Stiletto Feedback Thread

[Johnson]

Vehicle Request

 

Give the Russian factions the Mi-24G "Super-Hind" (RHSGREF). This monster makes CSAT look like they bought their tech from Toys 'R' Us.

 

I've heard some gripes with the Russian faction regrading the lack of technology, give them the Super Hind and such complaints will be silenced by the screams of chaos.

 

[Johnson]

Feature Request

 

Add the ability to push a boat back into the water, I think there's already a script running to do so with Quad Bikes.

[Ryko]

1 hour ago, J0hnson said:

Feature Request

 

Add the ability to push a boat back into the water, I think there's already a script running to do so with Quad Bikes.

ACE has this built in, if you can't push an object, it's probably because it's too heavy.

[Amentes]

Don't suppose ACE checks for multiple players clustered around the object in question?

[Ryko]

ACE is a local effect, so nope

[Ryko]

Stiletto version 060 is now on the server. Change log follows.

 

Tembelan will be reverted to the previous version on the next update of the repo, until then it has been pushed to the back of the map rotation (Lythium is now default after server restart).

 

CHANGE LOG 060
1. Updated Stiletto engine to allow manually spawned missions and enabling / disabling of Stiletto mission engine during the mission.
2. Added Taru to Russian EMF and Desert player factions
3. While the M27 is available to all Blufor factions, the 60-round magazines are available for autoriflemen only. The new 40-round magazines are available for all M27 users
4. Kill HVT mission completion has been overhauled. You now just need to locate (be within 8m of) the HVT's corpse for the mission to complete. In Kill HVT missions, the HVT is armed.
5. Added point system for vehicle spawning. Values are set at an initial state and will be adjusted over time as we see how the system works. Vehicle resource points are refreshed at 1/1000th of their initial value every minute (so at a default of 150,000 points, 150 points are accumulated each turn). In addition, accumulated intel points are added to this rate. All default initial combat vehicles (except quad bikes and repair vehicles) have been removed from player bases.
5A. Added the C-130 variants and AN-2 to unarmed plane spawns. Be very careful when placing plane spawns with LOGi: these are large vehicles.

5B. Added the Mi-24G to Eastern faction vehicle spawns.
5C. Added artillery vehicles to vehicle spawns.
6. All vehicles from allied factions are now present in their respective vehicle spawners, so specific factions are no longer relevant (you do not have to be US Army to spawn a Blackhawk, but you do have to be a Western faction). Vehicle rarity is now governed solely by point cost.

 

For clarity: Vehicle respawn points are separate from Logi points.

[Noah_Hero]

2 hours ago, J0hnson said:

Feature Request

 

Add the ability to push a boat back into the water, I think there's already a script running to do so with Quad Bikes.

@Ryko is correct.

• Boats than can be pushed:
  • Assault Boat / Rescue Boat
  • Motorboat / Motorboat (Police) / Motorboat (Rescue)
  • SDV (Seal-Delivery-Vehicle)
  • Jet-Ski

     

• Boats that can`t be pushed:
  • Mk. V SOC (Mark Five Special-Operations-Craft)
  • Speedboat Minigun / Speedboat HMG
  • Rhib (Rigid-hulled inflatable boat)

[Zeexe]

did i just read C-130 ?? Oh boy Oh boy @hobnob11

[Amentes]

8 hours ago, Ryko said:

3. While the M27 is available to all Blufor factions, the 60-round magazines are available for autoriflemen only. The new 40-round magazines are available for all M27 users.

 

Can't say I plan on using the D-60, its weight and volume considered. The 40's well balanced.

 

In fact, PSA. The PMAG D-60 comes loaded with 60 rounds of 5.56x45.

 

At 12.3g per round, the ammo accounts for ≈740g of its 1100g total weight.

 

So for perspective, the approximate empty weights of mags for the M27 in RHS:

D-60: 360g (real 581g)

40: 70 (real 178g)

30: 50 (real 112g)

 

Worth it? I think not

 

Kinda also makes me wonder why RHS doesn't model realistic weights, given how easy this information is to come by.

 

 

[SkullCollector]

4 hours ago, Amentes said:

Kinda also makes me wonder why RHS doesn't model realistic weights, given how easy this information is to come by.

