INCON Scripts for ALiVE - Intel + AI teammate persistence

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incontinenetia
15 Oct 2016

Edited 7 years ago by incontinenetia
INCON INTEL (alpha)
Requires: CBA
FEATURES
Made for ALiVE
Units drop intel when they are killed
Dropped intel will:
Find ALiVE asym opcom installations
Track phone contacts on map (requires UAV terminal)
Track radio contacts on map (requires UAV terminal)
Tracking accuracy depends on the weather, overhead cover, range etc.
INCON PERSISTENCE (alpha)
Requires: CBA, ALiVE, iniDBI2
FEATURES
Provides persistence for non-playable AI teammates (in player group) between play sessions when ALiVE data is present using iniDBI2. Saves full unit information for up to 11 AI teammates and loads it when there is corresponding ALiVE persistent player information.
See readme files for usage details.
Special thanks to @davidoss, @dixon13 and @Spyderblack723 for being super helpful and for inspiring me start writing my own stuff.
Download links:
Incon Persistence
Incon Intel
Note: Incon Undercover has been released separately here:
Incon Undercover
SpyderBlack723
15 Oct 2016 Moderator

In a mission I am trying to make I ended up accidentally getting carried away and producing something I thought a few people on here might also want to use.
That's how it always happens, get used to it ;)
inspiring me to stop freeloading and start writing my own stuff.
Get off my virtual lawn
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incontinenetia
15 Oct 2016

@SpyderBlack723 Get off my virtual lawn
Surely I've got some kind of squatters' rights by now?
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HeroesandvillainsOS
15 Oct 2016 Moderator

Edited 8 years ago by HeroesandvillainsOS

@incontinenetia
I'm having a hard time processing it all. It's blowing my mind.
Can you provide an example for the types of missions you envision this being used for? Perhaps you'd play as an undercover Afghani infiltrating Taliban compounds killing HVT's and recruiting civs? Like that maybe?
I see its BLUFOR only so we'd need to be on the BLU side, right?
And it's not advised to use in SP then? The last line is confusing me. PVP or humans only?
Anyway, if you could paint a picture and give me some hypothetical mission/story examples, that would help me out man.
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incontinenetia
15 Oct 2016

Yeah, anything like that. It basically allows a unit to dress as a civilian and go incognito, then recruit civilians and do whatever you want. Imagine yourself as the insurgent, asking people to join your cause and creating havoc.
So, you could dress as a civilian and keep a suppressed rifle in your backpack, sneak into a sensitive area, find a decent hiding spot, kill a HVT... or just do some recon, or use your disguise to mount an ambush inside a place you couldn't ordinarily get without fighting your way through. Or you could act as a FAC / JTAC deep behind enemy lines, stuff like that.
I recently recruited a whole load of dudes, ambushed an enemy patrol, stole their supplies and gave them to my new civilian team, then got them to hide their weapons, head to an enemy base and mount a diversion while I snuck in and blew up a load of vehicles.
You could also have a BLUFOR FIA insurgency going on and play as one of them, only revealing yourself when you need to attack and blending back into the civilian population once your attack is over. Does that make sense?
The BLUFOR limitation is just because this was designed with a specific scenario in mind and I haven't quite figured out a reliable way to integrate the reputation and recruitment system dynamically yet. I'll hopefully get round to changing that soon.
SP / COOP is exactly what it is useful for.
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ski2060
15 Oct 2016

I think he's saying that it won't work outside of CO-OP, while in PvP scenarios. Most other players would pick up on it pretty easily.
As far as envisioned scenarios?
This is just begging for some Eastern Ukraine action. Black-Ops adventures against Russian backed Separatists, taking out HVT's, sabotaging assets, recruiting Civs to help against Little Green Men etc.
I had a campaign planned using my ORBAT Pirates/Rebels that this would work wonders for. Small group of undercover or stealth operators is inserted into an Island chain that has been taken over by Pirates and instructed to dismantle their operations. BUT, overt military action cannot be undertaken because of regional backing by a major OpFor (CSAT/PLA etc).
Hence a small, deniable team is sent in to blow stuff up and take down the cartel.
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incontinenetia
15 Oct 2016

^^^^ Yup, @ski2060 pretty much nailed it.
I've updated the first post with instructions to hopefully make the usage a bit clearer. BLUFOR only limitation will be the first thing I'll be looking at changing.
Think of it as a bit like Spyder's detection module in terms of usage, but with a lightweight AI version too.
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incontinenetia
15 Oct 2016

