This mod gives you ability to accept tasks remotely through the new tab in your PDA
Current ModDB version - v1.0.4
As always - the most recent version of the mod and the changelog can be found here: Github.com
ModDB will only be updated when some important fix/big feature hits
If you have some issues with the mod, please ping me on Discord (you can find me on Anomaly Discord). I rarely visit ModDB
This mod adds a new taskboard tab to the PDA where you can accept all the dynamic tasks remotely
How to use it?
On Taskboard tab there's a Refresh tasks button - click it once and wait for the tasks to be processed (time depends on the population density in radius, but is pretty fast).
You'll get a list of tasks split into categories. Next to the task description you will see two buttons. Accept task - self-explanatory - accepting a task automatically refreshes the board, as some tasks automatically remove others from the available list (vanilla Anomaly stuff). Next task - tells PDA to prepare info about the next task in category.
Possible questions:
Q: Why there's no Previous task button?
A: In short - engine limitation. It's because of problems with getting additional info about the task (middle column). To add such a button, I'd need to modify a lot of base game files and this would lead to many compatibility issues with other mods.
Q: Why I can take delivery and measure tasks remotely? They give me some items
A: I wanted to add a screen blackout for those tasks, but it's annoying. I think it's better without it. You can omit those tasks if it hurts your realism
Q: Some task details are messed up and are showing next to the wrong task. Why?
A: This bug should be eradicated by now. If you still encounter it, please report to me through GitHub. Some tasks might still have messed up setup scripts and might need a workaround.
Q: One of my tasks has no image. Why?
A: Some tasks don't have image - no worries.
Q: Does it work with WTF?
A: Technically yes, but some people report random issues. You should report those problems either to me or to Igi.
Q: Some Search stash or Drug runner tasks appear in Bounty tasks category. Is that a bug?
A: Yes - but it's a bug in vanilla Anomaly files. These tasks need to be categorized as Bounty tasks because their setup function dispatches a delayed function to a wrong queue (the bounty task queue). This causes some task details to be lost if a bugged task like this is processed simultaneously with a normal bounty task.
Q: Why you didn't make one full board of tasks?
A: Engine limitation. I've tried doing it in several different ways, but there needs to be a delay between fetching detailed info about tasks of similar type. With no delay, specific info about the task (e. g. target name and location) will not load properly. You could accept such a task, but you wouldn't know who exactly you have to kill and where he is before you accept it. With full list - even when I've set certain delays to 10 seconds - it sometimes happened anyway. With split list, there doesn't need to be any delay.
Credits:
Mr. Demonized - optimized time events script
Github.com - Russian translation
Github.com - WTF support
Enjoy
Bro, this is amazing!
Its like Interactive_PDA_ but with a little bit more tasks
Edit: it doesnt work..
It's very different from interactive PDA. It has much less functionality (literally just allows you to accept missions remotely), but is actually in the 3d PDA and is more balanced.
I think i'll stay with interactive PDA tbh, I know this mod just came out less than an hour ago but it is lacking some features, I will wait until it is perfect just like it should be.
I don't think I'll add anything else to this mod except for the optional ability of finishing tasks remotely as well (except the deliver and fetch ones that is)
It was developed with a clear target - make it less annoying to get your dynamic tasks going and focus only on that, so it can be slammed on top of any mod list (if it's not modifying the same pda tab that is xD)
Interactive PDA is cool too, but the feature of requesting some items seems cheesy to me and might not suit some mod lists
There's a mod that already gives the ability to finish tasks remotely!
Moddb.com
Hey there
I could use more info about what's not working for you if I were to fix it
If you're using some different mod that messes up with 3D PDA, maybe they are conflicting
If you've had problems with shuffled descriptions, it's fixed now. I had an important script on my modlist that is required for certain functions to work properly. Didn't really realize it till now.
All we now need is to know amount of reward for each quest.
You don't know the reward even when accepting quests physically from a stalker. Why should you know it in your PDA? Kind of would break the surprise factor.
Do you work for free without knowing what you get for payday?
in Anomaly, yeah. Quest givers don't tell you the reward in person,this is no different
Rewards are generated at the moment of finishing the quest, so this sadly won't be possible. The `.ltx` files with quests do mention the amount of money you can get (it's a range, e.g. 10k-12k), but I don't think it's really that important. I think it's also modified by the game difficulty, so it's an additional step to getting accurate numbers. Besides - there's not much space left in each row, so let's not push more stuff into that view
Yeah, i know. Just wish someone could change that system.
