Feature Requests for ACE Anvil

[BaerMitUmlaut]

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[Kexanone]

Added in current dev version (see m_ePainScreenEffectType)

[Kexanone]

Added in current dev version (see m_bBleedOutForPlayersEnabled)

[soopgoof]

I think it would be beneficial to have a medical menu, trying to bandage a limb by looking at it is very inconsistent.

[BloodBullet69]

Yes! I loved the medical menu in Arma 3 and miss that the most.

[JaysonLLL]

The interaction menu of A3 looks great, but it's not real, and now Arma Reforger can achieve point-to-point interaction, I think it will be better to enhance the point interaction.

[Koxnep]

A hasty firing position would be a nice add to the trenches. Walls on each side and a firing port in the middle, height as it would provide cover only when lying on the ground.

GRAD Trenches on Arma 3 had one like this and it worked very well.

[dedmen]

How about porting all the Arma 3 trench models? Anything preventing that? Probably need to adjust scale a bit.

[AlexMason1]

Addition of a suppression mechanic which influences both players and AI's perception, aim, sway, audio etc.

[Kexanone]

There is already LM Suppression: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/613B4DD4A91CA144

[XSilverrookX]

Kicking down doors, blood bags, blunt damage (non penetrating hits on body armor should still deal a small amount of damage)

[BaerMitUmlaut]

These are very different requests. Can you split each one in a seperate comment?

[BaerMitUmlaut]

See #2 (comment)

[svencc]

I talked to the medics in a clan that I am connected to. The first thing we would like to have in ACE Medical is that downed players are longer in the unconsciousness state before dying (implemented by using a configurable factor). This makes MEDEVAC use more sensible and even more worthwhile because the injured people do not die too early.

I think this is one of the first and groundbreaking features that will make ACE Medical truly usable and valuable and increase acceptance in communities.

[Kexanone]

In the current version, players die in unconscious state if they bleed out. How fast this happens depends on how many wounds they have and the global bleeding rate that can be configured by GM. This is in essence still the vanilla behavior. I would argue that MEDEVAC is already worthwhile in the current version to speed up the recovery of players that entered second chance, but first aid in form of treating all bleedings has to be done for stabilizing them for MEDEVAC.

[MrEnward]

ACE MEDICAL.

-No Pulse.
--If the intent is to keep check injuries present for a period of time even after the player is dead so that there isn’t an immediate indicator that they’re dead, change their injury status to no pulse if they are dead.

[SomeSangheili]

ACE Movement

• Slow down the time it takes to vault over certain objects/heights. Maybe restrict the height you can climb over, and make it that you need a fellow soldier nearby to help you vault over high walls. Maybe allow solo climbing walls if the soldier is light enough (wearing no armour). These things will make walls/fences more of an obstacle for infantry.
• Slow down the soldier’s movement speed in which he can move while strafing (there is a mod that does this, but unfortunately it doesn’t slow down the animation as well), aiming down sights and having a raised weapon. Maybe the heavier the weapon the slower you are when it's raised? If not, then maybe make the weapon sway a lot more when moving with heavier weapons.
• Restrict the speed in which the soldier can turn the weapon around while aiming heavier weapons (will restrict people bringing machineguns for CQB), but keep the head movement the same normal speed, so that the weapon is slower than the camera. Also weapon inertia would be cool.
• Gradual speed increase/decrease when starting/stopping sprint to simulate soldier's inertia. Smooth out or limit turning/changing directions while sprinting.
• Decrease speed in which soldier can aim down sights (the speed when the soldier goes from not-ADS to ADS) so that the player doesn't get pin-point accuracy straight away just by right-clicking (or maybe add a bit of aiming error for the first half second of being ADS)

These things will make the game a lot less arcady

[SomeSangheili]

ACE Bodyarmour
Disable bodyarmour and helmets that can only stop shrapnel/pistol rounds IRL having the ability to stop rifle rounds, making combat more realistic.

[Kexanone]

Would be neat indeed, but I don't think it fits the scope of ACE Medical to provide them.

Edit: Maybe someone can help improving this mod: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/610CA05A41A9BED9

[Kexanone]

That should already be possible by setting m_fMedicalKitMaxHealScaled to 1.0 in the server config (see https://anvil.acemod.org/components/medical/#settings).

