#contact_discussion

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neon mauve
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Yes

winter charm
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ok

maiden kayak
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Is contact worth buying?

somber scarab
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i'd say so yes definitely but there are parts in the campaign that are quite bad with nothing to do and just having to walk very long towards the next task but other then that its awesome i had a great time playing the campaign and the new features are great too

west charm
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The terrain is excellent ; the campaign is great if you like hard sci-fi

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@maiden kayak

celest cloak
# maiden kayak Is contact worth buying?

Tinfoil hat and chem suits sold me ngl. I don’t play campaign nor care for story but the assets of putting that into a mod and using it is hilarious for native arma.

maiden kayak
celest cloak
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Also you get to use the tractor

maiden kayak
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Yea that too.

sage parcel
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contact is a meme loadout makers dream with the tin foil hats and the tractor

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  • underbarrel shotgun
torn root
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satellite gun

mossy mauve
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Surprisingly fun dlc

cloud wigeon
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Is the spectrum device just a RP tool or is there a way to set certain items to make it work. Not sure how it works in MP missions

misty charm
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however there is a mod to give it back its functionality (or at least some) using modules

cloud wigeon
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Ah cheers for that

quaint charm
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I suppose you would have to require for everyone to own the contact DLC to even use the spectrum device, or be able to join the server at all because of the owner of the server itself having the contact DLC turned on itself, with the contact multiplayer mod in too

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because otherwise, you wont be able to join any of the multiplayer servers with the contact dlc turned on, because of that option being simply locked, though being able to be unlocked by the so said contact multiplayer mod

topaz sorrel
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i just wish they let us use the defunct EMP equipment as standard loadout itums

ivory vapor
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One of them lives in sydney whilst my other friend is in the same suburb as me.

misty charm
ivory vapor
misty charm
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I was just gonna ask why you posted it here, but ok ablobshrug

ivory vapor
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Well my message was that me and my friends play arma alot and alot of times my mates and I have troubles joining eachother, normally we can only join 1 out of us 3 and the only fix we have found is reinstalling the game completely, and the bad thing is 90% of the time the only mate we can join is the one that cant be bothered to put alot of effort in custom missions lol, so thats a pain.

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Anyone know why this is?

misty charm
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I still dont see what that has to do with the dlc FoxBlepDerp

fleet ice
ivory vapor
misty charm
west charm
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Are there much public vanilla servers running Livonia?

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I think KotH doesn't do it - the only one I know is Zerty/Jammy Warfare where you have to vote for it as the next mission, runs it time to time

robust pelican
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There’s Zeus servers sometimes, but considering how few people have it

untold field
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Usually the zeus servers dont get that many players with livonia stuff which is sad since i love playing with the contact assets

fleet ice
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Does anyone here remember the name of the radar station mentioned in the Contact campaign? I typically refer to it as the Swarog radar station, but remembered it was given a specific name in the Contact campaign (XXX-42 or something like that?). Currently editing a mission so I don't want to reboot arma and change the modlist

south karma
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Shapka-41

crystal ruin
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Can bandits hunt us down once we aggroed one ?

south karma
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They'll only chase after Rudwell for as long as you're still in the area around their camps.

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Some of the bandits are placed in static positions (like inside the train carts, etc.) so they don't even move at all.

fleet ice
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(moved to correct channel)
Is it possible to set up the Spectrum Device's jammer antenna so it can be used in multiplayer (i.e. outside Contact)? Perhaps, instead of using the Contact-only init functions for UAV/UGV, it would just kill drone pilots? Not sure If I'd have to config mod a new weapon or something though.
Just tried seeing if the Spec device can do anything outside of contact (like exist idk) and not even the screen showing frequency works :(

smoky condor
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You can't use the spectrum device, however the chemical detector has some functionality outside of contact.

ocean hawk
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You can use it, but you need to script it yourself. Read "spectrum device" page in wiki.

ebon pasture
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Aint there a mod

icy crystal
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afaik there's no mod that allows the jammer to be used in the vanilla game, only tracking

rotund siren
smoky condor
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You can't disrupt drones with it by scripting.

rotund siren
# smoky condor You can't disrupt drones with it by scripting.

