galzohar

Any idea how to disable the "10cp award for killing an enemy"? I'm trying to avoid kill confirmation messages and this breaks it.

For now splitting AI to smaller groups and not using the waypoints but rather calling the CQB function in the onAct field of the last waypoint with a low interval (2 seconds) helps. I also set the AI QRF to enable the reinforcement feature, but I'm not sure how much it helps, they still often seem to prefer clearing buildings in order rather than engaging known enemies. Basically I find the biggest problems with CQB right now are, in this order: 1. Too much priority for building clearing over fighting known enemies. 2. AI move too close together, and script seems to send the entire group into the buildling even if it's small. Leaving some AI outside would be safer and faster, and need to find some way to keep them spaced. Seems like when you send 4 men into a 4 different building positions and they all choose the same (sometimes only) entrance, then they all stack up trying to enter at the same time, which makes them way too vulnerable. 3. Search order is a bit predicable. Order of buildings could be slightly randomized (in cases where distances are similar), and dynamically change the order to prioritize clearing buildings around known enemies first, getting back to the original buildings order later. Buildings near known enemy contacts should probably re-enter the list of buildings that need clearing, even if they were already cleared.

Spawning new threads obviously has more overhead then a loop condition. Whether that will be measure-able in performance - Hard to say (although t will be crazy if it was faster). But I wouldn't do this regardless...

Hi, I tried using this as this seems like the only proper way to make AI search through buildings properly, and encountered some issues: 1. AI in CQB often get stuck, and they won't move until the whole team is out, even if only 1 AI is stuck. I'd consider some unstuck functionality or a timeout to stop waiting for the stuck AI. 2. In CQB it seems to send the entire group into a building, even if it's small, making #1 occur even more often for large groups. 3. In CQB AI seem to prioritize clearing buildings rather than engaging enemies. I think enemies should be the #1 priority, and they've been eliminated and their buildings cleared, go back to the search pattern. 4. CQB search pattern seems a bit too consistent, AI often search buildings in the same order. 5. AI in vehicles with CQB task/waypoint won't drive (they'll get in the vehicle if they're far enough, but then it won't move). Must use a regular "get out" waypoint followed by a CQB waypoint. 6. It's not clear to me why there are both waypoints and modules, and what's the desirable way to work with these functions. The waypoints seem to be more limited, but the modules can't be chained to give a next task once the current one is complete. 7. Could really use some other useful tasks, mostly: a. Ambush: Set up defensive positions in stealth mode until ready to engage, and complete when all known enemies within ambush area have been eliminated. b. Hold them off: Set up defensive positions and prioritize survival and delaying the enemy over rushing into combat and getting the kills (and killed). Good for when longer firefights are needed and the AI is expected to be outnumbered and/or expecting reinforcement/support. Allow some scripted/trigger condition to determine completion. Hopefully at least some of those won't be too difficult to fix. This mod does some great things and I think it has a lot of potential to improve further. Thanks!

The 1st one is a terrible way to do something like that. You probably won't notice any real performance difference, though, but still it's just bad. When you want a loop, just write a loop. Normally writing what you actually want is the best way, if it's not faster, at the very least it'll be easier to understand later and fix any bugs or add new functionality.

If you think a faction is what will make or break a game mode you should re-inspect current and historical status of servers. If a game mode is crap then no aesthetics are going to help. If a game mode is cool but has many abuse-able features that don't get tweaked quickly enough, it will die fast even if the concept was cool to begin with. And also if it's not tuned properly to the current status (number of players, available time of players, etc). End-game had many ways to abuse it pretty badly and was not scaling well for smaller number of players, and it didn't get the required effort to keep it playable (and even with major effort, some design flaws that can be abused are not simple to fix without breaking something else).

It's a much simpler version than what you are describing (no buying/building, no revive, no respawn) but I think in some case this can be an advantage for the kind of gameplay you're looking for. For example, balancing of gear is much easier this way. As my community haven't played in a long time, I hope no Arma updates broke anything. There is also RHS and IDF mod support (optional), but again updates could have broken it since I made it. So make sure to test before your game night!

Did anyone hack something to make ALIVE use the new waypoints? Otherwise I'll try pull something off myself, but was hoping someone would have beaten me to it. Currently from a quick test it looks great but unfortunately AI don't get in buildings before combat, only once they spot an enemy (and in my tests only to hunt me inside a building, but I didn't test much yet). They do seem a bit aggressive though for getting into your building, which makes them a bit predictable. Do they also try in some cases to get a firing position into the building from the outside rather than charge in to make them less predictable? Also, what happens to taskGarrison if the unit gets killed/deleted before it reaches its target? There seems to be no null checking? Would this fail or somehow work? Also maybe a timeout would be appropriate (for example if unit might loop, or get into contact, or get a different order by some other script)?

I play only veteran so I can only play what the veteran server is running. Also most of the week only 1 server has high population so you must play that. Also, when the veteran server was populated the game was just going back and forth around the same few central objectives. Seems like unless one team is much better than the other or one of the teams starts to quit nobody is going to get past the chokepoints.

