Arma 2: Version History

This article details the version history for Arma 2

Build Numbers

Mapping "commercial" version numbers to build numbers:

Client & Listen Server Builds Version Build Description 1.00 57270 Morphicon release 1.01 57631 European 505 release + Public beta patch 1.01 57751 Patch 1.02 58064 Patch 1.02 58127 Demo 1.02 58134 Patch 1.02 58136 STEAM release 1.03 58627 Patch 1.03 58814 Public beta patch 1.03 58834 Public beta patch 1.03 58879 Public beta patch

Dedicated Server Builds Version Build Description 1.02 58055 Dedicated server beta 1.03 58659 Dedicated server 1.03 58879 Dedicated server beta

Version 1.03

Highlights

• Major AI tweaking and balancing (especially AI infantry can hear much less)
• Improved multiplayer and cooperative campaign (saving games, connection issues)
• Numerous fixes and improvements in the Harvest Red campaign

Engine

• New: Functions getPosATL and setPosATL to allow controlling position relative to terrain.
• New: command line option -showScriptErrors introduced to show errors in scripts on-screen
• New: Direct analogue throttle and brake for airplanes now available.
• New: More flexible configuration of Flares in the config (brightness, size)
• New: Mission name (with * indicated unsaved work) displayed in the mission editor
• New: Keyboard shortcuts in the mission editor
• Improved: better handling of gravitation for shots (esp. for grenades)
• Improved: Building destruction
• Improved: Better airplane HUD visibility both night and day
• Optimization: Reduced frame stutter near map borders.
• Hotfix: Players are forced to reconnect after MP Load on server.
• Fixed: no particles effect when hit object with destructNo
• Fixed: grenade could destroy a building just by impact
• Fixed: grenades may explode only on the final impact
• Fixed: when a grenade bounces on a ship deck, the proper particle effects is shown now
• Fixed: missiles should pass through vegetation
• Fixed: Player connected to loaded game was sometimes frozen.
• Fixed: Game crashed when launched on a system with more then 8 CPUs/cores.
• Fixed: Possible crash with laser designator active.
• Fixed: Sometimes crew of a close vehicle was visible through the vehicle.
• Fixed: Infinite looping of commands 'Stop' in radio.
• Fixed: Leaning 'limits' do not work in TrackIR.
• Fixed: Clients were often endlessly stuck in 'Receiving...' window after MP Load.
• Fixed: Rainbow could be visible even with sun below horizon.
• Fixed: 3D Editor - civilian and resistance units did not work correctly
• Fixed: Sea surface was not rendered in NE area out of map.
• Fixed: Terrain surface was sometimes using wrong parallax map.
• Fixed: Grenade could sometimes destroy a building just by impact
• Fixed: Radio messages sometimes echoed
• Fixed: Team switch did not work when player died
• Fixed: Reduced AI detecting slowly moving enemy vehicles by ear.
• Fixed: Prevent killed AI units reporting who killed them.
• Fixed: After respawn in MP, player's tasks, diary content and skills are transferred to the new entity
• Fixed: Leaning 'limits' did not work with TrackIR
• Fixed: MP client frozen in Receiving... screen sometimes
• Fixed: Problems with saving and loading games in cooperative campaign

Missions

• Fixes and improvements in most of the campaign missions (Into the Storm, Harvest Red, Bitter Chill, Manhattan, Badlands, Dogs of War)
• Improved: autosave logic to not save when it was not safe
• Improved: Eye for an Eye in Scenarios

Modules

• Fixed: Warfare fast travel on clients was not using logistic values
• Fixed: Warfare money sending
• Fixed: Warfare HQ multiple reports
• Fixed: First-Aid: Action module caused healing scripts to run twice
• Fixed: Supply drop not ending (wrong vehicle class)
• New: First-Aid modules work with respawn
• New: First-Aid ability to stop healing
• New: Added ability to add Support Requests that do not expire.
• Improved: First-Aid modules more robust and faster
• Improved: Better support for side Resistance in SOM / ACM.

