After extensive online experience in a wide variety of missions and with diverse groups of LAC online players, I have concluded that LAC's missions should automatically connect all players to their MissionCast channel instead of the TeamCast channel that corresponds with the appropriate team (RedTeam orBlueTeam). An automatic connection to the mission's MissionCast channel will allow everybody to talk with everybody else, and it's clear that the early banter in almost every mission is best directed toward both teams.
Last edit: bbosen 2026-03-26
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Of course, within a mission, we should preserve the ability to jump into the player's TeamCast channel by tapping the F10 key in flight, and to jump into the mission's MissionCast channel by tapping the F11 key in flight, and to jump into the opposition channel by pressing the F12 key in flight. No changes there. We should just change the initial channel to MissionCast as every mission commences.
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After extensive online experience in a wide variety of missions and with diverse groups of LAC online players, I have concluded that LAC's missions should automatically connect all players to their MissionCast channel instead of the TeamCast channel that corresponds with the appropriate team (RedTeam orBlueTeam). An automatic connection to the mission's MissionCast channel will allow everybody to talk with everybody else, and it's clear that the early banter in almost every mission is best directed toward both teams.
Last edit: bbosen 2026-03-26
Of course, within a mission, we should preserve the ability to jump into the player's TeamCast channel by tapping the F10 key in flight, and to jump into the mission's MissionCast channel by tapping the F11 key in flight, and to jump into the opposition channel by pressing the F12 key in flight. No changes there. We should just change the initial channel to MissionCast as every mission commences.
This has been implemented in alpha-test version 9.92, Accordingly, I am marking this thread "ALPHA TEST".
We promoted version 9.92 to BETA TEST today, so I am marking this thread "BETA TEST".