ShackTac Movement Addons

Introducing the ShackTac Movement addons, by Rg

If you’ve ever hung up in a doorway, on a tree, or generally found yourself falling all over yourself in close-quarters movement, you’re going to get a kick out of this. “ST Movement” is a set of two tiny addons that bring a welcome change to your ArmA2 movement model.

The first, st_collision, is based on an addon concept by Rocko and Kju from the ArmA1 days, redone in ArmA2 by Rg. This addon causes your weapon collision with the environment to be significantly toned down, meaning that you can now move sideways through doorways and generally find CQB to be enjoyable, versus feel like a rusted robot trying to navigate a terrifying alien world called ‘indoors’. Try it out and see, it’s simple and very noticeable.

The second may or may not be a big deal, depending on how you move around in ArmA2. There is a combination of keys in A2 that, for reasons unknown, triggers you into a several-second-long evasive-sideways animation. Personally, this used to get me in trouble (or killed) frequently. The st_evasive addon simply removes this animation from the player’s movement system, preventing any key combination from accidentally triggering it.

Both addons can be seen in video form here:

You can download them here, filename st_movement_v1.7z.

The BIS forum thread for this is here. 

ShackTac Fireteam HUD released

The ShackTac Fireteam HUD has recently been released. You can find more information about it here..

Charlie Foxtrot Interview

This is a transcript of an interview I did with the Charlie Foxtrot community for ArmA2. A year or so after doing it, Charlie Foxtrot dissolved – I’ve rehosted the interview here for historical purposes.

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TTP2 Premiere

Another tease…

School will be in session again “soon”. Stay tuned. 🙂

Update, June 13th: Here’s a look at the new Fireteam Leader section. For reference, this is what the TTP1 section of the same name looked like.

(view the previous teaser)

TrackIR5 in ArmA2

TrackIR5 & ArmA2 Premiere.

It is my distinct pleasure to present the brand-spankin’-new TrackIR5, as seen in ArmA2. Have a look at the video, either on Youtube or via direct download:

  • Youtube HD
  • Direct download HD – Disabled currently due to ridiculous numbers of people trying to download it at once. I’ll put it back up when my site can survive the onslaught. 🙂

A brief summary is that TIR5 + ArmA2 is frickin’ sweet, and I’m really excited to be showing it off in such a capacity. Thanks to both NaturalPoint and Bohemia Interactive for the opportunity.

The TIR5 has a number of neat improvements over prior models, as detailed to a degree in the video, and in further detail below. On top of that you have a number of welcome changes to A2 to better support the TIRs in it, and then of course we have A2 itself being shown off in wonderful 1280×720 HD for anyone who would like to see it in action. Both A2 and TIR5 are really slick packages, and I think that both will be well-received by the community.

When you’re ready to order (because, you know, you should!), you can find two discounts for it –

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If you pick one of these up, please feel free to drop me an e-mail about it. I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on these.

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