This might be the closest we ever get to an ARMA level mission editor with DCS. Holy shit… 🙌🎉 Really looking forward to getting my hands on this, so I can incorporate it to replace what is for me the worst part of DCS mission building. Being able to take my mission templates, with things like MOOSE and StopGaps to just build the world, and the pivoting over to this for actual gameplay is going to be incredible.
@@alcmann Rather than Zeus, this reminds me more of MCC, an Arma mod that predated Zeus by quite a bit. Even the feature set advertised in this video is more similar to MCC. I suspect Zeus would not have come to be without MCC showing the value of real-time player procured content. There is a 'game master' role in combined arms, but it's so severely lacking it's not really worth the name right now. Maybe that will change because of this.
THIS could be the ultimate boost for DCS, I would even pay for this if it really works like shown in the video! Imho missionbuilding the 'old way' becomes very soon masochistic. Zeus for DCS? I WANT IT!!! ;-)
but u basically need a player to play the HQ kinda.. which is ok for me, i think DCS needs some sort of another game that links to DCS, so you have this strategic, tactical game and DCS is the enforcer where actual blowing up comes together.. I think some sort of totally new 2D game with strategic and tactical level is needed, so in real time with time being real, a whole set of new players control units and send them to mission, and plan accordingly due to recon available data and strategies they choose, and us players flyers would just jump in the plane at any particular moment and play our part.
Yeah this is pretty darn awesome! It will make flying missions much easier and enjoyable. When I set up missions for videos, I often think.. oh damn! I should have added this… or that needs to move to a different spot etc. Then I need to exit, edit the mission, push the time to my server, add it, restart, etc. Love this mod and the guys seem great! Also, I guessed correctly (just sayin’).
This really is a game changer. I've had a few times on Grayflag server where Graywolf or another admin starting controlling redfor and launching unexpected attacks on our airbases with enemy armor and aircraft, or coordinating air defense at the objectives we're attacking and leaving SAM's turned off until we are well within their engagement zone. It is easily the most fun I've had playing DCS
I am speechless. This is beyond amazing. That mod could open up so many mission concepts that were prohibitively hard to do. Not so much because they were impossible, but because they were so hard to balance and test. Especially ground operations with CAS and helicopter support will benefit so much from this.
This will be so useful when the DCS Ai does a DCS'ism we have flown a whole sortie and on the way back to the boat the tanker has decided its time to land or doesn't respond etc. Having the ability to spawn in a new one and send it to us would be amazing
ED is sadly very much lacking in Gameplay department, DCS needs a HQ update, meaning serious HQ add-on, where players would just do the numbers, how many divisions we have, supply routes, recon, suppression ,SEAD, jamming, entranchment of units, etc.. the whole deal.. right now its as barren as it was 20 yrs ago
This mod reminds me of MCC, a mod for Arma. It was around for a long time for Arma 2 (possibly Arma 1) before well into the life of Arma 3 they made Zeus. This video advertises a remarkably similar feature set compared to MCC.
The idea of a dynamic LSCO style multiplayer Mission in DCS has been my dream for so long. I just wished the Combined Arms Module could receive more love and attention. As much as I love flying the AH-64 and how much fidelity and detail Eagle Dynamics put into this module, I don't just wanna do preset missions the whole time shooting at predictable targets. I want to be able to do other things as well. Adding the ability to spawn random enemies on the map in realtime would be a dream. Just imagine a flight of Kiowa's from an Air Cavalry Squadron providing early warning of enemy activity to the Ground Commander. Then having the players flying Apache's including any other additional rotary and fixed-wings destroy/delay the enemy. And all of a sudden the Game Master decides to spawn some Su-25's and MiG-29's out of nowhere and have it attack the Main Body. Now it's the fixed-winged player's task to take them out. Or imagine if they add playable infantry in the distant future. The thought of supporting Blackhawks in an Air Assault Operation would be absolutely amazing.
Looks to be a great new addition to making dynamic pop-up threats responding. Always liked the idea of an inactive SAM site moving into a new area and going active.
