MP Campaign for A10C?

[Ripcord]

I've done a couple searches but I don't seem to see any kind of real campaign for MP for DCS A-10C. See plenty of single missions for MP however. Am I missing any?

 

How would a MP campaign be played, anyway? I guess the campaign would be played on the hosts computer, and the clients just join in?

 

Ripcord

[Ripcord]

Guess there are none?

 

Figured somebody might have made a comment on this....

[Grimes]

The need of the "campaign system" of single player isn't really needed as it simply loads the next stage. If anything a trigger could be used that displays a text message that the players accomplished their task and can load the next mission.

 

As a whole co-op translations of the campaigns are do-able, however the AI's behavior for taxiing on runways kinda breaks the mission. For the most part you just need to add client slots to each mission in a campaign while removing the players AI wingmen. Georgian Hammer would be the most difficult to translate as aircraft typically start on the runway ready to go in the SP version. Also the 3 alternative missions are actually the same mission, just with the player in a different role, one would need to combine all 3 objectives into a single mission in order to "score" it properly.

[Ripcord]

Thanks for the response.

 

So it could be done, but it just hasn't been done.

 

I agree completely that it would not work well simply modifying the existing campaigns. It would require a totally different set of goals that aren't pilot-specific, and really a different structure in general.

 

Would a MP campaign be of any interest if it had only two players -- one host and one client? Or would it have to be 3-4 players or more?

 

Doing a bit of experimenting here.

 

Ripcord

[skyblazer1]

A multiplayer campaign would be fantastic.

 

It would be great to have a series of missions that took place in a similar geography, with similar types of threats and resources available to the players. After a few missions people who flew together would have a sense of the landscape and where good targets were likely to be found, and where the well-defended targets and threats were.

 

It might feel more like an air-war than the series of unrelated missions we have now.

 

 

As for number of players...... I usually fly as a two ship, and a 4 ship at most.... but that is because I only fly with people that I really trust; people who take the time to plan, brief, and debrief each mission.

 

 

Keep us posted,

 

Chris

Edited May 27, 2011 by skyblazer1