Equipment PLUS
Equipment PLUS is a mod designed to enhance the gameplay experience by introducing a range of advanced equipment, enhancing their tactical capabilities. All Equipment added in the mod is very adjustable to fit your needs. NOT just for HALO-themed units/Missions!
AOTA = All of the above
- Dynamic Cloaking: Units automatically cloak and uncloak during specific actions (firing, reloading, melee, grenade throws).
– Special Conditions: Hunter’s Rage or Grunts Kamikaze will cause permanent uncloak
– Customizable Duration: Adjust the uncloaking duration via CBA_A3 addon options.
– Manual Control: Disable automatic cloaking for Covenant Spec Ops units if desired. - Cloak Device – which when equipped can be used to give players a controllable cloak ability
- Threat Scanner – which can reveal enemy units in a scanned area
- Hacking Device – Lets you disable vehicles or convert UAVs if you maintain line of sight for the hacking duration
- Wrist Launcher – Lets you fire ‘darts’ of multiple functional types (Threat scanner & Tracking dart for now)
- Shoulder Turret – A shoulder mounted turret companion that can be activated for a limited time before needing to ‘reload’
- Armor-lock Equipment – Temporarily become invulnerable at the cost of mobility.
- Holographic Form Emitter (hologram) – Deploys a decoy to mislead enemies.
- Hardlight Shield -Provides a deployable energy shield for defense.
- Regen Field Equipment – Generates an area-of-effect healing field.
- Bubble Shield Equipment – Deploys a protective dome that blocks incoming fire.
- Zeus Integration: Apply cloaking to any unit, spawn Regen Fields or a defensive Bubble shield using Zeus Modules (requires ZEN).
- Scripting Support: Use scripts to apply cloaking with customizable durations or infinite cloaking with regeneration.
- Thematic Flexibility: The mod is and will always be designed to fit any faction or theme (including Scripted units).
Spec Ops Covenant Units (primarily from Webknight’s OPTRE Expansion) have been given a dynamic cloaking/Active Camouflage ability. Units will automatically cloak and remain invisible until they perform specific actions such as firing, reloading, melee attacks, or throwing grenades. Upon performing these actions, they will uncloak for a short period, which can be customized via CBA_A3 addon options.
Additionally, the mod allows you to disable the automatic cloaking feature for Covenant Spec Ops units, giving you full control over how and when the cloaking ability is applied.
Note: Camo-Cloak as a player
When using the Cloaking Device as a player, your model won’t disappear on your screen to prevent exploits (there are still a shimmer/Electra visible on you). Others will still see you fully cloaked.
This mod also introduces Zeus Modules (requires ZEN) and scripting functionality, enabling you to apply cloaking to any unit in your missions. You can create cloaking units with any theme, giving them an "infinite cloak" that temporarily deactivates during specific actions and regenerates afterward. Alternatively, you can set a fixed cloak duration (default: 30 seconds).
- Automatic Cloaking: By default, Covenant Spec Ops units will have the cloaking ability applied automatically. You can disable this in the CBA settings.
- Zeus Modules: Use the provided Zeus Modules to apply cloaking to any unit in your mission.
- Classnames: Add the units classname to the CBA settings
- Scripting: Apply cloaking via scripting for more advanced customization.
Description: Puts a unit in cloaked state for the given number of seconds or permanently. Parameters: 0: OBJECT – Unit to be cloaked. 1: (OPTIONAL) NUMBER – Duration of cloak state in seconds. (Default 30s) 2: INFINITE CLOAK – BOOLEAN (True/False) 3: Apply to Entire Group – BOOLEAN (True/False) Returns: NOTHING Execution: Should be executed on server or host player but can be executed from any client in MP game. Example: [_unit, 30, true, false] call PHEN_EquipmentPLUS_CloakUnit; Example (disable): _unit setVariable ["PHEN_EquipmentPLUS_isCloaked", false, true];
TheTimidShade: For the original TTS Cloak effect and allowing me to study its implementation.
Webknight: For support and assistance during the mod’s initial development and Hacking Device base mission script.
Hologram ‘face’ Based on [VR Entity Faces] by Clasless
Marbearis and Phenosi: Models, Animations, scripting, pretty much the rest
– ‘Utility’ Update
– ‘Offensive’ Update
– QOL / Maintenance
– Expand cloaking effects to Vehicles?
Your suggestions are welcome! Feel free to leave feedback in the comments.
Q: Does this mod work with ACE3?
A: Yes.
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This work is licensed under the Arma Public License Share Alike (APL-SA), also referred to as CC BY-NC-SA[creativecommons.org].
Do not reupload this mod to the Steam Workshop without explicit permission and proper credit to the original author and contributors. Violating this may result in action under Steam’s Subscriber Agreement.
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