Excellent presntation, Casmo and thanks a lot to Veltro and the gang (you guys know who you are) for making a revolutionary product and a dream come true.
While in it's birthing stage, I see so many possibilities, I do hope ED is paying attention to this. I am not a big fan of Add-ons, bu this one might just be worth the hassle!
Hopefully soon some functionality to add objectives. Or static buildings and attach goals or mission targets with completion messaging etc. Thanks for the upload
That gonna send multiplayer mission into the next level ❤... wwaaoohh dammit it's so much more better.. Things like this remind me Arma...i think as Arma's bot Eagle dynamic need to improve Ai Communication..i mean if all bots under your control spot somth..they might Tell u directly.. that allows every human pilots or Tank crewmember..to be more realistic by doing as soon as possible anything to deal with the threat
Great! I installed your application and it messed completely up my Operating system. I can't launch any software now. Getting all kind of dll files missing, net framework installation failed, etc. Awesome.
Ok let’s keep updating DCS and use it as our hyper realistic battlefield so we can simulate any scenario/mission and have our fighters fly it before hand. Keep going….
And again community fixing and adding more tools meanwhile ED... Thanks for all guys and Casmo, this is amazing for squadron missions and very similar to Arma Zeus
Mission making is something I want to get into. I plan to get a Fox3 server soon and try my hand. This might be quite helpful. So one question, does assist in the making of a mission or is it just for once the mission has been made you can add things on the fly?
This looks amazing, To me, setting up missions in DCS is such a chore, that when I get the mission set up, I'm so tried of it, that I won't even play it, looking forward to this. One dumb question though, will it work with the World War 2 assets, so that I can fly WW2 missions?
DCS needs community to create a realistic forces by era. Like example USMC 1980 and 1990. Drop those templates allows to populate areas, bit doesn't help with AI, that doesn't even know what to do with them. Why we need Skynet script like that is for IADS, but have it for everything else than a IADS. So example such script that takes AI initiative as Brigade commander. And then other that act like Battalion commanders, under the Brigade commander. Have the script act as much as possible as individual AI entity, concentrate it's own responsibilities. And use some other scripts generate the intelligence, that those script AI's would react to as only. If the military command structure would be modeled, use some cheats to disable AI units when there is no player around or no enemies, one could populate server with thousands of ground units, and possibly get them work more realistic manner.
Is it possible to semi-RTS the AI while playing as a game master ? Let's say I got 2 Flankers on cap; against a lone wolf player. Instead of barreling in towards an enemy like what the standard AI does. I can perhaps have the Flankers cap around a geographic point, and when approached I'd make them go pincer against that solo guy, or even go cold if at a disadvantage.
@@CasmoTV If you would play a serious sortie that is pre planned/made by the mission maker, and you would be jumped by a mig or so, you wont just place an instant SAM site out of the air... Like God instantly resupply's you Apache on the go. I concur, in a less serious play (training for example) its nice to instantly place targets to practice on. or adding units in a sandbox But that is how i currently look at this. Still awesome tool.!
@@falcon88h I think you’re being very binary in your thinking about this. I’ve flown many a pre planned mission in real life and not once did the planners know every thing that would happen. This is the point. Someone can manage the game and add wild card scenarios. “Just placing a SAM” is very flippant and a straw man argument to reinforce your view. Sorry but THATS what real life is like.
You and a buddy are in an F-14. Spawn yourself an F-5 to go after for practice, then two F-5s. If you can defeat those, spawn yourself some Mig-29s to go after. Any mission maker will tell you of times when the mission didn't go to plan, either a trigger didn't work or the humans in the mission behaved in an unexpected way. Maybe fewer people made it to the mission. In all cases you need to tailor the mission there and then. You can't be loading up the mission editor when you have 25 people in a Discord briefing room. Some people are getting bored in an orbit - just spawn them some Fishbeds to go pummel. There are applications for training AIC/GCI roles. You can configure any picture/engagement you can think of. What is the picture call for the current situation? Yes, of course, you can surround your buddy with 30 Su-27s and, based on experience, everyone goes mad with power to begin with. Once that subsides, you start to see and use it in a different way.
