GOW campaing not starting from the beggining?

[Irregular programming]

I just realized that the GOW campaign doesn't start from the first mission but the third.

 

Why is that?

 

Does everyone have this? This youtube video suggests otherwise:

DnSrClVc-PM

 

I run the Steam version of the game if that makes any difference.

[Distiler]

Well, you can start the whole GOW campaign, starting at the third stage, or start each of the three chapters independently, starting at the first stage of each one. Don't know why they did this way, but if you open the grand campaign in the "campaign builder" you can change the start stage.

[Madman777]

For that video I just selected the mission from the folder and opened it that way. I never do the campaigns from the campaign menu.

[nemises]

the campaign is semi dynamic.

As you start a "tier" , you will randomly get given one of the missions in the Tier.

If you succeed, you will go up a Tier and get given a random mission from that tier..if you fail you will go down a tier, and if you just do 50% you will stay on the tier you are on.

 

If you look at the file structure of the campain missions (%blacksharkdir%\missions\campain\) , you'll see 100 of the following files:

ATO-A-xxx.miz

ATO-B-xxx.miz

ATO-C-xxx.miz

 

the A, B and C refer to the 3 "stages" of the campain (can be played seperately or as 1 large campaign)

 

The campaign file of the "Grand Campaign" specifies the following:

 

campaign = 
{
   directory = "C:/Program Files/Black Shark/Missions/Campaigns/",
   startStage = [b]3[/b],

 

  [3] = 
       {
           name = "A 3",
           missions = 
           {
               [1] = 
               {
                   interval = 
                   {
                       [1] = 0,
                       [2] = 50,
                   }, -- end of interval
                   file = "[b]ATO-A-P3.1.miz[/b]",
.....

 

Which starts you at the middle mission set (3) on the first tier (a) ..

It then randomly (technically dependant on your previous mission success/failure) chooses a sub-mission and starts you there.

 

This is a non-linear way of making sure that each time you play the champaign it is different, yet still valid and sequential (in terms of phases of the battle), allthough your role within in it is defined by your performance.

 

Anyway,

Thats a long explanation for a simple answer....because the campaign is non-linear , there is no proper "first mission"...only a mission in the first tier

[Irregular programming]

^^ Yeah, that's what I meant. It doesn't start me in the first tier as I would have expected it to, it starts me in the third. :)

 

Anyway, thank you all.

Edited April 25, 2011 by Irregular programming

[nemises]

The reason for this is so you can go backwards form the beginning (if you like) ...

ie. if you start the campaign, and fail the first mission, you can still drop a Tier.

 

If you started at A-P1-1 , then you could only go "forward" in the campaign, which doesn't allow for failure.