Thread: VTS3 - Live Multiplayer coop mission editor

Originally Posted by Jorge.PT

@Dslyecxi: That MCC seems pretty interesting, and as the big plus of working with all the islands. Any other differences besides the ability to save the missions? Are you able to define multiple objectives?

I haven't used the one you posted since ArmA times, and I don't remember a whole lot about it. I can sum up MCC pretty easily, though, so here goes.

MCC is set up via zones - think of how DAC works, where you define an area and it's populated with x-many groups and such who patrol around the area. It's like a realtime version of that. You have 17 zones to work with, and you can define them to be any size - from 10x10m up to 2600x2600m (or thereabouts). Once you've made a zone, you can define the behavior of enemies within it - whether they will aggressively attack out of the zone, act defensive within it, and something else I can't recall off the top of my head. After that, you can spawn in groups or individual units. ie, an MG team of insurgents, plus a sniper team, and then throw a technical on top. It will position these groups randomly within the defined zone and give them orders appropriate to whatever the zone was configured as - ie, patrolling.

It allows you to put in dynamic object compositions, which appear to have standard "accompanying forces". For instance, you could make a guerrilla "base" and it'd have various structures appropriate to a base, with infantry and such "manning" it and patroling. There are a lot of different DynO objects to choose from, so you can build up random bases in a fairly straightforward fashion.

You can toggle whether vehicles are populated or not - this allows you to create on-the-fly vehicle sets to use within your group, for instance. Ammo crates/weapon crates are another option.

That's the basic idea, anyhow. Keep in mind that I've only used it about 5-10 times so far and am not an expert on the finer details of it. I do enjoy it, however, and plan to keep using it for various things.

We were playing around with MCC a few days ago, ended up with about 20 people in a quickie mission made with it. Very simple one - consisted of three zones (start, and two zones in a city), and I'd populated them with ~100 AI units (infantry and technicals) in about four or five minutes. We geared up and attacked into the city after a few minutes and ended up having a 30-40 minute running firefight through this urban area. It was a ton of fun and was very simple to set up. I don't see it replacing traditional missions, but I do find it to be alot of fun for impromptu gatherings, concept development/prototyping, etc.

Hope that helps answer your question.