Arma 3 Players Guide
For the newcomers to the TAK environment: ATAK (Android Team Awareness Kit) is a Situation Awareness application used by many military, law enforcement and concerned citizens in the world. In game, you can use it as a realistic blue force tracker to know where your allies are, where they are pointing and share information. If you have never used it, take some time to test it before you join a game session that will use ATAK with ARMATAK. Using the ARMATAK mod, you have two ways to use ATAK, the first and simple one is to connect to the TAK Server or network defined by your mission maker, you will be able to see the points as in "third person" view, it won't mock your phone's info, but you will be able to see stuff. The other and a bit more complex way is to connect your Arma 3 to the ATAK UDP Socket, that will change your phone's location, bearing and speed into the game's location and there is no better way to simulate a phone in the arma 3 scenario that moving the phone's geoinformation into it.
- ATAK -> Android App for Situation Awareness
- ARMATAK -> Arma 3 mod that sends the player's position to a websocket connection
- CoT -> Cursor Over Time, is the marker designation on ATAK, you can have player's CoTs, NATO 2525c CoTs, custom draw CoTs...
- EUD -> End User Device, your phone, tablet, desktop or any device that will use ATAK.
Be advised, since in most cases you will be sending your phone's location to the TAK Server/Network, it's highly recommended to hide your real location using a Fake GPS app. ARMATAK Client Socket will work even when you are using it because it will connect directly into the ATAK app. ATAK will only shows your in game location when Arma 3 is running and ARMATAK is connected to the ATAK Socket, if somehow your game crashes or your phone's socket disconect, you will send your real location to everyone.
ATAK-CIV is publicly available on Play Store, download and authorize the permissions on your phone (there are many of them, but it quite makes sense because of the functions required).
ARMATAK is publicy available in the Arma 3 Steam Workshop and Github, just subscribe on Steam Workshop and Steam should handle the installation of ARMATAK.
Arma 3 is opened with ARMATAK on your loaded mods, your phone has ATAK already connected to the TAK Server/VPN, if you want to just see the points in third person, you are good to go with the mission maker's defined entities to be displayed on TAK Server, BUT, if you wan't to go full deep into ATAK, there will be a ACE Self action called "Connect to EUD", this action will popup a form asking for your phone's local network address (if you are not connected to the same LAN in your computer and laptop this will make things way harder, you have to forward the phone's UDP socket port). Check this video to illustrate, after getting the "EUD Connected" message, you are good to go.
This is a Arma 3 addon for streaming unit locations to TAK End User Devices.
