really good mission pack

Hey there!
Just wanted to say a huge thank you for this awesome mission pack🙌 The missions and details are amazing! But I’ve gotta admit — level 5 is insanely hard! I’ve tried everything and still can’t beat it! Still, huge respect for the work you’ve put into this ❤️

Hey there!
Are you planning to re-do the campaign again since we got PLAN?
This is one of if not THE best campaigns out there and I would love to replay it with new content.

Ian this is better by far than any dev made content, please make more campaigns

@Shad - check out some of the base game missions or the base game campaign for examples of the XAML format briefings (which can directly call the game's list of stored NTDS icons and colors). You have to place things manually but the effect is much nicer than a 3rd party map. Cheers

@Ian,
Thank you very much for explanation. Looks like I'm going the same path as you did - online chart tools and Gimp instead of Photoshop.
Could not find NTDS symbols to build in maps though, so had to create them in Paint and port into Gimp projects )
I tried to use in-game map for briefing, but it's very uninformative even if I add exact city/ports locations to .ini files. Online charts are way better, but yes, copyright issue remains...

@Shad the briefing maps were created with Photoshop using one of the online chart tools (I forget which, it is somewhere buried in this discussion thread as the question was asked a few times). For the revised version of this campaign ("coming soon"), I have rebuilt all briefings into the base game format using XAML mappings on top of screenshots of the Sea Power game map (this is better for copyright anyway).

As to other questions on units disappearing, I have not reworked all missions recently so it's possible things aren't working as expected (this mission pack was released in December 2024 so it has been a while). An update will come soon but needs to be after we release PLAN units into the base game. Other possibility I can think of is that mods could be interfering. Cheers

On a couple of missions, enemy disappeared after a period?

Hello @Ian
May I ask what map engine had you used for briefing ? They are very informational.

Hey there Ian, marvellous campaign, good balancing an sometimes a hard nut to crack, very much to my liking, thanks ! Keep up the good work

@STuKa You can check how fast Harpoons and other missiles travel. With a bit of math you can work out how to time your launches so that they hit the enemy fleet at the same time. The key is oversaturating their defenses so that there's those few missiles they don't have the time/ammo to intercept.

@STuKa -- the missions do not alter the hit probability or capability of the enemy forces - those are base game values not available to mission makers. Harpoon intercept chance has gone up and down as the devs have made changes to the game itself. Udaloy class frigates don't have trouble taking out piecemeal Harpoon attacks, make sure you are coordinating time on target attacks using the map tools

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, or if the soviet forces are just overtuned skill level setting in mission 1 but can't score a single harpoon hit on the northern fleet. Staggered launches, full salvo of everything I have, everything in between, not a single hit when firing from my undetected fleet. Pretty amazing that their 2 ships engaging my missiles are able to shoot down what is more or less a blob of 12 one by one, yet my fleet can't successfully take down a handful of aircraft without expending 2-5 missiles per target. Forget defending against even a light counter launch from the other fleet.

Have not had this problem in any of the base game content.

You can ignore all warnings about compatibility. Cheers

Gave me a "flagged as not compatible with current version"-error. Can I ignore that?

@Rookie -- more is coming, stay tuned

@Ian - are there any plans for a sequel?

Fun set of missions.

+1 for the Krivak II task force disappearing in Mission 2, they shot something at my sub and disappeared. My torpedo still hit one of them but they are unable to be located after this.

Great pack, good job.

@Marquavius -- use Standard missiles in line of sight mode to kill them (don't use Harpoons -- this is a core game concept)

On mission six please move the task force back further, being in range of enemy missiles while they are right next to oil rigs which mask them for asm is annoying, moving the task force back would help alot!

Awesome mission pack! Just finished playing it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I highly recommend this mission pack. I'm glad to hear that you're working with the developers.

@OD1199 -- not sure on this, the mission pack is quite old at this point and I need to get the update out the door now that Linear Campaign is available. However I have joined the Triassic team so am now working on creating scenarios/campaign for the base game. Future of this campaign remains uncertain for now

@Calcium -- not sure on this either, mods may be interfering with SAR. On vanilla it works fine. These are just missions and nothing about Pacific Strike modifies the base game behavior.

