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  2. Posted

    Very nice work Surfer, though I'm convinced the AI can still see better in the fog/rain than players....

    Great Ambience. I did accidentally fall in the sea, and discovered that the ladder on the other side of the boatyard doesn't work...

    Also where'd you get the ship from? I assume its a hidden object?

    Next step, get it onto the Steam Workshop!

  10. Posted

    Used this a lot in ARMA 2 for randomizing mission objective locations (e.g. find a destroy the OPFOR AA emplacement/ammo dump/whatever, with associated foot patrols, camo nets, MG bunkers, etc). A great way to allow a mission design to be reused multiple times, and even keep it 'unknown' for the mission designer.

    Excellent work Shuko.

  13. Posted

    The showcase scuba version uses an FSM to check the state of the mine. What you are looking for is this mineActive. I would recommend you download the BI tools and open up the mine FSM to see how it works. Good luck!

    An end condition for your mission would like this. Mines are named mine1 mine2 mine3.

    {mineActive _x} count [mine1, mine2, mine3] == 0

    Great info @cobra, works a treat!

  14. Posted

    Very nice work Zorilya! A great fresh start for A3.

    A tiny and minor request, that's probably well outside the scope of this script package; it would be great if they could randomly close some of the doors behind them. The open doors are very much a 'tell-tale' of breadcrumbs when you are using the script without waypoints; walk along the street, and look for open doors to focus building and room clearing on. If the door is closed, small chance OPFOR present (unless they came in a back door, of course!

    I do fervently wish for the day when the AI gets a bit "smarter'', and actually (within a house) leave their rooms to track down firefight occurring in nearby rooms (again some level of randomness, some will and some wont. Or even some exit house to engage in nearby firefight, whilst others don't. Almost a variable setting a level of randomnees allowing them to break out of the garrison script when 'firefight' nearby?

    Also I didn't see any crouching occurring at all in 1.7? All targets were standing at all times?

    Keep up the great work, I won't be playing SP without this (and it may sneak into some MP missions to....)

  15. Posted

    Thanks Sproyd, good little mission, and nice 3rd one.

    I concur with Beowulf's comments; I barley had time to complete the mission before the convoy rolled through. Whilst putting the pressure on, its a little too annoying IMO. Also didn't fire a shot (sawa quad bike vanishing at first locale)

    I'd rather have the convoy behind me with either the option to radio it to stop and hold in place, or much bigger time gap to it starting

    There are other options for adding tension though; a two man OPFOR sniper team overmatching one of the mined areas, who open fire as soon as you arrive, would really add some tension. Especially if their position is randomized, or in fact which mined location/s they appear at is randomized. You could for instance have 3 man patrols at a 200m randomised radius out from each location, with each man say 10-25% probability of spawning, or something? I think you see what I'm suggesting?

    Also, would love the convoy route to go say through Agia Marina, with mines at one of the street intersections, and again randomised couple of 2 man patrols in general lcoale, with again randomised chance of being present. Perhaps one using one the the house patrol/spawn scripts.

    Another way is for such randomised patrol locations/occurrences/counts to actually spawn further away from mined locale (say 400m), with a trigger to move to that locale when you activate BLUFOR present ''trigger. So they attack once you are immersed in de-mining... Means your AI will have to pull their weight, and you have to deploy them smartly at each locale for overwatch...

    Just some ideas to spice it up!

  17. Posted

    It is great! :)

    I'm trying it now. Hmm. Is the arm dealer knows me? After several tests noted, that he will not disembark the car, when I see the place, where car stops (or rather when he sees me when arriving) instead car is turning back and rides away (and is back after some time and so on). Also, when arm dealer is on foot and going to make prayers, as soon as he perceives me, even from a distance, he is turning back and running away on foot, from where car arrived, still his bodyguard is walking to te prayer place vicinity as nothing happened...

    Whoo-hoo, a Celery mission, most awesomeness!!! Haven't been around ARMA for sometime, so this is a great way for me to get back into it, and the attention to detail is as always meticulous!

