Retribution 1.2 Preview

[@Raffson]

Glad you like our latest improvements! Your reviews are much appreciated 🙏 If you have any specific requests or suggestions, don’t hesitate to let us know 😉

[@m.chimiste]

Can you point me to where OPFOR AI create packages / make decisions about creating packages? I have a crazy idea I want to try out (time permitting).

[@Raffson]

@@m.chimiste ​​⁠ a good place to start would be packageplanningtask, but ultimately everything in the “commander” folder plays some role in the auto-planner’s behavior. I’ve been planning to tackle this beast for a while now, and I’m most likely going to introduce some tweaks in v1.2 to BARCAPs, because the AI plans waaay too many of them, and sometimes they’re utterly useless 😂 But I have to say, I’m intrigued now that you mention you have a crazy idea 🧐😅

[@m.chimiste]

@@Raffson so I’ve mentioned this before on some of my videos, but I do research on LLMs. There is some very interesting research on using LLMs for planning behaviors as well as beating RL agents on complex tasks such as playing Minecraft. I’m very curious if I can do something similar with package planning behavior. If DCS had a nice SDK for tactical commanders, I’d try my hand at that as well. Most of my work is proprietary, but I’m starting to release some open source projects. The most recent one was an app called PaperPal for prioritizing literature for me. Granted for this task I’m going to use a much smaller model.

[@Raffson]

@@m.chimiste that’s a crazy idea indeed but I can imagine the payoff will be huge, I for one got my fingers crossed 🤞😎

[@BlitzOrange]

Was looking for a way to get realistic missions for my friends and I to play and this might just be the ticket! Great content, thanks for the overviews of Retribution and Liberation dude

[@m.chimiste]

Definitely check out Retribution, it's a lot of fun.

[@BlitzOrange]

@@m.chimiste Got it downloading rn 🤙

[@mdeerocks6792]

Single ship. Doesn't talk to ATC. No IFF. No comms at all. Shooting blindly. "Realistic". The effortsto make this work are commendable, but until DCS fixes fundamental issues with core game, it's a cockpit simulator at best. I don't see a point of doing any "campaigns", a single mission flight can be fun though.

[@DeusEx0101]

I am confused as to why they made this a fork and not contribute to liberation?

[@Raffson]

To make a long story short, I actually started out contributing towards Liberation. Then one thing led to another and before I knew it I got kicked out their dev team and was basically told I could maintain my own fork. Hence, together with a few good men, we decided to embark onto this journey 😜

[@surfman88]

I like using wingman but problem is still that they get out of fuel. Guess that’s same here?

[@Raffson]

Couple of months back I tried increasing estimated flight times between HOLD & JOIN, as well as JOIN & INGRESS iirc, I think it has a bit of an effect but ultimately everything comes down to whether or not the other flights in your package manage to takeoff in time. This usually becomes a problem when you have more than 2 packages taking off within a 10min timespan. Another improvement that we’ve introduced (not sure if Liberation has this too) allows the AI to dump its fuel tanks when they’re empty, which should also increase their operational range since they have less drag and thus burn less fuel.