New MP mission, Psycho Slayer 6.0rc4

[5133p39 16]

2006.12.03, EDIT: Got Armed Assault, started to work on ArmA port of the Psycho Slayer mission

2006.02.27, EDIT: New version 6.0rc4!!! try it!

All known bugs fixed.

You can use the "Take hostage" and "Force cooperation" options!

Check the download links at http://5133p39.wz.cz/

2006.02.25, EDIT: Filefront mirror!

All files needed by the version 6.0rc3 are hosted on Filefront - check the download links at http://5133p39.wz.cz/

2006.02.25, EDIT: NEW VERSION 6.0rc3

Few minor bugs corrected

Fresh info at http://5133p39.wz.cz/

2006.02.09, EDIT: NEW VERSION 6.0rc1, work in progress

There are two MAJOR changes:

1. This new version utilizes the dmx_police pack, and the police Mi-2. And i made their sirens and megaphone work in MP (they not only work, but they are really useful now).

2. Now you can stop the travelling civilians by shouting (when on foot) or by using the sirene (when in police vehicle) or megaphone (in the helicopter). The AI will pull over and stop so you can go to them and check their "papers" to determine whether it's the killer or not (you need to be less than 2 meters away from the civilian, then it will indicate whether it's a normal citizen or the killer - of course you are risking to be killed if it really is the killer). This is really cool feature.

There are also some other changes, like that the civilians are no longer shown on the map, so now you can't determine who is the killer by simple looking on the map (when you seen someone and he has no green dot on the map, then you knew that it is the killer, now you don't know, so you actually have a reason to use the new features allowing you to order the civilians to stop).

But now it's too hard for killer to plan his attacks, so i think i will make it the opposite - that the civilians AND the killers are marked by green dot.

The download is not ready right now, because the whole thing is still in testing phase (but seek, and ye shall find ).

I will be happy for any comments, or feature suggestions.

2006.01.07, EDIT: NEW VERSION 5.0rc4

Now really worth the download:

1. No known bugs!

2. Added simple scoring system.

3. Added overview and briefing with some tips in notes, in czech and english language.

Check my webpage at http://5133p39.wz.cz

Following information is outdated, fresh info at http://5133p39.wz.cz

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Here is the readme.txt:

Quote[/b] ] Mission name: PSYCHO SLAYER - The hunt, v3.6.5 (2005.06.04)

Created by: 5133p39 (5133p39@email.cz)

Type: MP COOP, 1-3 vs. 1-11

OFP Version: Resistance 1.96

Needed Addons: MORS_Killer v1.2, MORS_radio v1.0

(both can be downloaded at http://5133p39.wz.cz/files/psycho_slayer/)

Foreword:

This is a total, and from scratch, remake of the mission known by name

"Find the Serialkiller v2.00" by [City Cobra].

I borrowed the basic idea, but thats all, everything else is fresh and new

(including some minor bugs - yes, this is v3.6 but still in BETA stage).

So, i want to thank to [City Cobra] (or whoever has the original idea),

and my thanks goes also to whole eVAC! team, for it was them who brought the

idea of remake before me in the first place, and who were extensively and

relentlessly testing the mission with me, providing me with their mental and

even technical support by allowing me to test the new mission and addons on

their dedicated server. Without their help, and encouraging, this mission

would be never finished.

Description:

In the basics it is same as it's predecessor - you have to either kill as

many people as you can, or hunt down the killers and bring them to justice,

depending on the side you choose.

Here are some new features:

- there can be up to 3 killers (each looking like an ordinary man/woman)

- cops must be near some vehicle with it's radio turned on, to be able to

hear any messages concerning killer's evil doings.

- anyone inside a police vehicle, can see all the cops on map.

they are shown as blue dots.

- the AI are randomly trafficking between the villages.

so watch your car (killer or cop), for if they like it they will use it

(a cop can lock their cars, so even AI couldn't use them).

- the positions of last five killer victims are allways marked on the map

- when the killer's sanity drops to zero, he will experience occasional

loses of consciousness, and will be marked on map by a big yellow dot.

- the killer's "sanity" can be replenished by killings.