You don't think that taking hours to find any enemy player is a problem? And that players quitting as soon as a new game starts just because of this is also a problem? The first 2 times I tried this I joined a game in progress which was more reasonable, with cp being generated at a good (even too good) rate. Then I had a game that just started and with just a few players and it took over 2 hours just to capture a few zones, during this time the entire enemy quit and some new players re-joined and eventually it was late at night and I had to go, being nowhere near the middle of the map yet. Basically a team that had more players playing longer and fighting boring AI for more hours will have a serious advantage, that is if the server doesn't become empty in the process. In the end I think the game duration should be something that an average player can afford to spend, and not that 1 match would have the entire team get replaced by new players several times before it's finished, if it ever gets finished without requiring one of the teams to go to bed first. As for spawning, I noticed it depends on where you come from, but it's still a very specific position, which could be completely exposed and spawn camped. I don't think anyone likes having spawn camping in a game. If we get some reasonable radius around the current spawn point to choose a more concealed position to spawn in it would be better. Also, if you can come from multiple directions, we could be saved the trouble of deploying twice by having those options available in advance (although that's just an annoyance, not a major issue). Regarding difficulty, seeing AI on map can be fixed by mission scripting if it's important for this mission's gameplay. Friendly players are already appearing by script. I also don't like kill messages and score board (as it lets you easily confirm your kills which hurts realism without a real gameplay benefit), that's why I'd prefer elite/custom (where custom is basically just elite with VonID, stamina bar and stance indicator enabled).

Some of the major issues I found so far: 1. Most servers are on regular. The veteran server has very few players (is there only 1?). Please make the first server veteran/elite/custom, so that people who just choose the 1st server will get that... If someone really wants to play regular he can manually pick a different one. 2. For small player counts (and probably even high counts) it takes forever to get the PvP game started. There are way too many zones that it takes hours to capture enough to actually reach the point of fighting the enemy. This basically makes the game only somewhat fun when joining late, and everyone quit when a new game starts. 3. Early you get almost no CP at all, while late game you get a very generous amount. There should be reasonable basic CP generation even with 0 zones. There should be significantly less zones and each zone should count for more (for both #2 and #3). 4. The whole rearming process is annoying and encourages abuse. You have to either pay for full arsenal or try to figure out which ammo crates contain what you need and start chasing them around the base. Considering that you didn't loot anything temporary before you died and can actually acquire last loadout (which is absurdly cheap as someone can loot your titans and you can duplicate your loadout that way). One possible solution is go to arsenal on every respawn but have to pay for anything you take (and of course can store some presets for cheap/expensive/specialist loadouts to get done with it more quickly). The cost will have to be added to the arsenal though. This will make every weapon and ammo spawned cost something. Some very basic alternatives (crewman, rifleman, pilot) should be free. Basic AT should be cheap if neutrals keep spawning armor. Spawning ammo crates should be left for field rearming (and ammo shouldn't cost much, while weapons should cost more). If you keep spawning ammo crates at base as a cheap way to rearm multiple times, at least don't spawn them 100m away... The above issue also results in very little weapon variety, as it's too much trouble (and early also costly) to keep grabbing a different weapon than the default, not to mention getting more ammo for it. Best way is to just drop your mags/nads/fak, reload last loadout and pick up fresh mags back, which is annoying and limits to your the default weapon. Also, some basic vanilla weapons are missing and only a DLC alternative is available. Mostly bluefor have the DLC EBR but are missing the vanilla one... 5. Respawn system is very problematic. I couldn't figure out the rules 100% yet, but it seems you can spawn straight into the enemy line of sight both when attacking and even more so when defending. This makes spawn camping a necessity at some point. Fast travel to a zone an enemy is attacking should spawn you outside just like when attacking. Spawning should be further away and you should have some freedom in selecting the exact spot. Maybe even make it much further but spawning transport vehicles to your position much cheaper. 6. Zones are very large, which results in lots of hide and seek. Making them much smaller will make it more obvious where you need to go to defend/attack. It doesn't force all fighting to be inside the zone... But it'll make everyone more focused on reaching a more specific area. 7. Weird stuff happen when both teams focus on just attacking. If there are enemies in the zone you are supposed to defend, capturing should be disabled until you also clear the defended zone from enemies. Smaller zones will also help with that. 8. Neutral zones have a ton of AI but they're very bad. This makes for some very strange firefights... Not sure if it's due to server being veteran (as opposed to elite) or if the mission specifically lowers their skill further. Haven't noticed yet if friendly AI is as problematic, if they are then they're pretty worthless except for some guided AT/AA which can't miss anyway. There's probably much more but those are the biggest game breakers I could think of right now.

Hi, If you are still trying to change this, there is a part in the script that prevents players exploiting potential holes in the walls of the base to get out of the spawn area. You can easily adjust the code to your needs. Look for if (bKeepPlayerInBox) then in roundclient.sqf.

Addons for things that can be done without addons usually does more harm than good. There are more people willing to handle the badnwidth needed for the automatic download even if it repeats itself on every mission variant (up to a point, of course), than people willing to go out of their way to download a mod outside the game.

So it's really limited to just map objects, and absolutely ignores editor-placed / script-spawned objects? :(

Check out the DTAS events on Arma 3 PvP community Steam group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/arma3pvpcommunity While the objective is "not realistic", it is the closets representation of a realistic objective I could get without adding overly realistic elements that don't add anything useful to gameplay (that is, objectives that would create an incredibly imbalanced and non-competitive mission). You can find some videos in my channel: http://www.youtube.com/galzohar