Middle East Insurgents and Civilians

[copper steppe]

Mod focused on bringing two new factions and adding variety to Arma Reforger. This mod features Insurgents and Middle Eastern Civilians to add enemies to Middle Eastern themed maps without having to replace vanilla factions or fall back on too little enemy variety. The models are mainly Arma 2 samples, both original and modified in texture and model.

Some pending changes and improvements:

• Fix Suicide bomber (Use it cause a lot of lag)
• More variety in clothing
• Improve some head models (they look weird)
• Add all equipment to the arsenal
• Add bleeding to clothing when someone is wounded wearing it.
• Change FIA voices to Arabic voices
• Add new weapons

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/64CEC8E005828E5D-MiddleEastInsurgents

[calm oar]

please upload the clothes seperately

[copper steppe]

I will add all clothes to the arsenal soon

[calm oar]

no as a different mod only clothing

[copper steppe]

The mod mainly add the clothes, the rest of the stuff is just the characters and groups using them

[calm oar]

i know, as a modder i would like to make my own factions with them and not have yours with all due respect

very nice work on the textures of the clothing

[calm oar]

if you remove the yellow faces and make ToH Arabic Faces a dependency it would be fine

[copper steppe]

Not sure if u can disable the faction on the faction editor to solve that, but for me is a headhache to have 2 separate mods, sry

[copper steppe]

They still need a lot of work, some are simple arma 2 remade from scratch in Substance Painter, others are totally new design

[copper steppe]

I can work in a dependency doing it, didn't know of that mod

[calm oar]

yes they automatically replace FIA and civilian heads

[elder talon]

Awesome! 😄👍👍

[trail mauve]

So is this compat with taliban mod and sundance? Do the voices work atm? I use callos vehicles and it requires taliban mod. Love the outfits, this just gives much more variety of taliban fighters

[trail mauve]

Just ran this through my server with sundance and taliban mod, it works great as far as i can tell, Loving the outfits, will you incorporate vehicles as well?

[calm oar]

I made Sundance, it should be compat but I’ll make a new one soon.

[copper steppe]

Update 1.0.3

• Fixed some inventory issues
• Fixed some headgear not visible in vehicles
• Fixed preview image on AI game master
• Fixed a few clipping issues on headgear
• Improve skin yellowish color to one more correct (They are not sick anymore)
• Added arsenal to faction MEI and all the gear to it
• Added new variation to AT soldier
• Added more variations to MEC faction
• Added random AI generator to MEI and MEC faction
• Added suicide bomber to MEI faction
• Added URAL4320, UAZ469 and UAZ469 with PKM of MEI faction

[calm oar]

pairing this with saf insurgent clothing will make for some cool factions, will probably start with caucasus rebels

[trail mauve]

Love it brother, hope WCS servers can one day adapt something like this for pvp. Imma enjoy this on my server though! 😁

[rocky portal]

Hey man, there's an issue with the "Arab shirt" and "Arab pants". They cause the torso + arms, and legs respectively to disappear when worn.

[trail mauve]

Rifleman and S-vest are broken atm

MEC is in order just so you know

[copper steppe]

Oh, I know what is the issue with that, let me push hotfix

[copper steppe]

Hotfix ready, should be fixed as far I can see in tools, if I've left anything out I'll look tomorrow, it's a bit late in my time zone

[trail mauve]

Nice your quick with it

[elder talon]

I actually quite loved the mods, they fit perfectly for the Taliban mods just make sure you set them in same faction

[glossy dove]

My man those are Pakistani/afghani clothes 😭😭

[trail mauve]

Ok and...

[glossy dove]

It ain’t Arabic or Middle Eastern

[trail mauve]

So why tf did you tag me, I never said anything about that

[glossy dove]

I meant it to the mod creator not you mb

[trail mauve]

Lol oh my bad

[clever sphinx]

Wait so your saying afghan and Pakistan aren't middle eastern?

[calm oar]

He’s complaining about the fact that the clothes are called Arabic/Middle Eastern by the modder despite Afghans and Pakistanis (the cultures where the original inspiration for the models came from) not being Arabic genetically, it’s nerd stuff

[signal forge]

It's a fair statement to make, there's major difference between Afghan and Arab/Mid-Eastern dress. It might affect immersion in a setting like Fallujah if the supposed Iraqi insurgents were dressed like Taliban.