 

Mostly because Arma. The game engine doesn't work with weights in terms of grams or pounds, but units of volume imitating mass. The space occupied determines the weight of the item, but they are inextricably linked, and all that mod devs can do is adjust the formula to follow for a given mass-volume unit of an item.

 

This means a really high-mass, low-volume item like a rocket or mine would have to tend to one end, but neglect realism for the other. It's - again - a balance issue.

 

Edit: RHS even wrote a blog post about it: http://www.rhsmods.org/b/8

[Stanhope]

Problem:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/920303210003630873/51E09859086B9D459576EFBCAA9DD1E350F10C7B/

 

Of those M1220 (and basically all RHS vehicles) you have a woodland and a desert camo version for every version with a different gun.  You can't tell which one is which until you spawn one in.

 

 

[Amentes]

3 hours ago, SkullCollector said:

RHS even wrote a blog post about it: http://www.rhsmods.org/b/8

 

Somewhere in the back of my head I think I already knew that, but yeah

 

As usual, engine limitations screw us all.

[Stanhope]

Fun fact: the ace 1000 ml blood bag does not, like one would expect, weigh slightly more than 1 kg.  It in fact weighs less than a kilo, somewhere around 800 grams if i'm not mistaken

[Johnson]

Will the arty vehicles now spawnable actually be able to be used with no Arty Computer or range table?

 

Also @Ryko could that ACE boat push be applied to other craft? Things like the RHIB should be pushable really.

[Mad Eye Moody]

Which  mod is it that allows logistics engineers to create vehicle respawn points, fob structures etc etc?

[Stanhope]

1 hour ago, Mad Eye Moody said:

Which  mod is it that allows logistics engineers to create vehicle respawn points, fob structures etc etc?

Scripts written by ryko.

[Mad Eye Moody]

Ok so only works on some missions? Not like the R3F mod then

 

[Ryko]

12 minutes ago, Mad Eye Moody said:

Ok so only works on some missions? Not like the R3F mod then

 

It's built in to Stiletto 

[Ryko]

6 hours ago, J0hnson said:

Will the arty vehicles now spawnable actually be able to be used with no Arty Computer or range table?

 

Also @Ryko could that ACE boat push be applied to other craft? Things like the RHIB should be pushable really.

Yeah we'll probably bring the computer back, it's fun to do the ranging manually but in the end there are so many variables that don't line up it's too unpredictable. 

 

For the RHIB, from what I can see it's baked in by class name, so you will have to bitch at ace for that. 

[Johnson]

42 minutes ago, Ryko said:

Yeah we'll probably bring the computer back, it's fun to do the ranging manually but in the end there are so many variables that don't line up it's too unpredictable. 

Well is there even any way of doing the ranging manually? I mean, most modern arty vehicles have computers anyway dont they?

[hobnob11]

both the towed and self propelled arty all support manual elevation control via page up and page down, but charge information, muzzule velocity, and other stuff you need to calculate without a range table are missing.

The paladin and pondos both have Fire Control Systems, but these are the same systems installed in tanks and are for line of sight direct fire solutions, they do not support indirect fire.

[Mad Eye Moody]

10 hours ago, Ryko said:

It's built in to Stiletto 

So just to be clear, if a player takes the logistics role on a Stilleto mission they can create objects, service pads etc?

[Stanhope]

1 minute ago, Mad Eye Moody said:

So just to be clear, if a player takes the logistics role on a Stilleto mission they can create objects, service pads etc?

If they take logi engineer yes.

[Noah_Hero]

19 hours ago, J0hnson said:

Also @Ryko could that ACE boat push be applied to other craft? Things like the RHIB should be pushable really.

12 hours ago, Ryko said:

For the RHIB, from what I can see it's baked in by class name, so you will have to bitch at ace for that. 

Also definitly not possible if you are alone. Even without an engine attached a Rhib like this has a weight of 200kg I would say. With engine and equippement that surely goes up to 300kg. Now imagine "pushing" that one through wet sand...good luck trying

[Amentes]

Yeah, it's a shame ACE doesn't check for multiple players. It's an 8-man craft after all, with four guys it wouldn't be an issue.