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Koteng! Sorry that your internet kept crashing! Theses missions are the best!

My friend and I have played this campaign a couple of times with different friends and it is always a blast. It's a great set of missions and the story and voice acting really adds a lot

I am still trying to get over how well made this is for a workshop campaign!

This campaign was a lot of fun! I played solo, and nothing (except flying the heli competently, but thats a me issue) felt too difficult. I enjoyed the story twist (no spoilers, for those reading the comments) and none of the dialog stuck out as overly cheesy or ill-fitting (some cheese but thats to be expected with an ace combat tribute)
Overall, thank you for all the effort and time you spent making this as fun as you did!

I don't think the scaling system works anymore. mission 4 requires me to kill 60 targets in 3 mins.
only one player in the lobby

@Snoot Caliburn's story has ended. But another is brewing. :3

@Skuva Thanks for the feedback! I've been meaning to do another balance overhaul of the campaign, just haven't had the time. The campaign is actually primarily tuned (and tested) for solo play, I just scaled the enemy count for more players. BUT there has been some major game updates since the initial release of this campaign (weapon changes, electronic warfare, and tweaks to AI behavior) that have increased the difficulty beyond the original intent.

The last balance pass was for the hydra & AH-94 nerf, which required a drastic reduction to enemy count for all heli missions. This being my first campaign, plus the complexity of the editor, doing large changes like this broke other things making me hesitant to do any big changes again. That said, I still want to do a rebalance ASAP. But real life has kept me away from VTOL.

Note, weapon regeneration includes chaff & flares! But you must empty them first just like weapons.

The most well crafted campaign I've seen until now. My only complaints are how some of the missions are definitely not balanced for solo play, with too many enemies for so little ordinance.

And the last mission felt quite confusing. I know the whole think is an omage do Ace Combat, but the infinite ammo and fuel feel counterintuitive after so many missions having you go back to rearm. Also when playing solo is impossible to not die multiple times, because regardless of your skill there are so many enemies with radar missiles there isn't enough chaff to survive and it can get quite frustrating.

Waiter! Waiter! More Caliburn assets to crush!

Srsly when can we expect a sequel? I'm a BIG fan.

Are thhere AI wingman? I wanna play this by myself, but I'd like to have some friendly AI with me so I don't feel completely alone.

@aeshalo @Techercizer I appreciate when people report bugs, otherwise they'll probably never get fixed! It doesn't help that I don't play VTOL VR as much as I use to check.

I solo play tested the first 10 minutes of mission 2, 3, and 4 but I unfortunately was NOT able to reproduce any issues - all dialogue (also plays on the pilot's speaker) and event triggers were working fine for me. That said, I will investigate further this weekend when I have more time. Are the issues reproducible for you, or was it a one time thing?

Hi, i think a recent update has broken some of the triggers in multiplayer. Missions 1 and 2 worked flawlessly, but on missions 3 and 4 we get no dialogue, and the objectives and events seem not to do anything. Sometimes anyone who's joined the lobby gets kicked out with an event error "RPC error: VTOLMPEventsManager.RPC_SeqEvt()"

Is there a version of VTOL VR that this is most compatible with? I know it's a pain keeping things updated with the new versions.

Thanks.

What I've seen of the campaign looks good so far, but when I tried to play mission 2 I noticed there was an issue where the voices seemed like they were coming from far in front of the helicopter - from the gunner's seat - and no amount of turning them up could help.

Is it possible for the comms traffic to be audible to both seats? Even just trying to solo it, that means you miss out on the dialogue because the craft won't deploy without a pilot.

Hi @Koteng, are there any plans to update these with wind and weather?

Could this be updated for weather & wind to be added?

@Flop Appreciate the feedback! May your fox-3s hit true.

Me and my friends have been having a blast with this campaign. The missions are amazing and the soundtrack is kino. Overall you've done an incredible job in terms of balancing the missions and scaling on playercount.

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Brilliant work Koteng. Lots of fun.

Well, thats great news at least, and yes, I do agree that leaning less into EW would make teh campaign feel better if it is to be played with the 24G, thanks for the update

I'm currently converting an idea I originally had for a T-55 campaign into the 24G. Still trying to master the 24G myself, so I'm still deciding how much I want to lean into the EW aspect of the plane. Currently, I'm leaning towards "only a little". The extra workload of EW kinda goes against the arcade-y feel I'm going for. Plus, like FS:SoD, I want the new campaign to be scalable and playable solo. That being said, I can't promise a release anytime soon... I only just finished the outline for it and there is plenty more to do (extra world building, script, art, etc).

