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Can confirm Repair/Rearm/Refuel (RRR) works in v3.001 v4.002

UPDATE: As of 4 October 19, KOTA has removed RRR from their server citing server hangs and players being kicked likely as a result of the RRR.

UPDATE: As of 15 November 2019, KOTA has added RRR back again to their servers!

As of the moment, all KOTA missions have this feature implemented. In KOTA, respawning is a 3 minute penalty in that server, to balance the rearming vs respawn debate. The server has standardized the appearances of these Service Areas (refer to center picture in Part II) making it easier for players to visually identify them when playing and also marked them on the map. and also adding green smoke for easy spotting.

This topic is broken down into two parts

I. How the RRR logic works in the Editor... (for mission makers)

II. At the Service Area...(for players)

I. How the RRR logic works in the Editor... (for mission makers)

The "Service Area" simply means you are inside the radius of a maintenance object (in this case, "Vehicle (en 8484) Opel Blitz"). In KOTA, it is an Opel Blitz truck with a maintenance radius set at 300m. The RRR works regardless of where you put the object. As long as you are within the radius, you can be serviced.  Mission makers should mark these service areas either visually or on a map to let players know where the "zone" is. To test this out, I placed the maintenance object in a nearby town from where I spawned then I crash landed my He111 into a tree near the truck and was momentarily repaired in the field. Regardless of what timer you set, the services all take place well within a few seconds for some reason.

II. At the Service Area...(for players)

The default keys are:

• RCtrl+A - Rearm
• RCtrl+F - Refuel

*If you want to change these, go to settings--->key bindings--->plane engine controls or weapon controls tab(scroll to the bottom)to change key binding to desired key.

1.Entering

Technochat will notify you when you are in service area (Right picture). Once here you can perform all RRRs

• "You are in service area, stop and turn the engine off"
• (Left to Right) - Spawn --> Service Area, a Service Area in KOTA, Notification from Technochat

2. Repair

Automatic and instantaneous. You simply need to be inside the radius. Repair is very fast and all the same time. Repair now begins by fixing groups of parts such as all flight controls or trim rods... Through this, you can see just how detailed the damage model is in IL2. For instance, I retracted my gears and as a result I lost all my prop blades. When repair began, each individual blade was installed one at a time. The entire repair process took around 5 seconds. Technochat notifies you of the part being repaired. When repaired, you are picked up off the ground a few meters very much akin to spawning in a new object in GTA. If wounded, your pilot will be healed as well. This does not apply to gunners. A KIA Pilot will not be revived.

• "Repairing engine" "Skin repaired"

Here, I shot my tail off and damaged my wings and when repaired, I was dropped a few meters off the ground resulting in my left gear ripping off, it was instantly fixed hence why you see the dust twice.

3. Refuel

Initiated by pressingrefuel key (RCtrl+F by default) onceand Technochat will notify you how much you're adding. Press once to initiate refueling, press again to stop. No holding.

• Refueling seems to be at a constant rate across the board. A 109 (400 l) will refuel proportionally faster than the larger He111H6 (3450 l). Since v4.001, the refueling rate has been slowed dramatically allowing for much finer control. It seems to be at a rate of 20 l every second compared to the previous 150 l per second of v3.001.

4. Rearm.

Press the Rearm key (RCtrl+A by default) and Technochat will notify you rearming begins. Guns are rearmed one at a time. If your plane has 4xMG151s, only one stripe will be reloaded before the other gets reloaded and so forth. Gunner ammo is not replenished. Rearming no longer requires one to "reload" their guns. The time it takes to reload is dependent on the timer the mission designer set.

• "Loading Bombs..."
• Note how IL2 GB models the He111 being weighed down further after each 1800kg is added.

Some important things to note:

• You cannot change skins.
• You cannot change loadout. (You can choose to stop rearm at any time so in a way, you can "change" your loadout)
• You cannot defuel
• Signal Flares do not get rearmed.
• Gunners do not get rearmed.
• For fighters, if no more ammo, once rearmed, press 'Reload all guns' (LAlt+R by default) key to reload
• KIA do not get revived.

*There are currently still many bugs. This feature is not as fleshed out as what you see in DCS or War Thunder, but it works, sorta. For instance, when I was at the service area, I tried bailing out but the game kept trying to repair my canopy. As a result the canopy was stuck in an endless look of popping off and coming back down repeatedly. I could not FINISH MISSION because I was still considered "active"

*This function sounded great in the patch notes, but is still full of cracks. The average player will not find any problems but the longer you use this feature the more you will find. If you want to change your skin, change loadout, replenish gunner ammo etc... that is just currently not possible.  A bomber having successfully flown multiple sorties is continuously drained of his defensive armament until he starts flying into combat without any defensive ammunition. That just makes no sense. Or say you are out of fuel and gliding into the AF. At the moment, your best option is to simply crash land into the service area (instead of the runway) and hope the radius registers you and RRRs you.

How each server chooses to implement this RRR feature is entirely up to them. This topic simply serves to demonstrate how the function works. As of 2 October 2019, KOTA seems to be the only with this feature and they have decided to balance out this feature by forcing a 3min delay for those who respawn.

UPDATE: As of 4 October 19, KOTA has removed RRR from their server citing server hangs and players being kicked likely as a result of the RRR.

UPDATE: As of 15 November 2019, KOTA has added RRR back again to their servers!

Hope this helps and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask !

Clips:

25 Nov 19: What happens if you blow up at the RRR station and your crew dies?

Edited November 26, 2019 by =KG76=flyus747
Updated to stay current as of 26 Nov 19, added a video, edited notes to reflect current state of v4.002

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