Random missions

[Capitaine Haddock]

Just a suggestion from M1A2 on the Codemasters forums.
(sorry if this has bees discussed here before)

The game could really benefit from a random mission generator.

My feeling is that there's only a limited ammount of mission types:

- Capture position
- Search and destroy
- Hold position
- Insertion/ transport
- Rescue/ Med-Evac
- Escort/ Protect/ Close support
- Reach a position
- Etc.

By changing the location, time, weather, type of units and ammount of units you could have a simple way of getting a quick new game with no editing time:

Just select the mission type and off you go.

What are your thoughts on this?

[Capitaine Haddock]

Bump. Anyone?

[Hellfish6]

I like the idea. It sounds like it would work like the Mission Wizard did, before it was disabled. As I understand it, you'd just load a template into the mission editor, change anything you wanted to (like changing soldiers to BAS Rangers or something) and go.

[Capitaine Haddock]

That could work, but somehow I see it more like a screen like this:

Mission type [ Close support ]
Side [ West ]
Friendly units [ BAS DES Rangers ]
Enemy units [ Random ]
Armour units [ None ]
Air units [ Random ]
Island [ Random ]
Weather [ Random ]
Time [ Random ]

You could define the bits you want in a scrolling list, or even leave everything to random. When you press [ OK ] the game would generate the mission for you. That's all.

[The_Captain]

You can create a mission like that now, with a bit of work... Just some dialogs and scripts, not too hard.