[Kexanone]

There's already a mag repack mod: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5ED143120C5465BD.
As for unflipping, there used to be one, but it didn't make it past early access.

[veteran29]

Unflipping mod is available here:
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5C96333ACF4FA967-Unflipper

[zrq0058]

This mod does not have a true "flipping" function. It only provides "push" and "pull", but in the face of most overturning situations, "push" and "pull" do not provide much help. What we need is the ability to truly flip the vehicle, just like in A3.

[Kexanone]

There's a recently published mod that provides a true flip action again: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/612851D73DF01668

[SkyHighPurchase]

Ace MagRepack Same-Caliber Magazine Addition

It would be nice to have an additional feature for MagRepack that allows same-caliber magazines to refill other same-caliber magazines, for example an M249 box refilling an M4 magazine. Or a PKM box refilling an SVD magazine, and so on.

This would be useful in some fields where you have magazines that hold the same caliber, but don't fit the same weapon, allowing the user to refill their main magazines with magazines they wouldn't have a use for, normally.

In theory it could be an additional check in the script to see if the magazines hold the same caliber. But I'm no scripter so I'm not entirely sure how hard or easy it would feasibly be.

[maxcloutier13]

Manual Scope Zeroing

With the new ballistics/scopes, it would be nice to have the option to set a manual zero, just like with an IRL scope.

A real-life zeroing looks like this (after a basic bore-sighting of course, you at least need the shots to make it to your paper)

1. Pick a zeroing distance. L,et's say 100m. There's pros/cons to any distance so the situation dictates the "best zero".
2. Stabilize the rifle, idealy with a benchrest, or bipod+sandbag. More stable the better.
3. Fire 3-5 shot group aiming directly at the center of a zeroing target
4. Check group center VS actual target bullseye
5. Measure the error, convert to MOA/Miliradiant (there's formulas for this online)
6. Set the turrets with the measured correction
7. Let the gun cooldown and fire another group, again aiming directly at the center.
8. You are done if the group is centered, otherwise repeat corrections until it is
9. Your system is now set so your bullet meets your line of sight at 100m!
10. Loosen the nuts on the turrets and set them to 0 and lock them back up
11. Profit

For the in-game application it could be an sub-action on the "Remove scope" action already present on the scope when checking the weapon. Like a popup that asks the desired distance for the zero and then store the current settings as offset and puts it all back to 0. The range card would have to shift to accomodate the new setting.

Thanks for the great work.

[lukalego7]

Persistent Casualties

Although the current ACE medical system greatly increases treatment depth, it still does not create a strong incentive for CASEVAC/MEDEVAC. Even severe injuries can be handled in the field, and long recovery times encourage players to respawn instead of engaging with evacuation and medical logistics.

This results in ambulances and medical facilities being underutilised.

Proposed System

Introduce a persistent casualty mechanic:

1. A player is critically injured.
2. A medic determines the casualty requires evacuation to a medical facility.
3. The player may choose to respawn without the body being removed.
4. The body remains as an unconscious casualty in the world.
5. The casualty is transported to a medical facility (e.g. ambulance, field hospital) and treated over time.
6. Once fully stabilised, the body becomes available for reassignment, allowing a player to take control of it and return to active duty.

Key Constraints

One body = one player (no duplication)
Reassignment only possible after full treatment
Ideally limited to medical facilities to encourage logistics

Goal

Preserve realistic, longer treatment times
Remove player downtime as the primary reason to respawn
Create a genuine gameplay incentive for evacuation and medical infrastructure

[Kexanone]

ACE is not tied to a specific game mode. What you are suggesting is a variant for conflict, which is out of scope.

[maxcloutier13]

Paper map behaving like an actual paper map

As in: no magically shared markers from potentially kilometers away. Right now the paper map basically behaves like an ATAK/computerized map, always synced in real time for all players. Like the BFT's on leaders, I can see why it would make sense for the basic runNgun conflict mode on public servers... but for milsim it has always annoyed me.

So I would suggest this:

• Markers are private only
• Adjustable range setting where markers are auto-shared to nearby players, a bit like the map-pointing works. Useful for planning moves in group, but once players move away any updates are not sent to other players, requiring the use of grid coordinates and such.
• Action on other players to copy their map to yours, so you can sync markers when you meet up.

