So I've been playing quite a bit of 1.13 lately. Just stock 1.13 with no extra mods to speak of. One thing that has been annoying the heck out of me is the crazy LBE situation.

I'm spoiled playing mods like AIMNAS or Urban Chaos 1.13 that have plenty of useful LBE options. Many things don't fit in pockets the way I'd like and other items are lacking places to be put without severely limiting what other things you can carry (I'm looking at you, gasmasks). So what I am planning to do is a minor overhaul to some of the LBE options in stock 1.13. I've already done some work which I want to show here to get some opinions on this project.

So far I have revamped/replaced the HongKong Police vest as shown below.

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You will notice I have added a new "pocket" type. These will look somewhat familiar to those who have played AIMNAS/Urban Chaos. These will be referred to as D-Rings. This particular vest that I have chosen to replace the Police Vest is better suited to carrying more grenades (12 40MM, in reality it is 18 but I reduced this amount for balance). The 6 rifle grenade pockets will be revamped to hold two grenades each to save space for the D-Ring pockets and possibly any other pockets. I want the vests to feel a bit more specialized while still allowing a merc to carry essential survival equipment instead of having something like the TAC-1B, for example, being a pretty much universal vest.

The D-Rings will carry items such as gasmasks, binoculars, and pretty much any face item I can think of that makes sense. Previously, if you wanted to carry a gasmask while being equipped as bones is here you would have to put it in a combat pack or a medium general pocket which I feel is a waste of space.

Obviously, I have not finished the graphics for the vest yet and the D-Ring silhouette may need further tweaking. It would be nice to hear maybe some opinions or ideas/suggestions for other tweaks that other people may want. I am also planning on buffing up the, as of now, pretty much worthless Hunter's Vest so that it will still be a viable mid-game choice.

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[Updated on: Fri, 22 February 2013 00:59] by Moderator

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I did some modifications to existing vests.

The basic loadout of all my mercs includes one hand grenade, one smoke grenade and a gas mask. As a beginner to moodding I just edited the XML of three vests in the LoadBearingEquipment.xml. I modified the LRAK SAW-Vest, modified the Hongkong Police Vest to a grenadier vest and made the Hunter Vest into a Sniper Vest. I also changed the rifle grenade pockets to accept two grenades and I'm considering to change the pistol mag pouches too. And by the way, nearly no soldier carries leg rigs for longer patrols, like they happen in the game.

I reduced the number of possible belts to more realistic two belts in the vest, added a Medium General pouch for the Gas Mask and a Medical Pouch for the Medikit. I also included the holster and one magazine for the siedarm. This vest will be closer to a real machinegunner loadout.





The Hongkong Police Vest got modified to accept enough AR mags and a good selection of 40mm grenades for one battle. I can now carry up to eight grenades in the grenade pouches, so it is possible to carry enough explosive grenades AND some illum, gas or smoke grenades




There is no suitable LBE for a sniper and nobody really needs the Hunter Vest. So I modded it to be useful for my snipers. It carries enough ammo for the sniper rifle and a secondary weapon, which could be a SMG or a carbine or an assault rifle. Two sniper mags and two AR mags should be enough, if You decide to use an assault rifle as a secondary weapon.





The code of the SAW-vest:

	
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The code of the Grenadier Vest:

	
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The code of the Sniper Vest, I also changed the in the Items.xml

	
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[Updated on: Thu, 28 February 2013 20:49] by Moderator

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