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Can't wait for v2.5! The anticipation has actually got me back into playing v2.1 just to get my fix for now.
Since you're showing off some of the new models, I felt the need to point out that the M16A1/CAR15 models should not have the brass deflector behind the ejection port. :cool:
That feature wasn't added until the A2 generation for the M16 and wasn't on the CAR15, with the exception of the XM177E1 variant, until the M4 Carbine. The current model for the M16A1 is essentially an M16A2 with the handguards of an A1. Not a major issue, but being a bit of a gun nut, I felt the need to let you all know in case you want to go that extra mile for period realism.
EDIT: After reading through the thread I saw this had already been brought up!
Were you guys ever able to find/create an alternative for the M119 155mm artillery piece for the US? The M119 didn't see service with the US until the late 1980's and that's always kind of stood out as an eyesore for me seeing them around the FOBs (though I'm sure most people don't realize or care). I figured I'd bring it up again since you appear to have some very capable modellers and texture artists cranking out new content for v2.5. The US 155mm artillery in Vietnam was the M114A1/XM123. However, the M114 is pretty large so if its size is an issue, I think even the M2A1 or M102 105mm artillery could work as adequate alternatives and any of them would go a long way towards completing the overall Vietnam feel/atmosphere, especially on the US firebases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M114_155_mm_howitzer
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We've not gotten the support we'd need to get the ball rolling on this. I'm officially calling it on the mod at this point. I am simply involved in far too many projects at MilitaryGamers.com to attempt this one alone with the few guys I have on my staff that would be able to assist.
Here's to hoping that someone can see a vision like this through someday.
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Anyone interested in offering real assistance to these efforts please go to http://www.militarygamers.com/forums/ucp.php?mode=register and register an account on the MilitaryGamers.com forums. This is for the guys who've offered model/texture help, animations help, map help, etc. I'd like to include everyone on a team roster on our site to make task organization easier to manage. This doesn't mean you're committed to the project or team full-time, it just makes it easier for me to organize everyone's efforts and to contact you.
It would also help for you to make a post under the WBtS forum after you register so that we know who you are and your account doesn't get purged. Registered accounts without memberships are generally purged on a 90 day inactivity basis unless you're actively contributing to the community.
Communicating via these forums is fine for brief questions or inquiries, however, I don't check this site as often, and no actual mod work will be handled here, it is all managed on our site. We will post major updates here occasionally, but the bulk of the project will be managed via the MilitaryGamers.com forums.
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I suggest you start atleast TRY to make a working horse. Players would love to have working cavalry units.That would be Epic.
Think I said it before, take a look at the Horse in the game Mount & Blade.
If this mod get a good progress in the future, I might help you make a " Battle of Gettysburg" Island map. But first I need to finish my pacific islands :D
A custom island is critical for our mod and on our eventual to-do list.
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I'd b willing to do some basic infantry models for you to get you started, here's the type of stuff I can do for ARMA2, what skills do you personally bring to this, if you don't mind me asking beffore I commit to this?http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k259/poomtang/arma2202010-02-262015-28-32-3520copy1.jpg
So you're the one that did the Sharpe's units? Cool. I took note of it as soon as I saw it on Armaholic quite a while back. Was hoping to see a full-on Napoleonic mod result from it.
I am a jack-of-trades of sorts when it comes to modding. I can work a lot of things that others have created and tweak them to my own ends. I've not created any original content in any recent games that's made it to the public, but as far as ArmA 2 goes, I've done a lot to tweak MP missions, especially Warfare. We used to run a version of Benny's Warfare on a MilitaryGamers.com server that I had heavily modified to meet the realism expectations of the US military veterans of the MG community.
I also created the '53 Enfield Model on the first page in about 8 hrs and I'd never used a 3D modelling program prior. I just never taught myself how to adequately texture it...
Have you guys figured out how you'll make units do battles? I know you can just have them stand in a line, but things such as fire by rank and square formations etc. are not supported by default AI. I'd just recommend starting work on this now with default units, as it's going to be a very important part of making this work.The AI work is going to be such a huge undertaking that it will practically be a mod in and of itself. I have a guy that will be helping work on this, but he is also one of my staff members and is currently already tasked out and since we are at a point where there's no point in investing a lot of time and energy until we know it can actually be a reality.
If we can get the initial models and weapons in, then we can begin to tap all the various people that are helping and set them to work in several areas at once utilizing SVN checkout.