Anyway, good mod.
I don't think it will happen any time soon (if ever). Anomaly's quest system is written in a really weird way.
Honestly i like this mod more than interactive PDA concept. Just simple function that is very needed.
Я немного не понял: почему описание разное? например: слевой стороны имя сталкера "Новиков", в следующей колонке задание на доставку посылки, а в следующей другое задание на мутантов! я не пойму почему так?
Лучше скрин сделай, сразу понятнее станет что к чему.
P.S. Я поставил мод и вижу тоже самое. Багулина получается.
As already mentioned there is a bug here. Some quests description is wrong like it got mixed up.
Description of first - fourth got shuffled and second - third as well.
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Thanks for reporting
I didn't experience it during my tests
I'll try it out with vanilla Anomaly
This issue has been fixed - I've added an important script from Mr. Demonized to the addon. It's been part of my modlist, so I didn't spot the problem on my PC.
Files have been updated on both GitHub and ModDB
Please also be so kind and let know the guy writing stuff in russian about it :D
как добавить скрин сюда?
Залей на imgur, как я сделал постом выше. Но я уже зарепортил этот баг, так что всё ок.
woww great mod
Compatible with 1.5.1?
Didn't test
I've built it on top of 1.5.2
It is for sure
thanks brother
For anyone having problems with shuffled descriptions and images - it should be fixed now in the current version
Can you also complete the quests via PDA or need to visit NPC in person?
I was planning on adding something like this and there were several people asking for this feature already on Discord, so I'll copy-paste my thoughts here ^_^
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I think I'll drop the idea of completing the quests remotely
There are a few problems there:
- filtering out tasks that shouldn't be completed in this way - fetch, delivery, anomalous measurement and rescue (that's like 70% of the tasks)
- add additional filter for tasks that might reward you with an additional item like vodka, artifact or other stuff (that's additional 10-15% of the tasks). I'd then have people reporting bugs like "I was able to complete this task remotely in the past, but now it doesn't work"
I don't think it's worth it
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Alright, i get latest version from Git and made some tests. Bug with shuffle is completely gone but i found new one) (As always it happens)
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As i can see, it is some weird text start showing sometimes making this overlap. Dunno what it is and why it shows, maybe due to the large number of tasks.
Damn... I didn't test it at the AW yet and Lukash has that one quest with a very long description
I'll try to either add some scrolling to the description window or cut the text when it's overflowing
I think it isn't because Lukash, at second screenshot bug appears in bar too. I look closely and i can see that there is some specific messages show up.
Yeah
It can happen when a task description or details are really long
hey man this is so cool now i can roleplay as a merc bounty hunter thank you so much btw is compatible with GAMMA? does need a new game?
Fully compatible with Gamma and actually developed on top of it - hence the (already fixed) bug for vanilla Anomaly with shuffled descriptions (some script was missing)
ok :)
this is really cool, great job! the PDA seems to get forgotten by most people, glad it got some love <3
все теперь отлично отображается! спасибо за отличный аддон. он лучше чем интерактивный КПК
Mod doesn't work. Refresh tasks does nothing, never populates, just an empty PDA screen. Nothing else modifying the PDA, so I have no idea what's going wrong.
Where did you try doing it?
It has the range of 100m (can adjust it if you have MCM installed)
I discovered the issue is that for some reason, unlike every other button in the PDA, it requires a double click instead of a single click. Single clicking does nothing, double clicking populates it instantly.
It feels like protection from missclick. Maybe it is unintended but not really annoying.
Wouldn't be a "discovery" if you'd read the mod description xD
Yes - `Next task` and `Accept task` require double click. It wasn't intended at first, but I think I like it this way.
compatible with interactive PDA?
Should be
afaik interactive PDA has its own 2D UI
Nice ! Instead of talking to 50 NPCs that will be much faster to get quests :)
Thanks !
I might be doing something wrong, Weird Tasks Framework tasks are acceptable to get from the pda but has no desc or icon on the menu.
I've never used that other addon, but I guess it's because it's not pushing the icon and details to the dialog window the same way original tasks do.
I don't even know how original tasks did it :D
Just directly stole GhenTuong's code for it. I'll take a look.
UPD: oh, yeah, I see, that's an easy fix. I will push it with the next WTF update.
Would be cool if WTF worked with this addon. I only play EFP 4.0 nowdays and it has WTF ( Weird Tasks Framework ) in it. No idea if its possible thou
I second this it would be great if wtf tasks would show up as well