PreWar Binoculars - Call in Fire Support (StingRay version)

Overview:

At the request of users of PreWar Binoculars - Call in Fire Support Addon this mod adds compatibility to call in Stingray Air Support bombing runs. Alongside being able to call in the bombing runs you retain the ability to call in Minutemen Artillery and Yangtze Tactical Nuclear Missiles.

Function:

The targeting system has been tweaked and refreshed. The binoculars retain the range finder function but now support is initiated via using the Encrypted Data Channel aid item. The Data Channel can be activated either before or after marking a target. The player is then given the barter menu to choose the required support type. This method will allow for future compatibility patches with other mods without conflict issues. You may experience some anomalies if going from 2. 1.x to 2. 3. 0.

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Using the PreWar Binoculars as a base you will have the perk 'Forward Observer' as long as you have completed the Here There Be Monsters

Quest, read the terminal entry at the 'Abandoned Lab' or you are able to build artillery (controlled through the global variable not the quest completion).  When aiming with the binoculars this perk means you can target enemies to open a barter menu and select your fire support option, without alerting them to your presence.

On initial start up the mod will check to see if the Abandoned Lab terminal entry has been read, the ability to build artillery has been granted or Here There Be Monsters has been completed. If you meet any of these criteria, then it will give you a basic pair of binoculars to use. If you haven't then it will monitor in the background until you do, Updated for v2. 0. 0+ with the new module system of adding support options the game checks periodically every 3 in game hours for changes to the global variable set by the terminal entry. Upon reading the entry play for a bit or wait or sleep and it will catch up.

Further to this it always annoyed me that if you weren't listening to Radio Freedom then you didn't know what was going on with the status of the artillery request. This mod will automatically tune in to Radio Freedom for the duration of the artillery strike and then revert to the previous state. If the radio was off it will turn off again, if you were listening to Diamond City Radio then it will tune back in to Travis. All without having to enter your PipBoy.

How to call in fire support

This sequence must be followed to call in fire support on to a target, the target must be a NPC. Steps 1 and 2 can be reversed, i.e use the item first and then

target a NPC.

[]Target NPC with binoculars, get the range finder notification top left

[]Use the Encrypted Data Item within your inventory (can be hot keyed), within 5 seconds