[trail mauve]

Will there be an Iraqi insurgent faction down the line?

[calm oar]

True

[copper steppe]

Let's go by parts, first of all, they are correctly based in Takistan, fictitious region created by BI where they literally say they are based in Iraq and different areas of the Middle East, it's not something I say. Second, the name used is a generic name to encompass those areas where (as it says in the mod description) I will add in the future more models that may not fit with Takistan and may fit more with other cultures such as Taliban of the 2000s for example, that obviously also takes it out of that approach, but as you understand I can not call the mod "Insurgents and civilians of the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Africa", it is a simple name to group a context that everyone can use as they wish in their servers.

[calm oar]

Completely understandable, personally I think it’s an unreasonable thing to complain about.

I would like to ask again, since now you say you will add things from other cultures aswell: will you please just release a mod specifically for the clothing currently in the mod and nothing else? These are models that have been iconic since ArmA 2, they deserve their own mod, especially if you plan to add unrelated things.

[copper steppe]

For the moment I don't think I will do it, since I want to improve several of the models and textures, besides trying to redo some of the Samples models that don't look good in Reforger due to the way the uniforms were composed in Arma 2

Once I'm done with all the samples and I'm satisfied with them (and therefore don't modify them anymore) I could think about it

[trail mauve]

Hopefully we can finally get a faction like this on conflict

[calm oar]

Working on sundance 2

[trail mauve]

Oh man cant wait!! Might actually run conflict in my server just for that

[copper steppe]

Now that 1.3 is out I have to add an update with the vanilla system to disguise with clothes from other factions and go unnoticed, give me a few days to investigate how it goes and I will update it for you 😄

[trail mauve]

Been looking for this 😱

[copper steppe]

Update 1.0.5

• Added faction % to clothes (Almost all of them are from MEC faction)
• Fixed MEI faction appearing as playable by default
• Fixed footwear preview icons in arsenal

The update is a little heavy for what it is in changelog because something I'm working on slipped in and it's not finished yet, whoever does a little research will be able to spoil what it is 😄

[elder talon]

Sweet!

[warm breach]

Did you end up finding out a way to disguise, this would be huge

[copper steppe]

It was today's update, in theory the clothes give you a % to go “disguised” as that faction, I have not tested it on a large scale, but there could not be much failure since after all it falls on a vanilla system

[warm breach]

Sick ima check it out

[warm breach]

Was i supposed to be able to go unnoticed or just to disguise lmaoo

Disregard, they just didn't appreciate me driving in their vehicles

[shy wadi]

Excuse my question but I don't follow this Thread much but in the description it says that the faction's voices were changed, was this function removed from the mod? Here they are speaking Russian

[copper steppe]

I have it pending, since I couldn't find the right way to do it and with LAxeman's help I was able to do it, if you give me some time I hope to have it functional

[shy wadi]

For sure, take your time

[trail mauve]

Honestly kept forgetting to ask that myself

[viral pond]

Bose, great work on this. We are looking to incorporate it into the official Insurgency gamemode/mod created by Integrity Gaming, at least our GWOT extension. Your mod is lightweight and straight forward. Right now it could help us reduce like 2GB of downloads we have to have just for some clothing. A+

[trail mauve]

No one is having trouble with this mod in their list are they? I'm trying to insert like 80+ mods in but I really hope this mod isn't the source of why my server doesn't load up. I'm just doing a process of elimination but waiting for the server to go up takes forever!

[copper steppe]

I'm using it in my milsim unit server and all is fine

Any issue or error in log related to this u can send it to me and will try to look for it

[calm oar]

do you think you could make them a bit less dark? to me, they look more north african than middle eastern

these are stock photos of Iraqis

[copper steppe]

I can take a look at it in the next update, lately I'm a bit busy with another mod and I have stopped the update with the arabic voices

[copper steppe]

I am going to answer some questions that I have been asked privately about the mod (I don't answer pm about my mods, I prefer to be asked here so everybody knows the answer).