But we already have this in DDCS Hardcore server, we can control ground units, give them waypoints, move tankers, etc, like one day we move a 60 tank convoy to attack and capture a base and once close we got into the ground units and face the enemy playing their own ground units Same for sams, not only we can build what ever air defense we want. But we can move them at will, trust me, a player hiding in a buk is scary lol As far as i know, it has always been possible in DCS, its just that only DDCS server is the only one using those possibilities
@@CasmoTV but thats my point, everyone had it already, its just that servers refuse to do it and use those static campaigns, the only thing is that this tool seems 1000 times betters than DCS tools, it looks more fresh and polish and less clunky, which is a very good thing
This might be the closest we ever get to an ARMA level mission editor with DCS. Holy shit… 🙌🎉
Really looking forward to getting my hands on this, so I can incorporate it to replace what is for me the worst part of DCS mission building. Being able to take my mission templates, with things like MOOSE and StopGaps to just build the world, and the pivoting over to this for actual gameplay is going to be incredible.
Agreed reminds me of Zeus
@@alcmann Rather than Zeus, this reminds me more of MCC, an Arma mod that predated Zeus by quite a bit. Even the feature set advertised in this video is more similar to MCC. I suspect Zeus would not have come to be without MCC showing the value of real-time player procured content.
There is a 'game master' role in combined arms, but it's so severely lacking it's not really worth the name right now. Maybe that will change because of this.
THIS could be the ultimate boost for DCS, I would even pay for this if it really works like shown in the video! Imho missionbuilding the 'old way' becomes very soon masochistic. Zeus for DCS? I WANT IT!!! ;-)
This has the potential to be a game changer for DCS. Set-up the bare minimum for a mission and build it dynamcally as events unfold. Amazing.
but u basically need a player to play the HQ kinda.. which is ok for me, i think DCS needs some sort of another game that links to DCS, so you have this strategic, tactical game and DCS is the enforcer where actual blowing up comes together..
I think some sort of totally new 2D game with strategic and tactical level is needed, so in real time with time being real, a whole set of new players control units and send them to mission, and plan accordingly due to recon available data and strategies they choose, and us players flyers would just jump in the plane at any particular moment and play our part.
@@keepwalking6041 basically adding an RTS layer to DCS. Id play the fuck out of that
I've just installed and tasted it is Singleplayer this mornig. Its awesome and works like a charm!
Yeah this is pretty darn awesome! It will make flying missions much easier and enjoyable. When I set up missions for videos, I often think.. oh damn! I should have added this… or that needs to move to a different spot etc. Then I need to exit, edit the mission, push the time to my server, add it, restart, etc. Love this mod and the guys seem great!
Also, I guessed correctly (just sayin’).
Yeah the time saved for little things will add up considerably.
This really is a game changer. I've had a few times on Grayflag server where Graywolf or another admin starting controlling redfor and launching unexpected attacks on our airbases with enemy armor and aircraft, or coordinating air defense at the objectives we're attacking and leaving SAM's turned off until we are well within their engagement zone. It is easily the most fun I've had playing DCS
I LOVE when that happens in GF. It really is awesomely fun.
One time a few mods were flying redfor f-14's and THAT was a damn hoot.
I am speechless. This is beyond amazing. That mod could open up so many mission concepts that were prohibitively hard to do. Not so much because they were impossible, but because they were so hard to balance and test.
Especially ground operations with CAS and helicopter support will benefit so much from this.
This will be so useful when the DCS Ai does a DCS'ism we have flown a whole sortie and on the way back to the boat the tanker has decided its time to land or doesn't respond etc. Having the ability to spawn in a new one and send it to us would be amazing
It’s worth it just for that.
super cool! how the hell ED hasn't done something like this already is beyond me
ED is sadly very much lacking in Gameplay department, DCS needs a HQ update, meaning serious HQ add-on, where players would just do the numbers, how many divisions we have, supply routes, recon, suppression ,SEAD, jamming, entranchment of units, etc.. the whole deal.. right now its as barren as it was 20 yrs ago
Maybe cuz ED just doesn't care about its users! 🤷♂
@@keepwalking6041 That almost sounds like the dynamic campaign thing they've been working on for a long while already.
