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Hello,

I'm currently messing with using/adding auras like the terror officer (for example). In this case, it would be supplied by the veteran squad leader, only while he is alive, and only to his squad.

Under area info you can supply the radius of the aura and under target you can specify "is_squad" or "is_self", however it seems is_squad will trigger on other squads while "is_self" seems to be, correct me if I'm wrong, an entity only action.

Similarly, whereas the terror officer's squad will retreat ALL nearby infantry if he is killed, I want it to only retreat the squad to which the squad leader is assigned.


Alternatively, I figured it might work to just add the aura to the leader ebps, but give it a radius of 1 targeting only squads and this may work for death actions retreat as well.

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thanks

tigo

Hey all,

Haven't posted in a while, but the most recent patch seems to have broken my personal mod that I use with some family so I was forced to rebuild it from scratch. I used version control this time though so that is an improvement if things break going forward

I have noticed some things appear to be different however.

1) I can't seem to get activate_extension to work correctly like before. I had a simple upgrade that activated a repair station. Not really sure what changed that caused it not to work.

2) Squad casted Stuka Dive bomb ability doesn't work now either. I have no changes to the ability, but it just doesn't work. Not reticule shows and it can't be casted.

3) Upgrades on the ebps entity of a vehicle don't seem to work exactly like they had before. I have an upgrade per unit that could be purchased to enable smoke canisters, but no matter configuration I set it the upgrade won't enable the ability. Do i need to add a slot item or some dummy to the entity?

Im sure there are other differences, but those are the few that jump out to me immediately.

Thanks for the help

And here is where you went wrong. The upgrade does not grant the ability, it unlocks it. Unless you have the commander that actually adds that ability (If its a commander ability), then its not going to work at all. You have to add the ability through a, surprise surprise, add ability action.

Actually it works fine like that as you can see here

https://www.coh2.org/replay/67536/test

Since the ability is set army-wide. For whatever reason it won't work whenever there is a requirement action before hand. I may have to try to rework it through to use the add ability instead.

So, lets go back to the first point. What exactly are you trying to do? Give a small chance of adding a ability on construct, just the upgrade, both, wot?

Correct, small chance of adding an ability on construct. The ability requires that upgrade, so granting the upgrade then gives the ability.

3. Use a delay action to add the upgrade. I suggest a delay of 0.125. This is because you have the requirement set to make sure the upgrade is not present, however, the system could have already added the upgrade in advance, thus doing some fancy computer stuff to mess it up.

Do requirement actions go before their requirements are checked?

For the life of me I cannot figure out what is causing this issue. It works as intended without the requirement action, but no combination of settings makes it work with requirements.