Hey, Im probably not the first to ask this, but will you be making any new campaigns involving the E-24G? Thanks!

@Kai Happy to hear you guys are enjoying it! Lemme know if you run into any issues since I haven't had time to test the campaign after 1.8 was dropped.

Been playing this with a group of friends. We're it enjoying it a lot!

I would legit want to help Koteng croudfund the voice actor budget for Fatal Skies 2, the voice talents for FS:SOD knocked it out of the park!

Fatal skies 2 when???

will you be considering adding wind for some extra fun since 1.7 came out?

Attention mercenaries! Due to the recent nerf to ballistic range, a balance pass was done for all AH-94 campaign missions. Feedback appreciated if any mission is still too difficult (or too easy :P) . See change notes for v1.0.9 for more details. Good hunting.

Aight, thanks for the feedback! I'll probably disable the weapons of the cruiser for solo playthroughs since they are plenty of threats already. The enemies are "hidden" because I wanted to make it easy to terrain mask - but it also makes them hard to detect. I'll try moving the units around a bit so they are more visible when approaching the city from the west.

For one, the presence of the ships with long range SAMs was unexpected when the briefing made no real mention of their presence, thus leading to two deaths on my end when I was helpless to dive behind cover, and the way some enemies were hidden in the landscape made it moderately annoying to have to comb the entire city for one last target when it's already difficult enough to fly a helo solo for prolonged periods of time (I think the mission took me about an hour and a half to finally finish)

@Raven Can ya share which part you had trouble with? Currently in the middle of doing a re-balancing pass for all heli missions due to changes to ballistics in the upcoming v1.7.0 patch.

I love FS, but good god the pain of having to solo FS-06 was EXCRUCIATING.

had a blast when I was your heli gunner playing through this great work!

it was great playing with you in the campaign mate best heli pilot i could have fr cant wait for more missions

Ok, this is actually really cool! It puts my AC04 recreation to shame. How much was it to get the composer and VAs?

this is an awesome campaign man, cant wait for more

Thanks you to those who hosted the campaign in public lobbies! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxVmymg66ks

I haven't gotten to experience the whole campaign but I've had fun on the missions I was able to do so far. Great work!

making fun of ammo was very based do it again

Hey if you want any random story dump ideas, feel free to hit me up. Though I know from my own experience that often the most enthusiastic ideas tend to come from yourself rather than unsolicited outside sources. So I won't be offended if it doesn't interest you.

I myself have been running a Project Wingman themed ArmA campaign for the past few years and now my goober friends are asking when we'll be doing the VTOL VR PW campaign lmao.

Glad you could drop by the stream the other night! Hope you enjoyed the show! Just gotta get my buddies to stop being COWARDS and fly the heli missions.

@Ace Oh man, I would love that! Like I mentioned, I would like to make another campaign - but it's gonna take me some time to be ready for any VA. Still in the brainstorming stage so it might be a while before I take you on that offer...

Oh yeah if you need another VA, Captain Woodward of the Eminent Domain is at your service.

Mercenary pilot after killing my budy: P r e d i c t a b l e.

Me, a VA of that particular game: DID HE JUST--?!

@fourslayer101 @samaraluna I do want to make a sequel, but I don’t want to “officially” announce one since I haven’t committed to it yet (trying to find time & the funds for it). But I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a T-55 campaign. However, I’m also waiting for the new EW plane to see if it would be a better fit.

In the meantime, I’m making a standalone mission called (H)Ydra Liberation as an ode to Sypwn’s DynLib - a repeatable mixed-aircraft (minus the F-45) PvE mission that focuses on using hydra rocket pods. Mission has enemy scaling as well as modifiers/mutations (like spawn extra AA) that can be toggled at the start of the mission.

Do you plan on making a T-55 campaign? I'd love to help in anyway possible!

is there any chance of there being new missions to this campaign or a sequel cause this is the best thing i've played

Fair enough! I know the feeling, I had trouble with my campaign due to munitions capacity, and had no other options until they added infinitely reloading pylons

@Emcipio The missions were built around the idea that that F/A-26 can carry a lot of munitions so balancing it for the T-55 would take a lot more work then just switching the 26 out. Honestly, I rather spend that effort making a new mission that features the T-55.