This mod reminds me of MCC, a mod for Arma. It was around for a long time for Arma 2 (possibly Arma 1) before well into the life of Arma 3 they made Zeus.
This video advertises a remarkably similar feature set compared to MCC.
Because it's free!
This is absoutely MIND BLOWING.
And it's the ONE thing that DCS needed!
Like what make Arma 3 really the Arma 3!
The idea of a dynamic LSCO style multiplayer Mission in DCS has been my dream for so long. I just wished the Combined Arms Module could receive more love and attention. As much as I love flying the AH-64 and how much fidelity and detail Eagle Dynamics put into this module, I don't just wanna do preset missions the whole time shooting at predictable targets. I want to be able to do other things as well. Adding the ability to spawn random enemies on the map in realtime would be a dream.
Just imagine a flight of Kiowa's from an Air Cavalry Squadron providing early warning of enemy activity to the Ground Commander. Then having the players flying Apache's including any other additional rotary and fixed-wings destroy/delay the enemy. And all of a sudden the Game Master decides to spawn some Su-25's and MiG-29's out of nowhere and have it attack the Main Body. Now it's the fixed-winged player's task to take them out. Or imagine if they add playable infantry in the distant future. The thought of supporting Blackhawks in an Air Assault Operation would be absolutely amazing.
We've used Combined Arms far more since building this. Olympus allows you to spawn and take control of CA-compatible units.
okay now this is really epic, this gives a lot of opportunities for online servers but also coop/milsim events. i love it !
Looks to be a great new addition to making dynamic pop-up threats responding. Always liked the idea of an inactive SAM site moving into a new area and going active.
Game changing mod, thank you for getting the guys the exposure with your crew buddy!
Thanks Casmo for letting us know about this. This is going to make multiplayer even better!
Arma Zeus for DCS! Awesome!
Ok now this is COOL!
This looks amazing. I can't wait to see what servers can do with this.
Excellent presntation, Casmo and thanks a lot to Veltro and the gang (you guys know who you are) for making a revolutionary product and a dream come true.
This is outstanding. I hope ED are paying attention to this kind of thing.
This looks very promising. Can't wait to try it out!
I will pay for this; this is amazing! Thank you guys you are truly talented individuals!
This looks really cool! Wow!
They almost turned DCS into an RTS!
Wow. If this works as advertised... Casmo, you weren't kidding around when you were teasing this earlier this week.
Told ya!
Seriously, thanks for bringing this to people's attention.
Oh wow, I'm actually really impressed
Very very very cool! Looking forward to this.
Just wow! This may well be the way forward for Eagle Dynamics...
Absolutely revolutionary game changer. Can't wait to see what Cap and the Grim Reapers, and Growling Sidewinder do with this!!!!
Looks amazing, didn't disappoint with the announcement - thanks Casmo!
While in it's birthing stage, I see so many possibilities, I do hope ED is paying attention to this. I am not a big fan of Add-ons, bu this one might just be worth the hassle!
I HATE adding mods and such but this was a breeze.
This is great. Thanks Casmo
Oh god! MY MI24 Hind is ready to deploy in Olympus! :)
Many thanks to Velstro and Lovo for putting this together.
this is going to be a real game changer
This is awesome, amazing work Davide.
Hopefully soon some functionality to add objectives. Or static buildings and attach goals or mission targets with completion messaging etc.
Thanks for the upload
Looks fantastic
This is frigging awesone.
Didn't know about Olympus. That's really cool
Coming soon.
@@CasmoTV ™
Free and open source, on the fly in-mission AI mission editor wow!
We were waiting Daddy. Thank you.