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We have guys that can mod all sorts of different areas of ArmA 2 within our own community, and are willing to help, and we've also had a lot of offers to help in other areas from within the ArmA 2 modding community, but no one that can do models and that's a bit of a sticking point. I have tinkered with modelling, and mine are OK, but not great, and I have no experience texturing, creating UV maps, etc.
I manage the entire MilitaryGamers.com community (over 800 members) from several of our game branches to the website, forums, memberships etc. I also work full time (with travel nearly every month), and I have a wife and three small children. The WBtS project is my vision, and so I'm overseeing it, organizing etc., and I will be helping with some of the coding as well as creating the MP mission when it comes to that point, but my plate is currently too full to teach myself what it would take to create quality models, so I'm recruiting (outsourcing) for this.
Until we have textured models, there's really not much point to doing anything else, so no, there's no "base". Those items would form the base.
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While ArmA 3 looks pretty, they lost me on the future setting. I've been with this series since OFP and it'll be the first title I don't purchase, at least not for a few years. I'll give it a few years for the mod community to catch up with some total conversions/ports and then I'll pick it up on the cheap somewhere.
As far as this mod goes, everything's really just talk until we manage to recruit a model and texture guy willing to get something put together for us to start with.
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Sorry for double-posting. Since more people are apparently reading this thread lately, I will post a teaser for you all. It is a rough outline of a MP mission scenario I had thought up quite a while back when we first decided to create this mod in the ArmA 2 engine.
So, since the move to ArmA 2, my head is flooded with ideas about things we can do/try to do in this setting. And since I know my way around ArmA 2 modding a bit better, I can also start to plan things I'm relatively certain are feasible.Here's my idea for the initial multiplayer mission. Much of this is subject to change once the rubber meets the road, however, I'd like to get some of these ideas into writing so I don't lose track of them, and also to give you an idea of what you might be able to expect.
You'll start out by joining a hosted server and choosing your side (USA or CSA), and then your squad slot (rank and role). The rank of each slot will be purely for uniform fluff and will be how you select specific officer uniforms to match special units, i.e. Louisiana Tigers, Iron Brigade, etc. The role will determine which units you can command.
You'll spawn into a semi-fortified camp where aside from some fluff NPCs and guards, there will be several 1st Sergeant NPCs in various locations loitering around tents and campfires with various troops of the unit to which each belongs idling about nearby to give you an idea of their look and basic equipment. You'll speak with the 1st Sergeant and go into a brief dialogue about the unit, their capabilities, and finally he'll ask you if you've been assigned as the new Company Commander. In this way you can browse the available commands for your role such as infantry, cavalry*, and artillery. If you don't meet the role requirement, he'll respectfully tell you to piss off. If you do meet the role requirement and you accept command of that unit (and in some instances pay an equipment "provisioning fee" for the more elite units), the 1st Sergeant will "muster" your troops for you and they will spawn nearby in formation and ready to march on your command. The exact size of the unit is to be determined and will vary depending on type and role, but we're going to simply refer to them as your Company. If your Company is below full strength you can get replacements at any time by speaking with your Company 1st Sergeant again. You will have to pay a fee again to fill elite units up to full strength.
You will also be able to visit the Quartermaster Sergeant in camp and purchase various upgraded personal equipment such as binoculars, better weapons, etc. There will also be an option here to purchase rearmament for your Company.
Also in the camp there will be a field hospital where you will be able to talk to the medics about healing yourself and surviving members of your Company.
Once you've got your Company, march them out to the strategic objectives placed around the map and capture them for your side, harass enemy supply lines, possibly complete optional side missions, or get with your teammates to organize a large-scale pitched battle with the various units and troops all brought to bear. You obtain currency by capturing strategic objectives and inflicting losses on the enemy to continue your efforts. When all objectives are captured, one side is declared the victor, and the mission restarts. We may include other winning objectives as well that can be toggled such as point attrition, etc. We will try to offer scaling sizes from just a few objectives that can be captured in an hour or less, to enough objectives to keep you busy for several hours.
Purely theoretically speaking, large-scale battles could incorporate nearly 1600 troops with 64 players on a server (25 man companies), though I highly doubt this is possible because of resource limitations. However I do estimate that a number closer to 800 troops (spread across some distance) may be possible, several factors depending. Most likely servers will have to have fewer player slots (24-32) to reduce the amount of AI entities while still maintaining larger Company sizes. More research, and of course actual testing will be required but we want this to feel as epic or as mundane as you choose each time you lead your troops out.