Are you going to make your mod compatible with ToH recharacters?
It's not my plan, since I would be loading 1-2gb of content that maybe many people wouldn't be interested in, one of the goals of my mod was to make a light mod with good quality so everyone can use it without problems. According to my license you are free to make a compatibility that does, so go ahead.

Are you going to add more clothes to the mod?
That's my idea, but I have to locate some assets to buy or fix some more from Arma 2 plus I'm currently working on a Spanish Armed Forces armament mod and it's consuming me a lot of time.

Do you plan to change the voices of your faction?
That's right, 70% of the audio files were uploaded with one of the hotfixes unintentionally and are already in, but they are not operational as I have to spend some time to prepare the voices properly. The idea is that both my MEI and MEC faction will have arabic voices (Generic) and not czech (currently use the FIA ones).

Are you going to add more AI variants?
This will surely come with the new clothing variants, so yes, I will also try to add some other weapon as a whole (A G3 maybe?).

[calm oar]

blood textures for the clothing?

[velvet whale]

Be careful with this type of topics. I did Israel vs. Hamas and they deleted everything from one account.

[rigid solar]

tried out ur mod its sick a much better insurgent faction than taliban much smaller and much more realistic items and betteer quality theres one bug that ive found unkown if it is a mod conflict but the ai dont react straight away to enemys and an enemy faction can see all the insurgents name tags

[limber helm]

I really like how the S vest looks, instead of the stereotypical one, and going off what allza said i do feel this mod is better than taliban especially since the mod recently added a bunch of modernish AKs and attachments that don't do anything except inflate the mod size

[copper steppe]

Yeah, that too, need some work in Substance painter to make it look good

[copper steppe]

Yes, that's a delicate topic, Bohemia reserves the right to pull mods that depict political/war conflicts that it deems inappropriate, it happened before with Mods depicting things from the Ukrainian war. My mod after all is just adding one more faction to the game, it still sticks to Reforger's EULA regarding cases where someone does something inappropriate

[copper steppe]

If you can reproduce it with just my mod let me know and I will take a look at it

[copper steppe]

I created this mod for something like this, Taliban mod was a great contribution to the community at the time but contained many bugs that did not patch, had little variety (The main Taliban model that uses I have in mind to buy it and add it with a fairly large improvement of model and textures) and also is that already 2gb of mod to only add a faction ... It's too much

What I have a doubt with the bomb vest, do you prefer it as it is right now (Programmable by time or by detonator through another player/IA) or do you prefer that if a bullet hits the vest area it explodes?

[limber helm]

How about both, one variant you can time/attach to detonator and another that explodes if penitrated (like that variant had pipe bombs or something combustible)

Or has 2 IED shells on his chest

[copper steppe]

Yeah, maybe I can have a look
I was thinking in maybe script it to make it a dead match switch too

[clever sphinx]

It is unfortunate they made a military simulation game and people get hurt over real life conflicts being simulated lol

[viral pond]

Discovered an issue caused by placing an armed vest into a backpack and blowing it up. No explosion, silent kill basically that has peoploe scratching their head.

[copper steppe]

Will need to look how I can fix that, cause the base of the vest basically is a modifies breaching charge...

[viral pond]

Yeah, those you can't placed into a backpack once armed. Was surprised we could with the vest

[trail mauve]

WELP I guess this mod is more important than ever since Taliban Mod broke the rules apparently

[sinful raft]

so fkn tragic. i think its because it was called "Taliban" if there still an active terror org bi wont allow

[scarlet pawn]

would love bullet hit, is this hard to complete?

[trail mauve]

The fact there is tons more factions like that on A3 makes my head hurt

He should definetly re-release and just call it the sunflower boys or something

[sinful raft]

reforger sadly has completely different rules, i also dont think you can re release contenet from a banned mod

[trail mauve]

Even if he removed what was terroristic about it?

[rocky portal]

Why is it just now getting banned? It been around for over a year.

[sinful raft]

Yeah thats the dumb thing

[trail mauve]

More than that

Feel for the modders that used it as a dependency right now. People spend time doing this and something gets removed years later for some rule that took affect after the fact.

[sinful raft]

Yeah someone must have reported it

[trail mauve]

Smh I know the truth hurts but damn, hiding it doesn't make it any better.