Data

• Fixed: Invisible driver in UAZ (MG and GL)
• Fixed: AI soldiers were able to hear extremely well
• Fixed: various minor problems on buildings
• Fixed: rocks destruction effect changed
• Fixed: penetrability of some vegetation
• Fixed: collision geometry of A_BuildingWIP
• Fixed: react FSM core conversations
• Fixed: cargo animations in LAV25
• Fixed: indicators in Ka52 when using NVG
• Fixed: cargo animations in BTR
• Fixed: Warfare keypoint on Chernarus

Version 1.02 Updated

Highlights

• Antialiasing enabled in Video options
• Different logic of fillrate optimizer: separate settings for 3D Resolution and UI Resolution implemented instead

Engine

• Fixed localVRAM detection on Vista x64 systems with 8 GB RAM and more
• Enabled MSAA in Video options
• Fixed possible crash in Radio target reporting for NULL target
• Fixed DOF always enabled on game start.
• Added safeguard againg frequent reset into RequestFlushMemory as well.
• Improved Cannot create surface Rpt messages.
• Relaxed reset recovery conditions to that "profylactic" reset happens less often.
• HC command - enabled page selection
• Commandline parameter -netlog available in retail version again
• Editor fix: modules info serialization Fixed
• Fix: weapon fire effects in MP

Version 1.02

Highlights

• Improved AI driving skills
• Lowered enemy AI skills for regular and recruit difficulty levels
• Improved Micro AI tactics, attack in pairs, path limiting to avoid passing through walls.
• Fixed multiplayer session NAT negotiation
• Improved game stability (various crash opportunities fixed)
• Multiple save slots supported
• Improved terrain shape beyond map borders
• Various campaign and localisation fixes and improvements
• Modules (F7) support added in the Mission Editor

Engine

• Multiple savegame positions allowed.
• Configuration fixes in radio protocol (including faster reaction to crew-related orders in vehicles).
• Multiplayer server browser enlarged.
• Improved steering for car.
• Improved mobile artillery simulation.
• Improved terrain shape beyond map borders.
• Improved Micro AI tactics, attack in pairs, path limiting to avoid passing through walls.
• Added UAV camera stabilization.
• Indication of player connection status in list of players (Diary).
• Possible to connect to server with template-based MP scenario.
• Repeated weapon change command fixed in radio protocol.
• Game no longer crashes when copying a linked trigger in the Mission Editor.
• Different radio notification of multiple units attacking.
• NAT negotiation issue removed (different negative sign cookie on client and server).
• Fixed possible crash after or during Get In in multiplayer.
• Improved transfer of building destruction in multiplayer.
• Fine surface information are now properly used for surface properties.
• Destroyed targets are no more massively reported after player has left the vehicle.
• Proper update of AI pathfinding when new building is created in the landscape (new objects were ignored).
• VON no longer crashes the game in certain circumstances.
• AI sprinting on the spot removed if route was planned across the roof.
• Server shown as passworded in Server Browser when passworded or locked.
• Improved functionality of Get In command if player is vehicle commander.
• Swimming soldiers no longer drop inventory items.
• Swimming players cannot use Gear dialog.
• New scripting function "GetPlayerUID unit" available to help server admins better recognize teamKillers etc.
• Fillrate optimization in Video Options is now defined via combo box.
• Improved light count optimization (should help performance when many distant lights are present).
• Low-frequency effect (subwoofer) improved.

Scenarios

• Added or fixed markers in pre-mission briefings in various scenarios.
• "Eye for Eye" singleplayer scenario: Hostiles balanced and loadouts of playable units fixed.
• "Counterattack" singleplayer scenario: Flow fix, player's group now properly advance from the harbour if strong enough to continue.
• "Trial by Fire" script error fixed.
• Campaign: Time flow screen added to scenario intros.
• Campaign: "Murder" mission ends are now triggered also when firing from a vehicle.
• Campaign: Multiplayer info for all campaign scenarios added.
• Campaign: Scene-specific sound entities are deleted after end of a scene.
• "First to Fight" campaign scenario:
  • Shooting range bug fixed.
  • Officer's speech has titles added.
• "First to Fight" campaign scenario: O'Hara animation speed fixed.
• "Into the Storm" campaign scenario: Conditions of interaction with civilians improved.
• "Razor Two" campaign scenario:
  • Mission-failed end now performs correctly.
  • Razor members cannot use UAV during conversations.
• "One Week Later" campaign interlude: Conversation more logical.
• "Manhattan" campaign scenario:
  • Animations of ambient people improved.
  • Task waypoint for main task positioned better.
  • Insurgent animations after death disabled in scene.
  • Civilian woman stuck near transport prevented.
  • Reinforcements navigation fixed.
• "Bitter Chill" campaign scenario:
  • Conversations and broken mission flow fixed.
  • Accidental death of Cpt. Shaftoe after a scene prevented.
  • Improved positions of several killed unit.
  • Radio chatter disabled where disturbing.
• "Badlands" campaign scenario:
  • Ending and conversation flow fixes.
  • Scene of talking to locals improved.
• "Dogs of War" campaign scenario:
  • Insurgent leader presence now logical.
  • Several story-related vehicles are now properly usable.
  • Initial conversation work in multiplayer.
• "War That Never Was" campaign outro: Amount of units decreased, behaviour improved.
• AI grouping prevented in team deathmatch and deathmatch scenarios.
• Module for limiting area of operation script fixes.
• Recomposed fortifications and minor fixes in Warfare.
• First-aid module performance improvements.
• Language and gameplay fixes in multiplayer and singleplayer templates.