If you fall, your troops will continue to fight on without you, but you'll lose control of them when you respawn. They'll stay near where you fell but after a given time period, say 5-10 min. they will all route, regardless of casualties to clean up the battlefield AI. In this way, you won't be able to instantly route a unit by specifically targeting the commander (player), but you will effectively eliminate them from the fight eventually, giving a reason to employ sharpshooters. Routing units will be killed/disappear once far enough away it shouldn't be noticeable. I do want to try to incorporate a morale system so that troops will sometimes route even while you're alive, especially at low health and with high casualties in the Company. If we can pull off the morale system, I don't want to try to incorporate any way to rally routed troops as it could get really buggy, though I may try to see if we can add in a morale bolstering shout or battle cry (with an effectiveness cooldown) that will temporarily raise their morale. You will only be able to respawn back at your side's camp.
We will include a stamina system so as infantry, you will need to march (walk) the majority of the time, or your troops will become winded and proficiency (accuracy) will greatly decrease. To further make this an important factor, if we can make a morale system work, we will include stamina in the morale checks mentioned above so that if they are tired, they won't do well in a charge. Sprinting yourself and your troops should be reserved for emergency maneuvering, or charges. There will not be any fast travel system.
If possible, we want to include working formations, i.e. column, line, skirmish, etc. We'll have to see how we can tweak the AI to make this work. Along with this, if possible I would like to give a movement speed bonus to the column formation, making it beneficial for moving from one location to another while not engaged. I also want to incorporate the ability to give a kneel command to your first rank. There will be a morale bonus for line formation, again, if morale is possible. There will be no bonus for the skirmish formation, as its bonus will come from having your troops spread out, making it naturally harder to score an inadvertant hit even if the shooter misses the intended target.
If you're feeling incredibly brave (or stupid), you can even venture out solo for some scouting action, though if you're spotted, your chances of survival will be small with only you as the target of so many Minie balls.
A custom map (island in ArmA 2-speak) will need to be done eventually. I'm thinking an 8x8-12x12 km map will more than suffice for this. We want it big enough to feel real, yet not so large it hogs server resources, or players are too often unable to effectively meet and fight each other, though "choke points" or "contention points" could be created with clever placement of objectives even on a larger map. We'll also want a clean custom map so that only our own props will be visible in the environment, completing the feel.
The focus of this mission will be to showcase all the features and details of our mod, and everything we've created. It will be set up to reward teamwork and clever strategy, and to create an atmosphere where you are immersed in the reenactment of the period.
Once our mod is polished enough, we will also release it to the community so that the myriad of other mission creators in the ArmA 2 community can create both single player campaigns with story lines and such as well as new and interesting multiplayer missions creating limitless possibilities.
* Cavalry is just so unknown at this point. If we can include it at all, it may end up being just AI troops, or worst case, just scenery fluff models.
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It's probably not StubbleHopper's fault. As the OP mentions, we began attempting to create this mod in the M&B Warband engine but at the time the community was... less than supportive, even though we were fairly well organized and had the project outlined almost entirely. Our focus was also on historical accuracy with little to no exceptions where possible. There were a number of reasons we decided to bring our attempt over to the ArmA 2 community, but mainly because of the capabilities of the engine. We wanted the focus to be on the realistic firearm and artillery components with melee as the afterthought as opposed to the other way around with Warband's engine. Our own links are probably what has confused the search engines since the two games are tied to this mod, and we retained the name.
StubbleHopper's attempt in the Warband engine was just better timed I guess, as his reception was entirely different than the one we encountered there. He has received a lot of support in the way of materials to use where we received only snide remarks. Had we the same reception we might not have converted over, but I still think the ArmA 2 engine offers the most possibilities for us with this mod. Getting past the horses/cavalry issues and tackling melee will be two of our greatest challenges, though if we can do these things, the mod will be pretty epic, not to mention groundbreaking as there are very few Civil War mods out there in any engine that truly submerse you into the atmosphere of the era in such a way, and maintain historical accuracy along the way.
The main thing we lacked there is what we lack here, quality textured models. If we can get past that stopping point, we can actually begin to make some headway on this mod.
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Any chance there will be a patch or updated full download that includes all the updates made over the past several months? Sorting through the uploads at armanam.com and comparing file dates gets to be quite a pain and has turned a lot of the folks I know off until a convenient way to get the latest files is created.
If it's on SixUpdater or some such, then pardon the question, but many of us quit using SixUpdater because of how complicated it can be as well.
