Boat navigation/autopilot

Unturned II U4 Discussion
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The idea is, that some boats have an autopilot and a gps navigation, that allows them to automatically drive to a target location.

Unturned implementation:

  • you can press a specific key while driving a boat to bring up a navigation menu (this should be just a satellite map), where you can choose the location where you want to go (place a waypoint or multiple waypoint if you want to avoid some locations, that will be just for the ship navigation and it will not overwrite your standard waypoint) and press a button to drive to that location. if any of the boat navigation waypoints is in a place where the boat can’t go, a menu will pop up and you will be able to choose if you want to abort the navigation or if you want to move that waypoint to a closest location where the ship can go.

Advantages:

  • ability to drive in a bad weather (like a very strong fog).
  • when someone is chasing you, you can activate that autopilot and go to a passanger seat to shoot.

Note: there are also some military land vehicles with those capabilities but i don’t that it is a good idea to implement them.

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Looks good to me, but it should be a separate item that you have to find and place it in the boat(you must have engineer level 3 to do that)

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I believe this should only be available for specific boats. Becase it’s kinda OP if the boat can move and you can shoot from a passenger seat.

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obviously jetski can’t have an autopilot.
Maybe it could be only for larger boats like the fishing boat or war machine.

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I agree.
Also, ability to stand of moving vehicles please.
I want to fish while my friend is driving the boat.

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I believe you already can do that if you’re in a passenger seat

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But can you walk around freely?
No.

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The boat itself barely has enough space for you to sit. Do you really wanna walk on a boat that’s literally 3 steps long?

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Raft.
Fishing boat.
Buildables mounted on vehicles.
Trains.

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I would agree on trains to have auto pilot, but why would you fish on a moving vehicle? Just stop the vehicle. I suggest, when you leave such vehicle, you shouldn’t be on the ground. You should still be on them.
Yet again…

These are still too small to walk around in

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The fishing boat has a fair amount of walking space, to be honest. The Liberator also comes to mind when we talk about parented offset movement, since that was something Nelson originally considered iirc (having the Liberator move).

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Well, I wouldn’t consider the Liberator to be a boat. Since it’s an aircraft carrier. What I imagine when people say “boat” is something fishers use. Something small

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Sorry if this is considered "necro"ing but can we instead implement this on a plane or helicopter? those things are harder to pilot, especially for new players

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Well, they are harder to pilot at the cost of covering ground much faster than any other vehicle

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i dont think thats how boats work. maybe if instead of autopiloting to a location, you could just keep going in a straight line or whatever way the rudder is facing when on a boat that has a motor in the back.

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I don’t mean an autopilot that gets the aircraft to automatically get from point A to point B but an autopilot that works like IRL: it sets the aircraft/heli in a cruising speed/hover on the current height making it easier to learn to fly stable for new players (this ability can be used to substitute a pilot if one were to be a door gunner of some sort, but using the autopilot would drain the aircraft’s batteries faster… W8, does the aircrafts in Unturned use batteries or just fuel?)

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