[void vault]

well russia is a state sponsor of terror, so I guess by their logic they need to ban arma? RIP a mod that brough realism

[trail mauve]

Pretty much

[viral pond]

Thankfully the Insurgency GWOT version was already moving away from it after it got bloated with all the extra weapons. We had originally just used it for some clothing until this got released, and until this morning only had IED's mostly (which we're working on a standalone IED mod). So thankfully we got the dependency removed in less than an hour.

[trail mauve]

I was sick that I couldnt join yall earlier

[copper steppe]

I hope this mod has no problems, because 95% are Arma 2 assets that Bohemia himself made and used years ago, if the bannable is that these groups are represented perhaps they should specify it better ....

[trail mauve]

Im really hoping as well, If not guess im done gaming, because this is the only thing holding my interest for it

[viral pond]

I think you're good, and honestly I don't even think it was due to being "Taliban". It happened after he pushed his X.41 update earlier today, and then not long after bam

[tropic python]

Any chance you can make the insurgents an actual playable faction? I couldn’t manipulate it in GM as there’s no specified basic loadout and spawn point for them. Same goes for the civilians

[copper steppe]

As I said in this message, I have several things pending, among them I could add this one, but I'm working on other mods that I'm in a hurry, as soon as I finish with them (I hope soon) I will add all that

[copper steppe]

Let's start with the headhache

[covert sphinx]

Have you thought about making the vest blow up when shot at?

[clever lodge]

@turbid mango

[turbid mango]

@clever lodge yes

[viral pond]

Skybose, we are in the process of creating an Arabic sound overhaul which could be used to address this. We have multiple native arabic speakers.

[copper steppe]

Working in new ones too

[copper steppe]

I imagine that this work will be for your mod that uses mine as a dependency, my idea (And since I created the mod) is that my mod has all the functions without relying on third party mods. Any improvement (which I suppose it will be having audios of native arabic speakers) that comes from another mod is welcome but I will always try to make my base mod as complete as possible

[viral pond]

We were two a basic version that would simply be the other way around (your mod is the dependency) and could be an optional addon that only adds the audio and is standalone. We could also just look to contribute it too if you wanted it fully included.

We have a separate more in-depth sound mod with Arabic planned that is specific for our game mode.

[copper steppe]

If you want to contribute with those audios to the mod they are more than welcome, since I use an AI to do it that although it doesn't have bad quality is obviously inferior to using native arabic speakers. Talk to me on pm and we'll see a bit of this

[viral pond]

Yeah, we are pretty sure the one mod that used Taliban as a dependency was also AI -- according to our native speakers. They laughed at how bad it was.

[copper steppe]

I would say that the one I'm using is less noticeable, since I can modify a lot the tone and the way he speaks, but obviously real audios will always be better hahaha

If you want to contribute to the project, you can talk to me privately and we'll see how to do it

[tropic python]

How’s the progress on the voice lines coming along?

[copper steppe]

Slow, when I started months ago I prepare like 50-60 audios...Now I see that are more like 200 or more. Maybe I push a update with the new bomb vest and the clothes interacting with blood first while I'm working in the voices

[tropic python]

A new bomb vest would be nice, but do whatever you think is best

[regal girder]

Am i missing something or just confused maybe? I see you are saying your mod has AI generated Arabic voice lines but im pretty certain that they speak Russian on my server. 🤣

[elder talon]

They can do speak Russian too tho some of them does

[trail mauve]

The only thing im worried about is the voiceline spam lol , right now i have disable ai voice and it makes it way more immersive. I hope bohemia one day can prevent them from talking as much

[tropic python]

It doesn’t.

[scarlet pawn]

that would be cool, missing vests 🙂

[viral pond]

He is looking to add them to replace the russian.

We are now in progress with doing native Arabic speaker recordings for all default voice lines and will share it with Skybrose should he want to include it into the mod.