I'd like to continue working on an Unsung version of Warfare but have been too lazy to try and get all the latest files myself since my last reformat.
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We're still seeking out talented people to help contribute to this modding effort. We haven't made much progress as we are still in need of several key team members to get the ball rolling. Modellers, texture artists, and animators/riggers are the people we need most at this point in time.
PM me here or through our forums at www.militarygamers.com if you want to lend a hand. Please only contact us if you are serious about helping, have the time and patience to see your work through, and are already schooled up/skilled in your area. A quick preview of your current/previous work is appreciated.
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Any chance you could make the mod's music available?If you guys can take on a small sidequest to include some classic wild west units and weapons, I'm sure your mod will be a great success even if you don't get all the things just how you wanted on the civil war side.
Anything's possible if we can recruit a model and texture guy willing to do these things. Right now I can do models, but not much else on that side.
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Well, there's many pros and cons to both engines. ArmA 2 won out because of several factors, but the things it does well, it does much better than the things M&B Warband can do well. I honestly feel that the mod will do better and have far better staying power and longevity using this game as well.
As mentioned above though, here, it may actually be more work, and more trial and error, but much of it will be pioneering new systems that will help the community overall, as we will share everything, and in turn we're hoping more of the experienced members here will help us as well, quid pro quo.
Having lurked amongst both modding communities for many many years, I also think that ArmA 2's community is much more receptive and I'm banking on that. Ultimately, the bottom line is that an American Civil War mod could be a reality within a week with M&B, if the people that have created everything for it would loosen their deathgrip on the materials and cooperate. I just don't see that happening, and if we have to do most of it from scratch, we might as well do it where the rug won't be pulled out from underneath us, and where people will appreciate this mod for what it is and take it to the next level when we release it to the mission making community.
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We've already began to create some 3D models, however, this isn't our strong suit amongst the guys currently contributing. We've mainly done/tweaked missions, some people have done mapping/island work, and implemented parts of other peoples' mods/addons into ArmA 2 missions, file tweaks, adding units, vehicles, etc. We also have some guys who can script fairly well in a few different languages. Sounds we can probably borrow for now and a musical score has already been created.
I created a '53 Enfield Rifle Musket, after picking up and teaching myself how to model using Wings 3D (for the M&B Engine). 3 days using the app. and it didn't turn out too shabby, however I really have no idea what I'm doing and I'm sure the model could be improved (eliminating hidden faces for starters). It and any others that were created that we can get permission to use now that we've made the switch will need to be converted over. UV mapping, normal maps, specular maps, textures, that's something that we'll definitely need to recruit someone with experience to help with. I don't have time to learn those tasks at the moment due to my real life job, but I can continue to contribute an unmapped/untextured model here and there when needed if someone else can finish them.
An M1857 12-pounder Napoleon Cannon (If the creator will allow us to use it still, he was on the fence about the switch):
It has 2854 total polygons.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/Krempl/littlenapoleon_strip3.jpg - Sorry for URL only, the forums won't let me put more than 5 images in at once.
Also, I will need to check back with the gentleman, and see if the offer still stands now that we've made the switch to the ArmA 2 engine, but one the the primary contributors for the Blue and the Gray Mod for Empire: Total War has offered us the use of his models and textures if they could possibly be converted over.
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Thanks for taking notice so quickly and for the advice!
Melee and Mounted Combat are the two I think stand out the most simply because I don't think either one has yet been perfected anywhere. I know we don't have the internal know-how to pull these two off. Issues like these are why it's critical for a mod like this to have the assistance of some of the best and brightest from the ArmA 2 modding community lending a hand to make it happen.
The MilitaryGamers.com team knows our limitations, but we would still like to pull this off both for our own members and for the gaming community at large since their are no recent multiplayer games or mods that focus on first-person, historically accurate, American Civil War combat on a large scale. We don't want/need the credit for this, and we will plaster contributor credits all over this if need be, we just want to see it become a reality.
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The War Between the States (WBtS)
A potential mod for ArmA 2 based on the American Civil War (1861-1865).
Preface
Greetings from MilitaryGamers.com!
Before I begin, I would like to give you all a little back story behind our community's attempt to create a mod based on the American Civil War.
