Valiant Status and other info

[kennychr]

So the holidays are aproaching and I thought I would give you guys a update on the status and direction of Valiant and other things.

 

 

Valiant\Gauntlet

 

First and foremost Gauntlet is now legacy "software" and will not be maintained by me at all, so kudos to the guys who hot-fixed it post 1.54.

 

Moving on: Valiant has been put on hold until the holidays are over and the new year rings in because work has been pretty hectic and I havent had the energy to put in hours on development. So the 300+hours i spent on it in october still is as how far as I got.

 

This means the mission currently is pre-alpha tested for stability in the main and side FSMs for mission selecting and it has 5 main missions and 3 side missions. This wil be expanded upon when I deem the selector FSMs rock stable(which pre-alpha tests showed it was).

 

Expanding upon the initial 300+hours of deving a new "backend" plus learning FSM will be some form of AAR\Stattracking in the form of ALiVE mods stuff we tested on the Insurgency mission we played, I will not however add any object\player persistency as saving the current mission state(in-game mission) is not viable and I dont want to add any mod dependencies as I made valiant as effortlessly possible to just port over. By effortlessly I mean copy over the code onto a base-template and alter the DAC unit configs to whatever you have as your poison.

 

Moving on yet again, I have a question for you the users:

 

Gamenight(s)

 

Upon player Valiant_Insurgency I felt that the general consensus was that this was great fun and I felt I could make some improvements\other styles of the same deal(Persistent,multi sessions to complete) and I was thinking that I would make a fictional Nation and Scenario where the small nation of Ahoy had to push a invader out of their territories(All viable maps in the repo).

 

 

This generally would mean in rough outlines that each mission would take 2-3 game-nights to complete depending on how far\long we take to push and repell the occupying forces. We would need to use logistics properly as in I will give the platoon a set amount of ammo in the form of either crates\ammo-trucks\rhinos that need to be moved as we gain ground and general CSS(combat service support) would be maintained in a more expanded approach than we use atm i.e repairs,refueling etc.

 

Re-spawn will be handled like in Val-Ins with a spawn timer of 10 minutes (or more).

Fixed loadout would be in effect as we are a nations army and not pmc-esque style of Valiant\Gauntlet.

 

 

Regards 

Christiansen

AW_Valiant lead coder & EU3 Manager

[kennychr]

Bumpage cause forums are strange

[Minipily]

Sounds really good, to use Logistics more would be a great change; having to move vehicles and maintain them.

 

I have a quick question, seeing as RHS has added and will most likely be adding more stuff like it, will there be or possible be added in the future a designated static weapons team, basically a team that would utilize stuff like Mortars and the new static AT guns/howitzers. Would be a pretty cool addition but i'm not gunna spend hours writing about why it should be added or anything, it's all up to you guys.

 

Keep up the good work, from what I've played and heard, it really is a exciting and promising mission.

[Karate Pyjamas]

Sounds really good, to use Logistics more would be a great change; having to move vehicles and maintain them.

 

I have a quick question, seeing as RHS has added and will most likely be adding more stuff like it, will there be or possible be added in the future a designated static weapons team, basically a team that would utilize stuff like Mortars and the new static AT guns/howitzers. Would be a pretty cool addition but i'm not gunna spend hours writing about why it should be added or anything, it's all up to you guys.

 

Keep up the good work, from what I've played and heard, it really is a exciting and promising mission.

I'd love to see more static emplacements used. I love, love, LOVE mortars. But they can quickly become OP, but that said, they should obviously be used in a moderate way.

[Minipily]

I'd love to see more static emplacements used. I love, love, LOVE mortars. But they can quickly become OP, but that said, they should obviously be used in a moderate way.

 

Well, it's pretty obvious by now and stated in the rules that support teams should hold fire until called in and should only fire if prevoked by enemies and must preserve their life.

 

To be able to make a fortified FOB or fortified firing position would be amazing and open up a lot of opportunities, would be a welcome change from the usual fly/drive in, kill enemies with rifle, evac that we see all the time of Gauntlet.

[Pvt. Zwerger]

Sound realy good! 

Can`t  wait for all the logistic fuckups like bringing the wrong crate or loosing it some where behind enemy lines (no sarcasm, for real)

[BACONMOP]

Logo would be the team handling statics and on al rayak there is a HMG team.

[Karate Pyjamas]

Re-read it when sober, I never knew it took so long to develop a mission... Cheers for the effort!

[Ryko]

Re-spawn will be handled like in Val-Ins with a spawn timer of 10 minutes (or more).

Fixed loadout would be in effect as we are a nations army and not pmc-esque style of Valiant\Gauntlet.

 

Sounds great for a game night.  Is the long term intention to make Valiant the default game mode on EU3?  If so, what will the non-game night variables be?

 

-R

[Pancake]

If this was to be a long term campaign/themed mission then would setting up squads beforehand be possible? Get the people that will definitely be there to agree on what role they'll play then bunch them together in squads/teams each gamenight?

 

I'm thinking something along the lines of what that group Johnson used to be with did, you would play with a set group of people unless you switched to a new unit due to specialisation of a role or some other extenuating circumstances, which sounded pretty cool.

Would help with the professionalism of that team too, as if they've played with each other long enough they'll know how the others play and react to situations