You can do almost anything with scripts. You could create "Fired" event handler and check if the player has a Spectrum Device in hands and a drone is in the way. If conditions are met, do the disruption script on the drone. You have to write everything yourself of course.
If it doesn't explicitly say that you can do something doesn't mean you can't do that, you just have to work out ways to make it work.

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The "disruption script" maybe something along the lines of

drone disableAI "TARGET"```
smoky condor
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Well it's a shame that it's so limited, of course you can script anything theoretically to somehow make it work - even through smoke and mirriors.

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Same with that MILES style system

rotund siren
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Yes, it really is a shame.
But, we have to make a do with what we have available.

bold ridge
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CONTACT DLC be like:
"Oh sweet Alien"
2 Hours into the game:
"Where Alien?"

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alien stuff really fascinating

agile hatch
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While in the alternative DLC:
where human

woven flicker
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Lmao.

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NGL, this campagign really changed my mind about the SPAR, it's easily the best sentry hunter.

If you can see exposed skin, they're dead.

bold ridge
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SPAR (16) be like: What recoil?

fleet ice
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When I got the tricked out SPAR, I thought "oh this is cool, shame I won't be using it"

Spectrum Device superiority!

ebon pasture
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So you used it

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SPARcely

lost pike
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Bloody hell

shell barn
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SPARe me the puns

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Also just gonna say, Contact + ASR AI3

fleet ice
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does it work? I love ASR for its little QOL things like putting NVGs away

near lodge
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I'm a dad, my pun detector went off but I arrived 6 hours late. Psh. 😆 This is what I get for napping on the couch this afternoon. Missed on some good ARMApun jokes...

shell barn
woven flicker
bold ridge
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SPAR 16S with 30 round Mag + MOS, best.

tacit ledge
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Is it better to play with JSRS Sound mod + Blastcore, or without mods? first time

valid lagoon
sour egret
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Hello, who knows how to change the aiming reticle on the TMT mod?

sacred bane
zinc ermine
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I am like 35 minutes into the campaign and I need to locate something and. I am not sure what the binding is

wraith grotto
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What part of the campaign?

fast ridge
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Are there any multiplayer/co-op missions with use Spectrum Device? Contact is pretty good, and I loved Spectrum Device.

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Or some mission that recreates Contact, but in co-op

fleet ice
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As a starting point, I suggest the "Spectrum Device Funtionality - Rebuilt" mod. I plan to make some missions involving it for my arma group, and it seems like the most functional way to use it in multiplayer, as far as the engine can allow

fast ridge
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Thanks, will try that mod out

mossy mauve
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on the verge of deleting arma

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i fucking hate this one contact episode thing

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where you get the mini ugv

frozen flicker
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ayo wsg yall

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i found this game on yt

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i am jus wondering how do you get started

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do you gotta buy it

mossy mauve
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yes... and talk in general chat or ask_qustions_here

fast ridge
void parrot
nocturne mist
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have they optimized contact after the release of it? or is the campaign still very lagt that i read people say?

sacred bane
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still is

nocturne mist
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damn...

sacred bane
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i mean it's playable most of the times, you may notice lags in the later parts of the campaign when you are close to one big city or when a fog shows up

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but otherwise I finished it with average 40FPS on my R5 2600X

nocturne mist
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i see, i order a ssd now. Dont think it may fix all the fps problems, but if there is alot of loading in assets and scrips, it may help

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i have a i7 2600, 1060gtx 6gb

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32gig ram ddr3

stable vine
nocturne mist
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@stable vine what do you mean i get them sooner?

full lynx
nocturne mist
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oh! is there a guide i can read to fix it?

sacred bane
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nothing you can fix, but you can download the perf binary and use it instead of the stable arma

mossy mauve
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Need people to do a rp with dm me on zero hour

lunar agate
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what kind of errors will I get if I run Contact with main game and all DLC and CDLC at once?

full lynx
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Probably depends on the CDLC but I doubt someone here will have an answer for you

shell barn
loud fractal
agile hatch
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This server speaks only English, sir. Thanks

north wadi
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sorry to read that

agile hatch
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I'm pretty sure there's lot of French Arma players Lou so... welcome aboard, I guess

north wadi
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help to find these guys lmao

lunar agate
lunar agate
shell barn
lunar agate
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Oh okay

loud fractal
# lunar agate why can’t these be used though?

