Predator.v2

Is this mod finally dedicated mp server compatible?

Do you have any plans to introduce "base building" similar to what "MSO" did or what "Resistance" is doing right now? Where you could set up an alternative spawnpoint (in MSO) and then use logistics to get "material" from your base to fortify your FOB? Material paradrops as in MSO would also be incredible immersive, but probably a bit too much to ask. I kind of see this mission to be the closest to MSO (my favorite arma mission of all times) what i have seen in A3. Do you have the intention to further expand the mission towards what we saw at MSO? Maybe randomly generating weapon caches and insurgencies? I don't know all the possibilities of Alive, after the lack of a mod similar to what ACE was and no "complex" missions like MSO i kinda "left" A3 for several months. But your project got me real interested! Great work so far!

Tw questions about this mod. - Are there any plans to make this mp compatible? As well for clients as for dedicated servers? - I see, that AI soldiers break formation when in "auto danger" and advance on their own. Is there any way to get them back after a small fight, when there is no enemy in sight and you wanna advance?

Same for us. No enemies after several days. I'd really love to finish this mission, but it'd take several days to do so.

Does this addon work on MP? And who needs the addon? Server only oder players too? Or just players?

If you would compare this AI mod with ASR_AI, what would be big differences be? I have used ASR_AI since A2OA and now run my A3 server with it, but i'd like to know all "big" AI mods out there.

Oh, sad to hear that. I hope it is nothing serious.

We found a big bug with this mission (latest version). Setting our server on persistent=1; this mission ran for over 2 days on our server and after liberating 5 towns and 1 tower, enemy AI stopped spawning in... Any idea why? And do you have any intention to allow some kind of "mission saving" like iniDB or an sql database?

Some things we noticed when playing this mission: - 7.62 ammo isn't available at the magazines menu. Only accessible over the new menu left of the weapon. - Only squadleaders have access to GPS? - Your revive script is still buggy. On revive your inventory is gonna fill with uniforms and vests. (btw on another mission we get this really loud sound distortion on respawn with your revive script. Any idea why?) - Is it right, that there are random enemy mortars? Or are you hiding IEDs even offroad? Our crewman reported, that when he drove the panther offroad to reach us, several explosions took place around him and eventually destroyed the vehicle. If its random mortar fire, i like it, but it should be less accurate against moving targets. If it isn't mortar fire, then i think IEDs (or were that mines?) shouldn't be placed offroads in the fields (unless its mines). Ah and also you should include enemy mortar fire, if you stay too long in one area as infantry. :) - Number of enemies have to scale with the amount of players or at least give us a parameter in the lobby (altis version). We tried to take down a cache in Kore and killed like 150 AI, but eventually got swarmed down. Is there also a way to stop AI respawn on cache locations/random towns?. We had a server long issue with losing vehicles at Abdera. - May it be, that certain slots only have access to red point optics? At least via the item menu, at first they could only equip 1x red dots, before they noticed the new VAS menu left of the weapon. - There is a UAV Terminal in the box but no UAV. Maybe you could include the UAV backpack? - Mortar bags would also come in handy. :) - Maybe you could tune up the size of squads? Introduce teams made of two squads? - Not sure about the takistan version, but altis version definitly needs some kind of a repair/rearm station for vehicles. Constantly blowing up vehicles on the wreck repair to repair/rearm totally kills immersion.. - Maybe tune down the amount of enemy rpgs? We couldn't really do ANYTHING with our vehicles, as enemy AT riflemen took them down within seconds when in sight (we played with 0.98 skill on enemy AI). - logistics system: Maybe you could introduce a big transport container, which you could fill with lots of equipment/material. This container should be able to be airlifted to allow "supply drops".

I checked both versions shortly, looks nice! Gonna play a session with some mates this evening and report feedback afterwards. Another suggestion. Lock the equipment in the VAS depending on the players class (similar to Patrol Ops). Squadleader/Spotter (UAV access, rangefinder, laser designator), Medics, Grenadier, MG (heavy MGs), marksman (mk14 ebr), Rifleman AT (pcml), heavy AT (Titan), Crewman (carbines, smgs only) and maximum of 1 or 2 snipers. I never liked the VAS capability to create largely imbalanced/op gears for everyone.

why "Requirements: - A3MP"? Couldnt you also create a vanilla version? Always hard to fill servers with mod requirements. An idea. I suppose you have played MSO for A2? Maybe add an "intel" system similar to MSO. Where blufor operatives will randomly give you a rough location of enemy movement (large grp, techi convoys, ...) or civilian informants will give a bit more precise (or often) intel with its frequency depending on your reputation? Project Reality:A2 had a nice insurgency system, where killed enemies wouldn't drop random suitcase, but where you could search bodies for intel and most of the time find nothing, but had a chance for "low level intel" like mobiles/notes or "high level intel" like notebooks or suitcases. You could integrate some of your stuff from "WarStorm". Make the world persistent (initdb) and allow the blufor team to build FOBs. Make the mission semi pvp compatible (via parameters), similar to A2: Insurgency. All Blufor players are actual players, but with a few slots (like 1/4 of blufor) for insurgents, to "blend" into the AI zerg. And last but not least. I'd also like to test your mission. I already loved your "WarStorm" Mission ( beware germans talking! :D ) and was a big fan of A2: Insurgency. Sadly they never released another A3 version after the preliminary Stratis version.

