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Shelved PR 357 irondome wildcard

rayswaynl edited this page Jul 3, 2026 · 1 revision

Shelved: PR #357 — Iron Dome AA wildcard (revive W14)

State: Ray-shelved 2026-07-03 (Build 89 pick round). PR #357 was closed without merging; nothing from it is in Build 88/89.

WHAT

Revives the retired W14 "Iron Dome" AI-commander wildcard card (zeroed out 2026-06-27) behind a flag. When enabled and drawn, the AI spawns two crewed anti-air pods near its most-threatened town for 300 seconds — a temporary air-denial event that punishes enemy aircraft over the front, then despawns itself.

WHERE

  • PR: #357 — "feat(avenger-sam-wildcard): revive inert W14 Iron Dome wildcard card behind flag".
  • Branch / head commit: fable/wildcard-irondome @ de5eabea16a9582f5f312813bfa9b5ea9255d2e7.
  • Flag (if any): WFBE_C_WILDCARD_IRON_DOME = 0 (default OFF/dark; set to 1 restores W14 at weight 7, Uncommon).
  • Files touched: Server/Functions/AI_Commander_Wildcard.sqf (the _wW14 weight line now reads the flag instead of hard-0; the existing W14 apply block is intact); Common/Init/Init_CommonConstants.sqf (1 constant). Mirrored Chernarus + Takistan. (PR was stacked on #287.)

WHY SHELVED

Ray was offered two Avenger/SAM air-denial approaches — this Iron-Dome wildcard (#357) and the Avenger SAM ambush (#315) — and on 2026-07-03 picked NEITHER ("neither Avenger path"). Both siblings are shelved together. The card was default-off (weight 0 when the flag is 0), so behaviour is byte-identical to live and nothing needs reverting.

HOW TO REVIVE

  • Recover from branch fable/wildcard-irondome @ de5eabea16a9582f5f312813bfa9b5ea9255d2e7; the change is one weight line plus one constant, so it re-lands cleanly default-off.
  • Ray declined both Avenger paths this round — a revival should present a single chosen air-denial design (not both #357 and #315), with a reason the earlier "boring/useless" verdict on W14 no longer applies.
  • Rebase note: the PR was stacked on #287 (recon drone), which is also shelved — retarget onto current claude/build84-cmdcon36 (or the then-current base) and re-derive the _wW14 weight-line edit against live.
  • Validate in-engine: confirm the correct faction AA pod spawns, engages aircraft, and despawns after ~300s with the wildcard name logged in the draw RPT.

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