dingbat91

Hey Spyder! first thank you for these tools, makes it so much easier to add some basic things I enjoy to missions I want to play! Secondly I was wondering if you (or anyone really) could help me with getting UAV Spawning to work. as to my knowledge it doesn't crew them, effectively making them null and void. I've believe I've managed to get it so I can use unitIsUAV to check the summoned vehicle is actually a UAV, but attempting to use createVehicleCrew seems to throw an exception and I've no idea where to go from there...

Hey there NorX this is an awesome mod! something that seemed like it should have been with the Taru since the word go! is there any possibility of allowing us to order AI to raise/lower the pod via the action menu? would be a nice addition. :D once again thanks, my friend and I are getting a LOT more use out of that helo now :D

Hey there Giallustio! loving the mission so far thanks for your awesome work! would it be possible to add some form of AI recruit to the mission (triggerable by params) I play with a small group of friends and sometimes the AI are just useful in bringing up the numbers to use for vehicles and just to up the intensity of firefights.

Hey there! thanks for an awesome mission! I was wondering if it would be possible to put the AI Recruitment onto the Altis map? being able to use AI to fill crew slots on low pop servers is really useful :)

Hey there! would it be possible to add AI recruitment as an optional parameter? me and my friends want to just grab a ton of soldiers and start a full blown battle!

Heya again Sa0k probably already seen it, but I thought the urban patrol script might be useful to you http://kronzky.info/ups/ just passing along the info!

would it be possible for some sort of vehicle request feature. sometimes it'd be useful to be able to bear down with some heavier firepower? just curious as I'm really enjoying this mission! thanks for your effort and producing such a decent mission so quickly :)

Hey Dram! quick B3 question myself: are we still under the restrictions from B1/B2 game play wise (limited island amount, no hammerhead/UAV usage) I can guess and understand the story mode most likely isn't in (for spoiler reasons)

also the varying scales of the game would easily cause design difficulties. for example what would happen if one player was attacking an island and the other wanted to sail to another island. in SP that problem is solved with Timewarp, but in MP that isn't a possibility, so does the second player just have to watch his ship sail for 15 minutes? does the other player have to "wait" while his travel occurs? also the fact the carriers ever meeting is a rare occurance,and would most likely end the game after such a meeting, as it would take rare circumstances for pursuit of a damaged carrier to not be a top priority for a player, so whoever came top of the initial clash would have a grand advantage. and would you consider it a "fun" MP experience if you fought your friend for a measly few moments, seeing nothing else of his presence but islands changing colour from blue->red Co-op negates a lot of issues, as the enemy carrier is still AI, but how do you balance the enemy carrier with that? do you let it cheat? do you limit the players in some capacity? a lot of big questions need to be answered, and a lot of the core mechanics that Carrier command runs on would require a drastic rethink to make a viable MP system. so I can quite understand how they might want to do it post release, and after they know the game has backing, because it's not cheap to do drastic rethinks of game concepts, especially in later development lifecycles, any company will want to make sure it's worth the cost.

That's fantastic, not only because we get to play with updated mechanics, but also it seems like a good idea to at least bring out one final beta to catch any big issues now, rather than at the release date, it feels to me that anything we mention it beta 2 is old hat now. being so far behind in the pipeline.

I'd personally love AI wise is the ability to ask them to deploy and crew based weapons via actions (Select both units-> actions->deploy crew weapon) would make mortar deployment so much easier. oh and for the ability to order helocopters to land at a location without disembarking (possibly require smoke to designate the LZ?)

Hey Bohemia interactive & community. I'm so happy to see the P&C Beta announcement and I can't wait to grab the reigns of the carrier and get my teeth into your game. I was wondering if you could give us a little more clarity about the content of the P&C beta however: How "compressed" is the strategic campaign? less islands, limited tech? etc etc How far into the production process are we jumping into? Should we be expecting obvious missing sections of the game (certain models missing etc etc) or are we doing some serious bug hunting? Will content in the P&C beta increase as time passes or will we get a very large beta->release content jump? I'm sure others have questions as well that they can add to this topic as well... thank you for your time - Dingbat91

actually there is a stop keybind which works with the carrier, but not much else... (i've set it to my R key)

I saw someone mention this in another post. I believe it's straight victory if you sink the enemy carrier ATM

1. in slot order Gun/Launcher-(Rockets/Missiles)/Utility-(scanner/ammo/hook)/Armour just so you know :D

To use the sling equip it to a manta (obviously) then manually fly it over a Walrus get it quite close and a hook icon should appear, press use key (default: F) and you'll hook onto the Walrus. to let it go simply press the use key again. I suggest at a low height. word of warning: do NOT use afterburner with a hooked walrus in tow. you'll lose your Manta (not the walrus...that gets lucky ¬.¬)

quick question. is there any way I can gift a copy of the game from bi store? wanted to get my friend in on this as well just so he can see the environments.

I may have been lucky but my carrier could park next to an island and only got attacked once...the deck guns did a good job...

awesome! didn't know that yet (still in my stalemate) quick question: is that position & supply connections and is the amount of neutral islands random as well?

into my first game, captured Styx, then promptly bumped into the enemy carrier at my front-line defence island (I stopped to gear up for my first island assault) both damaged each other quite heavily before he pulled away to the edge of the island. I retreated to the opposite side...I'm now stuck in a stalemate, The enemy carrier has yet to make a move while I wait for any supplies that might even touch a carrier. The game and it's environment are amazing! notes for dev's: The mouse, again, also took a while to get used to but it's something I'm adapting to rather quickly. AI pathfinding needs a small bit of tweaking especially with minute movements (the AI simply doesn't have enough time to manoeuvre before the route plotting systems attempts to compensate). it feels like the island setup right now forces Carrier versus carrier confrontation a little too quickly. and the inability to travel while hostile units are nearby is an issue... I'm surprised you cannot click a target to engage an attack order, or am I missing something?

I plan to do a "lets play" (obv stating it's beta over and over again) if that's okay with BI...

Aye, I'm pretty sure the file size is beta only.

download size is 1.5GB (source: here) no idea if that's uncompressed or not, nor the full file size if it is.

@carriercommand has stated that the beta will be roughly 1.5GB big (Source: here) That size worries me to how "condensed" this beta is, I'm guessing/hoping that the size of the download and not the uncompressed install to start off with. I'm just hoping it's not something like 3 islands within walking distance of each other or shortened loadout choices. Not only because I want something to "sink my teeth into." content wise, but it feels that condensing it on too grand a scale may skew our vision of it. and things that are balanced in beta may not be so balanced on the games full scale. (fuel/ammo consumption is a big example with archipelago scaling...)

well it's friday here in the uk (12:49AM) so it's officially negative time to beta day :P