LB Airdrop Expansion AI - DayzHUB

DayzHUB Airdrop AI

Expansion AI guards for LBmaster Airdrops - free

LB Airdrops spawns infected and animals at a drop. This mod adds proper Expansion AI to it. When an airdrop lands, an armed Expansion AI squad spawns at the crate: in a faction, acting as one group, guarding the loot.

LB spawns the drop. This mod gives it guards.

Features

• An armed AI squad at every LB airdrop
• Any Expansion faction and any Expansion loadout - the same ones your patrols already use
• Spawns when the crate lands, or straight away while it is still falling
• The squad stands together on one side of the crate, so they do not shoot each other
• Unlimited reload - guards do not run dry in a long fight
• Guards never loot the crate they protect (can be switched on if you want the chaos)
• Hold position at the crate, or patrol a ring around it
• Per-crate rules: give military drops a bigger, harder squad than the rest
• Optional combat tuning per rule: accuracy, damage dealt, damage taken, threat distance, noise investigation and flanking distance
• AI are not removed when the airdrop ends - a bot chasing you does not vanish mid-fight. They go when no player is near them, after a set lifetime, or on restart

Performance

• Bots are spawned one at a time, a fraction of a second apart - a drop never causes a lag spike
• Caps per drop and in total, with built-in hard ceilings that a config cannot exceed
• Nothing runs while no squad is alive

Requirements

• LBmaster Airdrops
• DayZ Expansion AI (with Expansion Core)

If either one is missing, the mod writes one line in the log and does nothing. No errors, no crash. Tested on DayZ 1.30.164200 (Update 2) with LBmaster Airdrops 3.2.3 and DayZ Expansion AI.

Install

[olist] [*]Subscribe and add @DayzHUB_AirdropAI to your -mod= line [*]Copy the key from the keys folder into your server's keys folder [*]Start the server once [/olist] The config is written to:

profiles\DayzHUB\AirdropAI\config.json[/code]
It is written once and never overwritten by an update, so your changes are safe.

[h2]Defaults[/h2]
Out of the box, every LB airdrop gets 3 to 5 Raiders with the Raiders' own loadout, holding position on one side of the crate, with unlimited reload. It works without touching anything.

[h2]Main settings[/h2]
[table]
[tr][th]Setting[/th][th]What it does[/th][/tr]
[tr][td]spawnAt[/td][td]"landing" (default) or "drop"[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]spawnRadiusMin / Max[/td][td]How far from the crate they spawn, in metres[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]spawnArcDegrees[/td][td]Width of the side they spawn on (default 90, 360 = full ring)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]maxAlivePerDrop / maxAliveTotal[/td][td]Caps per crate and across the map[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]despawnDistance[/td][td]Removed when no player is within this many metres (default 400)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]maxLifeMinutes[/td][td]Removed after this long (default 60)[/td][/tr]
[/table]

Each rule sets the faction, loadout, squad size, hold or patrol, looting, unlimited reload and the combat tuning. Full explanation of every field, with an example, in [b]README.txt[/b] inside the mod folder.

[h2]Factions[/h2]
Raiders, West, East, Guards, Mercenaries, Brawlers, Civilian, Passive, Observers, Shamans, Lunatics, Infected, YeetBrigade, or RANDOM.

[h2]Compatibility[/h2]
LB Airdrops itself is not changed. Its own infected, loot, timings and settings keep working, and you can run LB's zombie waves and these guards together.

[h2]Support[/h2]
[url=https://dayzhub.net]dayzhub.net[/url]

Free to use on any server. Please do not reupload or repack.