@Glow
Thanks again for feed-back and you resilience, commanding AI is not something trivial in Arma, they evolved, they have their own mind

You are correct, saves are disabled. Patching that would be a cheating in my opinion. I hate cheaters, game-hackers and cracking your baby would be a crime IMO. This is pure hard work gameplay.

It took me 2 sessions, this recording is from two separate games. The first one was a fail, but I learn that new command system and how things works and all those AI buggs. In the second one I just reapeat my aprouch from the first one with a speed and then execute all the rest of my plan.

Having saves enabled could bring you more players but it's not that hard to play. I spend some time for planning and preparation. See my practice sessions with M136/AT-4 video on YouTube.

I'm not sure is the team's equipment and dedication to tasks mentioned somewhere in briefing, but this is preaty basic rule in good commanding. I call this: "Know your assets and protect them".

I had some losses but a little bit of luck too.

@Glow
:) OMG buddy, you are a hero :) You are an ambitious man to play a MP mission without save in SP, i only hope you enjoyed the experience.
You said something about two sessions, did you manage to enable save by yourself, i am pretty sure i disabled the save as i do for all my missions.
You made very good observation regarding the teams based on their equipmnet, impressive, or it is something i mentioned in briefing cuz i don't remember?
Thank you for your awesome feed-back and the video!
I will consider your suggestions if i will ever have time to update the mission.

+SP is HARD but can be done, my advice: know your assets, protect them and use well and have a good plan, all the rest is just a proper execution = experience command or good players, if going to play mp;

+You have 3 AI teams, you can switch between every AI, like in XCOM game, but I had some issues with bad AI behaviours, not listen my orders, etc.

+Interesting injury system

+Well chosen equipment: alpha 1-1 assault team, 1-2 recon team, 1-3 support team;

+Interesting story, but I wish to have even more;

+It took me two long session to accomplish in sp, about 8h

+Little helo flying necessary

Alias, here are my recommended modifications for better SP experience (if you going to update this scenario in a future):
-injury system effect of a blood on face off
-corpses left or longer time before start to vanish
-NVGs in helo inventory or in a hangar box

Short video:
*** SPOILER ALERT ***
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1312700964

Wait till you try part 2 Glow!!!!

@Glow
:) Thanks buddy! Yeah, is a difficult mission if you play it in SP, was meant for 15 players. It can be done with less players pretty easily but in SP is tough

Great mission, very hard. I had to lower my difficulty settings a bit - first time! It was a fail anyway, but I'm impressed.

I wish to have a possibility to command all AIs in one team, I wish to have CorpseManagerMode set to 2, I wish... I wish... Yeeee... It's hard in sp!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1282335026

@JGaz-UK
They engage only aicrafts

They do nothing near the marker :)

@JGaz-UK
AAA are avengers, they might move around

Could not find the AAA?

Super mission

@TittenCit
You can still count it as a win :) I 'm aware of that behavior, will be tweaked in the next update.
Thank you for feedback!

Yes

@TittenCit
But you still see the end of the mission right?

everytime we seemingly kill all hostiles at balota and steal the chopper, it explodes in mid air. Not sure if there are still hostile in area or just a bug.

Great mission, enjoyed !

wo qu

@CubicVirtuoso
Looks fine to me buddy. But i know the A3 launcher has some issues, i personally never used it, but i have friends which used it and they've switched over on ARMAsync, i don't know the details or the problems involved but i'll ask and maybe we can troubleshoot.

@ALIAScartoons, I just use the default launcher. Here's a screenshot of my launcher, can you see anything wrong with it?:

http://i.imgur.com/Hgv8eO3.png

I'd rather not have to use ARMASync if I don't have to, but I will if you don't find anything wrong with the above.

