Project MCAR Beta 3

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PROJECT MCAR PUBLIC BETA 3 RELEASED!!!

Due to RL issues the developement has been in hiatus for a long time and will be so for some time into the future so we decided to release this now..

CHANGES from previous
- Fully MultiPlayer compatible
- All scripts overhauled; some Gaskin variants behave completely differently than in 2.5.1
- HMMWV TOW 2A 'Real, Human Player' added
- Two different MP Friendly Gaskin 'variants' added (code variants), all MCAR vehicles work in MP but these are more lighter
- numerous bugs fixed

KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES
- On almost all Gaskin code variants: In MP last valid target will be reported by the gunner in vehicle chat even if the target is destroyed and the
weapon is fired at no target. Aesthetical problem, does not affect the vehicles functioning in any way.
- On the Humwee 'Real' code variants: Kills are recorded in SP (appear in the statistics sheet) but not in MP.
(note: The 2A Real and 2B real do not always record their kills, but do it most of the time. The Real Human Player variant does record every kill)

We call this still Beta because the multiplayer aspect is a new feature (the earlier statements about MP aspects pale in comparison with this ) which means there must be other bugs laying around than those mentioned above and thus calling this final would be a bit 'Microsofty'...
Also the final 'system' will be re-written to be more user friendly for AddOn makers...
Read the readme (emphasis on that) for further details on the different code variants (different vehicles).

For those who may have been waiting for the Gecko, I have some baddish news:
Sa8gecko is too busy IRL to work on it right now so the Gecko will not be accompanying this Beta 3 release.
Of course if someone would like to finnish it and re-texture it we would appreciate and accept such an gesture...


The M151A1C Jeep is also updated to fit the new MCAR Beta 3, and is now in it's version 1.1
FIXES since 1.0:
- Multiplayer tweaks...
Also, not so related to MCAR, but if you missed the M1025 HMMWV with Mk19, check it out


Downloads:
- MCAR Beta 3
(7 day mirror, not tested whether it works at all )
- M151A1C
(7 day mirror, this tested neither..)

- MCAR Beta 3.1 Patch
(7 day mirror)
Files are in *.rar format, packed with 3.42 version so some older versions may have trouble unpacking them...


The biggest thanks above all go to our MP testers :
- Hit_Sqd_Zulu and the Hit_Sqd gang && Fraghaus
- raedor and the gang
Not to mention the MP god, Killswitch...

[Tomislav]

if you guys would have told me that reador is testing it i could have helped there too.

but anyway, it works really fine, and you guys already know about the bugs, so i have not really much work here

Sa8Gecko: should i know go on testing you turret project, or is it still on hold? and what was the result after seeing the pics i sent ya and testing the short demo missi?

[Sa8Gecko]

The turret is still on hold. Unfortunately I haven't been able to look after it in the last two months.
I'm quite busy with RL now, but I'll see if I can give it some time after the first half of July has passed.

if you guys would have told me that reador is testing it i could have helped there too.

Well, he was listed in as a beta tester ... But he mostly tested with his own group and for his own
purposes, I think. The first real all-out beta tester, a part the internal dev. team and Killswitch,
was you, Tomislav. At least one of the very few reporting something.

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Oh yeah, I have forgot to mention it here too...:
I totally forgot to list you as a Beta tester Tomislav

Sorry...

[Tomislav]

haterkint said:

Oh yeah, I have forgot to mention it here too...:
I totally forgot to list you as a Beta tester Tomislav

Sorry...

no problem, but i am in contact with reador anyway, so if both of us would have known that, you nkow what i mean

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Ok, we had to go a bit 'microsofty', but it's good thing we are at beta stages ;D

Project MCAR Beta 3.1 Patch Released!!

Fixes:
- bugs causing the Gaskin code Prop. Nav., Ballistic not to release flares from the target plane
- bugs causing some target related global variables to be all hinky in some Gaskin codes...

DOWNLOADS:
MCAR Beta 3.1 Patch
(7 day mirror)

[Sa8Gecko]

New Beta 3.11:
koti.mbnet.fi/kint/MCAR_Beta311_140805.rar

latest internal files:
s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LAR1QAQCA2LN18C6NWJQU1N5Y
(7 days only: the humvee HP is momentarily disabled, download
these files if you have problems launching the tows from the
real humvees while moving)

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MCAR Beta 3.2 Released[/u][/size][/color]

The SA-8b Gecko included

NEW IN MCAR BETA 3.2:
- Gecko's missile will try to find another target if the current one gets destroyed by something else (by another missile, etc)
- Gaskin guidance codes rewritten (less scripts). More on some of the 'techniques' used at:
www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=8;action=display;threadid=25289
- AI will now engage farther with the AA vehicles
- Some other small fixes, additions, re-writes, etc...

NOTE: The old demo missions won't work with these recent patches/updates due to some class name changes

Grab MCAR Beta 3.2 here
Updates the whole shabang so no previous versions needed.

I hope I posted the correct files this time :rolleyes:

[Sa8Gecko]

Here's a patch:
s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Q54FGJ6MT1WC0H9FPSHTZ0QD8
(7 days only)
Nothing really new or important bug fixes. But a step forward anyway.

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Beta 3.21 patch mirror

And what Sa8 means that the scripting structure has been updated a bit.
Only difference is that it may give a small advantage performance wise... Or not

[Sa8Gecko]

This patches the Gecko:
s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0G49CVG3N7K1V11I915HHBRK8F
(7 days only)
Nothing new, just a little modification to the guidance code
of the 'smoking' SA-8B that only mathematically inclined people will appreciate.

EDIT (-Kint):
Mirror