ACRE Radio problems

[AnAngrySalad1]

• 343 being able to used across around 7km
• I personally had about 20-30% reliability on the 117 irregardless of distance or terrain. 152 performed better.
• People stood next to me can hear me, people 200m away couldnt and vice versa. Only some people 200m can't hear me, others in the same section / team can do.
• Doesn't appear to happen in side ops
• Vehicle racks seem to have more reliability suggesting it could just be signal degradation and the vehicles power resolves the issue although that doesn't account for point 3.

I have some ideas:

Perhaps the caching script is taking up load at that time meaning the radios blip out. Radios worked without issue at main base before anyone was near the AO.

Maybe some sort of mix up with the radio ID's? So somehow the radios ID's or ID of a certain radio is changing to another radio (hence 343 being able to be used over several km). Not 100% sure how that side works.

Comms last night we're unworkable, each C/S managed on their own but medevacs and the like took alot longer as a result. G operated with runners where needed and all C/S were told to send messages in small snippets and seek confirmation of message being received but it just slowed everything down quite drastically. Seems to be annoyingly inconsistent in cause but symptoms seem to be the same.

[tbeswick96]

Need logs to be able to see if anything is blaringly obviously wrong, or if more investigation is needed.

[AnAngrySalad1]

Server or client logs?

[tbeswick96]

Preferably both, if possible

[tbeswick96]

Need to organise a debugging session with a few people, to try and narrow down the actual issues.

• Mission OperationRedMirror8.Altis
• Debug acre build running on all clients and server
• Sabre up at north objective @BrianPothoven @CarrC
  • First sent by teleport, with exact kit that was used
  • Second sent by halo, as per actual op
  • This will establish if any errors are due to garbage collection with BOC save/load of radios
• Zero in same area as per op, with same kit @AnAngrySalad1
• Monitor signal map to see if that shows anything unusual
• Collect logs from all clients and server at end, and look for anything unusual

[mshaugh]

Radio problems ongoing.

Perhaps try running without antenna direction and decreased attenuation:

force force acre_sys_core_ignoreAntennaDirection = true;
force force acre_sys_core_terrainLoss = 0.35; // 70% of current value

Or change propagation model:

force force acre_sys_signal_signalModel = 3; // Longley-Rice

[CarrC]

This issue definitely needs addressing.

It is becoming increasingly frustrating not being able to raise people on the radio, also not being able to hear people stood next to me on a 152 or 343 radio.

I get the intent for realism however the argument for carrying a 117 for better communication is null as this radio often suffers the same issues as the smaller units, this alongside with everything else needed particularly for Sabre in terms of kit makes fitting this large system difficult along with needing one now in order to communicate with air I definitely cannot carry 2.

Perhaps the best form of debug is to revert to pre degradation and add elements back in to a point where we get the behaviour we expect.

One such example is having radio traffic with someone on a 343 who is over 10km away on a carrier but not with zero on a 152 who is on land inside that range.

[tbeswick96]

Going to try changing signal model, as ACRE devs have found some reliability issues with LOS multipath https://github.com/IDI-Systems/acre2/issues/820#issuecomment-560248842

Will see what difference that makes, and if there are still unexplained bugs (note, loss of comms due to terrain, distance etc, do not fall under this) we can try some other settings

[tbeswick96]

Signal model changed with https://github.com/uksf/modpack/releases/tag/5.17.4

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