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Drongos Drone Tweaks
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Drongos Drone Tweaks

Description
Small drones are harder for the AI to spot (though not impossible). AI automatically deploy recon, FPV and grenade drones. Supports vanilla, Drongo's Artillery, Reaction Forces RC-40s and some [SEAL TEAM] DarkBall drones. Lot's of CBA options and an options module.

There is a readme in the mod folder. This file covers drone behaviour in more detail.

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SUPPORTED MODS
  • Vanilla recon drones
  • Vanilla Demining drone (as a bomber)
  • Reaction Forces CDLC RC-40 and RC-40HE
  • Drongo's Artillery AR-2X suicide drones
  • Drongo's Artillery AR-2G grenade drop drones
  • FPV Drone Crocus (AP and AT) by [SEAL TEAM] DarkBall
  • Mavic 3 (will drop grenades) [SEAL TEAM] DarkBall
  • Mavic 3T (recon) [SEAL TEAM] DarkBall
  • Western Sahara IED UAV (bomber)
  • Western Sahara AP-5 (recon)
  • SPS BlackHornet PRS by Steve
  • Switchblade Loitering Munition by naPalm

FEATURES
  • Reduces visibility and audibility of small drones. AI can still spot them, but have a harder time doing so.
  • AD can detect drones and engage them.
  • If AI have a recon drone, they will automatically deploy it and receive information about any targets it detects.
  • If AI have suicide or grenade drones, they will automatically deploy them to attack known enemies.
  • If AI have RC-40 drones from Reaction Forces CDLC, they will automatically use them for recon and attack.
  • CBA settings allow for tweaking deployment conditions and drone behaviour.
  • Module for tweaking deployment conditions and drone behaviour.
  • Infoshare module for drone groups to receive targets from other groups.

KNOWN ISSUES
Sometimes FPV and grenade drones take very indirect paths to the target. I have no idea what causes this.

LICENSE
https://www.bohemia.net/community/licenses/arma-public-license-share-alike

In addition, nobody associated with tier1ops.eu may use, edit or distribute this mod or any derivatives thereof.

If you need an exception to this license, contact me.

CREDITS
Drongo: Concept and coding

THEFT OF MY WORK
My artillery mod was stolen, edited and re-released in violation of the license by BlackAlpha of tier1ops.eu. Here is a video showing my original work and his stolen edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe7G6WwxQVU

Please share this video and let the community know that BlackAlpha and tier1ops.eu are thieves.

CHANGELOG
v0.143
Added: Better support for non-hardcoded recon drones
Added: Support for Improved Mavic by Apricot_ale
Added: Support for FPV Drone Crocus (edited) by BIG GUY
Added: Support for ED-1 drones from Contact DLC
Added: Vcom AI will be disabled on drones and groups that launch drones
99 Comments
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kgp227 48 minutes ago 
Disregard, I figured it out. It's partially incompatible with the Wargame RTS mod
kgp227 1 hour ago 
toggled the debug messages on and it says they're deploying FPVs but they aren't
kgp227 2 hours ago 
AI are responsive to vehicles, but don't seem to be launching drones against infantry anymore. That is referring to both the CROCUS AP and RC-40HE drones.
Black Jesus May 4 @ 5:51am 
for those asking about antistasi compatability, it kind of works, i recommend only using civilian and your own factions vehicles as your own drones from ai squads seem to hit vehicles that you capture every so often, even with friendly units inside the target vehicle. may be easier to just not use this mod with antistasi as drones are precious and in short supply anyway, best not to waste them
Black Jesus May 2 @ 6:34am 
interesting drongo, im playing a antistasi run and they deploy the mini RC-HE drones through their gl even though they don't have a drone control terminal. quite comical to see them fly into enemy troops:steamhappy:
Drongo  [author] May 2 @ 2:42am 
No, the scripts will only start if a drone is in the inventory of an AI.
Metrocop in Space May 2 @ 1:00am 
is it possible to give bots the use of drones already located on the ground?
Drongo  [author] May 1 @ 4:10pm 
Groups with a player as the leader will not deploy drones. Other groups will launch if there are no similar drones within the exclusion radius.
Black Jesus May 1 @ 3:55pm 
just a quick question, if i give my squad ai multiple drones, will they launch them all, or just one each, or 1 per squad?
Drongo  [author] May 1 @ 2:27am 
@HazardPay
I don't know.

@Knight ⚔
Not planning on adding any more drones at this time, maybe in a future.

@Black Jesus
Cheers.