Operation Cerberus North - Deep Dive

[@MattWagner]

Great stuff, Chris, and well done!

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thanks Matt!

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Wow, this is DCS Mission building level 20000000. As a mission builder I know that giving the players options, and having the mission story branching based on player input/ performance is a nightmare to build, it exponentially increases your work, but it looks like you weren't afraid of this. Extra kudos for all the little details. I know it takes ages to set up and chances are the player won't even notice. My hats off, I really wish I understood all the Hornet's gadgets and I could give this a try.

[@MisterMannIndy]

That's some HIGH praise from someone who I consider to be at the top of the Campaign building space. I am about to purchase this and seeing this video, along with this comment has me ultra excited to try this out. Looking forward to the experience, Chris!

[@GergelyBolla]

Awesome campaign, lots of little details help with total immersion. Interesting story and dialogues, and the best is you're not forced to listen to them, they're completely optional. I'm only on the 5th mission and already looking forward to play the whole thing again. Thanks for the great experience, well worth the $$!!!

[@omarselim6281]

"A campaign in a standalone game within the sim" That, my friend, in so few words captures a thought I've been having for YEARS now but unable to articulate. I think you have the potential of creating something amazing with your platform and I can't wait to see it.

[@Jwalker21NC]

OPF and OCN were both exceptional! Even as they’ve aged I find myself replaying them and having just as much fun if not more each time.

[@awcleve]

Ground Pounder is very impressive so far!!! Loved Persian Freedom, and I’m ready take a crack at this. Any Ground Pounder, Reflected, or Baltic are an instant buy for me.

[@Jakes_1-1]

Your hard work shows and this is incredible. I am 4 missions in and absolutely blown away by every mission so far, no bugs, no issues other than the ones I caused for myself and not a second of boredom. Thank you for all your hard work!

[@BooliusGoozlur]

This was hands down the best campaign I have played in DCS. Great job.

[@Gribbstar]

New DCS player here. Bought the F18 and wanted some missions to get my teeth into, so picked up this campaign and the Syria map. I'm blown away. Really, really immersive considering how hardcore of a sim DCS is. Keep up the awesome work!

[@azayomi]

So I am playing through it now. I love the atmosphere of it. I completed the first mission. I can see there is a mountain of work involved in its creation! Will see how I go through the campaign. Great contribution! Awesome video! Cheers!

[@UWfalcin]

Just started this one as I finally thought it was time to do proper missions and campaign and I must say it just showed me a whole other world of DCS for me instead of just pounding TOO targets with simple weapon systems or airquaking. Holy SH*T this is an amazing campaign! Never knew DCS had this capability with such talented and passionate people as you! (However can’t evade the manpad on mission 5 by the downed pilot. Never understood how to dodge a manpad as they’re fired so close and have a lot of energy). Thank you!

[@UWfalcin]

Feel so priviliged things like this exists for me to experience at my desk at any time.

[@codygarland6365]

Awesome job, loved Persian Freedom and was delighted to see this and the return of Steep. Amazing work!

[@lankypilot778]

Looking forward to climbing into Steeps boots again! I'm sure he's a bit worried about the prospect tho haha. Looks a beauty mate can't wait :)

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Looking forward to it!

[@yewls7794]

Awesome, can't wait to get into this, and really looking forward to the Harrier campaign you've teased. It's such a cool bird with so many interesting systems, but no content out there that really challenges anyone to use it properly, I know you'll do it justice!

[@ramtin-s8722]

Im currently at mission 9 I believe and I really like it! A lot of depth and effort went in to this campaign. Great job. Hope you make one for the viper as well.

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thanks very much! Great to hear you're enjoying. As for the Viper...kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWrHaZSnfNKAj9U

[@sj1461]

I was only halfway through the sample mission when I decided to buy the whole campaign. Outstanding product!

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thank you!

[@TheKythia]

I wish there wasn't so much crackling at the beginning of each radio message (don't know how to better explain it), but the rest looks awesome. Once I've learned the Hornet, I will return here for sure.

[@ColeNorthgate]

Absolute banger, masterclass, can't wait to play it and record the missions. Thanks for amazing work.

[@wilbuzllf5057]

I'm not flying the Hornet much but hot damn! This looks good enough to start flying that module more! Extremely impressive!

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thanks!

[@gabrielechiapparini]

I loved it. Im waiting for a f18 new one. I also loved critical dialogs about missions and choices… Thanks!

[@Lochaby]

Went out and bought this! Can't wait to dig in.

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thanks, hope you enjoy!

[@D0CTORD0OM]

I really enjoy your Campaign. Thx for this 👍🏻

[@Vayth1966]

Not sure when I will play this but due to this video I just purchased the campaign.

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thank you kindly!

[@higherresolution3511]

Loved Persian Freedom! Thank you for everything. It’s been great fun. An AH-64D campaign = Instant purchase :D

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thank you! Hopefully down the line for the '64, just need to refine George a bit, which I'm sure will come in time. I've got loads of research and ideas for an apache campaign so fingers crossed!

[@grissomplays2546]

Very enjoyable campaign, well done.

[@itsdeebs5156]

Just completed mission one very much impressed. Did get chewed out by the tower for doing "fly by" aka a standard left hand pattern. Think I might need to read the spins a bit more

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thanks! Yeah there are lots of little things like this that can get you chewed out a little, the SPINS are important for avoiding this. Still fully completable without, but for the best scores you need to pay attention to all the procedures. The danger in the overhead break is flying too low over the base housing, which I took from the real life Incirlik instructions. You have to be careful around Incirlik as there's quite a few restricted flight areas.