We began a short while back to develop this mod using another game's engine, Mount&Blade: Warband, in an attempt to bring a first-person command/shooter/milsim based on the Civil War to life in a game that supported large-scale multiplayer battlefield combat, and that was also, relatively speaking, easy to mod and had a strong modding community behind it. However, we quickly found that the modding community for that game was unwilling to assist in our effort even though the majority of the models, animations, systems, etc. had already been created. Not wanting our small team to spend several months of our time going it alone and reinventing the wheel where it had already been perfected only to possibly have another, more experienced team, release something while we were still in production, the decision was made to move over to one of the MilitaryGamers.com community's even more popular game ventures, ArmA 2, and break new ground.
With the switch to ArmA 2 as the backdrop for our mod, many features and possibilities we wanted to implement, but were unable to because of the "hard-coded" limitations of the previous engine are now at least feasible again. In many ways this engine is an even better fit because some of the more common engine mechanics such as shooting, projectile physics, explosions, hit boxes, etc. are all already part of the game and will not have to be added in just to make work. As long-time fans of this series, it was a natural transition for many of us. ArmA 2 also has (arguably) an even larger modding community to fall back on for guidance and support, and since no one has really attempted to create a period mod like this since OFP, hopefully this mod will be better received here and we will be able to assemble the team needed to make this happen.
We did, however, lose several members of our already small modding team that had committed to the project because they were not happy with the switch, even though very little actual work had been done, and what has can be converted. However, when making the switch to ArmA 2, we actually increased the number of potential members in our own community that can possibly assist in this effort. Our members have varying degrees of skill in modding different areas of ArmA 2 (some of them famous/infamous posters around here), however each member's time is limited and we will not be able to see this through without increasing the size of our modding team. We also need to get a feel for whether or not we can pull this off before we throw the full weight of MilitaryGamers.com's resources into the effort. We need your help!
We need assistance in all aspects, but especially those who are experienced in modeling and texturing, animations and rigging, etc. Eventually, if we can't pull it off ourselves, we will need someone that can create a custom battlefield map (Island) using historical locations.
If you can and would like to help, please contact me via PM here or through MilitaryGamers.com's Forums (best) with what area(s) you would like to help with, your experience, and links to some examples of your work (if possible). Please only offer your help if you are experienced and serious!
Goals
To accurately and realistically portray the American Civil War using the ArmA 2 engine.
The initial focus will be to provide a two-faction (USA/CSA) sandbox-style multiplayer mission with defined player roles (ranks) which allow you to take control of pre-made historical company-sized units at camps and march out to fight other players for control over strategic objectives.
Proposed Features (WIP)
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Melee Combat (Is it even possible?)
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AI Commands/Formations and Bonuses
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Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery Units and Player Roles
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Realistic Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment (With both generic and specific historical units represented.)
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are you sure it isnt a messed up _as texture level (if it is too dark on the texture when it shows up ingame it will be black as if there is something there covering the area) thats what i found whe i was experimenting on my modelsIs this a reference to the dark textures around the collars on the uniforms? I thought it was maybe intentional sweat stains, but it is really dark (almost black) even for that and lacks the dark texture on the actual blouse where the sweat stain would also be. I was just guessing at that, but if it's a bug it's that way on all the models for my current settings.
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Has anyone got the grenade fix and/or other error report fixes uploaded anywhere?
I would like to begin making a Warfare mission in earnest, however, I've been holding off for confirmation as to whether or not these bugs are fixed and I haven't seen any patch updates from the Unsung team either here or at armanam.com.
@Polish GI - Is it safe to assume that if any of your files at armanam.com have newer time/date stamps than the release files that they have been updated? I'd like to be able to put together a more streamlined installer package for use by my own community (I'd be more than happy to share the download links), I just want to make sure that the files included are the most current.
Also, I've been traveling for work so the time I have to read this thread fully has been limited to skimming. Did I read that there is a fix for the Vietnamese language sounds or is that still in the works?
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Anyone else get a constant action pop up in helos? "Pop smoke" tends to be the usual. I'll scroll my mouse wheel and right click to remove it, but it will just keep coming back. Quite annoying, especially when piloting.
Also, is there any chance you guys can borrow an M101, M114A1 or other 105mm/155mm field artillery piece from another mod team to round out the period-accurate artillery? The M119 wasn't fielded until 1987.
I know 31st Normandy has an M101.
I'm doing up a Warfare MP mission for Unsung and I'd like to be able to have the bigger guns available to the US for fire support but I won't include the M119.
If you guys are planning future maps, I might suggest a Southern I Corps and Northern II Corps map to make the use of both regular US Army and USMC units a plausible reality. For now I'll be using the S.E.A. map by CSJ (even though it doesn't seem to be a real location) simply because it offers the terrain suitable for MP with a decent size. It wouldn't load until I applied the launch property -exThreads=0, why is that? That will keep some people from being able to play it unless they too know to change this.
