Quick start - Intercept mission. Really.. really?

[MadTommy]

I don't like to criticise ED, producing products of such great quality.

 

But... jeeze the quick start 'intercept' mission is well... i'd prefer not to describe it.

 

I have about 15 minutes in the P51 cockpit... it took me 30 seconds, one 3 second burst of guns.. and that is mission over, one transport plane and that's it. I flew around for 5 minutes expecting something else to spawn.. but no.

 

Why was it even included? Weird. Took longer to load the mission than it did to complete it.

[Kenan]

^^I understand your grief. Same was with israeli pilots who recently shot down that drone. They were like "Wtf? I'm flying in an F-16 and they scramble us to shoot a drone?! Is that it? I mean, we love our air force but seriously, it took me longer to ramp start and take off then to complete the damn thing.."

 

In other words: war is hell. And yes, sometimes it can be boring.

[MadTommy]

Well i altered the mission. Nothing special, there are 7 of so transports heading to Sochi. (Can't actually remember how many!) Gives you a little more to practice with.

 

 

Simply drop the attached mission into: Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\P-51D\Missions\EN\QuickStart

and you will have it available from the quick start menu.

 

* (IT WILL OVERWRITE THE ORIGINAL)

P-51D Intercept.miz

[Tailgate]

That's what the mission editor is for, you can create your own as challenging as you want. :)

[MadTommy]

That's what the mission editor is for, you can create your own as challenging as you want. :)

 

I know very very well what the editor is for.

 

However the Quick Missions, of which there are only a very few, should certainly give more than this particular one does. One unit, one waypoint, no triggers, a 4 word briefing... it must have taken literally seconds to make.

 

Anyway it is no big issue, just very very surprised it was included as a quick mission. ;)

[-Mop-]

^^I understand your grief. Same was with israeli pilots who recently shot down that drone. They were like "Wtf? I'm flying in an F-16 and they scramble us to shoot a drone?! Is that it? I mean, we love our air force but seriously, it took me longer to ramp start and take off then to complete the damn thing.."

 

In other words: war is hell. And yes, sometimes it can be boring.

 

Lol ;-)

[Echo38]

Understand that for most new virtual pilots (even ones who have thousands of hours in real aircraft), taking down a single target--even a transport airplane--with the gun can take the entire load of ammunition. I've seen this consistently across flight sims, when I was offering basic virtual flight training.

[tusler]

Drop a SU in there to escort them transports then try it.