Are there any plans to attract more players? I have checked the server browser several times in the last few weeks, but i have never seen more than 2 players on any of the servers. Maybe i was just very unlucky with the time, but i think, it is still quite a problem.

No updates yet? As far as i can remember, there have been some major issues with the first version and i wanted to wait for a first "fixed" update version.

Any chance for patch notes?

Not everyone is fond of SU and especially PWS. By the way, what happened to Foxhound? He did retire? Is there still someone taking care about updating addons on armaholic?

Could you please remove the high pitch sound when driving hunters with fullspeed (e or shift+w). It has been really annoying since the JSRS 2.0 Alpha. I really like all the rest of JSRS 2.0!

All dropbox Downloads are temporarily disabled, any chance for an armaholic link?

Finally release!

Could really be a script, causing problems with high player count. Maybe suppression or wind, must be something server related.

Ah just 50mb. I feared a much larger download, not for myself, but for some community member with a very slow internet connection. Thanks for the preload anyway!

9 pm UK time is release. Check this link from the OP: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TacBF+v3.1+release&iso=20131206T16&p1=179 I think, a preload would have been useful, especially for Europeans. 10 pm release + download time could get quite late...

Some things. - Maybe you could remove the default inventory items from the ammoboxes? Yesterday the first public player joining our server realized, he could grab himself a marksman rifle and explosives and other cool stuff, ignoring his rifleman kit - In our round yesterday, after some time we realized, that everyone could enter vehicles and aircrafts without the need of an crewman/pilot kit. The kit restriction system worked on a small test before our round, but broke down after some time. Any idea why? He have just used the default parameters, NATO vs CSAT version. - Is it intended, that squadleaders can change kits of their squadmembers, including crewman/pilot kits? I thought crewman/pilot kits were restricted to admins? - Maybe you could add a way to grab a engineer kit ingame? Not sure if that is possible or if you always have to grab the proper kit in the game lobby. - Critically wounded players take way too long to bleed out and can't be killed => game breaker. - Quite often our medics couldn't revive players, but our riflemen could? - When you drag a player, you are stuck at the "drag stance" even after you dropped the wounded. - When you revive someone on a higher floor (first floor, watchtowers), the player reviving "teleports" to the ground floor and the wounded player will be instantly healed/revived. - Could you add a parameter for "squad redeployment points"? Every single player building his own tent is a bit ridiculous. - Redeploy points need some kind of "overrun/blocked" functionality, so you can't drop them on top of your objective and endlessly respawn despite of enemy AI overrunning the place. Maybe a parameter like "Redeploy Point overrun by nearby enemies at: 10m, 20m, 50m, 100m, 150m, 200m, 300m, ... - Was there any kind of "cooldown" for HALO jumps? At least on default settings we haven't noticed such a thing. - We played through several defense missions and we had some difficulties understanding the "losing condition". It seems that whenever you arrive at the defend point, you already have enemies guarding the point. You must clear these enemies and then defend several waves of incoming enemies. Do you have to instantly lose, if an enemy gets too near to the defend marker after some time? Or do enemies have to be in a "cap radius" for some time? - One mission was pretty bugged for us. It was the one, where you had to retrieve a civilian "vessel" (probably a boat) and drop a supply box upon it, to repair it/solve the situation. Well we approached the objective with a full littlebird (loaded with a supply box) and an attack littlebird. Around 800m distance, we wanted to drop the lifted box, park the little bird and engage the target on foot (with some cas support), but the second i dropped the supply box (still 800m out, behind a hill), the task was cleared. - "Dynamic Weather is not synchronized amongst the clients." We had the same issue. Bad for proper immersion.. Will report even more feedback over the next few days. Still great release/mission for the first version. By the way, what happened to the "dressing room"? Where you could select uniforms and stuff, while in 3rd person view?

We plan to organise a "Patrol Ops 3 Release" Coop Event this saturday with our german community (german ballerbude). Do you think you will release the final version until this saturday GMT+1 20:00 o'clock? Or could you provide me the final version a bit earlier so we can test/play it?

I suppose that will be up to the server admins running the mission.

I'd suggest you ask Lord Jarhead about some of his Arma 2 A-10 sounds. Trust me, the A-10 depends heavily on its flyby and Gau-8 sound.