DCS Mission planning

[jayr7720]

Hi guys, have you seen the way star citizen let player choose missions/job? 

I was wondering that we could have a lobby/briefing room to choose mission before entering the aircraft and flying around the territory. I'm new to the game but got me thinking in enriching a little bit the look and feel of the sim.

I know that liberation mission has some features that adress this mission centered side but is quite overwhelming since it isn't native to the game. 

Having a feature where the player can choose what to do before entering the aircraft would give more opportunity to newcomers on getting a better grip of how things go around in online servers, specially because I don't see a lot of communication in the online sessions. 

Since we have a module where we can drive tanks and stuff I first thought we could join ingame properly with our ragdoll pilot and go to a specific location to get mission, as in starcitizen... but a enhanced lobby might also do the trick.

It's not a formated wish, just an idea to increase adherence and user experience is the game, seems that it isn't such a vast implementation and might do some good for the players.

[draconus]

Briefing/ready room is already WIP for Supercarrier module.

 

[jayr7720]

Oh nice, I hope they can bring the feature to the whole game so people can rely more on core features of the platform on doing multiplayer missions.
 

[andhog]

On 12/24/2023 at 8:43 AM, jayr7720 said:

Hi guys, have you seen the way star citizen let player choose missions/job? 

I was wondering that we could have a lobby/briefing room to choose mission before entering the aircraft and flying around the territory. I'm new to the game but got me thinking in enriching a little bit the look and feel of the sim.

I know that liberation mission has some features that adress this mission centered side but is quite overwhelming since it isn't native to the game. 

Having a feature where the player can choose what to do before entering the aircraft would give more opportunity to newcomers on getting a better grip of how things go around in online servers, specially because I don't see a lot of communication in the online sessions. 

Since we have a module where we can drive tanks and stuff I first thought we could join ingame properly with our ragdoll pilot and go to a specific location to get mission, as in starcitizen... but a enhanced lobby might also do the trick.

It's not a formated wish, just an idea to increase adherence and user experience is the game, seems that it isn't such a vast implementation and might do some good for the players.

Excellent idea that I've been thinking of as well.

It's a bit sad that the briefing room is developed only for carrier operations. I would rather see that they split the mission editor into a "scenario editor" and a "mission planner" where the "scenario editor" would be where you set the scene and the "mission planner" would be the tool where pilots plan the mission/missions.

The mission editor is currently both and that's perhaps ok when you want to create a single mission and then fly it yourself. However, when we have things like Pretense on MP servers where there are multiple available missions to choose from we really need a way to plan our sorties.

Just to have the ability to create flight plans on the F10 map would be a great step. 

[andhog]

A mission planner where you could:

• See weather info (winds, cloud base etc)
• Create flight plans on a map (waypoints, IPs, offsets etc)
• Set the payload
• Configure countermeasures
• Configure comms
• Configure data link

[twistking]

6 hours ago, andhog said:

A mission planner where you could:

• See weather info (winds, cloud base etc)
• Create flight plans on a map (waypoints, IPs, offsets etc)
• Set the payload
• Configure countermeasures
• Configure comms
• Configure data link

• Make doodles on the map, that are optionally MP-synced and will show up on the kneeboard map
• Have the planner automatically scrape the mission file for all relevant radio frequencies and be able to select which of those frequencies will automatically populate a generated kneeboard page
• Be able to select airports and nav beacons which will automatically populate a generated kneeboard page with frequencies (nav, atc, ils etc.)
• Have the planner scrape your user folder for custom kneepage pages and be able to select which of those to include