Snake Island - Ukraine

[dusty crystal]

Snake Island (also known as Zmiinyi Island) is a Ukrainian island located in the Black Sea, with an important role in delimiting Ukrainian territorial waters.

Features:

• Accurate recreation of Snake Island
• Two terrain variants: February and May
• Game Master modes for both terrain variants
• Russian Cruiser Moskva, a static but walkable GM asset

[sturdy agate]

Is this asset separate in the workshop because I would love that

[upper hatch]

You can build it in normal gm

[fallen tartan]

[winged grove]

Indeed

[vernal dagger]

A terrain AND a faction? (Technically 2) AND the Moskva?

[dusty crystal]

No, put you can use it everywhere in GM and the mod size is only 25MB.

[dusty crystal]

Just played it with a few people, here's a screenshot I took.

[dusty crystal]

Well. If you want to really pedantic, there's not just 2 factions but also technically 2 terrains, since there's a February and May version - the difference being the amount of destruction, fighting positions and so on. :)

[light sinew]

I don't know if it's just me but I just downloaded the mod and when I went to play the game's arsenal boxes were empty

[dusty crystal]

Works for me

[viral nest]

The AI don't recognize the faction or the faction has not being registered in totally?

[dusty crystal]

What do you mean? Are you using the AI on Snake Island, or a different map?

[viral nest]

Both

[dusty crystal]

The new factions not working on other terrains is not surprising, but on Snake Island, they should.
Maybe you placed the wrong one? SBGS is for Feb terrain, SBU for May.

[viral nest]

Maybe my mods are conflicted I will try with this mod alone and check if the issue still appears.

[dusty crystal]

In any case, let me know!

[viral nest]

Ok

[nova wing]

Whats the server this was on?

[dusty crystal]

Just a private session with an ArmA 3 community. We don't play Reforger otherwise.

[timber onyx]

Russian Warship go fuck yourself

[thorn flame]

Not sure if intentional, however you can't use any other arsenal box when playing

[light sinew]

this is happening to me

[opal bough]

Yeah, me as well

[upper hatch]

Its the same problem that the guy who made dead Everon had. He found a solution for the factions not attacking and being grey aswell as the arsenal box’s being grey. Id ask the author of that mod if you cant figure it out.

[tropic bolt]

Yeah no faction will attack at all.

[dusty crystal]

Are you sure you're using the right combination of faction and terrain? Currently, the SBU faction only works on SnakeIslandMay and the SBGS one on SnakeIslandFeb.
I might change that though, just didn't expect so many people to want to use the factions on other terrains.

[light sinew]

for me these faction work on both but then there are only them

[dusty crystal]

SBGS works in Feb, SBU works on May and Russia on both GM versions.
That's the setup basically.

I might redesign it in a way that makes any faction work on Snake Island and the Ukraine factions on any terrain though, since there seems to be so much confusion around it.

[dusty crystal]

Update 1.0.2 has been released! 🇺🇦
The new factions can now be used in all GM scenarios, and any other faction in the Snake Island GMs. This should eliminate any confusion around some factions not working.

I also adjusted some of the SBU Alpha Group Loadouts: The MG Assistant now carries binoculars, while the MCX Operator has more ammo.

Also, if you're playing with a group of 8 or more people, feel free to give the custom "SIM01" scenario a try. It's a non-GM mission heavily inspired by the events that took place on Snake Island in early May 2022, playable both as COOP and TVT.

[jade pollen]

I can’t find the war ship in GM?

[dusty crystal]

I added it to the MSV faction

[jade pollen]

Oh ok

[jade pollen]

Huh still can’t find it

[dusty crystal]

Under Vehicles? Do you see the tank and the IFVs?

[jade pollen]

Yes but no warship

I disabled all my mods, and am trying now

(BTW the sim 02 crashes the game)

[dusty crystal]

I rechecked and definitely can see it. Not sure what exactly is wrong on your end.

And I know about the SIM02 thing. It's the most cursed Enfusion bug I've ever seen, can't do much about it currently.

[jade pollen]

Also when you die in sim 01 you go into GM but no hud and it’s basically a spectator mode because you can respawn or do anything

[dusty crystal]

That's intended, it's a simple custom spectator mode - there are no respawns in this mission.

[jade pollen]

Ahh very cool

[dusty crystal]

If you need to respawn, you have to rejoin the server.

[jade pollen]

Got the war ship working but it crashed my game lol

[dusty crystal]

It's got quite a few polygons, but not that much more than other assets in the game. It should still work, I tried it yesterday with a few more people and none crashed.

Try again I guess. If it still doesn't work, maybe it's a hardware limitation. What GPU do you have?

[jade pollen]

Got it working, I’m on the series x

[dusty crystal]

Let me know if you run into any other problems

[jade pollen]

Alright thanks

[dusty crystal]

This was already briefly mentioned here, but the SIM02 scenario does currently not work.
This is due to what is likely a bug with Enfusion (or Reforger) itself that I cannot easily fix or even avoid anymore.