Art/Environment

• Changed lighting values for early morning and dusk.
• Improved wheeled vehicles turning definitions.
• Utes: Improved carrier deck collision shape and F-35B geometry.
• Gas stations on map can now refuel nearby vehicles.
• Minor object fixes on Chernarus map (traffic signs tweaks, small objects).
• Added small signs to Chernarus map.
• Less frequent occurence of thunderbolts.

Version 1.01

Engine

• Fixed: AI sometimes did not respond
• Fixed: AI has difficulty in certain situations with path
• Improvements to the AI: Avoidance of collisions, AI Micro-communications, Suppress-Fields
• Improved: AI coordination in the fight
• Improved: Auto-Vectoring the vertical (VTOL).
• Improved Quick Start and Quick inflation country (STOL)
• Improved shooting simulation
• Improved performance in some areas
• Improved injury simulation, first aid and team change
• Enable the rollover of the MV-22
• Fixed: weapons inside of vehicles were sometimes white.
• Fixed: Several crash scenarios
• Fixed: Sometimes flickering textures
• Fixed: muzzle fire and other alpha-elements, which intersect the water surface.
• Fixed: Extended scene sequences called problems with LODs and textures show.
• Fixed: Terrain LOD produces white spots

Communications

• Improvements in the quality of radio communications
• Standardized reporting on known targets have been improved

Campaign

• Support for up to 4 players in co-op mode
• Improved scripts for stable functioning mission ends
• Various improvements in emissions and animated scenes
• Improved "StarForce" transport service (this player can better manage occasional problem regarding frozen StarForce fixed)
• Alert function for each found reference added
• Music on other bodies in the main campaign added
• Some missing audio files added

Environment

• Rendering of improved surface water
• Various minor fixes and improvements

Sound Effects

• Effect for players figure in the vicinity of larger explosions added (ringing in the ears, temporary deafness)

Control Surface

• Improved GPS support (Ctrl + right mouse when GPS is available)
• Functions without the map view (default: key J)
• List of players without the map view (default: key P)
• Improved rendering of the peripheral visual field simulation (marks on the screen, the natural boundary of the visual field is)
• Permanent Representation of the leader symbol on the screen even in normal difficulty
• Hide task pane to look in the middle of the screen to release

Models

• Aircraft cargo compartments in fixed (The cargo had with the pilots swapped places)
• Camera position for BTR and T90 target devices fixed
• LODs of the visual aid to protect crews in vehicles wheels fixed
• Improved animation for hand-aircraft missile launchers
• Inserted at arms-aircraft missile launchers
• Fire in geometry billboard models fixed
• Changed the engine noise of tractors and buses
• Hotel Schild added
• Ruins of the administration building fixed
• Textures for G36 and a symbol of the fixed MG36
• Animation of the shooter on BRDM-ATGM fixed
• Improved model of the AK-107
• Improved map for reflections in the vicinity
• Improved the cursor A1
• Textures icon of T34 improved optics and fixed tower stabilizer added and exhaust cloud
• PostFX in optics for all Tracked2 models added
• Warfare characters fixed
• AAV-geometry (mass) fixed
• Projection of the first material used to improve meeting
• Improved Holosign own shadow of M4
• Destruction simulation with wrecks and dams on the card improves