Operation Remembrance V1.02 file

Done. Will be shipped with the V1.1 update.

That's not a bug. The map is designed that way for balance. Otherwise it's too easy to retake the flags and make the NVA bleed tickets again. The challenge is keeping those flags under US control for as long as possible.

Thanks for the comment. As far as the echo goes, there's a strict limit on how much I can edit the sound files without distorting them too badly, largely because they're real gunshot sounds pulled from pre-existing videos. And for certain handgun sounding more powerful than SMGs, that's not necessarily unrealistic. A given cartridge fired from a handgun will generally have a much louder sound than the same cartridge fired from a submachine gun. Barrel length almost always has a major impact on the sound level, and the shorter the barrel, the louder the sound.

This mod has full multiplayer/co-op support. The HelloClan group for Battlefield Vietnam even hosted an event for it back in January: Youtube.com

If you join HelloClan's Discord server, you can talk with LTShaun if you need any help setting up a server for Operation Remembrance. He's planning to set one up for the mod at some point, although I don't know where he's at with that. He might be waiting for when I release V1.1. We initially had a few problems getting the mod to work online, but I think those are all worked out.

I assume you're talking about the M14 with the M84 scope, the same scope as on the M1D Garand, correct? That's not an error. It's supposed to be like that. I designed that rifle based off of pictures of M14s that were unofficially modified with M84s. The M84 was originally made for the M1D Garand, and had to be mounted to the side to allow the rifle to be loaded, since the en-bloc clip goes in the top. I assume those modified M14s used the same (or similar) mount as the one used for the M1D.

I need more details than that. What maps? What teams? There are a few maps (Battle of Ap Bac, for example) where the bots on one team are programmed not to leave their spawn points until a certain flag gets captured.

Lang Vei is partly meant to be like that, in that the US bots aren't supposed to counterattack once Lang Vei is their only remaining flag. They just defend. As for the bots getting stuck near the tower, I'll see what I can do.

For Ho Chi Minh Trail, is that the north bridge between the Temple and Old Shrine flag points? If it is, I haven't fixed this yet, but I do know about it and I think I know how to fix it. That bug is actually a leftover from the base game.

Okay. I asked because that bug is much more prevelant at the north bridge. I'll try to fix it.

It's not easy because of how the coding for making the bots deploy emplacements like that and then get in them works. If I tried to make the bots deploy a mortar to fight a tank, for example, they might just start setting up multiple mortars and not actually get in any of them. That's why I removed their ability to deploy mortars and machine guns. I might play around with that sometime in the future, though.

Bots are incapable of recognizing the location of friendly troops, so if they're shooting at an enemy or start shooting at an enemy when you walk in front of them, they won't see you, and that's unfortunately not something I can change.

Where did you try to deploy it? On a building, on top of a vehicle, on the ground, or on an uneven surface?

If it was on an uneven surface, not flat ground, that could be part of it. BfV's physics engine is weird with things like that, and there usually isn't much that can be done with it.

I took them out for historical accuracy. The Sheridan wasn't even adopted until 1969, and there were no helicopters at Lang Vei. I don't think there are any tutorials on flying the aircraft, but I can help you out a little bit.

For fixed-wing aircraft, use W to accelerate, S to slow down, A and D to turn left and right. Up arrow to point your aircraft's nose at the ground, down arrow to pull up away from the ground, right and left arrows to roll in that direction. I recommend setting your primary fire button for aircraft to "Space" and your secondary fire to the left "Control" key. So when you fly, your right hand should be on the arrow keys, and your left hand should be on the WASD keys, but also in position to reach your primary and secondary fire keys. I also recommend setting your parachute key from the default (which is "9", I think) to the "T" key so you can reach it quickly.

For helicopters, it's a bit more complicated. W increases your engine power, which makes you fly straight up. S decreases it and makes you fly straight down. A and D still turn you left and right, and the up, down, left, and right arrow keys do the same thing as they do in fixed-wing aircraft. So to fly a helicopter, use W to gain some altitude, then use the up arrow to tilt your nose slightly forward to fly forwards. Use the other arrows to fly in the direction the arrow points to. Those are the basics, and beyond that, it's all a matter of practice and learning.

If you're talking about the slider on the main menu, no. All it does is make the enemy bots target you more frequently than other bots on your team.

For right now, it's only in two maps:

Across the DMZ-After the US team captures the first flag, a Cobra will spawn in the air over the flag, and can only be entered by selecting the different spawn point that appears on the map. If you try to play the map and don't see that spawn point after the US takes the southern-most flag, that means a bot already spawned in and took it.

Operation Cedar Falls-The ARA (Aerial Rocket Artillery) variant of the Cobra spawns at the US base.

It'll be added to more maps in V1.1, but I don't know for sure which ones yet.

I mentioned that at least once in previous articles. It'll be fixed, but probably not until V1.2 comes out.

At this point, I would suggest that you just play it for yourself and see everything that's included. And there'll be more whenever V1.1 comes out.

It isn't something I've ever seen in the base game or any mod, and not something that could be caused by any of the changes in the mod.

I've been trying to fix that for a while. I'm not sure what's causing it, because all of the code seems correct.

There are ways to make changes, but it's difficult. One thing I should point out is that (as someone who has extensively tested and even learned from AIEV), your statement that the AIEV helicopter AI is superior is only true from a certain point of view, and in some ways, the AIEV bots are far inferior with helicopters. On Ia Drang Valley, for example, bots will almost always crash the Chinook before they get anywhere near the battlefield. On Operation Irving, I've frequently witnessed bots flying the Huey Gunship halfway towards the VC flags and then tilting it backwards and coasting back away from the battle completely into the out-of-bounds zone. I believe your better experience with door-gunning is because in V1.2 of AIEV, bots flying transport helicopters like the UH-1 Transport are programmed not to bail out over drop zones anymore, so they stay in their helicopters and give the door gunners more action time. They also don't have to do complicated maneuvers like regular gunships do, which helps them avoid doing long strafing runs that lead to them crashing. I've chosen to allow my bots flying transport helicopters to continue jumping out over landing zones. While this does lead to the helicopter crashing, it allows more bots to drop onto the landing zone for a better fighting force on the ground. I did try to copy some of the coding from AIEV to work with Operation Remembrance, and it actually made the bots worse with regular helicopter gunships. At the moment, I'm reverting back to the original coding I did myself that actually worked, and I'm going to save attempts at upgrading the helicopter AI for V1.2.

It's definitely connected to the maps themselves. Bots flying aircraft can pathfind better on some than on others.

Yes, I'm hoping to. I have to finish a few more of the new maps and then I want to record a new trailer. If it's not out by Christmas, than it should be by New Years.

Thank you. I really appreciate that.

What would be the point if they miss too often? Also, the difficulty setting doesn't affect how good the bots are, only how frequently they'll target you over other bots on your team.