Contact menu is different, and won't let you choose the dlc campaigns. I think you can do the normal missions just from the missions tab, but from what I remember the full campaigns are hidden

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There are also a couple compatibility issues I think

lunar agate
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Such as?

loud fractal
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can't remember exactly

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Haven't played Contact in a while

lunar agate
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right

snow ferry
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What aircraft is used in the fastmovers cutscene in contact

woven flicker
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I think they're Gryphons.

snow ferry
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ty

orchid flame
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Hey can i get help on making a modded clone server for a group

peak forge
hybrid stump
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Yep, those liveries are manually set by script.

bold ridge
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but the inside still green

full lynx
hybrid stump
full lynx
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Ouch, sorry for being confused and then spreading that confusion even further 😳

bold ridge
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confusion engine

full lynx
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Scripted with Conforce Script 🤔

ember phoenix
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Man is trying to use the enfusion engine for contact and just makes confusion out of it

heady fjord
agile hatch
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enoch which are the files you will load everytime you launch, are PBO'd now. contact on the other hand is not

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You know, bad naming

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enoch contains such as, Livonia itself, LDF, Spetz, Promet, AK-12 variants, Hunter Shotgun... you know, things you always will see in-game. contact is, mainly alien and the campaign itself

sacred bane
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why Contact itself cannot be decrypted? I understand that it contains some experimental stuff but if it works for the campaign, why not release it "publicly" even as a part of the dev branch?

agile hatch
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Nobody said cannot, it's just not happening yet

sacred bane
agile hatch
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AKA soon™️

molten turtle
agile hatch
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No...?

molten turtle
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Then?

agile hatch
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So that modders can easily browse those files, possible to check what's inside, possible to modify some

molten turtle
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Ah, ok

loud fractal
mossy mauve
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is conctact worth it

fast ridge
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If you like woodland map with polish vibes, bull-pup rifle with funny specific scope, mad only for it, and some woodland camo and black tracksuit, then yes

full lynx
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Or if you like to see a campaign with an air of mystery

west charm
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Campaign is very good map is very good

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I've seen the Livonia map used a fair bit in TvT events etc
@mossy mauve

fleet ice
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If you want a vanilla Woodland map, Contact is for you. Half the reason I got it

raven estuary
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Livonia is awesome, soundtracks are useful for mission making, LDF has a sick camo and is overall a good INDFOR faction, Russians are also pretty cool and you can even use them in missions far away like Malden with their more arid uniforms

forest moat
# mossy mauve is conctact worth it

Controversal. High price with some high quality stuff.
Map could be great but has very low perfomance and isn't played in public multiplayer.

full lynx
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High price with some high quality stuff
During sales, it's currently actually quite low, now that they started selling it at -66%.
Also, for me, it's totally worth it for the campaign which I enjoyed greatly, but that's down to personal preference, I guess

mossy mauve
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What is better

Livionia or Sog

full lynx
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What is better? Apples or oranges? 🤷‍♂️

forest moat
full lynx
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Whichever you want, if you're here just to "play with military Barbie dolls" and post screenshots 🙃

full lynx
# forest moat Haven't finished a single arma/OFP campaign

Running in the woods alone, during the night, was what made me fall in love with OFP so that's probably also why I enjoyed Contact's campaign that much.
That's why I'm saying it's down to personal preference, as you seem to be someone who is simply looking for something else in a DLC/Expansion (and that's okay, people siply need to be aware that everyone here may be looking for something different, when they say they want to "play Arma")

I'd say I suggest you to give the original OFP campaign a try, but it's twenty years too late for that 😂

fast ridge
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Cold War Rearmed 3 is pretty good mod for Arma 3 that let's you play OFP campaign in Arma 3. With all characters, gear and stuff.

And about Contact - it's pretty good DLC. You get not so long, but interesting campaign with special Spectrum Device, you get to experience "Adapt to conditions or die" type of scenario. And without running Contact, Contact Platform also gives you access to beautiful Livonia map, Promet weapons, Kozlice shotgun, Looter clothes, LDF uniforms and Tracksuit, aswell as Spectrum Device, that unfortunately doesn't work except for duration of First Contact campaign.

