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[MES] Dogfight Training Drone
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Type: Mod
Mod category: NPC
Tags: NoScripts
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2.865 MB
24 Jan, 2023 @ 3:07am
26 May @ 5:14pm
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[MES] Dogfight Training Drone

Description


About the Mod
This mod is what I consider as the next step to my previous dogfight training drone. For now, the mod only has 1 aircraft as an enemy but I plan to slowly expand on this and cover wide variety based on time period and type (biplane drones here we go!)

Features
- The aircraft in this mod can engage targets on land, sea, and air.
- Fighter/CAS and Air Superiority Fighters can use missiles as well as use countermeasures
- Jet and Prop variants

How to Use

This is an Admin only spawn and requires manual spawning. To spawn, enter the following in chat depending on the spawn you want:

/MES.SDE.RivalFighter ---------------------- Fighter/Close Air Support Aircraft
/MES.SDE.RivalFighterMissile ------------- Air Superiority Fighter
/MES.SDE.RivalFighterProp ---------------- Prop Fighter
/MES.SDE.RivalFighterBomberProp ------ Prop Dive Bomber

Note that the drones will spawn 5km~10km away and have no antenna. This is for testing out radar systems and long range missiles.

Aircrafts included in this Mod

Fighter / Close Air Support
Weapons
- 2x 20mm Gatling
- 4x Hydra Rocket Pods
- Missile Countermeasures

Air Superiority Fighter
Weapons
- 2x 20mm Gatling
- 4x Aim-9 Missiles
- Missile Countermeasures

Prop Fighter
Weapons
- 6x 20mm Cannons

Prop Dive Bomber
Weapons
- 4x 20mm Cannons
- 1x Hydra (HE, Bomb Stand-in)


Many thanks to Splitsie and Lucas for the tutorial vid for this. It made the process much easier! :)

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27 Comments
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Khjin  [author] 26 May @ 5:31pm 
Hello! It seems that my latest update somehow broke something. I'm still looking into it but in the mean time, I have reverted the mod. There's a bit of delay, probably a minute or two after restart of a world that the mod would be able to spawn the planes. Kindly wait and then try again.

I have replicated the problem and is now fixed on my end so I hope it's also fixed for everyone. Cheers! :steamhappy:
Mickey Mouse Meth House 26 May @ 9:28am 
chat command request sent but nothing spawns
Girax54 21 Feb @ 8:02am 
Spawn Commands dont seem to work anymore.
Monarch 22 Jun, 2023 @ 4:32pm 
So, the drones don't spawn on my worlds, and this hasn't been working for some time. Am I missing an unlisted mod? Or did the AI block update screw everything up?
StootWorts 5 May, 2023 @ 11:51am 
Ah, understandable. Thanks for the explanation! Regardless, the mod is still great!
Khjin  [author] 5 May, 2023 @ 5:09am 
Ah, sadly the behavior of the drone and how they fly are not up to me but to MES which is doing the flying. The drones themselves flies great when used by a human pilot but when it's AI they basically don't know how to bank or use airbrakes so there's that. Maybe someday a new AI especially made for planes is created and the drones can finally fly great.
StootWorts 4 May, 2023 @ 8:51pm 
*not work very well with mods that remove the speed limit
StootWorts 4 May, 2023 @ 8:48pm 
My bad, I should have worded it better. There is no speed limit but that makes them not work very well. They will infinitely accelerate and constantly overshoot your positions by several kilometers and then miss you again on the way back because they're moving too fast. Would it be possible to add a speed limit, or allow for the option of one so they can control themselves at those higher speeds?
Khjin  [author] 4 May, 2023 @ 8:12am 
Hmmmm, haven't looked at the speed adjustment yet but I don't remember adding any limit on that so they should be good to go. Glad you're enjoying the mod :steamhappy:
StootWorts 1 May, 2023 @ 8:44pm 
The only thing I wonder is if it would be possible to make the drones work with mods that remove the speed limit. Maybe like give the drone a top speed it will maintain, since as of now without the speed limit it will just infinitely accelerate and fly in circles.