Just caught the offending mistake, I meant PvE when I said PvP (sorry @HeroesandvillainsOS!). First post updated.
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HeroesandvillainsOS
15 Oct 2016 Moderator

Edited 8 years ago by HeroesandvillainsOS

I get it now.
While working on my main releases, me and another guy have been working on some new stuff while also discussing making something unique. I think this script will fit the bill nicely. :)
One idea I've been kicking around for a while is a scenario where you play as Afghan (or other) local, hired secretly by a western nation to recon and disrupt insurgent activity, to recruit and win over the locals, and take back your country from the inside. I'm picturing a scenario where western forces can't exactly full scale invade due to government pressure, so the local would work in collaboration with some small, officially un-sanctioned western spec ops team, going remotely undercover and gaining access to areas that are off limits to the super powers. Then the spec ops team would go in occasionally and do surgical strikes with the info the local gathered.
And the idea of recruiting a local militia on top of it is amazing so I think this mod is exactly what we need!
Of course it's hard for me to figure out exactly how it I might make it work in practice. What's your mission like? Like, does he initially spawn in a house, or is the civ part of a military team and starts his assignment from a covert base somewhere?
I'm also thinking about how this script might function with the ALiVE systems as a whole or if it would need more structured "missions" to utilize it's full power. I'm thinking it would go hand in hand with a counter insurgency or even a conventional I guess if you got creative.
I'm looking forward to your mission buddy. I really want to see this in practice. Spookwarcom is one of my all-time favorite experiences and this could probably replicate something covert like that too, maybe if I hand-crafted a few tasks! So many ideas. You're killing me with this awesomeness. :)
Friznit
16 Oct 2016 Administrator

Very cool!
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incontinenetia
16 Oct 2016

Cheers Friznit!
@HeroesandvillainsOS  Of course it's hard for me to figure out exactly how it I might make it work in practice. What's your mission like? Like, does he initially spawn in a house, or is the civ part of a military team and starts his assignment from a covert base somewhere?
It's entirely up to you but I've just got one undercover operative starting out at a little safehouse in the middle of nowhere. My mission is a weird mix of counterinsurgency and undercover / stealth work. Basically, trying to destroy a criminal network under the noses of a hostile occupation force (who are aiding the criminals), so this undercover script is one aspect of that. It's a very long mission that will require persistence, in theory you could play it for months, slowly whittling away at the enemy's resolve.
I've also got a custom high value target system which doesn't rely on tasks and rewards so much as actions and consequences... i.e. nail the right dude and potentially kick off an internal power struggle as the criminal gang splits in two and fights each other.. or capture an enemy and take them to an interrogation cell to reveal installations and locations of potential targets. Then there's the new intel system I'm putting together which allows you to hack dropped phones / walkie talkies and track their contacts (will release standalone soon too once I've worked out some niggling localisation issues), plus stealth drones with ISR / strike capability.... the idea is to recreate some of the more sneaky stuff that goes on in the SF world in a fairly plausible way. Looking forward to releasing it but getting all the moving parts working together properly is quite a challenge!
But yeah, really, just use your imagination I guess. As long as the unit is BLUFOR, you can dress him like an Afghan or a civilian or a mermaid or whatever and go from there. You could even just run the script on a normal unit and then halfway through the mission, that unit could find a safehouse, change into civilian clothes and as long as he isn't compromised already, you could complete a specific objective undercover, then go back to the safehouse and get back into your ninja suit and carry on. There's loads of ways of using it I reckon. I just need to figure out a way to make it work dynamically on units of all sides which shouldn't take too long.
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HeroesandvillainsOS
17 Oct 2016 Moderator

