Pacific Aces Campaign Generator

Floater · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 2300 Location: England

Included with both full and �lite� versions is the Pacific Aces Campaign Generator (PACG). With this, you can specify a year, a base to work from and a submarine type, and a campaign will be generated for you at random. So, if you want to drive a Gato out of Brisbane in 1943, you�ll get a year-long campaign doing just that. Likewise a Balao out of Midway in �44, and so on.

The campaign missions you�ll get will be a random selection of missions created by Hitman using similar techniques to the popular Aces Campaign, but with important additions. The convoys are randomly selected from a large database of templates. Weather is randomly generated according to your location and the time of year; even your start dates and times are random. In other words, every mission of every campaign you play will be different.

The design of PACG is open. You can slot new missions and templates in and they will be picked up and used in campaigns. Even the screen artwork and screen layout are user configurable.

PACG is a Visual Basic program, seamlessly integrated within the Pacific Aces menu structure and installed by McBeck�s installer. Programming is by Floater, artwork by Horsa and the missions and templates are by Hitman.

Sailor Steve · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject:

WOW! It gets more exciting all the time. Will we be able to add other boats, like starting out of Manila in an S-class, a la SHI?

I'm going crazy just wondering how much better this can get!

Seeadler · Joined: 14 Mar 2001 Posts: 1992 Location: Germany

Be in mind, with campaigns out of this generator you can't no longer easy ask here in the forums how mission 1 or 2 or ... can be solved because other user maybe got a different mission 1 or 2 from PACG. Laughing

Floater · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 2300 Location: England

FUBAR295 · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:08 am Post subject:

Floater,

Looks like you done it again. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

Thanks!

Good Hunting,
FUBAR

airwolf2004 · Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 46

the random mission creater looks good also is there a mission where you can go into truk lagoon or sneak into a heavly guarded base like tokyo bay or some other base in the campaign

airwolf

Fletcher · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 858

bart · Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 393 Location: UK

floater wrote :

Floater · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 2300 Location: England

bart · Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 393 Location: UK

Awesome, thanks for the prompt reply Floater, this will add a whole new level of realism to this already great sim.

I've just read on another thread that someone in the Dev team has found a problem with the installer, does this mean a big delay on the release of this baby?. Hope not..............

Floater · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 2300 Location: England

I don't think the problem you've mentioned will make much difference to the release date. We're prepared for last-minute glitches - they were always bound to happen.

airwolf2004 · Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 46

hi floater so then there is still a great chance that we could be able to download pacific aces by friday then or has that changed

airwolf

Floater · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 2300 Location: England

We can't be more specific than "soon". Please, just be patient - we don't want to release a product that's not ready.

horsa · Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 2693 Location: Halifax, England

I don't know where anybody gets the idea that we'll commit to a release date before we're happy it's ready to go.

DS · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 182 Location: Canada

I agree. Let's show these people the respect they deserve for producing this great product, without harassing them for dates they can't, and shouldn't, commit to.