Campaign itself is pretty good written and has interesting storytelling, but there are parts where game just throws you out into open and doesn't tell you what you need to do, so you have to walk around and actually find stuff yourself. And BI did nail it with night atmosphere - missions are very good, with their own music.

Overall, I would say, Contact is worth getting it 100%. It's better to get it on sale, as it costs almost same as base game.

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10/10 would pretend to be Grey Wolf and tell some LDF squad fake orders again

fleet ice
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Theres even a mod that gives the spectrum device (limited) functionalitu without Contact loaded!

I'm always in the editor and find myself using Contact assets whether I plan to or not, I definitely suggest it.

buoyant hill
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When 2.08 is coming out?

stable vine
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Potentially next week

ebon bane
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so since the enoch is not a pbo yet

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if i wrote a mod that used something like this

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handAnim[]=
{
"OFP2_ManSkeleton",
"\A3\A3_Weapons_F_Enoch_Rifles_AK12\Rifles\AK12\Data\Anim\AK12.rtm"
};

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like an animation from the enoch rifles class

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would this cause my rifle to not show up in game?

agile hatch
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What do you mean avery_think

ebon bane
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so I was trying to fix Aegis RPK's reload animations

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I noticed that Aegis RPK was using the AKM reload animations

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and the AKM has awkard reload animations when trying to load the 75 round mags

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but the AK-12 has the correct reload animations for the 75 mags

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and also BI's RPK-12 also uses the AK-12 reload animations

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in the functionviewer, for RPK12 it says: reloadAction = "GestureReloadAK12"

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so I try to give the Aegis RPK reloadAction = "GestureReloadAK12"

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and then I realized simply having the "GestureReloadAK12" doesn't correct it

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I also need to change the handAnim[]= { "OFP2_ManSkeleton", "\A3\Weapons_F_Exp\Rifles\AKM\Data\Anim\AKM.rtm" };

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I think I'm stuck on this part

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what would be directory for the the AK12.rtm?

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and are we allowed to use something like "\A3\A3_Weapons_F_Enoch_Rifles_AK12\Rifles\AKM\Data\Anim\AK12.rtm"?

agile hatch
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Why don't you just check official configs?

ebon bane
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yeah that's actually

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I realized I could just check in the config viewer for the handanim for the rpk 12

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but the rpk 12 handanim uses a foregrip but the aegis rpk doesn't

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so I used this

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handAnim[]=
        {
            "OFP2_ManSkeleton",
            "\A3\Weapons_F_Exp\Rifles\AK12\Data\Anims\ak12.rtm"
        };
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it is odd because the AK12 has flawless reload animation with the 75 round magazines as well

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but if I slap on the ak12's animation to Aegis' RPK

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it still looks like the 75 round magazine is floating just out of the hand's reach

junior remnant
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Question. I have worked with addactions, switchmove, playmove ect. But how do i have it linked with animations like with hacking scene in contact?

agile hatch
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Excuse me?

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switchMove is not the thing you want?

junior remnant
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@agile hatch What i mean how do you attach the character in the campaign to align it so his hands were actually like pressing the keyboard in the animation?

agile hatch
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Just align the keyboard to the animation?

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Or, perhaps use attachTo

junior remnant
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it cant be that simple. Are you serious? Im going to go check this out.

agile hatch
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Why it have to be so that complex 🤔

junior remnant
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Also i have had issues with attachto in the past. Where it attaches them to a different position instead. Not sure why.

junior remnant
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Like where it works normally in single, every once in awhile it will just reposition him for some reason.

fast ridge
grizzled cosmos
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Make sure the command runs only once

tidal jungle
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Does the drone jamming work outside of story

agile hatch
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No

tidal jungle
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Lame

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So the scanner is useless outside of story

sacred bane
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Unless you play a mission where someone scripted the jammer

tidal jungle
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Is it hard to script it?

sacred bane
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never did it but assuming there's maybe one or two forum threads/workshop compositions about that and maybe one mission, it is probably hard

tidal jungle
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Ya probably out of my skill set

misty charm
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There's a mod that re-adds some features for it

fading phoenix
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Any way to get past the "Close Encounters" mission without a full keyboard

sacred bane
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you could rebind those missing buttons for something more convenient for your keyboard

