Version History – Operation Flashpoint

Operation Flashpoint Version History from v1.00 till v 1.46

For versions after v1.46 check here.

Patch v1.46

(from v1.30)

New features

• Last-played campaign is selected in the Campaign book.
• When a user with a different version is connected, a message containing version information is shown.
• Colors in multiplayer setup dialogs.
• Soldiers are now better able to aim downwards.
• Support for simple tables in html files.
• New scripting function: array set [index,value].
• New scripting function: array resize newSize.
• Briefings can be previewed in the mission editor (hold SHIFT when pressing the "Preview" button).
• Two quote marks encountered in a script expression are parsed as a quote mark.
• When a starshell is lit, script onFlare.sqs in mission directory is called. Received [[R, G, B], gunner], where R, G, B is the light color from <0, 1>.

Optimizations

• Memory usage for MC animations optimized. Most MC Data loaded only when needed.
• SW T&L terrain color randomization removed. This makes terrain memory usage lower. Note: This feature was never present in HW T&L

Bug fixes

• Fixed (1.46): Destroyed barrels and other empty objects are not reported in statistics nor added to score
• Fixed (1.46): More ammo for Reammo Ural (same as for Reammo 5tTruck).
• Fixed (1.46): Appropriate picture for Cessna.
• Fixed (1.46): 8 men can be transported in Hind's cargo.
• Fixed (1.46): Helicopter landing with keyboard impossible. When landing, helicopter stops hovering above the ground.
• Fixed (1.46): Bug in HW T&L code: Material change was sometimes not recognized when polygons shared texture. This caused some trees were rendered darker.
• Fixed (1.46): net.log file is not being created.
• Fixed (1.46): Grid location in map one digit only in 1.45

• Fixed: OGG and JPG files now not compressed during mission export; this bug resulted in ineffective streaming audio support in custom missions.
• Fixed: Barrels and similiar objects were indestructible.
• Fixed: Fuel stations now explode when destroyed.
• Fixed: Vehicle explosions caused no damage to nearby soldiers / objects.
• Fixed: Briefing HTML error could cause the game to crash during mission startup when malformed HTML was loaded in some custom missions.
• Fixed: Scripting: Leading and trailing spaces were considered to be a part of label name.
• Fixed: When an enemy was killed, the killer was always detected, even when there was no one able to detect him. (He was detected by the dead unit).
• Fixed: When out of memory, the application was crashing. A message should now be shown instead.
• Fixed: Years in dates now work properly.
• Fixed: Free look mode is now switched off when getting in/out of vehicle or when a mission is restarted.
• Fixed: When no display adapter is selected in preferences and no adapter is recognized, select the first one. This resolves the "Cannot create 3D device: Adapter -1" error message.
• Fixed: Airplane: Autodetection of joystick / keyboard thrust was wrong. After using joystick thrust it was impossible to switch back to keyboard thrust.
• Fixed: Airplane engines turned off on bumpy surfaces during takeoff, making takeoff with a joystick impossible outside the airport.
• Fixed: Windows clipboard copy sometimes did not work correctly when non-text data were already stored in cliboard.
• Fixed: Sometimes the camera followed the wrong person if two players got into a vehicle simultaneously in MP.
• Fixed: Tanks were jumping after being hit from small weapons.
• Fixed: Long environmental sounds streaming was not working.
• Added: Support for looping streaming sounds.
• Fixed: Scripting: Array parsing inside of brackets was wrong. Example of wrong expression: (+[0]).
• Fixed: Crashes in MP if player waits in lobby and game is in progress
• Fixed: Great Monolith gradually growing out of the water after mission reload near A1 grid. (Thanks to WKK Gimbal for discovering when this bug happens.)
• Fixed: Random crash when custom face texture file was corrupted.
• Fixed: After MP game in roles display, commanders were red (non ready), but had not button "I'm ready".
• Fixed: MP: When moving during get in animation, player could see himself as running on top of a vehicle after getting in.
• Fixed: AI tanks were able to climb hills too fast.
• Fixed: Infinite loop in script caused game freeze.
• Fixed: CreateUnit failed when init was specified and could cause crash.
• Fixed: Crash in joining to empty group.
• Fixed: Dead AI unit blocked getting out for other AI units in the same vehicle.
• Changed: Limited helicopter climbing in high altitudes. Maximum possible altitude is now about 2500 m.
• Helicopter height limit when flying with keyboard removed in multiplayer or veteran mode. It is still used in SP cadet mode.
• Fixed: Helicopter collective was too sensitive near joystick center position.
• Cessna flight model and AI pilot improved. (Thanks to WKK Gimbal for a suggestion how to fix it.)
• Fixed: Airplane joystick throttle was reversed.
• Airplane climbing in high altitudes limited. Maximum possible altitude is now about 12000 m.
• Fixed: Player only partially removed from group after respawning to sea-gull. This caused corrupted group list drawing and repeating "xxx is down" message after "Report status" was issued.
• Fixed: Addons could change config entries that should not be changed, namely base class definiton of ,any class, leading to dammaged functionality or bogus "... uses modified config file" messages.
• Config protection message "... uses modified config file" is now more specific, the exact location of changed value is displayed.
• CfgSurfaces protected against addon modification.