[timid oasis]

I’m noticing on my server the mod we have to change their faction to something different than the original faction they list otherwise they will not engage

[copper steppe]

What mod is that. I can only ensure that it works 100% with vanilla

[timid oasis]

The Middle Eastern Insurgents

[copper steppe]

The mod to change faction

[placid condor]

Hej Skyrbose!
Thx for your great work with the MEI & MEC factions 😄
I have just a question, is there any change to add the personal documents to the MEI soldiers? the MEC Faction has them, but not the MEI, or can i do something to make the MEI have them? (i run a Conflict scenario)

[copper steppe]

Well honestly I didn't do it because when I updated it the last time I had no use for it, but I could consider it. Do they have any use in Conflict?

[placid condor]

Currently, it only gives some XP, but a future Vanilla Conflict Update might add enemy information as well.

[copper steppe]

I'll take a look for the next update

[placid condor]

thank you Skyrbose 🙏🏽

[copper steppe]

Anyone around here who knows Reforger scripting and can give me a hand? I've decided to just create a component that spawns an explosion on the body of someone wearing a bomb vest to simplify things a little bit, but I'm having some problems
#enfusion_scripting message

[copper steppe]

Okay, I have a prototype that works pretty well and shouldn't bring problems, but it has some limitations (I can't get the vest to take effect when someone equips it, only when they spawn with it), throughout this week I will be working on bringing new variants of insurgents/civilians with some new assets I have, I will see about adding some more variety to the ones I had and fix small inventory bugs I saw in some MEI AIs. I'm still working on the audios (I'm waiting to see how Cowboy Pilot progresses first with his stuff) and to see if they solve the problem of the bleeding in the clothes, since I was developing it and I realized that in the current version the bleeding doesn't work

[copper steppe]

Middle East Insurgents and Civillians Update 1.1.0

- Added new covered turban in various colors
- Added new bomb vest that detonates when the wearer dies (AI only for now)
- Fixed that the time bomb vest could be stored in a trunk and detonated without explosive effect (Now it can't be stored anywhere, only worn).
- Fixed that most skin colors were too dark, now there is a little more variety.
- Fixed MEI side not carrying personal documents.
- Fixed some inventory problems with some AIs.```

[shy wadi]

Dont have arab Audios yet right ?

[copper steppe]

I'm waiting for Cowboy Pilot to finish the audios using voices of native arabic speakers he knows, if all goes well and he ends up giving them to me I will add them when he has them ready, if not I will continue with the project of adding them using AI

[real sail]

anyone know of any mod that will not let MEI work or start server?

[copper steppe]

Just tested it in a dedicated server with a bunch of mod and all works fine

[chilly quest]

Same as we run RHS with no issues

[lunar veldt]

This is something you've gotta test and mess around with

[real sail]

Ok. I'll go take another look. Trying to put it on our servers running COE2 Anizay and Kunarwith 140 mods that all work together. I load MEI and goes to crash loop

[real sail]

Oh I know. Most of my time in Reforger is testing mods for compatability

[lunar veldt]

I feel this lol. You were just asking to prevent the messing around? If so understandable

[real sail]

yes just asking in case there was a known cause that I missed in the messages in channel

[real sail]

well i put COE2 Kunar with just the dependencies and MEI mod and it will start without mod. strangeness

[formal apex]

Nice, id been looking for a good ME Insurgent faction lately

[real sail]

Works on server running a GM game version but not on COE2 for me. See that wall....i'm going to go bang my head off it a few more times. lol. Have a great day everyone, see you on the battlefield

[copper steppe]

Try to send me the logs only with COE2 and MEI loaded

[scarlet pawn]

Anyone been able to createa a USSR replacer that has the bomb vest ?

[lethal wharf]

will there ever be any other game modes on arma

i love the incurgency game mode but theres so many more cool modes that could be made tooim excited to see how far this game goes this year

[real sail]

COE2, Invade and Annex, Conflict, Overthrow, Escape are a few game modes out now

[lofty dune]

my vehicles are under a new mod without taliban

[copper steppe]

UPDATE 1.1.4

• Added Entity catalogs for MEI and MEC
• Override LoadoutManager_editor.et to add loadouts to MEI and MEC

This should make fully compatible MEI with gamemodes like COE2 and other gamemodes that autogenerates enemies based on entity catalogs.

[uneven palm]

Hello, I just tested MEI 1.1.4 with COE2 and it seems the "kill officer" mission in unable to spawn when selecting MEI as the opposing faction.

