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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => FRED Academy => Topic started by: k19 on December 12, 2008, 09:14:18 pm

Title: Idea
Post by: k19 on December 12, 2008, 09:14:18 pm: Ok this is just an idea but what if you could chose your career (e.g. Fighter Pilot or Bomber Pilot) and have a branching campaign for those options. I'm thinking about a mission at the start where it would say press 1 for fighter pilot and 2 for bomber pilot.
Would this work or is completely stupid.
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: Black Wolf on December 12, 2008, 10:53:06 pm: Tis perfectly viable actually.
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: karajorma on December 13, 2008, 02:10:42 am: You wouldn't press buttons for a choice though. You'd simply give the player a fighter and a bomber in loadout in the first mission and then change what happens based on which one they choose.

But yeah, this was probably doable with retail FS2.
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: dragonsniper on December 13, 2008, 05:58:05 pm: Are you saying it isn't for the FSO Fred2?
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: Shade on December 13, 2008, 06:02:29 pm: Everything doable in retail is doable in FSO.
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: dragonsniper on December 13, 2008, 06:12:34 pm: It just seemed to me that karajorma was implying that it wasn't doable in FSO (Sorry it was a pretty stupid question to ask.)
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: Shade on December 13, 2008, 06:18:42 pm: It could be interpreted that way yeah. But what he was actually saying is that it has always been possible, rather than being some SCP addition :)
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: dragonsniper on December 13, 2008, 06:50:48 pm: Ok... I get it now.
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: Retsof on December 13, 2008, 09:30:26 pm: I'm guessing to cut the workload somewhat you'd use the same missions with different objectives?
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: Black Wolf on December 14, 2008, 12:11:58 am: Quote from: Retsof on December 13, 2008, 09:30:26 pm
I'm guessing to cut the workload somewhat you'd use the same missions with different objectives?

I wouldn't. Maybe the first mission could work like that, but a well designed bombing mission is much more than an ordinary fighter mission with slightly different objectives. A proper bombing campaign would be awesome though - too often bombing is just relegated to two or three missions in major campaigns - a well made, solidly plotted bomber campaign would be cool and fairly unique.
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: k19 on December 14, 2008, 01:25:25 am: Quote from: karajorma on December 13, 2008, 02:10:42 am
You wouldn't press buttons for a choice though. You'd simply give the player a fighter and a bomber in loadout in the first mission and then change what happens based on which one they choose.

But yeah, this was probably doable with retail FS2.
ah okay
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: Bullhorn on November 15, 2013, 06:17:07 pm: Boom. Now I know how to flavour my mini campaign!

Great Idea. It could also work for a NTC v. GTVA choice, if that hasn't been done already.? (not with the choice of ship though, but the option of divergent but parallel campaigns.
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: karajorma on November 16, 2013, 07:05:30 am: Don't bump old topics in order to make a comment like this. It's much better to start a new topic and simply link the old one instead.