MP/SP Campaign: Silent Thunder

[Mistermann]

14 hours ago, CrimzN said:

Mission 3 was awesome. That KORD was a challenge, moving all over the place, I managed to get him on a bridge eventually. Something I noticed with mission 4, maybe it has already been reported. Slot 1 client on mission 4 puts you super close to a static and a Blackhawk to the point where startup can bust you. Slot 2 gives you plenty of room to startup, not sure why DCS is doing that. 

See second post.  I looks like you may be starting as a SP mission.

[Mistermann]

Progress Report:  November 3, 2024

Not much progress to report.  Before the latest patch dropped, @Devil 505 and I were hammering out the details of the final 2 missions.  We've settled on an approach and I am looking forward to getting back into the ME and wrapping this campaign up.  

Unfortunately the latest DCS World patch messed my Kiowa bindings big time.  Personally, I really hoped ED would undo their SNAFU and roll back the Kiowa code they promoted by mistake.  Admittedly, I am not in the greatest head space right now with this module and candidly don't feel like re-binding everything now and then again when the real patch drops in 6-weeks.  Considering I need the module to test the missions, this situation will delay the completion of the campaign.

[CrimzN]

Totally understand. The Kiowa patch snafu was a real bummer. We have a multiplayer event in our group today and we basically had to replace the Kiowa slots because no one has confidence in it right now with the current state. I hope they come to a quick resolution, so we can experience the final two episodes of Silent Thunder.

[Devil 505]

4 hours ago, CrimzN said:

We have a multiplayer event in our group today and we basically had to replace the Kiowa slots because no one has confidence in it right now with the current state.

 

5 hours ago, Mistermann said:

Unfortunately the latest DCS World patch messed my Kiowa bindings big time.

This new patch caused some pretty big headaches for me as well.  Kiowa binding are shot, not sure what else is incomplete or not working with the Kiowa right now so hard to trouble shoot anything that surfaces.  Then the Chinook is dead in the water for me.  Have not been able to start her up without completely killing my PIMAX upon jumping into our Vietnam mission.  Sucks, but I agree with Mistermann that we should hold off until the Kiowa issues get addressed and another patch is released with the bugs that came out of this last one.    

[Mistermann]

5 hours ago, CrimzN said:

I hope they come to a quick resolution, so we can experience the final two episodes of Silent Thunder.

Not holding my breath.  A rollback, if they were going to do it, would have happened in the hotfix.  I doubt ED's going to do anything about it now.  Damage is done and they're going to live with it ... uh, I mean force us to live with it.

I'd like to think there were discussions with Polychop on what they wanted done, IDK.  There's plenty of other things for me to do in DCS that take my mind off this situation.  Sounds like you're in the same boat, CrimzN.  

We'll circle back to Silent Thunder soon.  Thanks for the interest!

[CrimzN]

Big update for the Kiowa today, will have to test it and put it through its paces, but hopefully this can help kick start flying the Kiowa again, and progress on this amazing campaign.

[Devil 505]

1 hour ago, CrimzN said:

Big update for the Kiowa today, will have to test it and put it through its paces, but hopefully this can help kick start flying the Kiowa again, and progress on this amazing campaign.

We were just discussing this yesterday about wrapping it up.  Look forward to finishing up the Story and getting it out there

 

[CrimzN]

Hey friends, just checking in. Hoping there is a conclusion to this amazing campaign!

[Devil 505]

On 2/26/2025 at 11:19 PM, CrimzN said:

Hey friends, just checking in. Hoping there is a conclusion to this amazing campaign!

HAHAHA, we do it owe everyone this!!!!  I will talk to Kandy about it.  We got sucked into our Vietnam ITJ mission which was a small side project, and it blew up into a fan boy favorite of the community.  We had the groundwork laid out for the last few missions so I will get with Kandy and see if we can't get it knocked out.  We do want to finish it! I will see if we can do a fam flight again in the Kiowa and get back on track with it.  Appreciate the support and follow up.  Love that community digs our stuff!!!!  Thank you so much for the support.

[CrimzN]

Wait, you guys did the Into The Jungle campaign? I haven’t tried it yet but a lot of guys in the community are talking about it. Wow didn’t make that connection. Awesome stuff. Okay well take your time you guys are putting out awesome content

[Mistermann]

Yeah, that's us.  That's not really a campaign, but a single MP oriented completely random mission relying on cooperative play.

It's occupied a tremendous amount of energy in the past 4 months.  

[Devil 505]

46 minutes ago, CrimzN said:

Wait, you guys did the Into The Jungle campaign? I haven’t tried it yet but a lot of guys in the community are talking about it. Wow didn’t make that connection. Awesome stuff. Okay well take your time you guys are putting out awesome content

HAHAHAH! Yes, those clowns who made Into the Jungle are us. LOL. Just posted a video this morning from our last flight.  Thread for ITJ is below with the latest video.  We got all kinds of ideas and objectives we are incorporating into our mission that will transfer over to other maps very well.  Stay tuned.  We have our heads in the jungle right now, but I see some Desert combat on the horizon. 

 

[CrimzN]

That is great, I am definitely gonna check it out. Thanks for sharing and awesome work!

Edited March 2 by CrimzN

[Devil 505]

1 hour ago, CrimzN said:

That is great, I am definitely gonna check it out. Thanks for sharing and awesome work!

Hell Yeah!

[CrimzN]

Honestly, there is a surprising lack of quality helo campaigns in DCS, this could easily become a for pay Kiowa campaign, I think it would sell. Especially if you held off on giving away the last two missions, rather rolled them into an official DCS campaign. I know I'd buy it.

[Mistermann]

8 hours ago, CrimzN said:

Honestly, there is a surprising lack of quality helo campaigns in DCS, this could easily become a for pay Kiowa campaign, I think it would sell. Especially if you held off on giving away the last two missions, rather rolled them into an official DCS campaign. I know I'd buy it.

Thank you, CrimzN.  That really means a lot.  Honestly, I am flattered by the feedback.  I have a pretty high standard for the stuff I make for the group.  I'd like to think it compares favorably to some of the SP payware campaigns out there.  I doubt this could ever be converted into a payware offering, however.  Besides it being MP oriented which ED after decades still doesn't really support in a campaign format, there's a lot of NSFW content that could never be in payware.  

Honestly, I'd rather "give back" to the community by doing this for free.  

Admittedly, the last 4-5 months have killed my personal investment for the Kiowa - I haven't even flown it once since the patch disaster late last year.  The ED "half patch" control bind killing SNAFU coupled with Polychop's drama around their mass development exodus makes it really hard for me to re-engage my personal passion for what feels like a dead or dying product to me.  Just being real here - that's how I feel right now.   

However, @Devil 505 and I made a commitment to create a campaign for the community.  We WILL finish it.  But ... right now, ALL my creative time is going into "Into The Jungle".  

And no - this isn't me looking for others to jump in and offer encouragement or donations to complete or simply to get attention.  This is NOT cancelled.  

I know this isn't great news for the fans of this experience, but I'd rather you know where things stand at the moment vs. being in the dark.