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(EDS) Slay's Expedited Drone System
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20 Oct, 2020 @ 7:58pm
22 Mar @ 12:46am
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(EDS) Slay's Expedited Drone System

Description
Intro:
Slay's Expedited Drone System lets the player quickly and efficently launch a drone without the headache of having a soldier set up ready for the job, which becomes a task. This sidesteps all of that, lets the player toss the drone into the sky from their pocket, much like games like Ghost Recon Wildlands. And as a bonus, the player can revive their friendlies using the revive mechanics of the medical drones, fight off enemies with the "placeable" UCAV, defend your perimeter with a Darter armed Super Drone, or perhaps lay down some carpet bombing with the the De-mining Drone (Combat Drone in the menu).
This mod is super lightweight and will work on most missions, and works with vanilla & vanilla revive.



Backstory:
Slay's Expedited Drone System formally known as Slay's Ghost Recon Wildlands Inspired Drones (SGRWD), is a script I made heavily inspired by Ghost Recon Wildlands drones. Remembered for their ability to revive teammates and provide useful information, I recreated this for Arma 3. (No mods, models, or extra mods required)

I did this mod ages ago for a mission I created called "Slay's Ravage". It's been a key component since the start of the mission back in 2016. It felt like a crime to leave it stuck inside there --in a mission unseen by most-- so I'm pulling parts of it out and putting them on workshop as stand-alone mods.


Features:

Player can spawn most drones, uavs, ucavs, and a few custom made ones.

Player can revive friendlies (Using vanilla Arma 3 Revive Mechanics[community.bistudio.com])

Players can use a few custom armed dones, as well as an armed UGV.

Custom Interface with multiple options.





Usage & Controls:

You must bind Custom User Action 16 to open the drone menu now!
Press 6 in game.

Player MUST have a UAV terminal to utilize the mod.

Drones can only be used for 3 minutes max.
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20 Oct, 2020 @ 8:32pm
Thank you
Jehodi
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Gothika 8 Oct @ 8:22am 
awesome mods, friend!
Snake 27 Sep @ 12:00am 
@Slay No More, Thanks for the reply.

i tried the example from this link:

https://pastebin.com/eF98vE41

but for some reason, the Darters don't even appear in the Eden Editor.

When i place a UAV Operator on the ground and try to assemble the UAV, it gives an error message like:

'bin/config.bin/CfgVehicles/O_UAV_01_F.simulation'

of course, the UAV names change depending on the faction's drone i'm trying to assemble.

i have already accepted your friend request. :)

also, thank you so much for your help.

my idea is to create a mod where the player can use their UAV Terminal to hack enemy drones and take control of them.

This would be especially useful and incredibly fun in Antistasi campaigns. :)
Slay No More  [author] 26 Sep @ 5:47pm 
Not familar honestly with the hacking mechanism of Arma but maybe we can look into it, send me a message we can check it out.
Snake 26 Sep @ 3:03pm 
hey hi, awesome mod, i'm trying to create a mod that allows the player to use the "Hack Drone" option from far as long as the player can see the Drone itself, i have been playing around with the "O_UAV_01_F"

but i'm kinda lost tbh.

in your mod, for players to hack the drone, they still have to get close to it ?

also, if you have any idea on how i should procced on this mod creation i would for sure credit you when is ready.

thanks. :)
Slay No More  [author] 22 Mar @ 12:46am 
Updated the scripts 3/22/2024.
Slay No More  [author] 20 Feb @ 12:01am 
Also make sure you have a Nato UAV Terminal and Custom User Action 16 bound, I don't think it requires the nato UAV terminal but it might. It's been a long while since I looked into the scripts.
Slay No More  [author] 20 Feb @ 12:00am 
Some mods may break functionality of course, I didn't test many things with it however, just ran it with no mods on a blank VR map.

If you have a list of mods that break it or vice versa feel free to list them I'll annotate it in the description as they get discovered.
GRWTH 19 Feb @ 11:57pm 
Sorry, mod just don't work for me for some reason(
Just posted the alternative one for some who seeks
Slay No More  [author] 17 Feb @ 6:01pm 
Mod is still functioning fine as intended aside from a small script error which doesn't effect functionality.
GRWTH 11 Feb @ 8:17am 
Scince is dead mod, the alternative of this one is KtweaK mod