[copper steppe]

Yeah Kex told me, I'll check what it is because in theory it should work :/

[viral pond]

This is underway, just a lot of stuff to replace vanilla and factor in differences with language structure to have it be right.

[uneven palm]

Thanks. I need to double check but the search for intel mission seems also to fail to spawn.

[formal apex]

Does anyone know the faction key for the insurgents? I can set DarcMissions to RHS_AFRF to use RHS Russian AI, is there a similar option for this faction?

[copper steppe]

I'm not at home in this moment, but I think is only MEI to the Insurgents and MEC to Middle East Civillians

[lyric spade]

I have the audio files from an old ArmA 3 mod in Arabic, and they are perfect if you want them. They were used in the DSG_AI mod, but the modder hasn’t touched it in over 8 years.

[copper steppe]

I'm afraid that if I don't have explicit permission from the creator I could not use it, even if that mod has been abandoned for many years.

Also @viral pond is making some audios with some of his buddies who speak Arabic and I'm sure this will look great when he finishes it

[lyric spade]

I'll talk to him!

[viral pond]

Might not be as easy of a 1 to 1 match though for how voices are setup in Reforger, which is what we are focused on and in the middle of. There is a lot of audio per language which would surprise folks. One of the other complexities as we are working through it right now is language structure is different, so its not as easy as just plug and play with things like "Contact" ,"12 oclock", "600 meters" as we might say in English and in a strictly military context. Arma has each of this separated and then combined based on in-game variables.

I'd also be concerned about the license that those mods got to that audio too, A3 had a lot of IP rights violations. BI is taking a much stronger position on IP rights (thankfully) in Reforger.

[shadow condor]

@copper steppe Might there be any chance in the future that Bomber S-Vest people can be disabled ? Like the old taliban mod. Go for a Headshot to target and then the Vest is disabled

[copper steppe]

The vest is a Deadman switch, not a vest with a collision zone...I have plans to add a new one that are some kind of gas barrels that work like that

[timber flax]

Hello,
Can someone explain me how to make the explosive vest working ?
Ive get one from the arsenal but the entity spawn in front of me tryed to arm it with detonator or other things i didn't found it
(Tests only made with you'r mod, no others are actives)

Thanks in advance 😌

[copper steppe]

Oh it seems to have broken. This is the first news I've had of this, and it's been a long time since I updated the mod... I'll have to review it to fix it or replace it with the other idea I had

I'll leave this here to work on as soon as I have time (hopefully soon). This will not replace the AI that has a Deadman switch, but will add a new explosive vest with these functions

[timber flax]

Ive founded on you'r test map (on the workbench) the other prefab works very well 🤗 (i think it's a just an issue with the M.E.I arsenal config i'm not an expert 😌 )
The timer & Deathswitch work well 🤗
But some other prefabs got this issue 😅

The spawn entity (caracter) with the gamemaster, named caracter with the bomb deadswitch vest work perfect too 😌

P/S : i can't vote i like them both 🥰

[copper steppe]

They are different vest, one is for AI and the other is for players and "works" with the timer. I'm also working on giving them different models and making sure that the deadman switch works with players as well

[copper steppe]

UPDATE 1.2.0: EXPLOSIVE UPDATE And 1.2.1 with a little rpl fix

• Improved deadman switch (can now be used by players)
• Explosive vests are divided into three types: Deadman Switch, IED Explosive (Collision), and Time/Detonator Vest.

There are three types of explosive vests now:

• Deadman switch: Explodes when the player/AI wearing it dies. It can be disarmed by knocking the wearer unconscious and removing it from their inventory.
• IED Explosive: These are improvised explosives attached to clothing that explode when damaged. They are very lethal.
• Time/Detonator Vest: These are explosive charges that can be set by time or detonator from the ground or by another player.

On the other side, I recently discovered that 1 or 2 Reforger patches fixed (silently, since they didn't say anything) the bleeding on the clothes. I already patched another mod I have a week ago, but this one will take me much longer since I have to make a bleeding texture for each of the clothing variants. For now, it's disabled to avoid weird stuff, but I'll work on it soon!

