Looking for help/inspiration, making a s.t.a.l.k.e.r. RP campaign.

[thermicgravy 1]

Hey guys, me and 5 friends have been playing missions in arma for years, using Zeus missions as a sort of DnD campaign. The 5 of them play through missions I make and I use Zeus to make missions on the fly, control NPCs and all that good behind the scenes stuff.

Our most recent campaign takes place in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe, and we just concluded the first "episode" succesfully the other day.

I'm currently working on #2, but my lack of the editor is starting to show, so I have a few questions and any suggestions are also welcome!

So for this next mission I'm looking to try a few things:

 

-I want the group to be suppressed by a sniper and I want them to use some sort of moving cover to flank him, but short of vehicles I wouldn't know what to use. Any suggestions?

 

-I've been placing triggers with sounds effects as jumpscares, but I would prefer being able to place them with the Zeus sound module. Is there any way to load sounds into that module so I can place and move them on the fly?

 

-The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe contains these things called "anomalies", and in those games they look like some sort of force field that hurts you when you get too close, anyone got any ideas how to replicate those in ArmA? There are objects in the game that look like them, but I can't figure out a way to make them move around, or maybe have any effects happen around them. I've been thinking about spawning an invisible unit with particle effects enabled on it, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how that works.

 

I'm also looking to make some puzzles in the game that actually require some thinking, anyone have examples or ideas on how to do those?

 

Those are basically all the questions I have for now, would really appreciate some help! Also, if there's any S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans in here, let me know what you would want to see in a missions based on the games.

 

 

Appreciate it!

[Drunk9353 1]

Have you tried the HUGE stalker mod in development? ArmStalker? its early, but give you tons of content  https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/185777-armstalker-online-%E2%80%93-in-development/

[thermicgravy 1]

Have you tried the HUGE stalker mod in development? ArmStalker? its early, but give you tons of content  https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/185777-armstalker-online-%E2%80%93-in-development/

 

Yup, this is what we are using for all the units, unfortunately the whole community is Russian, so I couldn't get any help with the questions I posted up above.

[Tajin 348]

For anomalies I imagine the heat effect particles could be very useful.

Here's an example of how they're used:

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/173575-cloaking/

 

This can also come in handy: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/148108-particle-editor/

 

 

As far as cover against that sniper goes.:

You could allow players to pick up some sort of makeshift shield (via attachTo) and hide behind that (i would force them to walk while carrying it).

[thermicgravy 1]

For anomalies I imagine the heat effect particles could be very useful.

Here's an example of how they're used:

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/173575-cloaking/

 

This can also come in handy: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/148108-particle-editor/

 

 

As far as cover against that sniper goes.:

You could allow players to pick up some sort of makeshift shield (via attachTo) and hide behind that (i would force them to walk while carrying it).

 

Very interesting stuff! Thanks so much for this, pretty much exactly what I was looking for!