ACE 3 Feature requests

[nicolasbadano]

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[Kerodan]

Hope I am posting this correctly:
Would love to see the possibilty of having a cursor for the interaction menu like you already have for the self-interaction menu. At the moment the interaction menus feel "disconnected" as you can have a cursor in one but not the other.

[rlex]

Ventral position for backpacks, please. This was already done by some module for CSE (3rd-party)

[nicolasbadano]

Would love to see the possibilty of having a cursor for the interaction menu like you already have for the self-interaction menu.

That's planned to be experimented on: #311

[TMace]

Would you consider some level of permanent damage even after medical treatment? For example: If a soldier is shot in the arm but is then treated, he still has increased weapon sway for the rest of his virtual life. Example 2: If a soldier is shot in the leg and then treated, he will move more slowly or have less stamina for the rest of his virtual life. Example 3: For major wounds, the soldier may bleed out even after medical treatment, the treatment would only slow down the process. I can think of many other instances of how this might work.

[jonpas]

Not sure if this is the right place, as it's not really a feature request but a question if that feature would be deemed useful to ACE3.

We (myself and DaC) made an in-house mod (for now, still testing and improving) called Heavy Lifter. What it basically does is allow heavy lift choppers (like Skycrane) lift much heavier objects than what Vanilla sling-loading supports. It currently works by using a custom object (inherited from Taru Fuel pod), which is only liftable by a Taru/Skycrane helicopter and config entries for CfgVehicles specifying offset (similar to FastRoping of AGM/ACE3). Mod uses attachTo to attach that custom object to the vehicle, that can then be lifted by the helicopter. Offset is to make ropes look more realistic, though still quite not near vehicles with properly set memory points in-model.

There are many improvements that could be made and also make it so there would be different types and all. It is already integrated into AGM, so integration with ACE3 shouldn't be an issue (or we'll see about that when I actually start poking around ACE3 code). As said it's not fully finished yet, but once it is, I am willing to pull request it into ACE3 if it would be deemed as fitting.

[nicolasbadano]

@jonpas, sure; feature offers are always welcome. When you have that finished send as a PR and possibly a vid. Thanks you very much.

[jonpas]

Sounds good to me, I'll will do so once we have properly tested it and all that. Thanks!

[rlex]

AGM had nice fast roping module. Any plans to bring it back to ACE?

[nicolasbadano]

AGM had nice fast roping module. Any plans to bring it back to ACE?

Hey, rules say that you shouldn't request features from AGM/CSE, etc 😉 Please don't.

As a matter of fact the fastrope is ported and currently on a branch. We'd probably like to polish it a bit more.

[rlex]

Sorry me. Will not in future :)

[Chompster]

Actually pulling the pin on grenades before throwing.

I imagine this is something that would need to be dealt with on an engine side level unfortunately but still thought i'd ask it anyway. Not a huge fan of how you have the instant grenade throw as it is right now in A3.

[jaynus]

Actually pulling the pin on grenades before throwing.

This could be done overriding the grenade throw key, and deleting the first attempt to throw a grenade - and allowing it on the second. This would be in the spirit of double-action grenade throwing.