Mod Details

RUAF Come Home!

RUAF Come Home! 1.0.1

Created by TacticalToaster

3.8K Downloads

SPT 4.0.6 Compatible

RUAF have finally returned to resolve the Norvinsk conflict.

Latest Version 1.0.1
SPT 4.0.6

Updated Nov 13, 4:01 AM

49.73 KB

Version Notes

Fika compatability tested for latest Fika version, make sure you install this mod alongside the dependencies correctly for all clients, the host, and headless.

Download the new hotfix for MoreBotsAPI alongside this. That will fix the dying bug, and this update will fix the agression/retaliation issues when you shoot at RUAF bots and they don’t shoot back.

(There may still be orange warnings about loading types, there are no problems being caused and it’s just a debug message I have to remove)

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Fika has been tested and is supported by both this and UNTAR Go Home, my other faction mod. Make sure this and all dependencies are correctly installed on the host, connecting players, and headless if you use that. Also make sure WTT Common Lib is updated to the latest version that supports Fika. When you do all that, things should work properly!

RUAF Come Home! adds RUAF as a proper faction to SPT. Encounter patrolling squads of soldiers. They have orders to shoot USEC on sight, so be careful! If you’re a BEAR, they’ll show you more tolerance, but keep your distance.

INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS

Download the .7z file. Unzip in your SPT install directory. Play SPT!

Note for Fika

The client-side portion of this mod and its dependencies are required on all connecting clients, the host, and headless if you are using that. Make sure everyone has the plugin and patcher correctly installed before using on Fika.

RUAF Come Home! requires BigBrain, MoreBotsAPI, and WTTCommonLib to run. Waypoint is not required currently but recommended. I also recommend SAIN for enhancing the combat behavior of the RUAF bots and for configuring their characteristics. There is also support for Couturier, using some clothes from that mod!

Features

New Bot Types

RUAF Come Home adds completely custom bot types that don’t replace existing bots, each with their own loadouts and roles. They are neutral to BEAR, giving warnings to anyone who strays too close and only firing when ignored or fired upon. Meanwhile, if you’re USEC, expect to be fired upon. They don’t take kindly to tourists. Also scavs, they hate scavs.

RUAF Rifleman

Your typical rifleman, equipped with an AK-74M. They make up the bulk of RUAF units.

RUAF Senior Rifleman

An NCO or Junior NCO in charge of a squad of RUAF soldiers. They’re equipped with the most recent equipment being fielded by RGF, using AK-12s, modernized kits for the AK-74M, and UBGLs.

RUAF Autorifleman

Soldier equipped with an RPK-16 to give mobile fire support. Capable of laying down suppressive fire so the rest of the unit can move. Uses 45-round RPK mags and 95-round drum mags.

RUAF Machinegunner

The autorifleman’s bigger brother, packing a PKM or PKP. Be very careful when you take on a RUAF squad that has one of these, or you’ll be swiss cheese.

RUAF Marksman

Capable of suppressing and eliminating threats to the RUAF squad before they become a problem. They’re equipped with the SVD-S with scopes, making them a priority target if you want to be able to flee without getting shot in the back.

RUAF Patrols

Patrols can spawn across several maps in randomly generated patrols at random times during the raid. Their size and composition varies, with a specialized role mixed in with every few rifleman, and always lead by a senior rifleman who can use UBGLs.

Maps

Settings related to patrols can be adjusted in the config/main.json server file. This includes adding new maps and zones! Patrols will pick a random available spawn zone found in the config file and a time in a defined range. Maps can be configured to have multiple patrols rolled (which also means you can encounter multiple patrols in one raid).

RUAF Checkpoints

These checkpoints spawn at the start of the raid in areas affiliated with RUAF, typically near or at extracts. You might have to change your exfil route if you were planning on an easy escape! Config settings allow you to add your own checkpoints or edit existing ones.

Planned features
  • Quests from multiple traders and services through Prapor. Quests will change RUAF aggression and hostility with both the player and other factions (vanilla and my mods).
  • GRU Spetznaz squads that hunt down USECs and other factions, depending on what questlines you complete.