"you can move a tanker when it is in cloud"
Tanker guys: "Yeah that never happens"
We make our own perfect worlds lol
I see what they did there with the name. 😄
God damn there’s some smart cookies out there
Good stuff Casmo. Thanks!
Okay yeah this is pretty badass!
OOOOHHH SHEEEET This is hot, cant wait to jump on this
Wow. Very cool!
thats really cool, even if im probably not gonna use it, its still very usefull!
This looks AMAZING.
Totally awesome! Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴
That gonna send multiplayer mission into the next level ❤... wwaaoohh dammit it's so much more better.. Things like this remind me Arma...i think as Arma's bot Eagle dynamic need to improve Ai Communication..i mean if all bots under your control spot somth..they might Tell u directly.. that allows every human pilots or Tank crewmember..to be more realistic by doing as soon as possible anything to deal with the threat
I think this just changes the game totally. Group play has just gotten much more interesting
Now this is impressive! 👀
This is incredible
This looks awesome!
I’ve been wanting to eventually get into mission making. It looks like it may finally be time to do so. Haha
Hey Casmo! Olympus looks amazing so far! Any chance you can invite Wags for another podcast episode in the future?
I have an idea for waggy-poo, just haven’t talked to him yet
Great! I installed your application and it messed completely up my Operating system. I can't launch any software now. Getting all kind of dll files missing, net framework installation failed, etc. Awesome.
Sounds like you have bigger problems than this software.
Ok let’s keep updating DCS and use it as our hyper realistic battlefield so we can simulate any scenario/mission and have our fighters fly it before hand. Keep going….
Olympus has huge potentials. I actually see it easily becoming a strategy game which one can play more like a war sim....
That's pretty cool.
@CasmoTV - Just off to the side, that theme song is absolutely gorgeous. Any way we could hear the whole thing?
Lovo had the best training videos! But no content for 2 years ☹️
Essentially Zeus for DCS! Hell yeah!!
And again community fixing and adding more tools meanwhile ED...
Thanks for all guys and Casmo, this is amazing for squadron missions and very similar to Arma Zeus
I'll be hooking up a second monitor just because of this.
bruh holy shit this is amazing. Essentially with this it acts like zeus from ARMA and we can use it to save progress
inb4 ED announces "Combined Arms 2"
That's pretty epic!
Hi, Installed , but stuck in connecting screen, also posted on DCS forums.
Mission making is something I want to get into. I plan to get a Fox3 server soon and try my hand. This might be quite helpful. So one question, does assist in the making of a mission or is it just for once the mission has been made you can add things on the fly?
It does not operate within the mission editor.
So its like a Dungeons and Dragons session with a DM, but in DCS?
Pretty much, yes.
A new RTS just dropped
Nice, very nice.
amazing
It’s epic great to have for the buys
This looks amazing, To me, setting up missions in DCS is such a chore, that when I get the mission set up, I'm so tried of it, that I won't even play it, looking forward to this. One dumb question though, will it work with the World War 2 assets, so that I can fly WW2 missions?
Yes. WWII units are supported. Stay tuned. :)
Wow that's pretty cool. 👍👍👍
now @casmoTV can play out as Tommy Lee Jones, and throw in more enemies into the game so players can get their "i am the greatest" on..lol
Hope things like this made it to DCS core...
Pretty nifty.
OMg !!! What a hard work ! Is it possible to have fog of war or only game master ?
You can play as red or blue commander and only see what you "should" see. Game master sees all.
@@peekaboosteam Nice !!
I’m unclear. Does it create missions with fidelity, or does one need to fine tune it in mission editor?
DCS needs community to create a realistic forces by era. Like example USMC 1980 and 1990.
Drop those templates allows to populate areas, bit doesn't help with AI, that doesn't even know what to do with them.
Why we need Skynet script like that is for IADS, but have it for everything else than a IADS.
So example such script that takes AI initiative as Brigade commander. And then other that act like Battalion commanders, under the Brigade commander.
Have the script act as much as possible as individual AI entity, concentrate it's own responsibilities.
And use some other scripts generate the intelligence, that those script AI's would react to as only.
