09-12-2014, 07:38 PM
(09-11-2014, 09:15 PM)kutya link Wrote:I recall the times where there were flight sims with decent dynamic campaigns. Some people whine about Falcon 4.0 being way more simplistic than DCS (level of detail), but I'll never forget the feeling of "being there". I died at start too but for me it was more believable.
Also had great fun with Total Air War (F22). The dynamic campaign was far from perfect, but I really enjoyed deep strikes once the enemy's air defense was weakened. Same feeling of "being there".
TBH I don't get the same in DCS. It's obviously ages ahead of Falcon regarding fidelity, but it lacks the soul of Falcon. You die? Just restart the mission. Didn't die (theoretically in my case )? Next mission. In the case of DCS it doesn't really matter how well you did, the next mission always starts the same. Okay, there are variations, but you get the point.
Il2DCG (dynamic campaign for Il2 Sturmovik) isn't really deep, but it's way more satisfactory for me, than all the linear campaigns people made. This is my usual rant about Arma missions too Don't stray away from the waypoints, you'll find an empty map.
Yeah, many people wish for a dynamic campaign in DCS. Maybe one day! I guess if people are playing online, then it's possible for the admins to make a dynamic campaign, as in if you die you don't get to play in the next mission (or at least not with the plane that got destroyed) and tailor each mission to reflect what happened in the previous one but it would be nice to have a SP dynamic campaign as well.
I think Falcon BMS is pretty high fidelity, for the flight model at least, maybe not so much for radar, AA, etc. Still very popular though. I keep trying to get into it but the control setup is such a mess, with hard to understand text files (and the GUI is pretty bad and has issues with corrupting stuff if you use it to edit the controls after doing stuff in the text file), that I never get very far and I need to sort out a joystick with more hats than my FFB2 to play it really. Apparently v4.33 is going to have a much better controller mapping editor though, so I'll have another look at it then.