- after the first civilian victim is killed, the cops are authorized to

use helis. the BRDMs are available after two or more cops are killed.

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*** THE KILLER ***

...aka The Psycho, the dark side

Your objective is: to kill as many people as you can.

Here are the rules you must obey:

1. When there are only 5 civilians remaining, you won the game.

2. There can be up to three killers.

But be reasonable - if there are playing only 5 Players or so,

on the Police side, then one killer should be enough for them.

3. At the start, first arm yourself at the ammo creates, and when

ready, click in your map and you will be parachuted there.

4. When a killer dies, he is taken to the prison from where the others

can still free him (just find some BIG BOOM PACKAGE and use it at the

prison wall).

5. When all killers are imprisoned the game is over.

6. Every killer has his own "sanity"

Watch it carefully! When your sanity drops to zero, you will start to

lose your consciousness, and because of your funny behaviour, the cops

will know where you are!

You can replenish your sanity by killing people or cops, but when it

reaches zero then there is no way back.

You can check your sanity from the action menu.

7. Watch out for unlocked police vehicles!

Anyone, who is inside any police vehicle, can see the cops (blue dots)

on the map!

8. All civilians are marked by green dots, and can be seen by the player

(killer or cop) without the need to be inside any vehicle.

9. You can take a "hostage" and order them to move where you like.

(well, there are some problems still, but it should work)

10. If you are playing alone,you can take advantage by killing the police

radio dispatcher, located in the green tent on the airport.

While the tent is empty, all police radios will remain silent, and the

cops won't know what is happening.

But be ready - the cops can replace the dead dispatcher either by

themselves, or any civilian.

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*** THE COP ***

...aka The Saviour, the light side

(but that doesn't mean he can't take bribes, right?

Your objective is: to find the criminals, and bring them to justice!

There is only one way to do this, and your gun will lead the path.

Here are the rules you must obey:

1. You will lose the game, if there will be no more than 5 civilians.

2. You can't kill civilians, so don't bother trying.

3. When you die, you will be parachuted over the airport.

While airborne, you can change your location by clicking into the map

and you will be teleported to the nearest respawn.

4. Every police vehicle has radio in it, accesible from action menu.

Don't forget to turn it on, or you will not receive any messages about

killer's evil doings.

5. The radio is dependent on the police dispatcher present in the tent

at the airport - if he's not there, your radios won't work.

You can replace the dead dispatcher by yourself, or by any other

civilian (through the "Force cooperation" action).

6. ALWAYS lock your vehicle!

Anyone, who is inside any police vehicle, can see the cops (blue dots)

on the map! Don't let the killer be that one!

7. All civilians are marked by green dots, and can be seen by player

(killer or cop), without the need to be inside any vehicle.

8. There is no rule number 8, but someday...

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Planned features:

* This version is made so it could be used as a template, so you can easily

adapt it to your favourite island, and even change the vehicles used.

I won't go into any explanations right now, because the scripts are a mess

and i don't want to encourage anyone to mess with them until it's all nice

shiny and clean.

* I want to add a BUS traffic, and NPCs able to use it.

All the work is done, it's only a question of time when i put it together.

You will like this, the Buses are sticking to the road like they should,

there are three independent but linked Bus routes on Nogova, and those

cool sounds!

Be ready for the need of another addon with sounds of station messages.

* When i started to work on this mission, i was using some cool addons like

the Map Fact Nogova island, Police gaz24, Police BRDM, Police MI-2,

and so on.

Each of them altered so the sirens sounds could be heard in MP, and so on.

I removed those addons, just because it was easier to track the bugs

without them, but now when the work is almost done, i am planing to make

another version with rich addons support.

Changes and fixes:

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2005.06.04, version 3.6.5

* Corrected bug allowing the killer to teleport himself whenever he

clicks into the map. Not just once at the mission start.

* Removed code preventing both the Killers and Cops to order AI units to

move to a position defined by map-click.

Now if you order the AI to move you can set a waypoint by clicking into

the map.

