PhoenixFC3 Posted January 5 Posted January 5 The last half of this campaign was really buggy, with AI aircraft taking down my targets and all the threats before I even have the chance to get there... at some missions the objectives are being complete while you still in cruise to the target...JTAC points enemies with smoke in the middle of nowhere and so on... there is a mission that you have to monitor a convoy and only fire back (mission 12 or 13)...but as soon as they fire at some allies tanks and you are clear to attack they are immediatly obliterated by allies AI tanks... so you've waited 30 min holding after a cruise flight there just to get a good job! RTB... some enemies also don't defend theirselfs and are sitting ducks on mission 14... I really felt like this campaign has been abandoned...maybe because its a little old and A10 is and old module as well but if you sell something you should make sure its still playable, (And I really wish I had my money back) I know that DCS is an ever updating simulator and bugs will occurs, but good developers are able to dodge them with fail safe triggers, or quickly arrest them as soon as someone point them... I had to wait months to complete it and it was still very buggy until the end...So I gave up on this but left my review about it.
King39 Posted January 7 Posted January 7 @PhoenixFC3 I'm sorry you're disappointed with your experience with Operation Agile Spear and sincerely hoped it would have been more enjoyable. But, I take exception to your comments regarding the updating of the campaign. Specifically, the fact that you feel the campaign has been abandoned and not updated is troubling as you must have forgotten or ignored the eleven (11) updates the campaign has undergone since it was released, the most recent of which was no less than December of 2024, AND that those updates were in direct response to your specific criticisms. Additionally, your assertion that "good developers" would be able to "dodge" bugs and anticipate core update problems with "failsafe" triggers is simply unrealistic and screams of immaturity on your part. The HARD FACT is that the Eagle Dynamics software team has been working VERY hard to expand the capabilities of the core game - specifically the AI logic code - and that the 3rd party developers, again myself included, have had to play catch-up to each and every change to the AI behavior. Mission scenarios which worked beautifully when released, quickly become unplayable when the the AI behave differently AFTER EVERY ONE OF THESE UPDATES. Again, while I understand and share your frustration, YOU need to understand that these changes will ultimately make DCS a better gaming environment and that all the developers are working VERY hard to integrate these changes into our products. But these changes will not, and do not, happen overnight and a little forbearance on your part would go a long way. EVERY effort has been, and will continue to be, made to create an immersive and fun environment for players of Agile Spear (as do ALL of the 3rd party devs). I encourage you to read the changelogs of each DCS update so you get a better understanding of the work that goes on behind the scenes. 2
PhoenixFC3 Posted January 9 Author Posted January 9 First things first... this isn't personal... I'm just a very disappointed customer. I've been playing DCS since I was a teenager and the game was called LOMAC (Lock on Modern Air Combat) I've about 1600hs on DCS according to steam, and I've played about 50 campaigns so far (I think that campaigns are a great way to become proeficient in a module and enjoy DCS), so I'm really used to AI misbehaviors and bugs, but they shouldn't keep you to complete the mission and definely not ruin the immersion in DCS. Agile Spear is the most bugged campaign that I've played so far, and its not only minor bugs neither one or two missions, the first half was ok but missions 8 until 15 have major issues. (And you can't even find people playing those missions on youtube, sometimes I check youtube to see if someone played it, what was suppose to happen... but my guess is no one did it because the missions are broke (8 until 15) I really believe that it must've been worked at some point in the past, so maybe I had bad luck on timming buying it and yes you've been updating it, however I don't think you played the missions because update after update mission 8 was still broken and unplayable until the last fix (still with some minor bugs like the apaches "Badger One" don't take off anymore). I've been complaining about it since august, (not overnight) So months aren't a reasonable amount of time to fix it?!... And after those fixes did you play it? I Know you may be short on staff and overload with work but still, it doesn't worth to release a fix, don't play the mission and it is still broken. Currently I'm a real life airline pilot so I guess you know I don't have all the time in the world to play DCS at home with VR... and I've wasted so many hours trying to play this campaign and this is very frustrating, so I gave up on this. When I speak about good developers, take reflected simulations as an example, they build far more complex missions (like in Speed and Angels they even give you a grade after you perform a maneuver) and DCS update after update they keep working like a chime.(No bugs whatsoever). This is just my opinion about it, again don't take it personally but I really wanted my money back on this one.
King39 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 @PhoenixFC3 You were correct and I was wrong. After a review of most of the missions, we can see there are many problems, some significant, which requires a thorough scrub of the entire campaign. This will take some time but rest assured, we are working diligently to correct and update the campaign. Again, we are profoundly sorry for the problems you encountered and hope we will be able to create a positive playing environment for you in the future., John 1
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