Pinned Down A Total Combat Immersion Mod
Firefights aren’t laser tag. Most rounds miss, but they still
do work: they rattle you, throw off your aim, and make you think twice
about peeking. Pinned Down brings that pressure to both
players and AI, so fights breathe, stall, and surge
instead of devolving into instant headshots.
For the player:
When rounds crack close, you feel it. Eye blink, mild blur and
desaturation, tunnel vision at the edges, camera shake, and rising
aim wobble that decays when fire lets up. All of it scales by stance
— standing takes the full hit, crouching takes half, prone takes a
quarter. A round that actually connects hits full strength regardless.
Friendly fire from your own squad doesn’t trigger suppression effects.
Every effect is tunable or disableable in Addon Options.
For AI:
AI under fire go prone outdoors, crouch indoors, degrade in accuracy
and courage, and issue suppressive bursts at known targets. They
recover gradually when fire lets up. A safety corridor check prevents
suppressive fire when friendlies are in the line of fire.
For mission makers and server admins:
Granular per-behavior controls let you exclude your squad AI from
any combination of: stance changes, skill degradation, and suppressive
fire — without touching the enemy AI or the player effects. Full CBA
settings suite. MP-safe. Low performance cost.
Start a mission → Options → Addon Options → Pinned Down.
First test with CBA_A3 + Pinned Down only to establish a baseline.
Load order: CBA → other mods → Pinned Down.
Mike Force and Random infantry player effects dont work on respawn.- investigating fixed
Hit the pinned Bugs & Issues
thread with a simple repro. Comments are open for feedback only.
Modding is done free of charge in limited spare time — please be
respectful.
If it improved your fights, a thumbs up helps others find it.
If something’s broken, drop a bug report instead of a thumbs down —
I can’t fix what I can’t see.
Props to Viper1Zero
for keeping Arma’s flame bright. An old Reddit post missing Pinned Down
pulled me back. The last five years were rough for my family — cancer,
an active shooter, and a brain hemorrhage. I went quiet. I’m back to
make this better than before, and I won’t delete it even if negatives
equal favorites, so long as there’s still interest. Thanks to the
thousands of subs. I honestly didn’t expect 100.
- Octopuss — sharp eyes, tough feedback, solid push back when
I think I can’t do better. - 7th_moon — sharp eyes, tough tests, solid feedback.
- All the unnamed testers who hammered builds, found edge cases,
and kept me honest.
Suppression-first: Under fire, AI shoot more and aim less.
Accuracy lives in vanilla: Adjust precision and skill in your
difficulty settings or mission, not here.
Prefer gentler suppression? Everything has a slider.
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