Death of a (Valiant) Tiger

TLDW: I was making a Viper campaign. Now I am not. Reasons are complex, but I think you will understand. And I think you will like what will come in the next few weeks.

Hard decision to make, but it was the right one for me....

Many years ago, I started to work on an F-16 campaign on the Syria map. It was being built as I was building Bold Cheetah, and I was really looking forward to seeing it through.

You know how sometimes life gets in the way? Well, it did. The time I can spend on the computer got cut back quite drastically... I had only so much time to get things done, and the priorities were Bold Cheetah, followed by my 10 Percent True OIR missions.

Valiant Tiger started to collect dust.

I had built out 14 missions, with 2 of them getting to the voice over stage. One other was half done, and there it sat.

And as it sat, I learned more and more about mission making in DCS. And as it sat, thing started to break, little at a time, as things tend to do as development of the platform progresses.

And to test, fully, a complex campaign such as this takes an extraordinary amount of time. Going through and polishing it up to a releasable state would be... daunting.

I took a look at the campaign this week, and determined that the cost (time) to fix it up nice, plus putting in new voice overs in would be equivalent of actually writing and producing a whole new campaign.

Especially now, when I have a whole new bag of skills to bring to the task. I have a new methodology which drastically cuts down the time I need to sit at the computer to make it work. Which is good, because the time I have available to sit at the computer is less than it was before.

So... what's a Sedlo to do?

I think what I'll do is, over the next few weeks, polish up missions 1 and 2 (the ones with voice overs) and release them into the wild, so folks can have a taste of what could have been.

Then I'll finish working on the F-4 stuff I am doing... and then?

Who knows?

Whatever it will be, I promise you it will be good.

Whenever that happens.

Much Love,

Sedlo