Not specific to this mod, but related things I want to work on that you might like if you enjoy my faction mods:

  • Dialogue mod. I don’t want to spoil too much since I still need to do some prototyping to make sure it’s feasible, but there will be integration with my other mods if it is.

Config

The config folder in the server mod lets you configure things such as patrol spawning and supported maps. Adjust the conditions for different roles to spawn in patrols or add the chance for patrols to spawn on other maps. I’ll add detailed explanations of the config options later but they’re fairly self-explanatory at the moment.

Compatability

SAIN

These bots function with SAIN and through the MoreBotsAPI there is support for customizing the bots characteristics like you would other bot types.

Spawn Mods

Should work with most spawn mods as long as they don’t override boss spawns that aren’t vanilla. My previous UNTAR mod was tested with ABPS and MOAR and it worked with those. I haven’t tested with any of the new 4.0.0 spawn mods so let me know if there are incompatabilities I might be able to address.

Also, if you disable bosses in any way these bots won’t spawn. They use the vanilla boss spawn system.

Credits and Thanks

Thanks to GrooveypenguinX and nameless___ for letting me reference yalls code, and specifically Groovey for giving me the run down on what I needed to do to get custom bots working. This mod wouldn’t exist without that starting point.

Thanks to Solarint for making a mod I felt was necessary to have compatability for before publishing this mod. No, seriously, SAIN is amazing and if you don’t already have it installed give it a look.

Thanks DrakiXYZ for BigBrain, absolutely necessary mod for anything bot-related. The less I have to touch BSG’s code the better lmao.

Goes without saying that thanks should be given to the SPT team for enabling any of this in the first place. Yall rock!

Support Me!

Buy me a Java Monster so I can fix my broken releases faster after I get back home from work. Or don’t, I’ll still do it for free. https://ko-fi.com/tacticaltoaster

Version 1.0.1
Download Mod Version
SPT 4.0.6 +3 more
All Compatible SPT Versions:
4.0.6 4.0.5 4.0.4 4.0.3

49.73 KB

3.3K Downloads

Dependencies:

Fika compatability tested for latest Fika version, make sure you install this mod alongside the dependencies correctly for all clients, the host, and headless.

Download the new hotfix for MoreBotsAPI alongside this. That will fix the dying bug, and this update will fix the agression/retaliation issues when you shoot at RUAF bots and they don’t shoot back.

(There may still be orange warnings about loading types, there are no problems being caused and it’s just a debug message I have to remove)

Version 1.0.0
Download Mod Version
SPT 4.0.6 +3 more
All Compatible SPT Versions:
4.0.6 4.0.5 4.0.4 4.0.3

49.66 KB

444 Downloads

Dependencies:

Initial release. Contains similar features to UNTAR Go Home! (patrols and checkpoints) alongside more varied squad member types.

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TacticalToaster Pinned

Everyone that’s facing major errors (orange warnings are fine and I’ll be suppressing excess ones that don’t actually cause problems. Accidentally left those in), try a few things for me so I can make sure I know what to look at once I have access to my PC. If you’re using UNTAR Go Home, make sure you’re using the latest version of the mod. Do a full reinstall if not. Make sure MoreBotsAPI and RUAF Come Home both are fully installed, with plugin, patcher, and server files in the correct paths. From there test to see what breaks and causes errors and then send logs to me on the SPT discord. My user is tacticaltoaster there and I have a thread in the mod-development channel you can post the logs too.

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IF YOU’RE ALSO USING UNTAR GO HOME MAKE SURE TO DELETE THAT MOD’S FOLDERS AND FILES BEFORE UPDATING IT TO THE LATEST VERSION. There is an issue with files that no longer exist in the new version remaining if you just override existing files causing the loading issues. When updating any mod it’s good practice to delete the old files before installing the updated version in case there’s been changes to the file structure of the mod, like in this case. I should’ve left a warning but there’s one up now on Untar Go Home. Let me know if that does or doesn’t fix issues you’re having.

