Hi
I had finally a opportunity to fly this delightful campaign, well done Kevin!
My experience and impressions of the campaign:I started to merge the Jagdstaffel 5 campaign with the Jasta 5 part 2 and 3, to get one long 46 mission campaign. The first 8-9 missions was with the initial version, since I hadn't noticed the update, so I encountered some problems that might have been fixed in the update.
The campaign have excellent briefings with date, time and suitable info for the mission and sometimes historic background. Every mission also showed the name of the pilots participating in the mission, which I think is a nice touch.
The type of missions is nice mix that makes the campaign enjoyable and they seemed plausible and made it quite immersive IMHO.
It was my first campaign without any way points, so I simply followed my flight around. Nice idea Kevin!
Mission 3: Mission didn't get properly saved for some reason unknown to me. I had to re-fly it and after clicking "Apply", immediately fly the next mission. If I went to Main menu instead and came back later the mission was not saved. I can't remember ever having had this problem before and what might cause this behavior.
Mission 4 & 14: These are scramble mission with lot of planes in it. They turned out to be a disaster for the Jagdstaffel with almost the entire staffel wiped out.
Mission 9: In this mission you are escorting a Zeppelin heading North to bomb London. My mission turned out somewhat strange when the Zeppelin reached the edge of the map and just stayed there. Wouldn't the C&C DZ object be a good option in this case so the Zeppelin simply disappears?
Mission 13 & 17: Balloon Busting, the flak around the balloons are quite deadly and since you are ordered to destroy all four balloons those two missions are suicidal missions IMHO. I didn't obey my orders and only destroyed two balloons...
Mission 15 & 16: No enemy encounter, perhaps intentional?
Mission 18: This was the only mission I had low frame rate. On the way back to base it was impossible to use accelerated time 2x because of low frame rate.
Mission 20: This mission didn't get properly saved, I tried several times in vain. So I couldn't go on with my long campaign as intended. Will start part 2 as a new campaign instead.
Update: I found the problem!
It was a problem in the Jaste 5 part 2 campaign as described here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,56847.msg645145.html#msg645145Other observations not connected to the campaign itself: I've seen some strange AI behavior usually short after takeoff. Sometimes the AI's crashes with each other and sometimes they make steep dives without any apparent reason and crashes to the ground.
The C&C artillery barrage give a good ground war action and WWI atmosphere.
The C&C box barrage is perhaps a bit to intense for WWI flak conditions. Some of the C&C features can be fine tuned in the Mods section, but perhaps not this one?
Caudron had Italian markings on the skins AFAICR.
The Nieuport 28C1 shoved a strange spinning solid disc prop on my AMD video card, but I was able to solve that problem myself, check the thread here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,58503.0.htmlI've posted some Menu Music that suits this campaign, check the thread here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,58504.0.htmlMany thanks for the Jagdstaffel 5 Campaign, Kevin
I'm now eager to continue with part 2 and 3 now!
Best regards
vonOben