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2005.06.03, version 3.6.4

* Added ammo to all Police OH-58 helicopters to allow them to fire the

new smoke rockets featured in MORS_killer v1.2

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2005.06.02, version 3.6.3

* Size of map dot markers was reduced to 1.5

* Added version number into briefing mission name

* Corrected a bug introduced in version 3.6.2 by changing 99% of

variable names but in few places they were forgotten and unchanged.

This was causing bugs which doesn't allowed the mission to end

automaticaly after all killers has been captured, and few other things.

* Corrected a bug introduced in version 3.6.2 which was a sniper rifle

missing in killers ammo crate.

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2005.06.02, version 3.6.2

* You will need MORS_killer v1.1 and MORS_radio v1.0

* All scripts has been rewritten, cleaned, and fully commented.

* Scripts were sorted over catgorized directories and some forgotten

and not needed were removed.

* Corrected a bug causing the failing of init_antenna.sqs and thus not

allowing anyone to destroy or repair the Police Antenna.

* All radio messages, text or audio, are now truly shown/played only if

the player is near any vehicle which radio is switched on, while the

police radio dispatcher is online, and working police antenna in case

the player is on the right side of island (from Davle to the right).

- There is only one exception, and that's the message concerning the

destroying or repairing of Police Antenna, this one is not dependent

on the radio or dispatcher or whatever.

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2005.06.02, version 3.6.1

* Some Police cars were not locked at mission start.

This mistake has been corrected. Now every Police car on the map is

initialy locked.

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[nubbin77 0]

Sounds fun. Nice work.

[5133p39 16]

thanks, i hope it WILL BE fun.

But if anyone think it isn't much fun, and something should be changed, let me know, and if i like the idea, i will do that (by adding an options menu - like voting system in CTI - where you can enable/disable some features)

[5133p39 16]

Version 3.6.1 uploaded:

* Some Police cars were not locked at mission start.

This mistake has been corrected. Now every Police car on the map is initialy locked.

[Metal Heart 0]

It doesn't work. Where can I get MORS_slayer.pbo?

[5133p39 16]

It doesn't work. Where can I get MORS_slayer.pbo?

Not MORS_slayer.pbo, but MORS_killer.pbo and MORS_radio.pbo, and you can find them here: http://5133p39.wz.cz/files/psycho_slayer/

...and read the readme - especially the changes/fixes section at the end.

[5133p39 16]

Version 3.6.2 uploaded

Check the changes and fixes from the quoted readme in the first post.

Version 3.6.2 needs the new MORS_killer v1.1

Version 3.6.2 was tested only during last few hours - MAYBE there still can be some bugs (even some new).

The next stable version should be 3.6.3

[Metal Heart 0]

Oops, I forgot to put them in addons folder under mod folder, doh :-)

[5133p39 16]

Version 3.6.3 uploaded.

This version is considered stable.

* Size of the map dot markers was reduced to 1.5

* Added version number into briefing mission name

* Corrected a bug introduced in version 3.6.2 by changing 99%

of variable names but in few places they were forgotten

and unchanged. This was causing bugs which doesn't

allowed the mission to end automaticaly after all killers

has been captured, and few other things.

* Corrected a bug introduced in version 3.6.2 which was a

sniper rifle missing from killer's ammo crate.

Needed addons:

MORS_killer v1.1

MORS_radio v1.0

(check the first post for the download location)

[5133p39 16]

Uploaded MORS_killer v1.2

- Added smoke rockets (white,red,green) to OH-58

When these rockets impacts, they will spawn a smokeshell of the appropriate color.

Used to mark the position of a killer or whatever.

The generated smoke can be a little laggy - i set the cloudlets size to 0.5 (twice as the standard value), but it is generating a nice dense smoke

The only difference in this version in comparison to version 1.1 are those smoke rockets, so you can use 1.1 or 1.2 - whatever you want, as long as it is used with mission version 3.6.2 and higher (although i STRONGLY recommend to use the stable 3.6.3)

[5133p39 16]

Version 3.6.4 uploaded

* Fixed the missing ammo for smoke rockets in all Police OH-58 helicopters.

!!! For this version you must use the MORS_killer v1.2 which has the smoke rockets

[Metal Heart 0]

Maybe you should do a little more testing before releasing the new versions, yeah it's beta but anyway, I don't wanna download new version every 6 hours with new bugs :-)

I will test it on lan this weekend, looks like it could be fun.