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how about this Shared bot type file ruafRifleman not found at C:\Games\SPT 4.0.3\SPT\user\mods\RUAFComeHome\db\bots\sharedTypes Shared bot type file ruafAutorifleman not found at C:\Games\SPT 4.0.3\SPT\user\mods\RUAFComeHome\db\bots\sharedTypes Shared bot type file ruafGrenadier not found at C:\Games\SPT 4.0.3\SPT\user\mods\RUAFComeHome\db\bots\sharedTypes Shared bot type file ruafMarksman not found at C:\Games\SPT 4.0.3\SPT\user\mods\RUAFComeHome\db\bots\sharedTypes Shared bot type file ruafMachinegunner not found at C:\Games\SPT 4.0.3\SPT\user\mods\RUAFComeHome\db\bots\sharedTypes is that safe to play with it? ty

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As long as it is only orange you should be good. I’ll be fixing that in the next minor version of the API. Also, make sure you update to the latest fix versions of the API and RUAF, alongside UNTAR if you use that too. Just posted them!

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RedJarmed

Yo I got ambushed at Scav House in woods by a full squad of these guys while I was in the open and It was one of the coolest firefights I’ve had in this game. I was able to retreat to some cover and call in an A-10 gun run from Sam Swat’s Fire support mod, this took out the MG gunner but I still had several of them pushing me while tossing nades and suppressing me. I was barely able to stop my bleed in time when all was said and done. Great work Toaster!

This and UN Go Home have quickly become two of my favorite mods.

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Sounds cool. Do you run sain?

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MillyP1
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Koeiss

Is there a way to adjust a spawn to prevent the squads spawning at the south RUAF checkpoint on Woods if I end up at that PMC spawn? When your PMC spawns there by the big rock the soldiers will be shooting at you the second you spawn. They also seem to have laser vision because they will very quickly acquire and shoot you when you’re at the sawmill across the lake. I haven’t really noticed such an issue on other maps, although that may have to do with sightlines and map layout.

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zxcGhoulXXX

ofc modders did that before bsg

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GorillaSoup

Any chance of a 3.11 backport? I love the UN guys, would love to have RUAF presence as well.

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MillyP1

Not reporting bugs or anything, just trying to start a discussion and kind of cry about something unreasonable. I genuinely love this mod and its goal, but I feel like it’s unfair when these RUAF join a fight, are neutral with me, but then randomly turn on me in the middle of the fight, it really kills the momentum of the fight and my immersion I’m trying to achieve with the mod IMO. Maybe there can be something implemented like an “inFirefight” state. Something to check whether they are actively fighting (and with who) or just patrolling, etc. And only giving out warnings to the player while in patrol state. If they are in a fight state against anything except the player, they keep their neutral status with the player until the fight is over. Again, not asking for change necessarily or trying to argue with anyone or trying to disrespect the mod dev(s), just dishing my thoughts because my friends don’t care about SPT. If a discord server is more appropriate for this comment, I apologize and will delete.

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Yeah something like that would be perfect or maybe a longer time before they become aggressive, with a debug setting to see the time

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I agree, I think the warning time should be a little bit longer at least. Or even like a reputation system. Similar to how “helping scavs” as a scav give you Fence rep, if you kill USECs, UNTAR, or even “bad BEARs” the RUAF patrols are less likely to agro you. I don’t know if that’s necessarily “lore friendly” though.

I’m no mod dev, so I don’t even know if my ideas is possible, but I think it would be nice. Observing from afar and watching them fight is immersive, but it breaks when I just wanna reap the benefit of the loot lol

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Local Crew

the battle between the exusec and the ruaf is very epic ! the appearance of mods that change the behavior of bots towards real-life situations would add immersion to the gaming experience, and such mods are worth a lot

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sad

a suggestion to merge both of your mods, RUAF and UNTAR to NTR(new tarkov republic)

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Truth_Holder

Love this in single player but so far in FiKa we get stuck at waiting for player to finish loading 50%

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Make sure everyone has the client-side (BepInEx folder) part of the mod installed. If you use headless, that needs the client stuff installed too. I tested today to make sure the latest version of everything works and I was able to do Co-op and headless with no problems. If you need any more help let me know.

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I have this same issue for both RUAF and UNTAR go home :(

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