Predator Mod

[Charon Productions]

Together with Icebreakr´s excellent island Lingor, a playable version of
the project i have been working on for 3 months now got released.
It´s status is something between an alpha and a beta, because there
is still some features that will get implemented.


Features:

This addon features the following predators and vehicles:

- The Predator Elder

- The Predator Hunter

- The Predator Soldier

- The Predator Youngling

- The Predator Landing craft


The Predator Elder:

Classname: CHN_PREDATOR1

Armed with the Plasmacannon, the Chakram smart disc
the Flechette launcher and the wristblades

The Predator Hunter:

Classname: CHN_PREDATOR14

Armed with the Plasmacannon, the Shuriken smart disc
the Flechette launcher and the wristblades

The Predator Soldier:

Classname: CHN_PREDATOR13

Armed with the Plasmacannon, the Shuriken smart disc
the Flechette launcher and the wristblades.
Does not hunt humans down, stays ranged and fights
with ranged weapons.

The Predator Youngling:

Classname: CHN_PREDATOR15

Armed with the Plasmacannon, and the wristblades.
Hunts humans down.

The Predator Landing craft:

Classname: CHN_PREDATORSHIP2

Armed with 2 Plasmacannons and missiles
Ability to be cloaked upon the crew leaves the ship



The Chakram smart disc and the Shurikens can be picked
up from dead humans that were killed by it or
from where they hit the ground.


Additional weapons:

Plasmamine
EMP mine
Lasermine


WEAPON CLASS NAMES:

"CHN_Plasmacaster"
"CHN_Chakram"
"CHN_Shuriken"
"CHN_Flechette"
"CHN_Wristblade"
"CHN_Plasmaboardcannon"
"CHN_PredMissileLauncher"


MAGAZINE CLASS NAMES:

"CHN_PlasmaMag"
"CHN_ChakramMag2"
"CHN_ShurikenMag2"
"CHN_FlechetteMag"
"CHN_Wrist_mag"
"CHN_PlasmacannonMag"
"CHN_PredMissileMag"
"CHN_PREDPLASMAMINEMAG"
"CHN_PREDEMPMINEMAG"
"CHN_PREDLASERMINEMAG"


A module named "Predator - Spawn 3 Predator Drop Ships" that you put on your map
and it will spawn 3 Predator landing crafts that will automatically land near the closest
human group from the center of the map and engage that group.





Please be aware of the fact that this is a mod by nature and certain things
that you would expect from games like AvP for example can´t get so easily implemented into a military simulator like Arma2/OA .

To save your and my time, i will already address issues that are highly likely to be mentioned by people in this thread and it is issues that i am aware of and that can´t be implemented any better than they already are:

FLIR and Post Effects cannot be used simultaneously, they disable each other. That means there is no predator vision possible like in AvP2010

Arma2 does not offer sufficient parameters to make a refractive shader for use on a cloaked predator

The weapon holding animations are a bit off still, because it is difficult to realize such a high weapon loadout character, so special holding anims had to be made

Also note that everything MP-related is likely to be improved only at a later time. The focus of the current development was to implement all features for SP to beta status and then see what of those is realizable in MP. So weapon model changes in MP or effects not being played on clients are all known issues, that will take some effort and time to resolve.








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[Das Attorney]

FLIR and Post Effects cannot be used simultaneously, they disable each other. That means there is no predator vision possible like in AvP2010

Good, because AvP sucks hard. 1987 Predator FTW!

Congrats on the release, downloading now

I'll probably shit myself and drop my gun. Get to the choppa, - yes please!

[Marko112]

Congrats to your release!

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[Munger]

Looking forward to trying this! Thanks CP.

So just to clarify, can the preds not cloak themselves?

[Charon Productions]

Looking forward to trying this! Thanks CP.

So just to clarify, can the preds not cloak themselves?

They DO cloak themselves fine.
I was just referring to people suggesting to come up with a refractive shader a la AvP2010 or in the movies which the Arma engine does not enable to do.
Player predators will also be NOT recognized by AI soldiers UNTIL the pred kills the first one. So we are talking also about true AI invisibility. The AI does not have perfect aiming on the cloaked attacking predator too, so it will often miss the predator.

[bigstone]

Now all we need now are Aliens xenomorphs!!! Great job!!! OBTW what side are the predators on blufor or opfor?

[Altimeter]

Whats with the Plasmacaster?

I can pick it up as "Looted Plasmacaster", but when I fire it just produces a "BEEP BEEP" sound and fires a blue bolt which does nothing

Also, many thanks for the awesome AI scripts, its really nice seeing the predators make quick kill, then evade, sneak up on you etc. etc.

[Charon Productions]

Now all we need noe are Aliens xenomorphs!!! Great job!!! OBTW what side are the predators on blufor or opfor?

They are in the making

Predators are independent side and have the faction "PredatorsFAC".

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Whats with the Plasmacaster?

I can pick it up as "Looted Plasmacaster", but when I fire it just produces a "BEEP BEEP" sound and fires a blue bolt which does nothing

Also, many thanks for the awesome AI scripts, its really nice seeing the predators make quick kill, then evade, sneak up on you etc. etc.

Just as in Alien versus Predator Requiem, a plasmacaster that is not shoulder-mounted and used by a human, needs some time to power up.
This was done to keep that a predator only weapon.

[Altimeter]

Just as in Alien versus Predator Requiem, a plasmacaster that is not shoulder-mounted and used by a human, needs some time to power up.
This was done to keep that a predator only weapon.

But after powering up it still doesnt work...?

I mean I get it that you dont want to make it usable by humans, but why can you loot it then and initate the charging-cycle?

[Das Attorney]

lol at the skinned body object called "Jim Hopper". nice touch.