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Hi, I need someone to test an addon for me and take a few basic screenies. The condition is you have to be able to do it within the next 45 minutes.

I found them a bit easy buddy, but perhaps that was just our immense skill

Beta tester found thanks.

Ahem, I meant that the vehicle is undamaged when you shoot it 1000 times with 12.7mm ammunition or anything smaller.

I gave the armour a fairly thorough testing earlier and it's a pretty decent set up. Against anything with any sort of explosive shell, e.g. Tank guns, AutoCannons, ATGMs the vehicle gives the crew a second chance to bail out and run...sometimes. It gives great protection against indirect hits, but is not ridiculously well protected against heavy weapons. The only downside of this is you can put 1000 rounds of BIS 12.7mm into a Cobra with no visible effect. Otherwise it offers a pretty realistic impression of a battlefield survivability utility vehicle. Although 3 HMG cobras and a dismount (plus command vehicle) can take on five HD Tonali rebel squads at once without maneuvering and at worst lose one Cobra, generally with the cre w surviving to board another wagon at the end of it. I think the Tonali Defence Minister will be interested!

Wilco can probably go into more detail than me on this, but all it really seems to need is a bit of texture work, a config and the Crew proxies moved in 02. The rear cabin is fully textured, all visible external faces of the vehicle were fully textured. I'm sure it wouldn't take a competent config writer very long to do up a shiny new config. Shifting the proxies in O2 is fiddley but basic.

And here was I feeling all special The Irish Defence Pack has obtained permission to use this addon as the basis of some Irish Piranha IIIHs. Piranha IIIH versions in Irish Service (Or soon to be) are an APC with an FVT800 turret (so please if anyone knows of a model for this in existence let us know) An OTO Melara HITFIST turret (We currently have a basic model but if someone has one finished again PLEASE let us know) And a version with the same RWS fitted to the Stryker. If we can source/complete the other two turrets then all we'll have to do is retexture and tweak. I won't make any promises this time. If we get it done you'll know on the release date. Now I'm going to go and try this thing out so I can post congratts to Vixer and Wilco. Edit: So people are forewarned, the following things are unfinished with this addon. 1. The Driver and Gunner proxies will need to be moved. 2. Without messing around with above I can't tell but I assume that no drivers view has been included. 3. The underside of the chassis is still part untextured. 4. The config values etc are completely undeveloped as presumably the config was used only to test the visuals of the the vehicle ingame i.e. 15 rounds of 5.56x45mm will cause this vehicle to explode.

I mean will OFP textures and models get reused for the mod e.g. BWmod Fuchs and Leo1A5 models once the tools for converting p3ds become available?

Will the mod make any use of "backwards compatible-ified" OFP addons?

True, but it could spoil the gameplay a bit if this vehicle can't be disabled by 12.7mm or cannon fire.

Well I just tested this in MP with Gokhan and I have to say it is a particularly well polished addon. My only two gripes are 1. That the gun shield obscures the sight picture on the HMG unless you are aiming downhill 2. The mine resistance trranslates into a bit much protection against other weapons, at one point my Cobra took three 73mm hits from a BMP-1 and still had a teeny bit of armour left.

You finally got over your procrastination problem Goki! Well done, will give it a try tonight.

Is there a unit equipped with the McMilan tac-50 in the editor? The machine gun effect and the bounding are pretty impressive, the single round firemissions with the mortar limit its use but it's still a great little idea. Good stuff. Hopefully other Addon makers will adopt some of these features, perhaps perfecting them and integrating them into existing addons in updates?

I let out a little whoop of elation when I saw the Assault Landies in Contact Unknown. The Bell 47 gunship is as clever an addon as there ever has been, just a shame no cunning tonali rebel contrived a means of reloading the PK in flight.

Excellent missions, what I wouldn't have given for a bayonet on the checkpoint mision great units too of course

Rocking, will try these missions in the morning. Hopefully my rejigged flashpoint will now let me play these and insurgency without lagging

Considering the amount and quality of work involved I have infinite patience for this project. (Speaking as someone who has failed to realise a much smaller project over the last three years)

Well folks, We have it down to six critical bugs which we aim to iron out before we release the troop packs. Unfortunately we appear to have suffered from high levels of desertion so the troops and footmunch's (at this stage quite old) PC-9M are the only units we have to release. Currently we're hurrying to get them out before ArmA. We also have Offtime's permission to use his VBS Irish Soldier model so something may come of that in time. Sadly however our helicopter projects have died. Our AFVs have died as far as I know as SniperUK has left the community and our CVRT is UKFs CVRT and tied into their release. Our Nissan Patrol project appears to have died as Manhunter09 has gone AWOL. I'm genuinely sorry for dissapointing anyone but all we can do is get the core of the project finished.

Brilliant I tend to only use modern scenarios but this kit will fit in nicely for the armed forces of Jerkwadistan.

Would you like a bigger shovel? You could have pm'd your explanation to Ironsight instead of putting my thread at risk of closure.

It's not although a lot of the team have vanished with their parts of the project. However the troop pack is nearing completion painfully slowly. You'd have to ask Eddie T Head for the exact details but essentially all that lies between us and release are a few texture path errors.

Hi All, Does anyone know which addons use this system? As far as I can recall it was V1.3 of Hudson and Pennywise' F/A-18 that introduced missiles which exploded when they were close enough to an aircraft instead of having to get a direct hit like most OFP anti-aircraft weapons. I seem to recall a few other addons had this feature afterwards. At the moment it's a bit frustrating because most aircraft can only be shot down at near point blank range from directly in front or behind with impact detonated missiles and if nothing else I'd like to edit all the aircraft addons I use to carry the proximity fused missiles.

Why is this? My machine is old now but when Footmunch and Radishville started releasing the first really high quality Fast Jet addons it was fairly ninja. Even then any missile fired from anywhere other than directly in front or behind tended to move far too slowly or too fast to get a hit.

Any idea how the Radishville (Hudson and Pennywise) version worked? I seem to recall it worked pretty well, although it could have been a timed detonation? For the Irish pack we looked briefly at the possibility of having missiles that would detonate at set distances which could be selected from an ammocrate as HE-100M etc.

Hi Zerg, Just had a quick try of the addons, and have three things to say. 1. The texture and model quality is very good. 2. But...unremovable backpacks! Aaaaaaaargh make it stop. Could you at least include a version of the Force Recon guys with all their other kit but their backpacks removed. 3. And finally, the units with camo'd faces and sleeves rolled up to reveal bare white arms look a bit silly. Keep up the good work otherwise