Patch v1.30

(from v1.20)

New vehicles

• BRDM
• BMP-2
• OH-58D Kiowa Warrior
• Bradley

New weapons

• G36A
• Bizon
• Steyr Aug
• M16 with optics

New single-player missions

• C01Convoy
• C02Battlefields
• B01: Ground Attack II
• B02: HMMWV
• B03: Chinook

New multi-player missions

• 1-7_C_Oilwar
• 1-8_C_DesertAmbush
• 1-9_T_Conquerors
• 1-10_T_TeamFlagFight

Fixes & Improvements

Multiplayer

• Game lobby improved (Game in progress screen contain more information).
• Voting now possible (missions, kick, restart, reassign).
• Dedicated server is reporting itself to Gamespy.
• Network parameter adjustments can be made in Flashpoint.cfg.
• Bandwidth usage significantly optimized.
• Ping times are now shown in game lobby and in players overview.
• Decreased lag when hitting other units.
• Server performance (CPU load) improved.
• Server stability improved.
• Respawning bugs fixed.
• Vehicle boarding / disembarking / ejecting bugs fixed.
• Session stability bugs fixed.
• Fixed - AI killing team killers after respawn.
• Manual fire enabled if gunner is not another player.
• Fixed - unkickable ghost players occasionally appeared in player list.
• Fixed - helicopter gunner did not see any units on the radar.

General

• New laser target designators, laser guided bombs and missiles.
• Several crash bugs fixed.
• Speed of sound delay is now calculated for almost all sounds.
• New w-buffer and multitextuing options to help with compatibility issues (Video / Options).
• AI improved, better reaction to sound, improved bush visibility model.
• Several ammo and armor parameters were adjusted to be more realistic (including Sabot ammo, AA missiles, ZSU ammo, A10 armor).
• Boat bugs fixed (east boat gunner, water splash).
• Soldiers and cars can no longer stay and fire under water.
• Fixed minor bugs in HW T&L lighting model.
• Bullet tracers were missing since 1.20. They are now optional (see Options / Difficulty).
• Tank was wobbling when driving with mouse. Fixed.
• Airplane ground target engaging improved.
• Ejection from plane is real ejection, not only jumping out. AI attempts to eject from damaged plane or helicopter.
• Sky drawing optimized; this can help framerate in high resolutions.
• Empty tractor and sports cars were flying 1 m above ground. Fixed.
• iFeel mouse effects did not work. Fixed.
• When mission was saved while car was braking, car was sometimes frozen after load. Fixed.
• Player character was sprinting when running up very steep hill. Fixed.

Patch v1.20

(from v1.00 and v1.10)

New Features

• Steering wheel Force Feedback.
• iFeel mouse force feedback support.
• Joystick axis configuration.
• Joystick support.
• Pixel shader (1.0) used during night rendering.
• AT3 (BMP missile) is guided manually (when not locked).
• Configuration for zoom on right mouse button
• Rifle recoil to force feedback effect conversion
• Multiplayer mission wizard
• Dedicated server support
• Dedicated server command #shutdown
• Dedicated server command #reassign
• MP, Anticheat: Config integrity verification.
• MP, Anticheat: Exe integrity verification.
• Additional program parameters - port=... - password=...

