Dynamic mission/Campaign

[Barbera]

I'm looking for a dynamic mission/campaign that i can play solo or in co-op.

Any specifc recommendation?

Looking around i've found "Pretense", which seems a good candidate.
However trying to install this, i noticed the below disclaimer in the installation part:

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To enable persistance you have to allow the mission environment inside DCS to read and write to and from your file system. To do this you will need to edit \Scripts\MissionScripting.lua inside your DCS or DCS server installation folder.
⚠️Be aware that by doing this you are allowing full access to your file system to scripts running within DCS. Only run missions you trust after doing this change.
UNQUOTE

Has anyone experience with this? as i'm not sure what would be the risk associated.
What would actually happens, if i modify the file as requested?

Would there be eventually a Dynamic mission/campaign or template of a mission that would any of you recommend to achieve same/similar type of mission, without the need to actively modify a game-file?

Cheers

[SSerponi76]

Originally posted by Barbera:

I'm looking for a dynamic mission/campaign that i can play solo or in co-op.

Any specifc recommendation?

IMHO the best dynamic campaing manager is DCS Liberation: https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation, followed by DCS Retribuition, (which is actually a branch of Liberation, with saved games backward compatibility)": https://github.com/dcs-retribution/dcs-retribution

Originally posted by Barbera:

However trying to install this, i noticed the below disclaimer in the installation part:

To enable persistance you have to allow the mission environment inside DCS to read and write to and from your file system. To do this you will need to edit \Scripts\MissionScripting.lua inside your DCS or DCS server installation folder.
⚠️Be aware that by doing this you are allowing full access to your file system to scripts running within DCS. Only run missions you trust after doing this change.

Liberation has the same requirement but it hande it in a safer way:

Important Note before you launch DCS Liberation :

DCS Liberation will modify the following file in your DCS installation: <DCS Installation Directory>/Scripts/MissionScripting.lua. This allows Liberation to record information about mission events. This will not prevent you from passing the integrity check to join multiplayer servers.

This file will be modified whenever DCS Liberation is opened and the original will be replaced when DCS Liberation is closed.

No problems for me so far, just be sure to not play any other user made missions with Liberation client running.

Originally posted by Barbera:

Would there be eventually a Dynamic mission/campaign or template of a mission that would any of you recommend to achieve same/similar type of mission, without the need to actively modify a game-file?

Cheers

ED is working on a native dynamic campaing manager whihc will be integrated into the DCS core game, not ETA at this time.

[Barbera]

WHat do you mean with "Liberation has the same requirement but it hande it in a safer way" ?
how safe and what do you mean by that?

[SSerponi76]

Originally posted by Barbera:

WHat do you mean with "Liberation has the same requirement but it hande it in a safer way" ?
how safe and what do you mean by that?

Sorry, I thougt my quote was clear enough:

Important Note before you launch DCS Liberation :

DCS Liberation will modify the following file in your DCS installation: <DCS Installation Directory>/Scripts/MissionScripting.lua. This allows Liberation to record information about mission events. This will not prevent you from passing the integrity check to join multiplayer servers.

Liberation needs to modify <DCS Installation Directory>/Scripts/MissionScripting.lua BUT it makes a backup copy of your original file before you jump ito the cockpit, edit it and then restore the backed-up copy at mission end.

This way you are "exposed" only during flight period only.

[Dura_Ace]

Originally posted by Barbera:

I'm looking for a dynamic mission/campaign that i can play solo or in co-op.

Any specifc recommendation?

Looking around i've found "Pretense", which seems a good candidate.
However trying to install this, i noticed the below disclaimer in the installation part:

QUOTE
To enable persistance you have to allow the mission environment inside DCS to read and write to and from your file system. To do this you will need to edit \Scripts\MissionScripting.lua inside your DCS or DCS server installation folder.
⚠️Be aware that by doing this you are allowing full access to your file system to scripts running within DCS. Only run missions you trust after doing this change.
UNQUOTE

Has anyone experience with this? as i'm not sure what would be the risk associated.
What would actually happens, if i modify the file as requested?

Would there be eventually a Dynamic mission/campaign or template of a mission that would any of you recommend to achieve same/similar type of mission, without the need to actively modify a game-file?

Cheers

Most PVP anti-cheat systems require some sort of deep integration into the OS, which seems to be necessary if you want to play fairly.

Some systems are routinely cracked like EAC.

I call easy anti cheat, easy to cheat. The amount of games i have seen and played that had EAC, that were compromised time and time again makes this platform a joke in my opinion.

I just read their marketing spiel which is a complete joke.

Easy Anti-Cheat is the industry-leading anti-cheat service, countering hacking and cheating in multiplayer PC games through the use of hybrid anti-cheat ....

It is this deep level of integration at the kernel level and highest level of trust that i find distasteful. But my question is why this is needed for an offline single player campaign?