[cursive sluice]

hey all, so im having some issues with this mod, first off its the only mod enabled and jumping into single player GM scenario. If i place a US squad, a insurgeant squad, and a middle east civi. the 2 military factions wont shoot each other, however the US squad kills the civi. the Mod itself i have deleted and redownloaded. has anyone seen this before?

[chilly quest]

Just adjust playable factions and their allies

[cursive sluice]

in all honesty thankyou i havent had to touch that option in so long i forgot it was even there.

[rose elbow]

Hi guys does anyone know if, in the mod, the insurgents speak Russian or Arabic?

[chilly quest]

It’s Russian. Add the Russian to Arabic mod

[rose elbow]

Ok ty, but its a pending task for the mod then?

[copper steppe]

I'm not sure, but I think they used the FIA voices in Czech

[copper steppe]

It's something I have pending, but it requires a lot of work and patience. There are more than 200 sounds, words and phrases that I have to adapt from English to Arabic and then prepare them with a decent AI text-to-speech reader. The mod you mentioned literally takes 20 different sounds in Arabic that have nothing to do with what the AI says when it speaks. I already have quite a few audio files prepared, but among other mods I have and my study/work time, I can't move forward with this yet. Eventually, it will be done.

[obtuse cypress]

You could go the easy route and do what the southpark creators did

[frank tinsel]

Hello, I don't know if anyone has suggested it before. I use this mod a lot and it gives a really good setting in Milsim. Could you implement a totally black burka, even if it's not worn by a woman since the game doesn't have one from the factory? But having a civilian man wear it, giving that image of women, would look tremendous visually and I think more immersive in a Milsim style. Greetings!

[vocal hare]

Ohhhh my God, I was thinking the same thing, it would be a great thing

[obtuse cypress]

Could easily change the eyes to have mascara

[frank tinsel]

I don't know, I just know that seeing burkas in towns and cities would be much more realistic and immersive.

[copper steppe]

If I find a good model I can try it, but I will probably only include it as a civilian

[shadow condor]

is it me or Civilians are treated as hostile and Insurgents are treated as friendlies ?

US army are shooting the civilians

[shadow condor]

its just me

[lunar raft]

@copper steppe you're probably aware, but this mod won't compile in 1.6

[copper steppe]

Already solved, waiting for 1.6 to push the update

[lunar raft]

oh sick. sounds good

[copper steppe]

I may have to upload it about 6-7 hours after the update is released, as I will be out, but I tested it and everything is working now

[lunar raft]

cool no problem. appreciate you!

[placid condor]

` INIT : Workbench Create Game
SCRIPT : Compiling Game scripts
SCRIPT (E): @"scripts/Game/Components/Custom_CharacterDamageManagerComponent.c,10": Overloading event 'OnDamageStateChanged' is not allowed
SCRIPT (E): Can't compile "Game" script module!

scripts/Game/Components/Custom_CharacterDamageManagerComponent.c(10): Overloading event 'OnDamageStateChanged' is not allowed
ENGINE (E): Unable to initialize a game/gamelib. Some workbench features will not work.`

[narrow iris]

Yup, check the previous messages, @copper steppe is out but will be pushing the update later.

[copper steppe]

Everything is updated and at least it no longer crashes
Sorry for the delay, it had been updated for a few hours but I had to check everything thoroughly on my colleagues' server. I found that the explosive vest of mortar shells does not work on their server, but I will have to check it more on workbench thoroughly tomorrow at a more normal time. Enjoy!

[placid condor]

Gracias Skyr! Amazing work and really thankful for it🙏🏼

[copper steppe]

Okay, the problem I mentioned here with the mortar IED vest (the one that explodes on impact) was due to a feature of ACE Anvil Explosives. My server mates were using it, and that's why it was happening. I've released patch 1.2.4, which fixes it and allows it to work even if you use ACE Anvil Explosives!

[calm oar]

with all due respect for your hard work, would you consider making a mod that simply adds the clothing items to USSR arsenal as opposed to adding whole factions?

[copper steppe]

No, because that would mean that whenever I update anything else, I would have to do it on the other one as well, which would be a headache since I work on several mods. Anyway, the mod is very small, it's quite light and you can easily disable the faction and add the items to another arsenal by making a dependant mod by yourself, there's no problem with that

[viral pond]

I have to second @copper steppe . Honestly creating the second faction is the best way for most core addons, and then they (or others) can create overrides etc.

