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Warthog In The Desert

Yes and it would make it difficult to use the no waypoints/GPS points. However I am going to create a whole new campaign called “Hogs in The Sand” which will be based on a book of the same name. I will incorporate the best bits of Warthog in the Desert and enhance the gameplay with weather and the new units and a new map. Going to be a good few week away though

Having no waypoints is an interesting mechanic that I haven't seen anywhere else and I did like. :) Flying back and forth is what broke immersion for me a bit. Maybe ordering the player to just patrol the combat area would give more immersion, but might be complicated to implement and this mission is too old to edit at this point

Glad you enjoyed the immersive side of the mission. I try to make my missions on the more realistic simulation side of things, at least as far as VTOL VR will allow. Real world reality is a lot of time is spent in the air waiting for action, and personally I enjoy the flying / navigation aspect as well as the pure combat side of things.

Played it with the A-10. Great level of immersion thanks to radio messages related to missions, but having to fly back to the bullseye feels like a burden. Maybe because most missions can be completed with just the GAU-8 ( ) and I didn't have to rearm even once

Yea I will take a look and see if I can use the new A-10. If not I will be writing a new single player campaign either way

Are you planning on converting the campaign for newly released A-10 mod?

We live in hope 🙏🏻

As of now, the way to get the A-10 back does not work, as the Mod Loader (and its required older version) are not hosted on there website anymore but are now to download on steam.
There is no beta version option to revert to an older version.

But the A-10 mod is being re-made :)
So there is hope

It's a good mission(s), missing some polish with a number of radio lines but was pretty fun to run through. My only big gripe with it are the objectives where you must kill a very closeby enemy position or three while avoiding targeting one ostensibly 'friendly'; enemy position, which don't make sense for a combination of reasons.
-Danger VERY close
-The ostensibly friendly positions are, in fact, enemies, and they can be freely killed before or after the particular objective to 'save' them
-The 'friendly' unit's relative position is only relayed (once) over the radio, and they give a somewhat useless cardinal direction which requires screwing with the nav map to figure out
-Once the objective is tripped, it will fail too quickly, because fuck you for using anything besides AGM-65s I guess? The moving tank column objective also has this issue.
-God very suddenly smites your jet with a holy invisible wall if the objective is failed

https://youtu.be/bCVonRTgPyo?si=X4nI3Yf8iR0Sdw7u
See this video to show you how to get the old A-10 mod working ☝️