Wishlist - What do you want to see in the Prairie Fire DLC?: Page 9 - S.O.G.Prairie Fire

Wishlist - What do you want to see in the Prairie Fire DLC?

Karporata

M113 (and some variants: Transport, ACAV, AA and medical) for US and ARVN is a must have for an Vietnam Arma experience ! I reeeeeally hope them will come into this amaizing DLC.

Matador

@Maarten
Would really like to see a team of Montagnard soldiers added to the list. Hopefully under Blufor units list. Would make it a lot easier than trying to design and save some ad hoc group. Adding their unique flag and markers would be great.

Thanks for all the great work on this DLC.

Nota

I dont think anyone has posted this but.....
Where is the love for out shirtless boys???!!! Vietnam war had so many shirtless boys? Can we not get that outfit? Its easily recognizable with US soldiers and being shirtless.
Its Iconic. I should be at least a outfit.

Everywhere you look, there is a good chance to see a boy shirtless. This has to be in game.

johnnyboy

Add scripted Event Handler for when an AI does ambient speak. Then us mission makers can have AI react to sound/direction.

johnnyboy

Add scripted Event Handler when trackers fire signal shots, so us mission makers can have AI react to it.

johnnyboy

Modify function VN_fnc_melee_action to use remoteExec on this playActionNow line:

player playActionNow ([vn_melee_stab_gesture,vn_melee_stun_gesture] select (type isEqualTo "stun"));

I'm not 100% sure, but pretty sure, that you need to remoteExec that so other players will see the melee animation/gesture played. Please let me know if I'm wrong about this, as I use this command alot. Thanks.

johnnyboy

Consider modifying Tracker module to track AI SOG teams (or any AI BLUFOR squad), instead of tracking only player teams. This opens up more mission possibilities for mission makers. For example, I'd like to make a mission where players are VC hunting AI SOG teams, and it would be great if player VC team could receive info from AI Tracker teams. I can also see this being useful in PvP + AI scenarios.

johnnyboy

Please modify VN_fnc_playGesture to only show the selected gesture icon at top of screen for players. Currently if leader has any AI in his squad, the selected hand gesture is spammed once for each unit in the squad. In screenshot below you see the cover gesture appearing 3 times, this will actually show one per player and each AI member (in my case six times).
https://i.postimg.cc/qvT9tfxD/hand-Signal-Spam.jpg

I believe the problem lies in this forEach statement which executes for all units in player group, including AI.

{
if (!(_x isEqualTo player) && ( x distance player <= vn_cmdOL_maxDistance))then
{
[UsedIcon, profileName, _actionName] remoteExecCall ["vn_fnc_cmdOL_receive", _x];
};
}forEach (units group player);

If you change the forEach to read like below, then I think the signal spam to player should be fixed:

forEach ((units group player) select {(isPlayer _x)});

Gribble

AC-47D the spooky gunship. heard it saved alot of vets lives and SF in sticky situations. would be cool to add. basically the hornet but better.

Cdnmntman

I myself would like to see a M42 dustter Added to Praire Fire as well as variants of the M113 and Mule

Terrh

The OV-10 Bronco COIN aircraft was a major part of this war and is criminally underrepresented in games for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfC3ChIjCcQ

Hamakaze

What I'd like to see:

-Continued improvement of the radio support system (working transport and resupply are highly desirable for small groups)
-Vietnamese voices / radio protocol
-M48s and M113s
-More ARVN uniforms, headgear, insignia and weapons systems
-Armoured Troop Carriers (LCM) or "Tangos"
-CH-47
-M37 Truck

johnnyboy

I love the Prairie Fire Wheel menu, and have customized it using the custom Gesture Wheel Menu module and this function called from the init.sqf: VN_fnc_wm_init

The custom menu works great, but there is one problem: At mission start it auto-displays the wheel menu, and player must close it. It's annoying and disconcerting for user to see the wheel menu without actually hitting the key to pop it up. Consider modifying the function to not automatically pop up the menu.

Please disregard the above. There is actually no need to call VN_fnc_wm_init. To get a custom menu that you manage via a parameter array, you simply place the Custom Gesture Wheel Menu module, and then use the following code to set its parameters via overwriting the global var, like below. Works great!