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like combined Ctrl+Alt+[number] or something

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or borrow a full keyboard from a friend or neighbor Troll

gray scroll
tidal jungle
gray scroll
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yes

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you need to script it but its pretty easy

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some (like creating and tracking signals) work in MP, but jamming does not

tidal jungle
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Nice might have to make some sick SP scenarios with this

mossy mauve
gray scroll
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at least not using Contact's scripts

small pumice
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How can I get clients to load contact when they join my server? There is no server key in the contact folder 😦

hybrid stump
small pumice
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@hybrid stump thanks for letting me know. Is the special contact branch the development branch? Or do i just run enoch and contact mods on the server?

hybrid stump
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The special branch is only needed for the separate Dedicated Server app (Arma 3 Server). It's called contact (Contact Build).
All clients should have the Enoch / Contact data, but they will need to start the game with -mod=Contact to load the optional part.

small pumice
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@hybrid stumpyou are a legend 🍻 thanks for your help. The alien ships are now landing.

crystal apex
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Hey guys! I'm looking to team up with some people to complete some campaign missions in a semi-realistic manner

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anyone down?

delicate knot
sage parcel
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i hope we can get a update that adds the classical music from this into zeus music library

mossy mauve
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So what happens if you go to the edge of the map in Livonia

sacred bane
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your game makes a screenshot and uninstalls itself

queen siren
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Just try it, You can go far away there. There are not phisocs for car driving, try it, You can drive around map faster.

quasi ivy
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hi

fresh copper
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hi

mossy mauve
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kinda curious how much this dlc is on philippine money

stable vine
scarlet pike
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i might be slow but how tf do i get passed the contact with the alien gun thing?

silver bluff
fallow quarry
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Tell that to Livonians :D

mossy mauve
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Is it me or does Mission 2 give off Metal Gear Solid vibes

mellow anvil
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  1. Does that mean that some Contact content such as the alien stuff be available without having to have the Contact Platform loaded? Not the scripted assets that are used for the campaign but scriptless versions of the alien spaceships etc?
sacred bane
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when did he say Contact will be decrypted with the upcoming patch?

mellow anvil
south karma
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Considering it's been almost 5 years since Tac-Ops' release and it hasn't been deebo'd, I doubt the rest of First Contact's will ever be decrypted.

stable vine
mossy mauve
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Is contact supposed to be scary

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Im on mission 4 taking Eddie through the woods

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I hear things scarier than minecraft cave noises

velvet wharf
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does anyone know the real life counterpart to the WY-55 czapla

sacred bane
velvet wharf
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ty

mossy mauve
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Just finished Contact

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Holy fucking shit

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Bohemia outdid themselves

mossy mauve
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Is anybody Interested in starting the contact campaign with me coop

agile hatch
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You can't

mossy mauve
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Can't play coop? Only solo?

sacred bane
mossy mauve
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Ahh that's too bad.

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Guess I better keep the lights on in the basement

sacred bane
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yep. And there were no attempts to recreate it in multiplayer because of too many custom scripts, only the base game campaign has a multiplayer mod

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Contact campaign is not that scary tbh, as long as you don't sprint all the way hoping noone sees you you're gonna be okay, one Apex mission where you have to move through a field while CSAT pop flares around and are actively searching for you brought me goosebumps

mossy mauve
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Haha I didn't finish contact originally because I was creeped out. Gonna give it another go

mossy mauve
naive lichen
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I just started the first open mission. Kinda got my ass kicked while exploring a point of interest (small Russian camp with hostages

kindred fjord
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hey guys

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I cant seem to get past mission 3 wherre I first have to point the radio stick at the aliens

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it jsut wont progress the mission

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how long and what music do I have to send at them?

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It just never seems to work

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is it a bug?

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or am I doing something wrong?

full lynx
cloud wigeon
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Does anyone know how to get the chemical detector to work during missions? Any script or anything to get it running?

hybrid stump
cloud wigeon
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Thank you, much appreciated

charred flower
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Would anybody help me do miller easter egg ? I played contacts camping atleast 3 times but i never managed to get it

charred flower
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Well nvm i did it on last try lol

misty charm
outer lichen
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I found a freaky skull on the map