[5133p39 16]

Maybe you should do a little more testing before releasing the new versions, yeah it's beta but anyway, I don't wanna download new version every 6 hours with new bugs :-)

I will test it on lan this weekend, looks like it could be fun.

Well, there is never enough time for testing :-)

But you don't need to download every new version released.

If you are satisfied with features of version 3.6.1 there is no need to download the newer versions.

3.6.1 is the oldest released version.

needs MORS_radio.zip and MORS_killer.zip

3.6.2 is total rewrite - which, unfortunately, contains some new bugs which are corrected later in 3.6.3

needs MORS_radio.zip and newer MORS_killer.1.1.zip

3.6.3 is a bugfix for version 3.6.2 - with very little added/changed features

needs MORS_radio.zip and MORS_killer.1.1.zip

3.6.4 is a version made specially so it can utilize the new MORS_killer.1.2.zip - which proveides the OH-58 with smoke rockets.

If you don't want the smoke rockets, you can still stick to the 3.6.3 or 3.6.1 and their needed addons.

[5133p39 16]

After a extensive testing of version 3.6.4 we found a very very serious bug - the Killer was being able to teleport whenever he wanted to whatever location by single mapclick.

I want to apologize to everyone for this stupid mistake.

But i have good news! This last bug was corrected in version 3.6.5, and after that, we didn't find any other bugs!

So the version 3.6.5 is really stable and now i encourage everyone to use it.

[5133p39 16]

Thanks for all the feedback, people! ;-)

[Metal Heart 0]

Sometimes the AI cops shoot player cops at Airfield and sometimes they shoot prisoners for no reason. If you take civ under your control (as a cop) and give him weapon, he/she starts killing the AI cops and reports them as enemy. In a game just a minute ago one dude was cop, driving around, then he suddenly warped to prison island and a little later he was forced to debriefing. My OFP crashed about 5 minutes prior to that, I was flying OH58.

[5133p39 16]

Cops are West side, Killers are Resistance side, Civilians are Civilians, and Guards are East side, while the Resistance side is set to be friend of noone.

When the game starts, the cops are "setCaptive true", so the guards don't fire at them.

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it is so, because of historical reasons:

1.) long ago, the cops, when hurting a civilian, would become an enemy (ordinary cop won't hurt an civilian, yes?)

2.) i made the killer a Resistance unit, because long ago, when he was a East unit, the civilian AI stared at him, sometimes even droped to the ground, and this could reveal him to the cops (originally, the killer has been marked by green dot, same as the civilian AI unit - to make it more difficul for the cops to find him)

I will try to think about that, and eventually switch some sides.

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Quote[/b] ]Sometimes the AI cops shoot player cops at Airfield and sometimes they shoot prisoners for no reason.

...so, if you are a cop, respawned at the airport, and the guards are firing at you, then the "setCaptive true" has not been set yet (although it is one of the first expressions executed).

...the prisoners are not shoot at for "no reason", but because they are too close to the fence :-)

There is a switch which will "setCaptive true" the killer, if he is inside, and "setCaptive false" if he is outside, and this switch is a little smaller than the prison place.

Quote[/b] ]If you take civ under your control (as a cop) and give him weapon, he/she starts killing the AI cops and reports them as enemy.

...if you take civilian under your control and give him a weapon, he will probaly fire at the guards - because they are EAST units.

Did you tried to take two or more (when you are playing as killer) AI under your control, give them a weapon, and then kill one of them? :-) ..they will shoot you, because you shoot one of their group.

The resolution is: don't give them weapons, there is no need anyway. Or forbid them to fire when you are near any of the places where the guards are.

Quote[/b] ]In a game just a minute ago one dude was cop, driving around, then he suddenly warped to prison island and a little later he was forced to debriefing.

Well, this is not an error :-)

The game ends automatically, when there are no more FREE killers.

So if he was playing it alone, then there were no killers = no free killers, so he has been warped to the prison island, and the game ended - that's perfectly normal.