_mainPath = "vn\ui_f_vietnam\ui\wheelmenu\img\handsignals";
vn_module_gestureMenu_list =
[
[

    [(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_001_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_freeze", "STR_VN_UI_WM_SELECTOR_HAND_001_DN"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]        
    ,[(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_005_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_spotted", "STR_VN_UI_WM_SELECTOR_HAND_005_DN"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]        
    ,[(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_011_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_line", "Form Line"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]    
    ,[(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_003_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_attack", "STR_VN_UI_WM_SELECTOR_HAND_003_DN"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]        
    ,[(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_002_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_regroup", "STR_VN_UI_WM_SELECTOR_HAND_002_DN"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]        
    ,[(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_010_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_trap", "STR_VN_UI_WM_SELECTOR_HAND_010_DN"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]            
    ,[(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_006_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_down", "STR_VN_UI_WM_SELECTOR_HAND_006_DN"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]            
    ,["A3\ui_f\data\map\markers\handdrawn\ambush_CA.paa", "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_double", "Setup Ambush"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]            
    ,[(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_012_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_column", "Form File"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]        
    ,[(_mainPath+"ui_wm_selector_hand_016_ca.paa"), "",    [ ["vn_handsignal_move_out", "STR_VN_UI_WM_SELECTOR_HAND_016_DN"],"vn_fnc_playGesture"] ]        
],
true

];

wargamer19

[MENTION=6]Maarten[/MENTION]I think that we do need more aircraft, both for opfor and blufor. The Phantom is top-notch, but having some other incredible aircraft (A7D, F4, F105, B52, etc) could make PF amazing. ALso maybe 1 or 2 more tank variants?

Demolidordemo

So are you planning to add the M203 grenade launcher, the F1 Sub, and L1A1 or are you going to focus more on the american approach of the conflict ?

Longnez

What I'd like to see:

Lamps that illuminate better in tunnels ! 😉

SeaCow52

Chinook. Entered service in 1962, so they would make a great supply helo. It would also be nice if they could move vehicles and heavier gear via slingload, to better supply further FOB's.

johnnyboy

I think some urban crime scenarios would be interesting. We have VC civs and US Army MPs, but it would be great to also to have S. Vietnamese police, aka "white mice":
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-64e01738d1d110064ac984d9927ac930

Wesreidau

The M20 Recoiless Rifle, which could practically be an olive drab reskin of the Type 56. This is ironic, since the Type 56 is a Chinese copy of the M20. A nice two-backpack static weapon for direct fire support.
The M113, ARVN M113 and M113 ACAV modified. The ARVN fought mounted as I understand it, which is a great way to use ARMA3's fire from the passenger seat system.
The A-4 Scooter. I mean Skyhawk. Single seat, subsonic ground attack workhorse. CAS dream and much slower and simpler than the F-4, meaning it should be easier for players to manage. 2x 20mm cannon. Any bombs you like as well as gunpods or Sidewinders. Great turner when unladen. A reasonable match-up against...
The Mig-17. Single seat, slightly supersonic fighter with limited ground-attack capability. 2x 23mm cannon and 1x 37mm cannon, hardpoints for 2x 250kg bombs, 2x UB-16-57 rocket pods for a CAS loadout or 2x K13 missiles for an AA loadout. Cloned Sidewinders. North Vietnam didn't use them as fighter-bombers save one noteworthy attack on a ship, but the capability existed for them just as the Mi-2's air to ground pylons.
The M1 Garand and M1C or M1D "Sniper" Garand. Not only useful for ARVN depictions, but it means SOGPF alone gives us nearly all the small arms needed for Korean War or Cold War Hot scenarios. Who doesn't love that?

Miller

I would like the ability to put a SDU-5/E Strobe Light into the barrel of an m79 in order to mark you position at night for aircraft like in tilt’s book across the fence.

Also I really like the addition of the new map Khe Sanh, I would like to see that continue with more maps of areas in Vietnam, maybe even some real life target areas, I know that the documentation doesn’t exist anymore, but maybe with more information from the living archives it could be possible.

another thing I’d like to see is acre integration and the addition of the PRC 25, and a field telephone that has wires you can connect to each other.

another idea I had was for radio direction finding equipment or a mechanic where if you used your radio too much the trackers would find you faster or in more numbers.

an ability to add more hand signals to the wheel or map specific signals to a keybind. Also maybe a graphics interface where instead of seeing everyone’s signal in the top left, they layer over top of each other if it’s the same signal or have a “x2, or x whatever number of people have used that signal.”

Also more in-depth commands like for example the enemy spotted hand signal is the finger gun pointed down, what if when you clicked on that signal it gave you a menu where you could specify how many enemy you’ve seen?

Finally I’d like to see the implementation of a 60mm mortar that is a faster deploy variant without the bipod but held by the operator with a small base plate, this was a configuration popular in “heavy” recon teams.

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