If the military command structure would be modeled, use some cheats to disable AI units when there is no player around or no enemies, one could populate server with thousands of ground units, and possibly get them work more realistic manner.
a perfect evolution of my buddy's Cake's original Gamemaster script. Look forward to using it.
1:18 Nazaré Tedesco agora é internacional hahhaa
OMG!!!!!! 💯💯💯
I WAS RIGHT!!!
ARMA 3 ZEUS BUT IN DCS!!!!!
Is it possible to semi-RTS the AI while playing as a game master ? Let's say I got 2 Flankers on cap; against a lone wolf player. Instead of barreling in towards an enemy like what the standard AI does. I can perhaps have the Flankers cap around a geographic point, and when approached I'd make them go pincer against that solo guy, or even go cold if at a disadvantage.
Yes
@@CasmoTV outstanding. Now what I need next is a community to play it with.
Nice tool for training scenario's👌
…wut
@@CasmoTV If you would play a serious sortie that is pre planned/made by the mission maker, and you would be jumped by a mig or so, you wont just place an instant SAM site out of the air... Like God instantly resupply's you Apache on the go.
I concur, in a less serious play (training for example) its nice to instantly place targets to practice on. or adding units in a sandbox
But that is how i currently look at this.
Still awesome tool.!
@@falcon88h I think you’re being very binary in your thinking about this. I’ve flown many a pre planned mission in real life and not once did the planners know every thing that would happen. This is the point. Someone can manage the game and add wild card scenarios.
“Just placing a SAM” is very flippant and a straw man argument to reinforce your view.
Sorry but THATS what real life is like.
You and a buddy are in an F-14. Spawn yourself an F-5 to go after for practice, then two F-5s. If you can defeat those, spawn yourself some Mig-29s to go after.
Any mission maker will tell you of times when the mission didn't go to plan, either a trigger didn't work or the humans in the mission behaved in an unexpected way. Maybe fewer people made it to the mission. In all cases you need to tailor the mission there and then. You can't be loading up the mission editor when you have 25 people in a Discord briefing room. Some people are getting bored in an orbit - just spawn them some Fishbeds to go pummel.
There are applications for training AIC/GCI roles. You can configure any picture/engagement you can think of. What is the picture call for the current situation?
Yes, of course, you can surround your buddy with 30 Su-27s and, based on experience, everyone goes mad with power to begin with. Once that subsides, you start to see and use it in a different way.
@@CasmoTV Now you mention it. The way i put it... ehhh my bad, let me correct this one🤙
Finally a Zeus mod for dcs! lol
This has my attention. I might dust off DCS from playing BMS all the time. The F-16 RWR just needs to be fixed now.
YES. But when are we getting FCR? 😜
nice, this work on fox3 servers?
Shouldn’t be an issue from what I can tell. I haven’t tried it on mine yet.
OMG!!
But we already have this in DDCS Hardcore server, we can control ground units, give them waypoints, move tankers, etc, like one day we move a 60 tank convoy to attack and capture a base and once close we got into the ground units and face the enemy playing their own ground units
Same for sams, not only we can build what ever air defense we want. But we can move them at will, trust me, a player hiding in a buk is scary lol
As far as i know, it has always been possible in DCS, its just that only DDCS server is the only one using those possibilities
And now it’s for everyone. Evolution.
@@CasmoTV but thats my point, everyone had it already, its just that servers refuse to do it and use those static campaigns, the only thing is that this tool seems 1000 times betters than DCS tools, it looks more fresh and polish and less clunky, which is a very good thing
@@StoneCoolds it’s very smooth. And I have the fox3 team and the Olympus team linked together as we speak.
@@CasmoTV nice! Thats good to hear, lets hope this tool comes soon and becomes popular among servers, DCS needs a better multi-player experience ASAP!
Someone get ahold of Enigma
Will it be possible to use it in singleplayer or only in multiplayer?
It’s both
I'm not able to add ship or tanks the icon appear but then suddenly disappear
Is the server frozen?
@@CasmoTV nope green light