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South East Asia Evolution for OA (posibly CO only - check and see)v1 beta
http://109.70.148.244/gits/Arma/GITSEvolutionSEAv1.CSJ_SEA.pbo
report any errors here
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i've edited it tonight already to make the infantry spawn properly
Are all non-Vietnam era planes and equipment removed? That is the lynchpin as to whether or not my community will use this.
Also, why is OA required? OA adds some features, sure, but it really tends to complicate the hell out of trying to get a large group of people all able to play on the same dedicated server.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else always get a "Pop smoke" command while in helos even after scrolling and cancelling?
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Any chance someone will post the fixed MP missions? I would like to play this MP with my group, but I can't seem to get the unpacked missions to load in ArmA 2's editor to repack them properly as was mentioned.
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ok we're about 85% complete on Evolution for SEA map- using the NW base for spawn (and it's randomly attacked by waves of VC) - fitted out with mortars, perimter MG's and artillery support
- the SW airbase is almost ready - full range of air assets
- the NE SF base is the main boat base plus 3 FARP's at LZ's in the boonies
- 11 district rotation is set
- 45 places of interest and 3 search zones set for random side missions like combat search and rescue or destroy convoy, defend LZ, rescue agent, riverboat patrol etc)
- added in support options: napalm strikes, ability to plant traps and spy as undercover VC
- just gotta make a full unit list (about 10 pages of text) and triple check the arrays - this is a big hold up - gotta extract every pbo (the pdf supplied is ok but not really accurate or complete enough for scripting from)
then
- need to check ammo crates have ALL weapons
- add in USMC units for AI recruitment
- put in the intro music and custom radio chatter
- finalise testing of side missions
should be ready in a day or two
we have it on our server now, but it's not working very well - not really a release, more of a first foray into the map - the jungle sounds and the feel as you advance together through the jungle are truly awesome. we've really reined back the vehicles so you are fighting on foot from your mountain outpost and reliant on helicopter resupply and air support from the distant airbase...
we've put in illumination ammo to the mortars and MG's around the wire, so once we perfect the base raider script, it's gonna get mental!
once we've made the first one, will be easy to port to the other maps
then, we'll add in the mods for a modded version with:
RH weapon packs, RobertHammer's M14, CAR15, uzi, M16A1, AK's, M60, SKS, M79 and other weapons are just too good not to have.
Mig15, Mig21 and F4 (with a noise reduction patch)
vilas' armour (T65, BMP1 etc)
Good luck and keep up the hard work! Many people are eagerly awaiting a MP mission such as this!
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Any chance someone that knows how can fix the MP maps and put a download up so not everyone has to repack them? And then an update to the OP pointing out the download would be extra nice.
I used to mod a bit for ArmA 2 way back but my skills are rusty as I've only just reinstalled everything on my new PC specifically to play this mod. I unPBO'd the MP missions, yet I can't seem to open them in the editor to re-package them...
Ultimately I'd like to see a Benny's Warfare MP mission done with this mod. That would be phenomenal.
Been waiting a lifetime for a good Vietnam mod (in any game, ArmA 2 just makes it that much better). This one takes the cake, gents! Great work!
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Well, the good news is we finally have our server running in CO mode with the beta patch.
But the good news can't last, right? So because we have to have the beta patch running as a mod, in order to not have our members and the public have to install the beta patch, we have to run it with equalmods=0. Not only have the number of asshats and hackers run out of control, people who come on and play with only OA installed see all the ArmA 2 content as birds and all sorts of other crap.
So we're not able to run missions that feature USMC and Army for BluFor and RU and Taki's for OpFor, unless we want to lock our server down or require everyone that connects to have the beta patch installed.
[COOP 1-51] [UNSUNG] Tour of Duty : Lowlands
in ARMA 2 & OA - USER MISSIONS
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I'm guessing this mission isn't being updated any more, but the non-ACRE version mirror is broken and the only version obtainable requires an unknown out-of-date version of ACRE to even launch. I'm going to have a buddy try to tear it apart and removed the ACRE requirements when he gets a chance, so we can play it in-house, but I figured I'd drop a line here in case the author is still interested in the mission.
Some of us won't even think about buying ArmA 3 until Unsung 3.0 is released for it so we're still playing good old 2.6 on ArmA 2 until then. :cool: