Version History – Arma 2
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Revision as of 22:08, 10 December 2009
This article details the version history for ArmA 2
Build Numbers
Mapping "commercial" version numbers to build numbers:
Client & Listen Server Builds
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Dedicated Server Builds
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Version 1.04
Highlights
- Mouse controls: Improved mouse handling and responsiveness
- Stability: Fixed CTD caused by Voice Over Net when many players were speaking simultaneously and other stability problems
- Sound: Fixed speed of sound simulation and other improvements
- Multiplayer: fixed scoring, multiple mission parameters added and various other MP-related improvements
Engine
- New: Added mouse smoothing to game options.
- New: Enabled multiple parameters for MP missions.
- New: Mouse filtering strenght adjustable using mouseSmoothing=NNNN in user config.
- New: Command line argument -cpuCount=NNN to override cpu count detection.
- Improved: Mouse smoothing disabled for fast movement.
- Improved: Mouse smoothing can be disabled in user profile file using line mouseSmoothing=0;
- Improved: Audio volume settings.
- Fixed: Soldier were walking on non-existant heaps of debris from destroyed buildings.
- Fixed: Autocoordination caused rudder oscillation in high speed flight.
- Fixed: Crashes in VoN when many players were speaking simultaneously.
- Fixed: Immortal freezed soldiers occured in MP.
- Fixed: Broken kill scoring in MP (two points for unit kill).
- Fixed: Input key actions are no longer active while chat mode.
- Fixed: Diag_log used with long text argument caused crash.
- Fixed: Mouse scrolling in diary.
- Fixed: Enemy kills made by player using stolen enemy vehicle are no longer considered as friendly kills.
- Fixed: Switching to Utes from Chernarus caused Utes to contain infinite landscape.
- Fixed: Time of day synchronized on client after connection to server.
- Fixed: Speed of sound simulation.
- Fixed: Fire from rifle distort sound.
- Fixed: Crash by malformed input to a diag_log scripting function.
- Fixed: Dark muzzle flash in some of the weapon optics.
- Fixed: MP: Ships and boats used excessive bandwidth and CPU power.
- Fixed: Players are no longer forced to reconnect after MP Load on server.
- Fixed: Bike rider can be no longer healed.
- Fixed: Sometimes crew of a near vehicle was visible through the vehicle.
Missions
- Improved: Communication menu updated to work with the new menu systems.
- Fixed: Some persistent RE calls added for better JIP compatibility in campaign.
- Fixed: Music was sometimes not playing properly due to faulty playMusic RE command call.
- Fixed: Scene area cleared from exploding destroyed vehicles during various scenes.
- Fixed: Possible appearance of immortal non-player characters in campaign.
- Fixed: (First to Fight) MP: Logos shown on client every time after JIP.
- Fixed: (First to Fight) MP: Skeet shooting not working for clients after JIP.
- Fixed: (First to Fight) Players not boarded in the chopper if they got in the towing tractor.
- Fixed: (Into the Storm) MP: Bad position of client players during converation.
- Fixed: (Into the Storm) Some voice-subtitles difference in the first dialog.
- Fixed: (Into the Storm) MP: No callsign for HQ entity on clients.
- Fixed: (One Week Later) MP: Clients not sitting on bikes after leaving the AAV.
- Fixed: (One Week Later) MP: Player is no longer the co-pilot in the Osprey.
- Fixed: (Manhattan) Escort chopper often shot down.
- Fixed: (Manhattan) Palyer stuck in the animation after first scene.
- Fixed: (Badlands) Prizrak no longer initiates conversation if Cooper is in a vehicle.
- Fixed: (Badlands) Non-fucntional ending in campaign scenario.
- Fixed: (Missing in Action) Redundant random sentences from Razor.
Modules
- Improved: Ambient Civilians module caused lag in MP due to window lights.
- Fixed: Undefined variables in Ambient Civilians module.
- Fixed: High Command could behave strange when someone added his own display event handler.
- Fixed: Wrong positions of objects/logics.
- Fixed: Performance problems related to Animals module in MP.
Data
- Improved: Some of the vehicle HUDs now contain missing info.
- Fixed: Alignment issues on several wrapper UI screens.
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