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  4. Posted

    Do you mean vanilla USMC? Because if so, they don't support backpacks period.

    US Army (Operation Arrowhead infantry) support backpacks and can access other units backpacks too.

    No bink's marines I'm talking about, but as he says above, he seems on the issue so I look forward to any results in the future ;). Love the models.

  7. Posted

    There is no such thing IRL right now, TOW Launchers are not needed on MRAP's currently. Plus it would kind of take away the point of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected when the gunner is totaly exposed from all angles. (You can't put protection around the gunner with a TOW Launcher because of the Backlash. Although If Exa decided to go with it he would probably do it on a remote camera system like the CROW's on the OA HMMWV's) My honest opinion is he probably won't do it but who knows.

    Top cover man operated tow mounted on a MRAP.

  12. Posted

    Thanks for your interest. I've seen cool videos of your games and played on your servers a year or two ago and had a lot of fun at the time flying around as a pilot on taxi duty.

    In direct answer to your questions:

    -please see previous comment regarding backpacks and pre-OA units.

    No problem, wasn't sure how it all worked.

    -I don't see "gear" and "drop" as being a bug or any bad ways to interact with the backpack. To me, that's standard vanilla backpack interaction. If you are using a 3rd party script which enables other functionality, I would say contact the makers of those scripts for adding in the Raven backpack. But I could be misreading your comment. Please feel free to clarify if I'm missing your point.

    The reason why I said this was gear and drop is fine just some FR Units didnt allow the raven to be picked up at all and the only way for that person to get it into a vehicle was the ACE carry and store method which bugged it. But how it is now is perfectly sufficient for our needs.

    -Again, see previous comments regarding backpacks and pre-OA units. I've seen other addons which enable pre-OA units to use the backpacks, and they aren't able to show the backpacks on the back, thought they do show up in the gear menu. This is due to the pre-OA units not having the correct proxies in their models to properly display the backpacks. If ACE has figured out a way to display backpacks on pre-OA units, that's great. Talk to the ACE people about any incompatibilities with 3rd party backpacks and maybe they will have a fix.

    Again thats fine it was more about the compatibility issues with ACRE manpacks and aesthetics.

    -operating the Raven from inside a vehicle used to be possible in my earlier implementation, but I've had to make certain choices in development which made that impossible. The main limitation is that when inside of vehicles, the addActions which exist on a unit are automatically hidden by the game. Until this "auto hiding" is disabled or there's a workaround, using this addon inside a vehicle is impossible. I am open to ideas though.

    Thats fine, just food for thought, we would love to see if it is possible and would be great for someone to find you a solution.

    -The camera functionality will not be changed as enabling some kind of panning camera would be unrealistic in the Raven A variant. The existing functionality in this addon is a bit of a compromise because of the limitations of the game already and I don't wish to degrade the realism any further. At the moment, I have no plans to make the Raven B, but that could change in the future. For now though, this addon's camera functionality will stay the way it is now.

    I understand your devotion to realism and really respect that (I didnt know about the backpack thing, xD) however as we are a Marine Realism Unit and the Raven A is no longer in production it would be really great if you could use your current mod and add a seperate DL for a panning camera because a lot of guys in the unit would prefer that. Even if it was something seperate for us we would be very grateful and hope you will consider it. We are continuing the testing process and will send any more bugs we find your way. Thanks for the response.

  13. Posted

    Also i have a script which can be used to allow compatability with the ACE On-Back system. It wont allow you to place it in backpacks but allows you to use it with the On-Back slot

    I've have tried that and it works most of the time but for some units it doesn't like the USMC FR Assault Classes. And as in my above post some specific FR units cant even pickup the backpacks.

  14. Posted · Edited by JKing

    Hey, its HR J. King from 15thMEU (SOC) Realism Unit.

    First and foremost this is a really great mod and is really amazing to say the least. Over the past week or so we have been testing the Raven for potential use within the unit. (We use ACE and ACRE for our missions) We have however noticed some bugs which we would very much love for you to look at.

    - Relationship between RQ-11 and ACE backpack system. We have been using a backpack fix for pre OA units but we have still had our problems.

    - Some Force Recon units eg Corpsman Slot/O'Hara are unable to pick up backpacks out right.

    - Only gear and drop works for transporting it with vehicles.

    - I see your working on the player disconnect while using it area so Ill leave that one out ;).

    - Sometimes it doesn't show on your back even with a fix eg FR Assault class skins.

    - Also maybe you could look at operating the Raven from inside a vehicle too? Something to look at, would be a nice touch.

    Edit: - And another possible idea is to have an option to unlock to a panning camera, so you can look around instead of it being fixed when you require it.

    Thanks and hope you reply soon,

    HR J. King

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