Mod suggestion/s: Add emergency service vehicles

[Combine]

Greetings community.

I'll make it relatively short and simple.

 

R E A S O N I N G

We are in a unique situation. The lore wipe just happened. We're fresh into a developing apocalypse. This is also underlined by many fresh looking prefab cars placed around, like Russian military (GAZ?) trucks or ambulances, that are static however.

We're currently in a fitting time window that won't be feasible a few years down the line. For me it's kind of a "now or never" question because now we can say emergency services are relatively alive and kicking. Such vehicles and their use (by certain characters or groups) will underline a presence that will likely diminish over the months and years. But having this now and for a while will empower or widen RP aspects because you could have patrolling police drive around, do checkpoints, or have medical personnel respond to emergencies that are called in - or simply have them maintain a presence somewhere. They can do this already, yes. Or could simply use other vehicles. But being represented by vehicles or vehicle skins, rather, would add something to immersion. What is more fitting? If I request an ambulance or cop and have them pull up in a fuel truck or civilian Skoda - or maybe have them pull up with a proper vehicle or at least proper looking vehicle?

 

And yes, before the argument comes up: You can always say "not needed". Technically we don't need it, we can RP without it. But I say: It seems more beneficial to the overall immersion in this stage of the lore than say, another set of huge guns added to the server. I do believe we would moderately to hugely benefit from this in terms of portraying the ongoing or developing zombie apocalypse and anyone could benefit from this with a fitting character who does not need to be bound to any lore faction. This is for the "civies" in niche roles. Cops. Medics. Maybe fire fighters. Realistically in this stage many would be out there and we should represent and empower such concepts until they fade away due to time and events.

 

T E C H N I C A L

If the server can manage with a few (1-2 at least, more are optional) more cars and maybe according car parts and if we talk about adding existing (parts of) mods that won't result in server and stability issues, then I see no issues. The mods in question could also be removed later on once this IC'ly becomes less feasible to free up resources.

 

M O D S - S U G G E S T I O N S (with pictures)

These are suggestions - all these mods I found contain one or different type of emergency vehicle. Before we wonder about what to pick, we first need to sort out if we want a few more cars on the road that represent the existing emergency services of Chernarus (or, well, Russia now). Out of the two I prefer the second mod suggestion.

TL;DR: We can worry about what mods or assets to use if we can largely agree to add such vehicles in general. This is for inspiration.

 

1) Police Pack

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2035608964

Notes: Seemingly contains sirens, could maybe be turned off or tweaked. Policie car as fitting addition, not the Polizei one. Maybe with our own texture tweaks

 

2) MoreCars (favored due to diverse set)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1931069341

Notes: Contains a set of possibly fitting vehicles. Also contains fitting vehicles for civilian use like taxis but no pictures shared here to keep post smaller. Look at mod for details.

Pictures:

 

3) Any other fitting mod you know of

Suggest them here

 

4) Any own creation or edit our own DayZRP devs can do or are willing to do

Assuming we are generally in favor of the idea but find the suggested mods lacking (requiring tweaks) or perhaps because the monetization thing will be an issue, maybe our own Devs find inspiration for this to add custom vehicles, or rather, custom textures for existing vehicles we currently use.

 

 

So what do you think?

 

 

[Guest]

Yes please.

Looking at the mods, these are retextures, nothing our devs can't handle, maybe even present something better. It would be great to see the Olga as a Police car (just like the wrecks), the ADA as an ambulance/military vehicle, the Sarka maybe as a Police Car variant the the Volkswagen as a firefighter car (usually used when doing inspections and such).

It would bring more diversity in the vanilla cars.

 

 

[Combine]

Not gonna lie, would prefer Sarkas over Olgas

But I think a red VW is also fitting for the FF guys. While I prefer to focus on cops and medics (as they're among the more portrayed ones) and since we cannot get a drivable full fire truck with ease - and do not need one, no fire mechanics or anything - a red skoda with some livery for the "fire inspectors" would be a nice and fitting addition.

 

E: Another reason I finally posted this idea and topic was a short situation on day 1 after lore wipe. I was linking up with my unit ingame and made a random remark about the chaos, saying something like "2 hours ago I witnessed a small convoy of police vehicles and ambulances speed down the highway".

With such mods or our own work, this can become an in-game reality and not just "make-believe".

Edited June 4, 2020 by Combine

[vivallion]

As someone who plays a Chernarussian cop, i'd love this being added.

[Misho]

These are retextures, no harm could be done from it and unless someone from the DRP dev team wants to spend time doing their own, here's a ready made option for some variety of uses.

