DCS: Mission Editor Tutorial | Creating Fun and Realistic Co-Op Missions! | PART 2 of 2

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This tutorial covers how I go about creating Co-Op missions for the WingmanFinder group.
I also go in depth as to how I plan out waypoints, build target areas, choose loadouts, create a briefing and my rationale for how to create enemy defenses that are fun and challenging but not overwhelming. My channel and thus my missions are all about balancing flying realistically with having as much fun as possible and I explain how I personally balance the two.
If you are interested in learning how to create missions for yourself or your group, I recommend following along in this video and creating the mission that I build yourself along with me.
Here is a link to my Patreon Page every bit of support helps make awesome DCS videos possible! / spudknocker
Patrons are able to download the .Miz file that was created in this video!
If you want to contact me with feedback on videos or want to collaborate feel free to join my personal discord here: / discord \

[@Spudknocker]

I know this is a long video but it should give you a good idea as to how I create the fun missions that I run on the WingmanFinder group and show off on my channel! Please consider pledging to my Patreon www.patreon.com/Spudknocker all Patrons are able to download the mission I created here in this video!

[@rwhunt99]

Thanks, very well done, I'm basically a newbie and I create very basic single player missions, so this is a step up for me, I will try to make this mission and hopefully get everything to work. I appreciate you taking the time to do this!

[@Faks_Ar]

Your keyboard is a painful. Thanks for the guide!

[@deciopenna]

Just found this and love your channel already. Any videos of you playing this mission?

[@hornetdriver8509]

Well made Spud! Answered a lot of my questions! Cobra and I are going to start making some missions for us at WingmanFinder to fly. Unfortunately I don't think my machine has the horsepower to host them.

[@Spudknocker]

HornetDriver aweosme dude make some missions and I can host them!

[@thefridge71]

You're a legend mate. Enjoyed every second of this, created my own map along with you for me and mate to fly together. He is going to do some Ground Attack in the SU-25T while I escort in my F14 Tomcat. Hoping he will buy it so he can RIO for me or vice versa. Thanks for including some RAAF fellas in there as well. Much appreciated.

[@Spudknocker]

Tom Fraser hey man I’m so glad it helped you out!

[@thefridge71]

@@Spudknocker it was perfect mate. I love your videos, my favourite DCS tutorials by a mile. Easy to understand and thorough enough for me to learn as a Noob. I have played 120 hours of this in the last twenty days, I think I am addicted to the learning side of it. It is incredible how much there is to be done for a single jet. Thanks for your hard work.

[@Solbadgreg]

Ah yes, The Real Top Gun documentary music. Love the intro!

[@MichaelNelsonYT]

Is there a video of you playing on this mission?

[@Gert-DK]

2 hours lesson without the great final. I would also like to see the outcome.

[@kentvilla1]

Great videos. Have you got this mission playing in multiplayer, if so whats it called as i would love to fly this mission?

[@Sledge72au]

I know this was live, however recommend new ME guys to put the mission brief in notepad..im OCD so make many changes :)

[@NaftaLefa]

So, i created a mission and send the miz-file to my friend. How we play it together?

[@TheKahvipapu123]

Where exactly do I get those group templates? For me the list has a Patriot site for the US and a small SA-10 site for Russia, but that's it. Do they come with the gulf or some other map? Or am I just an idiot and missing something obvious?

[@Spudknocker]

Marmeladimonni are you on open beta? Also try choosing Iran

[@TheKahvipapu123]

@@Spudknocker I should be. At least my version number matches the one given for the beta at their site. I guess I'll try to repair my dcs and see if that helps. Luckily this is not that critical of a problem, since I just make some simple missions for myself and a couple of friends. It just would be a lot easier to use ready templates for SAM sites than to just make up something and hope it works. EDIT: Still empty after a repair. EDIT #2: Took a look at the template file and indeed, there was only 2 groups for SA-11 (one of them is probably my doing), 2 SA-10 groups, 4 Patriot groups (again, one probably mine) and an insurgent mortar group. EDIT #3: Found the original templates in a "templates.lua" file in the "DCS World\MissionEditor\data\scripts" folder. Overwrote the file in the "Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\MissionEditor" and now I can see the templates just fine.

[@stalhuth]

play with ai in this game is very very risky

[@timtoomuch]

Meanwhile in the news f18 hornets drop spiral hams on the enemies 😅🤣😂

[@Piergeiron]

Why don't you just click the "disk"-icon to save, once you got the file named? :D

[@Spudknocker]

Piergeiron you could do that too lol

[@Piergeiron]

@@Spudknocker I know, and I do that religiously - a very good thing for you to point out, one way or the other! :D Nice overview, btw, very cool!

[@Bigalldone]

thanks but not much fun when you know what to expect... Have been bashing my head against DCS planner for a few days now and I have to say clicking "CAMPAIGN" in Falcon BMS and go fly regardless of the lesser graphics is far and beyond better then what DCS has to offer.