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FHQ CombatMode

With Arma 3 1.56 came the possibility to prevent AI from automatically entering combat mode. This is useful for instances where you, for example, want to quickly move through terrain, but the AI is doing their "Bounding Overwatch Dance".

This addon allows you to create a set of hotkeys that allow, disallow, or toggle the possibility of AI in your group to enter combat mode automatically. You can still manually command them to enter combat mode, but they will not do so automatically, and even when engaged, ordering them to "Aware" will cancel combat mode.

In adition, there's now also a "Rearm At" key: Select one or more units (normally via F-Keys), look at an ammo box or body, and press the Rearm At key. The selected units will walk to the ammo box(body, rearm from it, and return to formation.

This addon requires the Community Base Addon.

To configure the mod's keys, go to "Options" in the main menu, then "Controls", and click the "Configure Addons" button at the bottom right of the Controls window. From the "Addon" box, select "FHQ CombatMode", and set the keys you want. You don't have to map all keys, you might for example just use the "Toggle Combat Mode" key to toggle between allowing and preventing combat mode.

To configure the default behavior, go to "Options", then "Game", and click on the "Configure Addons" button at the bottom right of the Game Options window. Then, select "FHQ CombatMode" from the "Addon" box. Here, you can set whether combat mode is disabled from the start (box is not checked, default behvior), or combat mode is allowed (box is checked).