[quiet briar]

Do you plan on further extending the factions i.e. more clothing variations/gun variations, similar to that of rhs’s factions?

[dusty crystal]

No, the factions are scenario-specific and their loadouts based on what I know was being used on Snake Island.

Which for e. g. the SBU Alpha Group in the May assault was mainly AKS-74U, PKM, Sig MCX and RPG26.

[quiet briar]

👍

[dusty crystal]

Any issues so far? Or something you'd like to see improved?

[mellow moth]

Your workaround for a spectator is interesting. I'd love to see how you did that.

Disregard, found here: #enfusion_scenario message

:]

[dusty crystal]

The class as a whole won't work anymore since the update broke a few things, but the code for Spectator is still the same. 👍

Here's the updated version if you need it.

[mellow moth]

Appreciate it.

[pine parrot]

Can you add another Ukrainian battalion or something like the foreign legion with the arm bands and everything? I know it has nothing to do with snake island but I’d like to see it

[dusty crystal]

As you said yourself, this has nothing to do with Snake Island, so I'm not going to add it.
However it sounds like an interesting idea, how about you create such a mod? :)

[pine parrot]

I’m on Xbox I can’t

[quiet briar]

You could ask raccs from Haralds units he’s made similar content.

[pine parrot]

Alr

[dusty crystal]

**Update 1.0.3 is out! 🇺🇦 **
It adds the new shore wave simulation.

[quiet briar]

@dusty crystal your mod conflicts with ravage(zombie mod) in case you are unaware.

[dusty crystal]

Can you provide any more details?

[quiet briar]

With your mod enabled it removes the spawnable zombies

[solid crane]

look for them in groups orcharactors

it is just chosing from the faction they still show unless new update messes with them

[light sinew]

[dusty crystal]

Snake Island version

[light sinew]

I think it's the same

or isn't it?

[dusty crystal]

The heli is, mostly. The location is not.

[light sinew]

Yep

But it looks the same helicopter

[dusty crystal]

Yes, they are both Mi-8

[light sinew]

True

[dusty crystal]

Also edited the colors a bit. I was thinking about making a proper circle flag, but am currently too lazy for it.

[light sinew]

Looking good

[dusty crystal]

ingame

[dusty crystal]

Snake Island 1.04 has been released! 🇺🇦
Main changes:

• Update to 1.0
• Added Ukrainian Mi-8 variant
• Added Spawn Platform 3km north of SI (intended for GM usage)
• Switched MCX dependency
• Fixed faction loadouts
• Added proper helicopters to SIM01 mission
• Removed SIM02
  https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5D2C09EC3A5DF8AD-SnakeIsland-Ukraine

[bold thistle]

i cant find it on the ingame workshop?

[dusty crystal]

Maybe it takes some time until it gets unhidden - idk.

[bold thistle]

ill keep checking every so often

[dusty crystal]

Alright. If it doesn't appear within the next couple of hours, I'll ask in #enfusion_workshop.

[solid crane]

if your using a unudated mod they wont show i think its vergys for it

[dusty crystal]

Even when using one? I thought dependencies were okay...

You're probably right though

That's a really stupid rule, they should still be downloadable as a dependency.

[lone wadi]

No, otherwise this would really defeat the purpose of hiding of incompatible (game breaking, sometime really game can't start) mods from workshop. It makes complete sense, and that's why dependencies can be very risky.

[dusty crystal]

Imagine this scenario:
There's a mod that got broken by 1.0, the author is not updating it. For good reasons, this mod should remain hidden.
However, if this was possible, another modder could create a new mod that fixes the broken one, by using it as a dependency. Where does this not make sense?
I'm not arguing against broken mods being hidden. I'm arguing against them not being downloadable strictly as dependencies.

[dusty crystal]

Still no news, unfortunately.
If VMG will not be updated, I guess I will have to start looking for alternatives.
I need a mod that has plain (no flags), high quality Multicam gear. An MM14 equivalent is less important, since I could replace the textures. If you can recommend anything, let me know.

[jade pollen]

Old cars

[opal bough]

MEP Camo has some MM14(just a pretty large mod with MEP main..)

[dusty crystal]

'VMG' has been replaced with 'OldCars Equipment & Uniforms', meaning:
**Snake Island is finally back on the Workshop! 🎉 **

[light sinew]

[naive crater]

Sorry for the impudence, but I wanted to know where you get the height map from

[dusty crystal]

I sculpted it myself based on references photos

[naive crater]

Wow

Is it possible to find out with the help of what?

[dusty crystal]

Just in the World Editor, based on images from the internet

[naive crater]

мапа топ

[rose fossil]

Wish you’d make a version without RHS, perfect testing map. Incredible lighting

[naive crater]

Where did you get the photo of the map with the view from the sky?

[naive crater]

Is it possible to change the size of the map? If yes, then how?

[dusty crystal]

What do you mean, satellite images?

[dusty crystal]

I updated the terrain, removing both dependencies

[rose fossil]

Awesome