    I'll echo Rydygier above though; as soon as arms dealer sees me on foot, he simply turns around and goes running off into the distance. Weapon holstered, his bodyguards don't care at all. Tried it 3 times now, and same every time. Close or 50m away no difference. maybe I smell like the quiet camel I'm carrying???:yay:

  21. Posted · Edited by gnarly_rider

    Thanks for the updated version DAP, we had a ball!

    Couple of suggestions:

    And here is two conditions for areas with caches:

    1. Cache was destroyed.
    2. No alive insurgents in area.

    • Markers make much more sense! However: we had red hatched intel marker in a town, so went into it to search for cache. After decent firefight, cleared a fair proportion of town, then a green hatched marker appeared, significantly/mostly overlapping red marker. OK, so we assume that this green area is secure (AI wise) and ammo cache is in remaining red marker; and start searching for ammo cache in the red area not covered by green. No luck, eventually find ammo cache in area covered by both red and green marker. This happened at two different towns. So basically, the green marker appeared and covered a yet un-found cache location, twice (though specifically it overlapped the inital red cache marker at this location).
    • Could do with some random AI patrols in the countryside (eg UPSMON or something 2-3km radius from towns), so that you remove the complete focus on attacking towns by overwatch then advance. ie right now the towns are almost the complete focus, and the rest of the map is 'dead'/secure; so if you set up overwatch 400-800m away from a town, you know you are safe and can pretty safely focus on the town. Be nice to have the occasional patrol come up from behind you if you aren't careful. Ie remove tunnel vision of BLUFOR
    • Further to the global ambience, some random IED's to add spice to the 'transport' sections. Again, map feels empty outside the target towns
    • BMP-2 in southern Rasman didn't move at all (it fired but never moved?)
    • How hard would it be to retrofit R3F Revive onto this? The default wounding system is brutal, and we found made team cohesion difficult; 3/4 of the time you die, and then respawn via Rally point, whereas we'd love all dead people to stay writhing on the ground, until they can be 'revived' in place. But I'm guessing this is difficult, as you've implemented it for AI as well! :o
    • PS love using 'crippled/injured' AI as bait for other AI; wound an AI, then settle down and wait for other AI to try and heal him. Repeat ad nauseum!

    Awesome work, we are finding this very enjoyable!

    OH BTW, how do you disconnect from a UAV session??:butbut: TAB button doco says, though I'm sure I tried that, but......

  23. Posted · Edited by gnarly_rider

    I will try do something with this. At first this mission was created only for Takistan and seems that it need more rework for Zagrabad. And you right about green markers. This is markers of clear areas.

    Do you mean clear of enemies (or no more enemy spawning?), or clear of ammo caches? As EZJack asks, a bit more info about what/when these marker appear would be brilliant!

    Also:

    Here is no briefcases with data about caches. The only way to find any cache - interrogate field commander or any other commander of insurgents group. They both wears camo jacket. If you kill them, then you don't get any information about caches. Insurgents can move to defend any attacked cache via special option in any nearest cache.

    But I did accidentally kill one, and still found a map (evidence) on the commander, which highlighted a cache location. So do you get both interrogation and map options for commanders, and if so, is the intel provided the same? Or does interrogation provided more detailed info than the map? Hopefully the second option, otherwise there is no point 'capturing' commanders! ;P

  24. Posted · Edited by gnarly_rider

    Ran Blackbox tonight on dedi, the player who got the Action menu for acquiring the Black Box indicated they got a hint once the action was used, but I don't believe anyone else saw the message.

    We then all moved to the extraction marker, but no action menu option or radio (0-8) option presented itself, nor any chopper. Oh we also chucked smoke in case! No dice...

    Possibly the Black Box task initiated as complete on client side only? Hence mission not complete on dedicated, therefore no evac option?

    Nevertheless had a ball yet again in the Chernarus forests. God its great in 1.60!!!!!!

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