Wait so this only has 5 missions and i didn't fail the mission at the end by landing without landing gear? still got the finished mission succesfuly message tho lmao

Cannot progress to mission 5, Already finish mission 4 twice and landed on the carrier but mission 5 doesn't appear. maybe you only have 4 mission?

Super fun campaign. In mission 3, it might be nice to have the ability to rearm after the first objective, so that it would not be necessary to be so precise with the gun., Either way, awesome campaign.

Can definitely recommend as well! And if you like dark themes, I would recommend the manga even more. The fact that 70% of the manga didn't make it in the anime because it was too dark speaks for itself ;)

Can recommend watching the series at least. It has it's typical anime cheesyness here and there but in general it's a really fun show that doesn't puncture your eardrums with squeaky voices...

Definitely one of the distinctly higher quality animes.

Fun campaign !
No issue in the scenarios, I could complete everything, just a few re-starts because of wrong weapons / bad piloting on my part.

I appreciated the variations on the missions, avoiding radars, guns only, or start with nothing then rearm with everything !!!

(too bad for me I never read/watched Black Lagoon)

Yeah mission 3 is definitely the trickiest part of this campaign, tho it IS definitely doable. Try using your TGP set to PIP mode zoomed in by 2-3 stages as an aim scope, then try to take out the boats at start with very short bursts. About 5 cannon hits per boat are enough to kill them in my experience, should leave you with plenty ammo to use on the shore camp.

While i like the premise and LOVED the first couple missions, mission 3 is a massive pain in the ass, since you can't AT LEAST land and rearm your gun, so you're stuck with whatever ammo is left following the battle with those ships, plus considering the (quite frankly ridiculous) amount of anti-air at the second objective, it just turns me off from playing this.

Super cool campaign. Feels like a freelancer instead of a military

Blimey! Thanks!

Seems to have been a mistake on my end :) Apparently, even when you select what a person is allowed to use during a mission, if it's not unlocked in the previous mission, it will only be available during Mission Editor Test Flights, not in the campaign. This is fixed

Hmmh didn't really work like that for me, I tried it that way, always got a "failed" message if I went higher than about 1800m there and if I got too close to the target camp too.... not sure.

Anyway, that mission was doable and fun enough but... mission 5 SERIOUSLY needs some guided Air-To-Ground equipment, laserguided bombs at least...

Those missile launchers in that town are just.... whoa... that was about the worst slog I've ever had in that game getting all of those killed with just dumbfire bombs...

I finished it by staying low, until you reach the island, and then pulling up very high. I know I have the knowledge of the layout and stuff, but the radars far away do not pick you up unless you're there for a long time, and the place that needs to be bombed doesn't have radar, only line of sight. If you fly about 2000m up, they don't spot you, and you can ripple bomb them, and then just get low again, to stay under the radar

Oh I wasn't critizising about the choice of weaponry, merely asking if it was as-intended. For mission 4 I think it might be a bit harsh tho, since you're neither allowed to get very close to the target nor fly adequately high to do a decent bomb release at a safe distance and speed it's been a bit tricky, what I did was essentially to get as close as I dared as fast as I could, pulled up hard and threw the bombs in a high arc, took me a couple attempts to hit at all which was rather anticlimactic after that rather long approach flight... I'd say maybe allowing for some GPS guided bombs might be a healthy middleground.... OR... hydras... but I'm not sure that plane can even mount them... I use those so rarely I never noticed if it can...

thanks for that grammar nazi-ing, I'll fix that! Not native English here :)
I noticed that when I replayed the missions yesterday, to make sure everything worked. Normally, you should be allowed to get cruize missiles as well, but for some reason (perhaps another update in the mission editor), that's not available anymore. It's doable with just dumbfire bombs though :) I'm not sure if I should keep it on that, as it makes the mission a bit more interesting, IMO

Something else I was wondering, I have played Mission 4 now (and begun 5 but my controllers gave up screaming for some charging), the mission says "land at the russian's airfield and get armaments there, is said selection of armaments intended to allow only air-to-air and dumbfire bombs?

Also "mafia" is spelled with one f. *grammar-fascist-mode*

:3

I've played around with it for a bit and mission 3 is definitely finishable now. If you start and play through the mission in one go everything works swimmingly, however I noticed that if you save and load a quicksave AFTER you've received orders to attack the coastal base but BEFORE you destroy any items there the bug still occurs as before, e.g. on loading the savegame saved at that point the objective "await instructions" will be missing from the objectives menu and appear there unfinished as soon as any item on the coast base is destroyed.

I have admittedly not tried to finish the mission after that happens tho.

Either way, thank you tons for taking the time for creating and fixing your content for this game, I enjoy it a lot! :)

I uploaded the latest version. and level 3 seems to work. I'm not sure if level 5 did not get uploaded, or if the workshop sync was incomplete. Let me know if it works again :)

Thank you for your efforts! :)

yep, I was able to recreate the bug as well. I fixed it in the latest version, but the workshop won't let me upload *JUST* the fix, only the entire campaign... And that one has an unfinished mission...

I'll try to figure out ASAP how to upload just the fix, and if I can't, I'll upload the initial new campaign without the voice acting

Hello, I downloaded this rather recently and I can confirm that plotstopping bug in the mission where you have just the cannon. The way I see it there's an objective saying "wait for instructions" that is supposed to pop up after the player has dispatched the boats, only to be finished as soon as the objective for the shore base pops up. However that objective ("wait for instructions") first ever pops up the moment the player destroys the first item in the subsequent shore base, rendering it unfinishable. End result is all objectives being completed and the audio for "return to ze boat" has played, but the objective "Wait for Instructions" remains unresolved, keeping the mission from declaring finish.

I hope you can and will find some way to fix this as it's a nice little campaign, I really enjoyed it thus far. :)

I am playing the most recently updated version of VTOL yes.

I noticed that bug when they updated the game last. It was an issue with the way the game counts missions. I'm not sure if you have to manually re-download the maps, but can you make sure you're on the last version?

Running into a problem on mission 3. I took out all the boats, and 14/15 targets at the base. Was told to land back on the ship. I did that, even taxied into the hangar and shutdown. It told me landing mission/waypoint complete, but no way to end mission and move to next. Never popped up to allow me to End Mission. Please look into it? I noticed that the waypoint "await further instructions" was still grey and wasn't "complete" even though it gave me all the others and told me all others were completed. :/

Outstanding! Top notch campaign, thanks so much! Snowbound, did you consider killing everything before you got in the air? Guns work on the ground. ;)

It is possible, you just have to think out of the box ;) It's a VTOL, so you don't have to use the runway. Here's an example of me completing the mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp32sKLcX6k

The very first mission is simply impossible to complete. You are supposed to take off from a hostile airfield with, like, 6 anti air guns that blast you as soon as your wheels leave the ground. I don't understand what you are supposed to do to survive!