Edited 8 years ago by HeroesandvillainsOS

@incontinenetia Cheers Friznit!
It's entirely up to you but I've just got one undercover operative starting out at a little safehouse in the middle of nowhere. My mission is a weird mix of counterinsurgency and undercover / stealth work. Basically, trying to destroy a criminal network under the noses of a hostile occupation force (who are aiding the criminals), so this undercover script is one aspect of that. It's a very long mission that will require persistence, in theory you could play it for months, slowly whittling away at the enemy's resolve.
I've also got a custom high value target system which doesn't rely on tasks and rewards so much as actions and consequences... i.e. nail the right dude and potentially kick off an internal power struggle as the criminal gang splits in two and fights each other.. or capture an enemy and take them to an interrogation cell to reveal installations and locations of potential targets. Then there's the new intel system I'm putting together which allows you to hack dropped phones / walkie talkies and track their contacts (will release standalone soon too once I've worked out some niggling localisation issues), plus stealth drones with ISR / strike capability.... the idea is to recreate some of the more sneaky stuff that goes on in the SF world in a fairly plausible way. Looking forward to releasing it but getting all the moving parts working together properly is quite a challenge!
But yeah, really, just use your imagination I guess. As long as the unit is BLUFOR, you can dress him like an Afghan or a civilian or a mermaid or whatever and go from there. You could even just run the script on a normal unit and then halfway through the mission, that unit could find a safehouse, change into civilian clothes and as long as he isn't compromised already, you could complete a specific objective undercover, then go back to the safehouse and get back into your ninja suit and carry on. There's loads of ways of using it I reckon. I just need to figure out a way to make it work dynamically on units of all sides which shouldn't take too long.
Do you plan on releasing both the custom HVT system and the Intel system?
Yeah man this mission of yours seems so awesome! Please please share it when you're done!
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incontinenetia
17 Oct 2016

Yeah the intel system will go public soon definitely, HVTs are more mission specific so I don't know how well it will translate to other scenarios. I might try to put together something like Spyder's addons / spookwarcom maybe. I'll just have to see how well the conversion from mission specific to generic goes.
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ski2060
18 Oct 2016

Is there any way to add a list of all military uniforms from a particular Mod (RHS, US Vests, etc) without having to add each individual uniform classname to the UC.sqf ?

SpyderBlack723

18 Oct 2016 Moderator

Edited 8 years ago by SpyderBlack723

@ski2060 Is there any way to add a list of all military uniforms from a particular Mod (RHS, US Vests, etc) without having to add each individual uniform classname to the UC.sqf ?

For @incontinenetia

// get faction gear
// ["uniforms", ["BLU_F"]] call fnc

_data params ["_gearType","_factions"];

private _result = [];

private _units = [];
private _cfgVehicles = configFile >> "CfgVehicles";

for "_i" from 0 to (count _cfgVehicles - 1) do {
    _entry = _cfgVehicles select _i;
    
    if (isclass _entry) then {
        if (
            (getNumber(_entry >> "scope") >= 2) &&
            {configname _entry isKindOf "Man"}
        ) then {
            _units pushback _entry;
        };
    };
};

switch (_gearType) do {

    case "headgear": {
        {
            _unit = _x;
            _linkedItems = getArray (_unit >> "linkedItems");

            {
                _item = _x;
                _configPath = configFile >> "CfgWeapons" >> _item;
                    if (isClass _configPath) then {
                        _itemInfo = getNumber (_configPath >> "ItemInfo" >> "Type");

                        switch (str _itemInfo) do {
                            case "605": {
                                _result pushbackunique _item;
                            };
                        };
                    };
            } forEach _linkedItems;
        } forEach _units;
    };

    case "vests": {
        {
            _unit = _x;
            _linkedItems = getArray (_unit >> "linkedItems");
            {
                _item = _x;
                _configPath = configFile >> "CfgWeapons" >> _item;
                    if (isClass _configPath) then {
                        _itemInfo = getNumber (_configPath >> "ItemInfo" >> "Type");

                        switch (str _itemInfo) do {
                            case "701": {
                                _result pushbackunique _item;
                            };
                        };
                    };
            } forEach _linkedItems;
        } forEach _units;
    };

    case "uniforms": {
        {
            _uniform = getText (_x >> "uniformClass");
            _result pushbackunique _uniform;
        } forEach _units;
    };
    
};

_result

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incontinenetia
18 Oct 2016

Thanks @SpyderBlack723! @ski2060, I'll try to get this in at some point in the very near future (hopefully by tomorrow). Any other requests while I'm working on it?
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matze
18 Oct 2016

Hi,
I'm working on an Afghanistan-Style mission and giving the Opfor players more flexibility sounds great to me. Would mean IND (Project Opfor) against BLU (RHS).
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incontinenetia
18 Oct 2016

Hi @matze - working on it as I type. Just bear in mind that this script will only function correctly for units of one side at a time (so not BLUFOR and OPFOR / IND simultaneously).
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matze
18 Oct 2016

Sounds perfect! Thank you for your effort!
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incontinenetia
20 Oct 2016
Updated the script (same DL link as before) with a few requested changes:
- Undercover units are no longer limited to BLUFOR
- Trespassing zones can now be set up using triggers
- Uniforms and vests automatically added from faction lists (ability to manually add still remains) - thanks to @SpyderBlack723 for the script
- A few small tweaks and fixes here and there
Keep throwing the ideas / feedback out there guys.
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