So when will Falklands return?

[X-Alt]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Rhino

Don't worry, things have been happening behind closed doors

KEYS NOW OR HE GETS IT!


So much evul wait!

[titsmcgee852]

Can't wait till this bad boy returns, I love flying over that countryside!

[GGEfferen]

I?m really excited to dig in and resist to british assaults in Pradera del Ganso-Darwin. Just take ypur time and make of this mod the best one!

[Daxt2]

I really miss Falklands, 10v10 jets in the air lol

[Rhino]

Originally Posted by Daxt2

I really miss Falklands, 10v10 jets in the air lol

Well, Vehicle Warfare layer on a full server is more like 40 vs 40 jets with the other 20 players manning AA

Although the VW layer didn't get played much on a full server since there wasn't really enough runway/deck space to cope with it, I'm hopefully going to improve that, as well as a bunch of other things on VW for the next version

[[R-DEV]​rPoXoTauJIo]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Rhino

Although the VW layer didn't get played much on a full server since there wasn't really enough runway/deck space to cope with it, I'm hopefully going to improve that, as well as a bunch of other things on VW for the next version

Can't we just have additional carriers&airfields on VW? It's pure fictional gamemode, no historical accuracy needed
Although taking off with organized team from one carrier is epic, all those lines of jets hovering in air awaiting for take off is just amazing.

[Rhino]

Originally Posted by rPoXoTauJIo

Can't we just have additional carriers&airfields on VW?

That is the basic plan yes, the question is more if I have time to implement it or not before the next release, on top of all the other things I'm doing

Originally Posted by rPoXoTauJIo

It's pure fictional gamemode, no historical accuracy needed

Not really, its based very much on Air Campaign of the Falklands War: Falklands War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That being said however, the British had two Carriers during the Falklands War (Not including the Atlantic Conveyor), HMS Invincible (the flagship and the one portrayed ingame) and HMS Hermes.



Portraying HMS Hermes using the USS Essex is a bit harder since it has an angled deck and is much larger etc, which I may try to portray or not, or I might just have a direct clone of HMS Invincible (USS Essex with a Ski Jump and a few other tweaks) and be done with it but also gotta tweak the waterplane etc to allow it.

Argentina also had many mainland air bases it launched its aircraft from as well as Rio Grande (the closest and the one I portray ingame), but portraying any of these would mean making a whole new section of Argentina, with the new airbase on which isn't the simplest task in the world, but something I may look into.



Also its worth noting even if I do put multiple Carriers and Air Bases on the VW Layer, I won't be for AAS as for starters their isn't enough aircraft to justify it, as well as I don't want situations where players spawn at one of the carriers or airbases trying to get an aircraft, finding out that one has none left since they have all been taken and the other one has a few planes sitting on it, with no way to get there, and things like that

[Lt Col Keith]

I've been there, bought the T-shirt . Brings back lots of memories. Not all good.

[tankninja1]

40v40 air warfare seems sketchy, with all the high RPM cannon fire going off it will put massive strain on the server. Back when the battles were 1/4 of that servers crashed.

[Rhino]

Originally Posted by tankninja1

40v40 air warfare seems sketchy, with all the high RPM cannon fire going off it will put massive strain on the server. Back when the battles were 1/4 of that servers crashed.

While yes, 40v40 jets is probably a little too ambitious in both terms of server strain and gameplay, measures are being taken to fix the "Lag Cannons" so they shouldn't be too much of a problem in the future