Quote[/b] ]My OFP crashed about 5 minutes prior to that, I was flying OH58

Maybe you were using too much smoke rockets, and it was too much for your machine?

I don't know about any issue which could have been caused by the helicopter.

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Anyway, which version were you playing, and did all of you had the same verison of the MORS_killer addon???

USE THE VERSION 3.6.5 WITH ITS APPROPRIATE ADDONS (and be sure all of you have the same versions).

I was playing the version 3.6.5 right now, on our dedicated server, with 4-9 people, for almost 5 hours, without ANY errors, troubles, or crashes to the desktop. And of course we were using the OH58, smoke rockets, AI controll, anything.

[Metal Heart 0]

Quote[/b] ]Well, this is not an error :-)

The game ends automatically, when there are no more FREE killers.

Yes, but the other killer was outside fence freeing his buddy and the game ended only on 1 cop, not all players. Or maybe the free killer ran into fenced area, I'm not sure. I do know how the game ends :-)

-sometimes getting out of truck caused one player to break legs

-I took M21 (I had AK47 in hand) from heli and suddenly there was lots of ammo all around the heli.

Anyway, it was fun, even though we were only 4 players.

We all had same, correct addons and mission version 3.6.5.

[5133p39 16]

Quote[/b] ]-sometimes getting out of truck caused one player to break legs

The only cause could be, he didn't fully stopped his vehicle first. Other than that, there is absolutely nothing, in the whole game, what could possibly cause such a thing. There is no script which is doing any setDamage on AI/Player units, there is no break-his-legs script ;)

Quote[/b] ]-I took M21 (I had AK47 in hand) from heli and suddenly there was lots of ammo all around the heli.

Well, maybe the chopper is overloaded with weapons/ammo, but the strange thing is that we didn't noticed this problem, i'll go check it right now.

Quote[/b] ]Yes, but the other killer was outside fence freeing his buddy and the game ended only on 1 cop, not all players.

Hmmm, maybe the killer really ran into the fenced area - then it could happen (that's why the trigger is smaller than the fenced area - to help prevent such thing, when you are putting down the satchel too close to the fence).

Didn't you killed almost all civilians, so there were no more than 5 of them remaining? (that's how killer wins)

I'll try to find what causes this, and fix it somehow.

Thanks for the info, i really appreciate it.

[Metal Heart 0]

Quote[/b] ]The only cause could be, he didn't fully stopped his vehicle first.

He was stuck between two trees stationary or something like that. I don't think it's a bug in your mission but Flashpoint itself, same with the heli ammo.

Quote[/b] ]Didn't you killed almost all civilians, so there were no more than 5 of them remaining?

The cops won all games. Including one game with 3 killers and me alone as a cop :-)

Quote[/b] ]Thanks for the info, i really appreciate it.

No problem, it was fun but I think it could be better with some improvements and tweaks. The main problem is that it's really easy to detect the killer because he's not marked on map and the civs are, and also, with heli, right clicking on a killers vehichle reveals him even from over 1 km away. Maybe the radar should be disabled.

[5133p39 16]

i am working on version 3.6.6 right now.

The helicopter ammo-spilling bug has been corrected, and many will follow.

[5133p39 16]

NEW VERSION 5.0rc1

Check the webpage: http://5133p39.wz.cz

[5133p39 16]

NEW VERSION 5.0rc3

Now really worth the download:

1. No known bugs!

2. Added simple scoring system.

3. Added overview and briefing with some tips in notes, in czech and english language.

Check my webpage at http://5133p39.wz.cz/

[kodansha 0]

very slowly download

[5133p39 16]

very slowly download

yeah, i am sorry for that, maybe if someone could mirror it - especially the new version 5.0rc4 (which is in 97% final, and 100% bugfree).

I have sent it to the OFPEC but it's still pending (and it is now obsolete version they have there).

I have sent it even to OFP.info, but it seems they aren't interested in this type of mission.

...and by the way: new version released 5.0rc4

Everything is ready and tested, so the next release will be 5.0 final.

Then i will focus on the making of the template version (which is almost done anyway) which will allow anyone to use this mission with any other island and addons (like with the nice DMX police pack, for example).