@Major League Scout
For now, due my limited free time, I only make missions for MP/dedicated.
I'd like to make SP missions because i can do so much more and is a bit simpler
to make, but not enough time :(
The change is not so simple, you have to re-balance the mission, re-test and some things might not work anymore.
There are 2 mods that help you control AI better, cuz this is the main issue in ARMA, I didn't test them yet but they look great in reviews.
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=29838
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=28040

There is a guy who adapts my missions for SP, keep an eye on him:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561198155817897/myworkshopfiles?browsefilter=myfiles&appid=107410&browsesort=myfiles&p=1

Maybe when he is done with the previous campaign will work on current campaign too.

@CubicVirtuoso
What you use to launch ARMA? Make sure needed mods are loaded and enabled after you start the game.
I'd suggest using ARMASync to load and launch ARMA. Is very good.

Hmm... I have CUP Weapons, Units, Vehicles and Terrain (Core and Maps) loaded + CBAv2 and still non of my AI have uniforms... Any ideas on things I can try?

Can you change it where you can respawn and save

@CubicVirtuoso
That happens only if you dont have CUP, make sure you have the latest version CUP: Weapons, Units, Vehicles, Terrains and CBA 2+

None of my characters are wearing any clothing... just vests and backpacks. I'm pretty certain I'm running all the mods properly.

Thanks, I really needed the help

@Major League Scout
If you try it in SP double tap W, or you take the driver seat, press U to switch slot.
However this mission is meant for MP with at least 3 players, in SP you will have hard times coordinating AI.

the boat wont move unless i get out

@Desperado
I don't mind a grammar correction, tho would be nice if they would invest same amount of time and energy to provide mission related feedback/suggestions/comments.
Me and my friends comment and/or rate all missions we play, is the only way we can have more and better user generated content. Also, is the least we can do to pay back the time and effort invested in creating mods, scripts and missions.
Whitout feedbak how can a creator know how to improve or what type of content should they keep making?

Call hitler ! hes army of grammar n@zi's are running lose!

Good mission man!

No pics no clicks

Great mission!

@Domex
What do you want to know exactly?

gameplay?

@[HLCSG] MrCup_000
Dude?! What do you mean by stupid chernarus map?
Do you have any idea how much time and effort was spent by modders to bring that back in ARMA 3?
Maybe you don't like the map, but please be more considerate about other people work which, btw, was done for us to enjoy for free.
On the other hand if you are talking about the mission as being stupid, that's another thing, is not to be expected to be enjoyed by everyone, tho do you care to tell why the mission is stupid?
I don't mind constructive criticism, in fact i'm looking forward to get more feedabck. Thank you!

@Alwarren mhh you mean "That's why grammar matters." :P

@Executive_Outcomes Pro tip: it should read "It's spelled plane" because it's a short form of "it is". See that is why grammar matters ;)

"to steal a plain," a plain what? Do you mean a plain bagel? See that is why spelling matters, its spelled plane. Pro tip: next time use spell check

@ShirtPants#PrayForParis
What Miro said.
Will be several episodes as prologue before the main campaign of 15-20 missions.
And this is the first part of the prologue.

@Mr Angry
Off course, thank you!
But be advised, this mission will suffer an update sometimes soon.
After tested on dedicated in MP, based on feedback, i've decided to make it shorter and instead of having 2 episodes in prologue, will be several episode (not sure yet how many) before the main campaign starts.

Because the plane flies to tanoa

why is it called hello tanoa

@FROGMAN it means it is a COop mission for up to 15 people

What does [co15] means?

Im going to put this on my site www.armahub.com tomorrow sometime if you dont mind?

:) Nice one Stag.
Thank you for playing guys!

This was one of the most bipolar missions I have ever played. It offered some of deepest frustrations (some in very good way!) and wonderful Arma 3 moments for a long, long, long time.

You should play this mission if:

- You have low blood pressure
- You want to have heart attack
- You want some great mercenary stuff.
- You want some WTF moments.

Awesome, thanks for release Alias.

great mission, even though it took us ages