JJ Cakes

FA squad XML wasn't working on I&A3 last night and I made sure to check before I joined that I was using the ghoster XML URL.

I'll let you know next time I'm on EU1.

I took the grenadier role in a custom squad and the "Gear" part of the "U" menu was empty. I don't know if that's a general bug, or because of the custom squad or shiz is really locked down. If I selected "Show Restricted Gear" I saw it all. FA Squad XML isn't working. My opinion: The IR laser pointer should be in the arsenal and not a reward. It's the closest thing we have to prevent blue-on-blue during night missions, I would even say it should be equipped by default.

Be careful you don't catch yourself a case of...

This is how you win the 2021 "Mostly Likely to end up in The Hague" award.

I really don't like to leave anyone out because as all of you may have noticed, we have a pretty awesome community. I'm a bit surprised we're not overrun with new players wanting to bask in our awesomeness and become part of it. So if I left you out, I apologize, slip me a fiver next year and I'll make things right. Also, I play when it's really late in Europe so I miss out on a lot of shenanigans, hence the sparse entries. AW MVP 2020: AW Most Friendly Admin/Moderator/Spartan 2020: @Lindi AW Most Helpful Admin/Moderator/Spartan 2020: @Norris AW Most Active Staff Member 2020: @MidnightRunner AW Strictest Staff Member 2020: AW Best Team Player 2020: AW Most Helpful Member *Non Staff* 2020: AW Most Friendly Member 2020: Basically every regular player on TS AW Tacti-cool member 2020: @Stryker990 AW Underrated Member 2020: @RiverWolf AW Most Incoherent Member 2020: AW DAAASSS BOOOOT 2020: AW Best Pilot 2020: @Gambit AW Worst Pilot 2020: @JJ Cakes (I only fly as last resort and it is not pretty) AW Best Voice 2020: @Murph in his Batman the Dark Night Role (How is this even contested?) AW Funniest Person on Team Speak 2020: AW Worst Joke 2020: Every @Gambit dad joke and pun AW Best Moment 2020 (can be in-game, on Team Speak or Forum): @MidnightRunner and the "Paddy" song AW Best Forum Post (please put URL in): I&A4 Feedback (Soon! Seriously, I&A4 I think is on everyone's wish list.) AW Dankest Meme Post In Discord 2020: AW Best Driver 2020: @Xwatt (At some point driving becomes performance art) AW Worst Driver 2020: @Murph (Your driving is a cautionary tale) AW Best Fail 2020: AW Best Ban of 2020: Every script kiddie AW Team Speak Channel 2020: AW Best Screen Shot 2020: AW Best/Worst Call-out 2020: AW Candidate for the Hague 2020: AW Role Model 2020

OK, this isn't who I thought it was so :embarrassed emoji: but still good transport pilot stuff for those involved, or just interested in, helicopter transport piloting.

Player most likely to be made of cake.

Nice talking to you last night, here's a link to that helicopter transport scenario I was telling you about: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=192094335 If you launch it in multiplayer (just host a MP session on Altis and select the mission) under "Parameters" you can set stuff like time of day, how often enemy AI has AA assets, etc... AA can be pretty brutal starting out.

I have no idea if this is would be difficult to implement, but it would be nice if players could set a preference that when they log out of I&A4 their murder coins are distributed equally to the side. I tend to forget, and have to log back in to give them away in the instances when I actually remember to log back in. I'd say if it's easy, do it, if it's difficult, ignore this request.

Something from last night: I think Pukamuffin got kicked for inactivity, he was flying transport at the time using HOTAS and I think only mouse/keyboard activity is getting polled.

I don't get to play Midnight's ops very often because of the time difference where I live but I think it's kind of crazy how much effort he puts into providing Ahoy peeps fun ops to play and I have no idea how he finds the time to do it. Cheers Midnight, you're a big asset for Ahoy.

Well never mind. It's back to being broken again. I guess I just wait until the next firmware update. VR is seriously still in the beta phase.

Well in case anyone else runs into this I found a fix. It's basically "delete everything associated with the Rift" plus some other precautions:

After I updated my Rift S to 2.2.0 I'm stuck in what seems to be called the "reboot loop". I'm asked to reboot the Oculus software and when I do, it just asks again which basically has bricked the thing. Searching the Internet hasn't got me a solution that actually fixed the problem so figured I'd try crowdsourcing AhoyWorld. TIA, gents.

I did some hacking on Wibbler's Helicopter Transport scenario to include helicopters from popular mods so you can get some flight time in non-vanilla helicopters. I left the Ghosthawk and Hummingbird in from vanilla since those are staples of EU1 and added more choppahs. Figured I might as well share with Ahoy and feel free to move this if I posted in the wrong spot. This is now hosted on the Steam Workshop: Old link, don't use: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2796584765 NEW LINK USE THIS: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2801907041 Or just search for "AhoyWorld Helicopter" on Steam. What mods do I need? CBA_A3 3CB BAF Vehicles RHSUSAF RHSAFRF RHSSAF RHSGREF What helicopters are there? Vanilla: Ghosthawk Hummingbird Blackfish X'ian Mowhawk Huron Taru Hellcat Orca Kajman From mods: CH 53-E HT48 Ka-60 Merlin HC4 24 MH-6M Littlebird Mi24-P Hind Mi-8MTV-3 UH-1Y UH-60M Wildcat AH1 Transport What else changed? Pilot is no longer in vanilla gear Spawned fireteam are US Army desert camo and are team leader, AR, AR assist & rifleman instead of all riflemen (plus a bit of a skills bump) Added around 30 new LZ's. Who do I complain to if there's bugs or features I want? If there's a helicopter you really want to practice with and it's in one of those mods but not in the scenario, hit me up here or on Discord and I'll see what I can do.

I'm not on my gaming machine so I can't be more helpful, but once you fire up TS you're going to want to connect to ts.ahoyworld.net, once you're on there double-click on the EU1 channel and you use "Tab" by default to talk over TS. If you need more help ask in-game and someone can help you out.

I really like the Helicopter Transport Pilot scenario by Wibbler, you pickup randomly spawned fire teams, there can be enemy forces at the PZ/LZ and you can customize it to some degree by running it as a multiplayer scenario.

The last Unsung Op was a blast, get the mod, do this.

Glad to see the support for bringing back Tanoa.

I was just thinking this exact same thing a few days ago about how IA with minimal realism mods would be super cool. My day job is a programmer, and while I probably would be totally useless trying to script in SQF I would think there would be quite a bit of "grunt work" in making IA4 RHS / TFAR/ ACE aware. If this comes to fruition maybe I can help with some of the grunt work.

OK, so if I get downed, the "Press Space to Respawn" keeps nagging me as I lay in state. But if I respawn, and I'm back at base, once in awhile that nag keeps happening every few seconds with no way to make it go away except as far as I can tell to back out to the Abort screen and start over. The first phase should be easy enough to replicate, the second phase I think you can replicate by murdering a player where they can't get revived by a medic and pressing Space before the hint happens. Sorry that's not more helpful, but the best I got to debug this.

I'd just like to note that when I&A4 started beta testing, I wasn't totally on board. Now that I've had a chance to play it more I'm always happy when 4 is running on EU#1 and prefer it to 3.