Improvements

• Damper effects on car wheels is stronger and better visible.
• Improved: Squad verification is processes on background and no longer causes server to wait.
• Server display design
• Context.bin contains more info about process memory.
• Tank climbing on very steep hills (45-60%)
• User actions enabled also for AI units
• Squad validation on server is now processed asynchronously
• Turret response to aiming quicker.
• MGun recoil effect was too strong, it was weakened.
• Temporary directory on server in now Tmp<port> instead of Tmp
• Multiplayer session description
• MP code

Fixes

• Fixed: Lens-flares are no longer colored in night vision.
• Fixed: Night vision with HW T&L has no longer colored areas near light.
• Fixed: Bad state of main menu (no background cutscene). Happens after disconnect from multiplayer game started with command "-connect" or -host.
• Fixed: AI not attacking on weapon-less targets.* Fixed: Crew leg position after mounting vehicl on the hillside.
• Fixed: M2 static gun was visible on tank rada.
• Fixed: fire weapon effects in multiplayer
• Fixed: Discrepancy between conditions for getting in and automatical eject.
• Fixed: Landing autopilot now work for all planes both on Everon and Malden.
• Fixed: Random crash caused occasinally by helicopter flying in formation.
• Fixed: occasional random crash after unit destroyed.
• Fixed: Night landscape lighting (terrain was black sometimes even directly undeer lamppost).
• Fixed: Unit repeats ask for support
• Fixed: Boat gunner zoom is now limited.
• Fixed: Apache Hellfires disappers from pylons after release.
• Fixed: Texture mapping on flags (about 1/8 of texture was skipped).
• Fixed: Incorrect texture source (like JPG file not loaded) crashes.
• Fixed: drag & drop empty item in listbox disabled
• Fixed: Right mouse buttom always zoomed regardless of the controls customization.
• Fixed: Initial state of ammunition was bad on gunner's computer
• Fixed: bug in function "removeAction"
• Fixed: score does not work if squad id entered
• Multiplayer - Fixed: Ammo reload by gunner in MP (sabot / heat switching)
• Multiplayer - Fixed: changes of weapons in briefing are sent over network in MP

New Weapons

• AH64 "Apache"
• HMMWV
• Ch47-D "Chinook"

New Missions

• Sector Control (Team)
• Lost Squad (Cooperative)
• Return to Eden (Cooperative)

Patch v1.10

New Features

• Customised faces can now be inserted for use in multi-player games, in JPG format.
• "Walking" mode can be toggled with the 'F' key.
• It is now possible to turn while reloading.
• Weapon shadows now reflect the actual weapon held.
• You can now move when using optics while crouched.
• You will experience reduced weapon recoil when crouching.
• It is now possible to sprint when using an ironsight view.
• Even small hand injuries now cause some weapon trembling.
• Heavy breathing will cause increased weapon trembling.
• AI characters now use the "walking with rifle" animation when appropriate.
• The "NEXT WAYPOINT" command has been implemented for any selected unit - not just the player-commanded vehicle.
• A server can kick players from the "Players" dialog.
• A warning message box will be shown in the server briefing if all players are not ready.
• Blood now appears before an injury is critical.
• Titles were shown at unlimited distance - distance is now limited to 100m.
• The ability to create user-defined actions has been introduced.
• The crash info file context.bin contains more information: CPU registers and version info are saved.
• Squad pictures and titles are now shown on client machines.
• New support and checks for add-ons, referenced to version number.