@ChadSimpKing -- this may be the same issue as OD1199, I'll see if maybe a classname changed. Cheers

and to the other guy "All I can think about is you"... lol;lmao

ships in mission 2 disappear

you fucckiking sun of cheating Whorre

my sonar can seeing shitt in mission10,all 8harpoons can be intercepted easily by one ciws

Any reason I cant conduct SAR for helis? Usually it worked on vanilla but with mod seems to be unavaliable?

Hi, thanks for making the scenarios. Having a rather bizarre issue when in one of the merchant ships in the second scenario, Julius Fuchik, disappears after I damaged it and vanished from the game/map, meaning I cannot finish the scenario. Not sure if this is a scenario bug or a game bug. Cheers.

@JoePineapples - what you are describing is base game behavior and issues and not related to the campaign itself. One thing to check is to look in the Player.log file (you can find this in %AppData%/LocalLow/Triassic Games) and see if a Null Reference exception is being thrown by a mod you are using. Often times a broken mod will start spamming out nullrefs and this will lock units up in the game entirely

I have loads of issues with this campaign so far. In missions 3 and 4. The returning aircraft to land bases drive into the ground or under the sea. And most of the time half way though the mission my ships just will not complete any orders I give them or return fire and incoming missiles.

@Dante_347 @squid -- from reading the Microprose and BuOrd discords, seems like the recent update broke a lot of mods causing this warning to appear. It is not related to the scenario. Modders are working to get all the mods updated to comply with the latest update which should fix it. Cheers

Thanks guys - unfortunately all of the missions have been updated for the upcoming campaign release (and I confirmed the issue doesn't happen on the rebuilt version of mission 3). I would just skip it for now, hopefully I can get the update released soon.

I have the same issue as @squid. I am using mods. First two missions worked fine, then there was an update for the game today and now im getting the same error message.

@squid are you using mods? No one else has reported that issue and generally those nullrefs are due to mods not working correctly. This campaign is designed for the base game only so also can't guarantee balance when using mods. Cheers

Palawan mission hangs on load after dumping a long error message (screenshot on imgur) [imgur.com]

Thanks for the campaign Ian, really enjoyed it....more please!

@Elite Rice Farmer -- protip is to not use Harpoons in such congested areas ;) use guns or Standards

I hate how the damned harpoon keep re-targetting toward the oil rig.

This is an amazing mission set. GREAT JOB

Excellent campaign! I hope to see Soviet variant of it someday.

@Ian Wow sounds awesome.

@OBSERVER -- 5 new missions for the main storyline, 6 new "challenge" missions set in the same universe, several updates to the existing missions including adding new JMSDF units, linear campaign with events and unit progression. 4 months in the making!

@Ian thanks for the tips. I will give that a shot. What will the update consist of?

Thanks all! Update is hopefully coming in the next few days after Linear Campaign is released onto public beta branch.

@ OBSERVER -- use Scott and Moosbrugger to take the vampires, be careful with Harpoons as they lock onto the largest target (oil rigs). You can use SM-1 in line of sight engagement against surface targets, this is highly recommended in these congested missions.

I need advice on mission 6...All my harpoons target the oil platforms off the bat plus the non-stop vampires...

I have to say this Is a really good campagin. Enjoyed it a lot!

Best campaign I've played!

Very balanced, no sensless unit spam, realistic civilian traffic. Those missiom breafings add a lot to the climate

This is an amazing campaign that have spent hours upon hours replaying and doing different things. Absolutely the best.

I'd like to suggest a couple missions or a campaign sequel that feature the Tarawa-class if you'd ever be interested in making something like that.

LOL thanks guys!

The update to the campaign is basically completed at this point, but I have to wait until JMSDF and Linear Campaign support is released into the public release branch before I can post it... been a long time coming, hopefully soon

> Be Ian.

> Make the best linear campaign on the entire Steam Workshop.

> Never make another campaign.

> Refuse to elaborate.

> Leave.