fought in clouds, I was just making circles above, then went back home. But even with that one mission which did not feel as much fun, I improved and got slightly better at getting through clouds and getting a grip after being completely lost. So campaign is great for anyone wanting to improve in single play and wants good realistic missions.

It even got me thinking about trying WW2 multiplayer. But I think I need a bit more practice.

Next step is obvious, The Big Show is installed, and I bought Audible version of the book to accompany the play. 

[Ghost79]

Well done on completing the campaign!  When flying through cloud focus on your main instruments, I make sure that the Climb/Dive gauge shows a steady climb rate and personally I use the gyro compass to make sure I'm maintaining direction(i don't trust the artificial horizon).  Hold your nerve using these instruments until you brake cloud cover.

[Reflected]

Awesome, glad you enjoyed it. Wait a bit with The Big Show, I’m in the middle of updating it to a “2.0”. Massive update. 

[motoadve]

Really enjoy your work, I can see the passion you put into it, thanks a lot, I have all the campaigns for WWII planes have flown them all except V for Victor,  just completed the 3 Spitfire campaigns, first two I really enjoyed,  Epson  put my system to its knees even using F10 option for less units to help performance, its had poor performance stutters and even un playable in some missions(this is in VR AMD 7800x3D , 4090, 64GB RAM).

Keep the good work, cant wait for the next P51 campaign.

Any plans for another campaign for German planes?

 

[Reflected]

thanks! Epsom is not mine so I can't comment on that one. I have many other projects on my table so no German campaigns anytime soon, sorry.

[motoadve]

11 hours ago, Reflected said:

thanks! Epsom is not mine so I can't comment on that one. I have many other projects on my table so no German campaigns anytime soon, sorry.

Good to know, I was wondering, Epson did not seem to have your attention to detail and also to performance.

[Blackbird7]

On 11/26/2023 at 7:26 PM, Ghost79 said:

Well done on completing the campaign!  When flying through cloud focus on your main instruments, I make sure that the Climb/Dive gauge shows a steady climb rate and personally I use the gyro compass to make sure I'm maintaining direction(i don't trust the artificial horizon).  Hold your nerve using these instruments until you brake cloud cover.

I was thinking that next time I go into clouds, I use the compass + vertical speed indicator instead of artificial horizon. Thanks for confirming I had the right idea.

20 hours ago, Reflected said:

Awesome, glad you enjoyed it. Wait a bit with The Big Show, I’m in the middle of updating it to a “2.0”. Massive update. 

That's great to hear! Then I'm off to try something completely different, like helicopters, then get back to Spitfire when campaign update arrives.