For those that believe teamwork is equal to good gaming.

15-10-13

> Added Airlift
Added the ability to airlift most vehicles including boats, what you can lift will depend on which helicopter you are using.
While in the pilot seat, use your scroll wheel and select the HUD or the downward facing camera to lift. In HUD you will see a tick in the top right-hand corner if your chopper is able to lift what you’re hovering over.
You can also add a lift ammo crates and the new FOB’s.

> Added ammo box loading.
You can now drag and load ammo boxes into vehicles and helicopters. While looking at an ammo box you can select it using your mouse wheel, turn to the vehicle, and load it. To unload it you need to be outside the vehicle, and again using your scroll wheel select the “check vehicle” and then unload it. Be careful when doing this as you may drop it on yourself :-).
Also, while in the vehicle you can again click on “check vehicle” and see what the weight limitation of the vehicle is.

> Added FOB
The three large containers with the HOG logo on them Are now Forward Operation Bases.
These are currently indestructible and work the same as the MHQ. Currently they can only be moved by the ghost hawk. I tried to make these look like bunkers or some other large building, but in the current state the script won’t allow it.

>Added Airdrop.
For the HOG members I have added an airdrop script. To access this use the “`” Key (the one to the left of your number 1 key on your keyboard).
Scroll down to “supports” and select with your middle mouse button.
Select “Ammo Drop”
You will need to select the ghost Hawk as the provider as the other chopper will not deliver ammo you can use.
Select where you want the drop; either on a map or just by pointing at the ground in front of you. Remember to take into account the wind! You will need to select the ghost Hawk as the provider as the other chopper will not deliver ammo you can use.
The ammo crate holds most basic ammunition. I’m considering changing this to the VAS ammo box, but we will see how this goes for now.

>Added AirLift/Medivac.
For the HOG members I have added an airdrop script. To access this use the “`” Key (the one to the left of your number 1 key on your keyboard).
Scroll down to “supports” and select with your middle mouse button.
Select “Airlift”
Select where you want to be picked up from.
Once in the chopper you can order it where to go on the map.
Please note: if you are the one who called the chopper, make sure your last one in, as it will fly away once you climb in.

>Additional Stuff
I have by accident discovered cool way I can add in tons of civilian AI without slowing down the server. I might be able run them from my other computer on a separate script. Though the server will still have to render them, it will not have to operate their AI so it can give more clock cycles to the AI we are fighting.

I’m still working on a decent script for when you guys find the WMD’s. They are already out there, but only have a pretty dumb script saying you found one. I am looking to make it so that when you discover them you will have to disarm them, and thereby possibly decimating them! I am also working on a decent script where enemies you kill have a chance of dropping intelligence telling you the area where they might be. This may still take some time.

Knuckles is asked me to keep a second server up. I’ve got no problem doing this but I’m currently working on a script that will dedicate more of a server time to the AI. If I can pull this off, and it is a “if” I will drop the second server so that we don’t hold too much resources for our games. From what we are discussing it looks like we can make the AI scale based on how many people are on the server, without overloading the server. This is done by taking some of the clock cycles from each PC connected and using them to assist in the AI. Bohemia themselves are working on integrating this, so what we do may just be a stopgap.

If you have any ideas or criticisms, drop me a line.