Improvements

• AI visual and audible enemy detection is improved, especially for prone targets.
• AI night vision is less effective.
• AI now put on/take off NV goggles where appropriate.
• Interior collisions are improved.
• Soldiers report sooner for medical assistance.
• Air friction physics modelling on missiles improved.
• The LAW and RPG are now faster and burn most of their fuel while in the tube.
• Missile fire tail is no longer drawn when fuel is burnt out.
• Airplane target engaging is improved.
• Airplanes lose less speed while turning.
• Even if 'turned in', the gunner is now drawn in the external camera view.
• When connecting through GameSpy arcade, you can now interrupt a "waiting for server" message.
• Only assigned players, not all connected players, are now shown in a multiplayer game.
• The design of the server briefing dialog and chat systems has been improved.
• More transfered properties in multiplayer have been added for airplanes.
• A more robust handling of the "maximum texture size" and "out of memory" conditions has been introduced.
• "Invalid vehicle types" are handled better.
• M113 gunner view improved.
• Seagull handling improved.
• Connect/disconnect messages are now localized.
• Guard band clipping enabled - this solves some issues with clipping sun on nVidia cards, and also increasesperformance on TnT family cards.
• All reward/penalty cutscenes now marked as played when appropriate.

Mission Fixes

• Single Mission - 05 Heavy Metal - Mission would rarely not finish.
• Single Mission - 09 Sniper Team - CPU saboteurs not moving.
• Single Mission - 10 Commander - Occasionally didn't end.
• Campaign - 03b Alert - Radio calls M113 'unknown'.
• Campaign - 12 Spearhead - Spelling errors in briefing.
• Campaign - 38 StatusQuo - Crash at Laruns.
• Campaign - 38 StatusQuo - Spanish briefing.

Fixes

• Fixed - Problems with prone soldiers invulnerable to being run over.
• Fixed - Hardware T&L daytime light glitches.
• Fixed - Watch and compass animations under hardware T&L.
• Fixed - Problems with compass and watch on re-trying a mission.
• Fixed - Graphical corruption with Voodoo 3s under Glide.
• Fixed - In-game resolution switches causing some graphical corruption with certain cards.
• Fixed - Spinning sight view with an unloaded rocket launcher on your back.
• Fixed - Preferences resolution not matching in-game selection.* Fixed - Keyboard input disabled during mission loading
• Fixed - "3rd person view" difficulty option not functioning correctly.
• Fixed - Autodetect settings for file & texture heap wrong if <128MB reported by Windows.
• Fixed - Double music volume in Audio options.
• Fixed - Problems with map marker centring after installation or creating a new user.
• Fixed - Crash without ammo in ship simulation.
• Fixed - Save-game corruption if save called when training target was being destroyed.
• Fixed - User cannot be deleted sometimes.
• Fixed - Mission objectives not always correctly updated after load.
• Fixed - Soldier very rarely stays frozen in mid-air when getting out of a vehicle, until moved.
• Fixed - "End" button in "Player Killed" screen was handled incorrectly.
• Fixed - Sports car speedometer moving in the wrong direction.
• Fixed - Friendly units info on map in veteran mode.
• Visibility during stand up/lay down transitions now correct.
• Sometimes a tank was aiming at a target in 'prepare' mode only, because the target was already inactive. The tank commander now cancels target in such a situation.
• When a tank commander was changing weapons often, the weapon change command was sometimes lost. This has been fixed.
• Minor night-time visibility bugs resolved.
• AI soldiers watched non-combat enemies, which made weapon selection unstable. Binoculars were also selected for no apparent reason. Only combat enemies are watched now.
• Tank commander weapon selection is now more stable, especially when engaging cars.
• When there were no dangerous enemies visible, the importance of weak targets was overestimated. As a result, much stronger weapons were selected than necessary. This problem has been resolved.
• Camera position is now clipped, so that the camera does not look through objects.
• Night vision equipment now visible on dead soldiers where appropriate.
• Reloading with weapon on back is now disabled.

Multiplayer

• Fixed - Problems when two players get into a vehicle simultaneously.
• Fixed - "Hide body" sometimes not working.
• Fixed - Vehicle shaking problem.
• MFixed - Respawn and "high speed soldier" bugs if killed while getting into a vehicle.
• Fixed - Disabling radio subtitles removes chat ability.
• Fixed - Procedure "moveInGunner" is now multi-player safe.
• Fixed - Procedure "moveInDriver" is now multi-player safe.
• Fixed - Procedure "moveInCommander" is now multi-player safe.
• Fixed - Procedure "moveInCargo" is now multi-player safe.
• Fixed - Score register.
• Fixed - Player assignment bugs.