We created an Russian Federation Faction, but then use another mod to make it easy to replace the existing USSR with it, but you don't necessarily have to do it that way either.

Its not hard for non developers to do this stuff in the editor.

[calm oar]

I'm aware, and I know how to override factions. I guess I just have some kind of OCD when it comes to the faction list being bloated beyond what I specifically need it for. Was quite a selfish suggestion but I am sure there are others who feel the same.

[viral pond]

Well, shouldn't really be a thing if its not set to playable, and your override can set it to not be visable and a non-playable faction

[severe solstice]

Is anyone having a problem with the insurgents not moving or following orders?

[copper steppe]

It is not related to my mod, as it works fine in vanilla and with other mods. It must be something else

[viral pond]

@severe solstice and @copper steppe , it's likely navmesh broken on a custom map since 1.6. What terrain is this on?

[placid condor]

MEIC Mod - Community Update

@copper steppe and I have teamed up to give the mod a much-needed facelift. Our goal is to bring the MEI faction up to par with the vanilla FIA in terms of content, allowing the MEI to utilize vanilla FIA assets while new original content is being developed.

We are also excited to announce that the MEI is now officially under the umbrella of the FFAA Mod Team (Spanish Armed Forces Mod) (https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1481220669978185889). One of the main reasons for this is to provide the FFAA faction with a dedicated enemy faction that receives the same level of care and detail as the main mod, ensuring it is fully fleshed out with content and variety.

As mentioned, our primary objective is to balance our factions with vanilla ones like the FIA, making them fully compatible with both vanilla and custom game modes.

What’s coming in the next update:

• Complete restructuring of characters, groups, and faction configs.
• New Voiceovers: We are adding dedicated voice assets corresponding to the faction for better immersion.
• In-game reconfiguration of all existing content.

Regarding visuals: while we may look into updating textures in the future, we cannot confirm any specific plans at this time.

[south scarab]

anyone by anychance have the GUIDs or whatever its called for the MEI groups? i dont have access to workbench at work. so i messing with my server lol

[placid condor]

They are only available in the Workbench sadly

[south scarab]

i figured. i guess il have to do work at work until i get home lol

[calm oar]

Will it remain in the same "generic" style or will it look more like a modern Islamist paramilitary?

[placid condor]

It will remain as a generic style, but we may be able to expand the mod in the future with some more options

[vale solstice]

Hey
First of all: Nice Mod.
I ran into a problem: On Takistan (Scenario framework) the Faction MEI is not available in GM and Units dont spawn from framework slots. Works fine in workbench but not on server for some reason. Any ideas?

[trail mauve]

Sounds like a faction overhaul confliction

[vale solstice]

You suspect another mod?
Could be. Might look at mod load order.

[placid condor]

Yes, another mod making conflict.

[velvet pagoda]

ladies and gentlemen, we're cooking

https://giphy.com/gifs/MasterChefAU-masterchef-masterchefau-australia-2kjs7pzA92AH8HboXB

[vale solstice]

So, from what I See, the MEI units do not show from the faction filter, and they do not spawn on SlotsAI from Framework, but I can spawn units when I filter gamemaster by "units"

[placid condor]

i can't reproduce the issue make sure to try it first without many mods or none if necessary.

[vale solstice]

The Rifle Squad is FIA Units, allthough shown correctly in the UI

[vale solstice]

I know why! The FIA uses the order 2000 in the faction config, so does MEI

Yes that is it ! It is swapped

[placid condor]

That is changed for the new update (2001)

[vale solstice]

I recommend using this for random number (unique): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

[placid condor]

thank you Zumi 🙏🏽

[whole shore]

I would give some of the insurgents a stock vanilla m16 with iron sights

[edgy kayak]

Was there an update to MEI? The community I play with has it downloaded however they are spawning in White and will not attack any other faction. Could this just be we have a mod that conflicts with it?

[velvet pagoda]

there haven't been any updates, maybe it's another mod you've added recently

[edgy kayak]

Thank you! I will let them know!

[lunar raft]

is this update still in the works? i use MEI as a dependency, and some of the things you mentioned in here would be very welcome changes