[@itsdeebs5156]

@@groundpoundersimulations8317 oh absolutely I love it. I think I pulled 95 with the chew out (loved it) re did tonight after CAREFULLY reading the spins. Mate. You've done an amazing job.

[@johnalkiviades2779]

Persian freedom is incredible. Shame multiplayer is not possible. I would pay £100 for your products just so me and friend could go through this together.

[@rpersen]

Can’t wait to try this!

[@SDsc0rch]

excellent -- will purchase...

[@OlivierGaming]

I loved opération persian freedom and i did the first mission of this campaign i m sur i will love it

[@BIGNEWY]

Thanks Chris, shared on ED twitter and facebook

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thank you!

[@Peter-bakker]

I did like operation persian freedom so i am sure this one Wil be that good to or even better, thnx for those great campagnes 👌

[@masterman3178]

I tried the campaign but I had a lot of issues. Sound cutting out, squelch getting stuck so I was forced to hear static, triggers not working as intended. This could be due to DCS bugs and not necessarily the missions itself but I just couldn’t be bothered with it. I’m sure it’s a great campaign but I refunded.

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Sorry to hear that, sounds more like a DCS issue at your end, nothing in the campaign that would affect your squelch and not had any other reports of this nature. If you're having a radio issue though that's likely to mess with the triggers. Thanks for trying though!

[@masterman3178]

@@groundpoundersimulations8317 trust me I don’t blame you guys at all. I have a beefy rig but the issues happened twice. I flew your other stuff and it was great and I know other are enjoying this one and I know it took a lot of work. No hard feelings and I’d still return to you as a customer in the future.

[@alpiinoo135]

Looking nice.

[@jcbak]

The voice-overs should be done with a headset. Room echo is an immersion killer.

[@HEATER_]

Sir, Amazing campaign so far! I love it when I get off course for too long. I can't wait to play more. I'm on mission 4, and can't get my Spacebar to activate any Comms. I've read the docs and I have cycled the Comms menu lacking, "Flight", "Other", and "F10" options, many times. How would you suggest I continue?

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thanks! The spacebar command won't usually work until your radio is set. So if this isn't working for you then this is the most likely reason, double check that once you've selected your radio channel you have pressed Enter on the UFC, the Hornet won't always detect the radio channel until you do that. If that doesn't solve it please let me know the exact part of the mission it's happening and who you're trying to contact on the radio so I can help further.

[@HEATER_]

@@groundpoundersimulations8317 I am sadly humbled to say, that before your accurate account of my idiot problem, I realized my error. I'm laughing now! Thanks 4 the speedy reply. Well done!

[@jackhicks2429]

More awesome work Chris! Big fan of Persian Freedom, just played the first mission of this one yesterday, super impressed with all the supporting documentation! Quick question… is there anything prohibiting the release of multiplayer campaigns? From the outside in it seems it would be simple enough change, but I’m not sure what kind of knock on effect a second player client would have on things like triggers, etc. Great work fella keep it up!!!

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Thanks Jack, glad you're enjoying! DCS' campaign interface just isn't built for multiplayer yet, apart from that the biggest issue is some long standing issues with radio transmissions between the clients I believe, I tried to convert some persian freedom missions a while back and there were loads of problems with the client hearing comms.

[@jackhicks2429]

That’s fair enough, yeah I assumed there was something technical in the way, either way though you’ve knocked with the single player stuff, looking forward to get my teeth stuck into this one! :)

[@willielinks3865]

I want to play so bad, I love the emerson and effort put into this campaign and I bought it the day it released. But unfortunately I can't get it to run. It takes no joke 20 min just for the menu to load in the campaign section and almost 30 minutes to load the actual mission and put me in the plane. Once I'm there it's so glitchy and slow that it crashes. Any advice? My graphics are set to the very lowest settings and I haven't had issues like this before with any campaign or map. Thank you, I hope I can start playing this soon.

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

What are your system specs?

[@willielinks3865]

@@groundpoundersimulations8317 Intel(R) Core (TM) i5-8265U CPU @1.60 GHz 1.80 GHz 8.00 GB (7.89 Useable) 64-bit operating system x64 based processor

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

@@willielinks3865 your ram sounds low especially for Syria missions. Your loading times are massive as well, are you on an SSD or hard drive? Hard drives on DCS are unfortunately quite slow. In terms of advice I'm no expert, I would recommend the forums on the ED website where you'll get far more knowledge than I have.

[@willielinks3865]

@@groundpoundersimulations8317 so you think my system isn't too good for something as complex as your missions? I have a bare bones set up, I run on my harddrive as well, basic C-Drive. Thank you for the input I really appreciate it, I've wanted to play this campaign for a while, you've done tremendous work on it

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

@@willielinks3865 unfortunately I think any complex mission on DCS is really going to push your system, anything on Syria even more so. There's always little optimisations you can make to settings both in DCS and more globally so worth investigating to see if you can squeeze a little more out your system. Not sure what your position is on upgrading elements of your system, RAM if you can is a must, I think DCS recommends 32GB for heavier missions and it makes a big difference.

[@julianmorrisco]

He said growler. He he. I’ll get me coat.

[@julianmorrisco]

I’m really enjoying it so far. It’s nice that if I feel like doing the OCD thing I can but if I screw up, the next attempt can be a little more streamlined. Great campaign so far (I’m about a third the way through).

[@philippe80]

You are the best

[@Chenstrapftw]

@5:28 predator hornet confirmed

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Ha ha very good, turns out motion blur and trees don't mix

[@Ghost-pz3uy]

How many units did you placed?

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

About 1500-2000 I think from memory

[@wolfmanDCS]

Can this be played in VR?

[@groundpoundersimulations8317]

Absolutely, I only fly in VR in DCS so the whole campaign was tested in VR