+1

[Whitename]

2 hours ago, vivallion said:

As someone who plays a Chernarussian cop, i'd love this being added.

The RAC are the Chernarus cops

+1 to this, retextures look good

[vivallion]

4 minutes ago, Whitename said:

The RAC are the Chernarus cops

+1 to this, retextures look good

RAC? never heard of em.

[Condor]

+1 it looks dope

[Combine]

Decent "bump".

I suggest to use a Sarka, Lada or (modded) BMW/UAZ for any retexturing jobs because I don't like the (V)olga

 

As far as I know devs might be on this soon but still wanted to raise awareness for the general community again.

[S.Bradley]

would love to see this, Granted haven't played in a good while but I always felt there was a lack of emergency vehicles when there a unending amount of perfect civ cars but no left over cop car?

[Combine]

Heya. Possible wholesome but custom - not just retexture - alternative (abstract level, more possible tech issues or maybe not):

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1897598881

 

It's clearly the Chernarussian old school pattern and not aligning with Russian modern police car livery standards but it could work too if nothing else will. And it would fit to the wrecks we see all over, adding consistency with actual working versions of said police car wrecks. 

Edited June 23, 2020 by Combine

[groovy chernon]

yes..,. 

very epic and good for roleplay , would improve

[Combine]

Any news?

Just wondering, given both the theoretical low or no impact on the tech stability (if just retexture) and then maybe limited time frame where this is more feasible to have than later on.

Thanks for voting and considering. 

[tripzkill]

I support this mod

[Combine]

Very nice:

With the addition of "HARO", EMS vehicles (whether mere retextures or new cars) are now more feasible.

This adds to the feasibility of adding such emergency vehicles in general with cops still active (even if not as player group atm) and HARO covering the medical side

 

Question is (still): what is better? Just using something like Morecars that already offers such vehicles (retex) or do an in house solution being very tailored but costing maybe more time? 

:thonk:

 

References: 

 

 

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by Combine

[SpiteU]

+1

[Misty]

I'm down with any vehicle addition given that they don't BOUNCE

[Combine]

Some other mod I saw, maybe just for inspiration, as it adds CUSTOM MODELS or de-facto new cars (meaning potential increased abstract issues, stability or mod conflict-wise) instead of being a retexture. But still, for the sake of it:

 

 

Mod link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2141350489

Edited July 30, 2020 by Combine

[neom]

I love the idea and how it looks but I voted no purely coz I can see people who play medical/police etc based characters (no offence @DrMaxnot aimed at you in any way or your group) getting hella salty that people who aren’t “medical” or “police” are using them and ruining “their” RP.

Some of the mod packs suggested here look amazing 

[ImColt]

I think a better variety of cars is good for RP. +1

[Eddie]

I don't play a medical character or chernarussian cop IG but this would be great to see on the server imo. So why not!

[Eesti]

+1 Kinda too late for the polistyia and they would've looked funny as fuck in a police lada but that doesnt mean that they'll be useless for someone else's rp.

I prefer the last modpack that was posted  right above this comment, Chernarus has roads true but I would love to go offroad more often, the only offroaders that we have right now are the UAZ and the ADA (without counting the KAMAZ because it's a truck) so definetly +1 for the offroaders.

I don't quite like the skins on those reskinned cars from morecars buuut I guess they'll add variety, as of right now the real choice is between UAZ and BMW any other car is just bad looking.

 

[Poster]

+1 for me

this would be a huge improvement for medical/emergency RP. Even if not this mod exactly, more variety in vehicle appearance would be awesome if we got some new skins for the cars.

[Combine]

No news?

If this isn't happening I rest my case. Otherwise I'll throw ten or fifteen bucks at the dev doing this. If not using an existing mod, just retexture a UAZ or BMW to white with some politsya decals and tag and blue stripes or so. HARO might be gone now but you can also quickly make an ambulance version with a red stripe and medical logo instead.

 

Shouldn't be rocket science.

 

Edited August 13, 2020 by Combine

[Zero]

4 minutes ago, Combine said:

No news?

If this isn't happening I rest my case. Otherwise I'll throw ten or fifteen bucks at the dev doing this. If not using an existing mod, just retexture a UAZ or BMW to white with some politsya decals and tag and blue stripes or so. HARO might be gone now but you can also quickly make an ambulance version with a red stripe and medical logo instead.

 

Shouldn't be rocket science.

 

I voted yes, that being said any popular suggestion I have seen barring deer isle, has never been implemented or given an update on whether it will be approved.

Edited August 13, 2020 by Zero