The magical marker thing should work only when using actual ATAK/similar devices.... and even then only on their specific interfaces and not on the actual full paper maps. Same thing with BFT's and such modern devices.

[gubgub993]

ACE Radio Animations

I'd like to suggest adding 2 animations for listening and transmitting on the radios

Animation 1# Transmitting:

• The radio is put up to the player's mouth when transmitting
• Will decrease accuracy if player chooses to fire when transmitting
• Uses same keybind as in game transmit from vanilla

Animation 2# Listening:

• In order to allow people to listen more clearly to the radio add a "Listen" control where once pressed it will put your radio speaker up to your ear
• This however will also decrease accuracy of your weapon if you choose to fire while listening
• Should have a separate keybind

[YourLocalMouse]

A new ace mod for some type of earpro that functions similar to any active audio headsets, making high dB quiet and LOW dB louder.

thank you guys :)

[Kexanone]

Please make one post per request. Also Adenosine got already ported from ACE3. We just renamed it to Metoprolol, as beta blockers are the more general option in practice for lowering HR.

[maxcloutier13]

ACE medical option so that medical supplies are taken from the patient instead of the player rendering aid, like in arma3.

Thx!

[AVP308]

ACE Medical

Would really like an additional feature to the morphine that would negate or town down the limb damage effects like slowed movement and worse weapons handling for a short period of time.

[minecraftLord77]

ACE Medical
Some way to tell if morphine is active (rainbow colors, slight hallucination effect, etc.) that gets more intense as you approach overdose

[minecraftLord77]

Also expanding on the withdrawal system - maybe make it harder to see similar to the effect for when you're in pain

[minecraftLord77]

This is if you take a ton of morphine

[minecraftLord77]

ACE Medical
Temperature mechanic
If the patient has too high or too low of a temperature they recover slower
Being in water lowers the temperature, being in the brightness / sun warms it up (so do flares)

Heating blankets / cooling blankets will be much more efficient at the cost of being high volume

The idea is to reward moving patients around to use the environment for more efficient healing

[minecraftLord77]

Fevers would be caused by infections (bleeding for more time increases the likelihood of infection, or being in a very dusty area, such as in a smoke grenade or outside of a tent)
A fever on it's own cannot kill you or have any negative effect, but it slows recovery times

[minecraftLord77]

ACE Medical / Breathing
If breathing is enabled, and it's 0bpm, disable the unconscious players idle animation of breathing - that way if you're really paying attention you don't have to use the ui

[cych]

IIRC only the SVD PSO scope has a 100m increment up to 300m then 50m increment above 300m. All other riflescopes mostly use either 1/4 MOA or MILs (1 cm point of impact drift per click) and you need range table datas corresponding to the caliber used. So the best tool to use to quickly adjust your scope is a laser range finder.
This is the main goal of ACE Scope : to simulate the real functioning of a riflescope it require precise calculations/adjustments to accurately hit a target at long distance.

PS : back in Arma 2 ACE I made a custom ballistic range table (printed on real paper and put in a ring binder) giving me exact riflescope MOA adjustment values for every 10 meters of range increment from 0 to 2000m for the TAC50 .50cal.( It took me two days to fully set the range table). I was so accurate in multiplayer than others players thought I was cheating. Lol.

[Kexanone]

Kestrel (ACE Weather Dev), ballistic tables (ACE Ballistics Dev) and scope adjustments (ACE Scopes Dev) are all available in Dev mods.

[hbjydev]

Mag repacking: Add the ability to carry boxes of rounds, like seen in GREENMAG for Arma 3.

You can unpack a box of rounds (max capacity of 60 rounds per box) to get individual rounds in your inventory, then you can repack your mags with those.

They have the benefit of being lighter to carry than just bringing shitloads of extra mags, but the drawback is them taking longer to load (you have to wait, say, a quarter of a second per round, so repacking a standard 30rnd STANAG mag would take 7.5-8s).

Additionally, you could also provide larger-capacity belts (say, 100rnd or 200rnd) for use with MG mags, that load a fair bit quicker (i.e. instead of .25s per round, maybe it takes .25s per 5 rounds to load, etc.)