Version History – ArmA: Armed Assault Talk

In the 1.06 update for wheeled.pbo, it states "fix Stryker TOW kolize". Kolize = Czech for "collision, crash, or conflict"? Any idea what this refers to? Collision LOD? --Ceeeb

In preparation of patch 1.08 public release:

1.08

Summary

• Improved clarity and reliability of Voice over net
• Increased contrast of light for all weather conditions
• Bullet impact is now visualised also on all objects and vehicles
• 2D optics now support wide screen aspect ratio correctly
• Various AI, UI, gameplay and stability improvements and tweaks
• New texture detail "Default" that autodetects the amount of VRAM. Recommended Texture Detail setting for users of cards with more than 512 VRAM.
• Reworked logic of teamswitch to make it more suitable for detailed manual squad command control
• Full support for multiple airports
• A bit faster and more fluent radio protocol

Engine Change Log

- Fixed: Very long MP mission name could cause crashes or freezes

- Fixed: UI - Double click on listbox scrollbar does not launch the listbox action now

- Fixed: Optics were deformed when using other than 4:3 screen ratio

- Fixed: Tanks were having troubles driving up the stones

- Fixed: Functions createGroup, createUnit now fully works in MP

- Fixed: AI now gets in vehicles on the positions where dead units are

- Fixed: Gear dialog is closed when player dies

- New: Weapons - optics camera can have a different direction than muzzle direction now

- Fixed: UI - Gear display - icons for empty slots

- Fixed: Mission loading screen - missing text given in onLoadMission

- Fixed: When failed to join to a locked server, the correct cause is shown now.

- New: Mission editor - year control in intel dialog

- Fixed: UI - Missing addons error message - show the list of missing addons

- Fixed: VoN sources management to prevent some sounds not audible in multiplayer

- Fixed: Tow missile weapons are guided after they are fired.

- Fixed: AI - gunners was sometimes unable to fire simultaneously

- Fixed: Functions getVariable, setVariable can be used for more object types now

- Fixed: MP crash sometimes happened after deleteVehicle on some person

- Fixed: Actions menu - drawing of arrows when scrolling is enabled

- Fixed: Tanks were thrown in the air when colliding with some destructed buildings

- Fixed: Gear action did not sometimes work in buildings (high over surface)

- Fixed: MP - multiplication of magazines when putting them into a full crate

- Fixed: UI - listboxes with texts of different color - color of selected text

- Fixed: Game running in full screen had invisible but clickable window areas (close, minimize)

- Fixed: Helicopters - state of hovering autopilot was not saved nor transferred in MP

- Fixed: Touch off action available also in vehicles now

- Fixed: Watch and GPS minimap forced not to be shown in cutscenes.

- Fixed: In-game UI - In wide-screen aspects, the aiming cursor disappeared outside the UI area of the screen

- Fixed: Dedicated server - ban.txt was locked for edit during the game

- Fixed: MP mission statistics can be written to the file given by command line argument -ranking=...

- Fixed: Invisible magazine when player get in vehicle during reloading and get out again.

- Added: function clearVehicleInit

- Fixed: Movement config - entry primaryActionMaps telling what action maps will be loaded first (and so used for initialization of movement)

- Fixed: RCtrl is no longer reserved for combos, it can be used as a separate key as well.

- Fixed: Keys with dik code greater than 128 (numpad, some special keys) can now serve as combos.

- Fixed: AI no longer starts firing in Hold fire unless the enemy is really threatening it.

- Fixed: Helicopter center of rotation is now center of mass, not rotor mast.

- Fixed: Improved AI and autohover hovering stability.

- Fixed: Position of Present call in the frame changed to improve Alt-Tab stability and work around possible driver errors.

- Fixed: Reduced texture memory requirements for little varied parts of the terrain.

- Fixed: M1A1 was never turning out in safe or careless mode.

- Added: function nearTargets

- Fixed: MP - Helicopter could appear as destroyed when in fact it was unharmed.

- Fixed: MP - more reliable transfer of damage status of vehicles to other clients.

- Fixed: Better VRAM allocation estimations for nVidia 8800 card, resulting in less frequent missing textures.

- New: Cheat Shift+Minus FLUSH to allow to manually flushing all VRAM allocations to restore performance if needed.

- Fixed: AI no longer uses RPG/LAW for looking at unknown enemies.

- Fixed: AI target position accuracy sometimes was fluctuating a little bit for distant targets.

- Fixed: AI Commander no longer commands individual targets when using weapons which gunner can operate autonomously, like machine guns.

- Fixed: AI could be stuck on Seek and Destroyed waypoint when group consisted of one vehicle with multiple crew positions.

- Fixed: Some Joystick buttons have fixed function in UI and game.

- Fixed: Improved radio protocol fluency by binding words together.

- New: VoN 2D voice volume is now controlled by radio volume.

- New: Console output of dedicated servers can be logged to file specified in the server config entry logFile.

- Fixed: Reduced occurrences where AI characters walked through each other.

- New: MP Statistics table now indicate who is speaking over VoN by flashing given players name.

- Optimized: Text rendering optimized, should make situations where a lot of UI text is rendered faster.

- Added: functions isKindOf, sizeOf

- Optimized: Terrain rendering uses less CPU.

- Fixed: Improved VRAM managment for ATI cards with Catalyst 7.3 or newer.

- New: Support for larger texture cache with new Texture Detail level "Default", useful for cards with over 512 MB VRAM.

- Fixed: Flare disappearing is now smooth near screen edges.

- Fixed: Wall and other obstacles now provide better shielding against explosions

- Fixed: Voice over net was not working when DS and client was running on a single PC

- Fixed: VoN connection established by retranslation through server Game socket when NAT negotiation fails

- Fixed: Memory manager sometimes flushed caches too deeply, causing short intensive disk activity.

- Fixed: VoN peer to peer connections are kept alive by sending special packets

- Fixed: Voice over IP direct speak is made louder now.

- Fixed: Improved Voice codec quality, bandwidth for voice increased from 6 kbps to 8 kbps

- New: Speex1.2 beta 2 used as VoN codec

- Fixed: VoN voice clipping is reduced now.

- Fixed: Dedicated server crashes when retranslating VoN packets through Game Socket.

- Fixed: Increased rudder authority for airplanes, improved AI using rudder while engaging.

- Fixed: Briefing was sometimes cut on the right edge.

- Fixed: MP: Crash when ammo created via createVehicle killed the player.

- Fixed: Overall quality indication in the options changed for large view distances.

- Fixed: Laser target acquire distance for AI was limited by rendering distance.

- Fixed: Removed delay between target creation and its line of sight being tested. Should help laser targets and dynamically created vehicles.

- New: Config entry vonCodecQuality to set VoN codec quality on dedicated servers (default value is 3, can be value from 1..10).

- Fixed: AI subordinates now follow leader orders even when was stopped before by the Team switch

- Fixed: Team switch shortcuts (previous / next unit) accessible also when map is shown

- Fixed: Flap actions no longer present in the action menu for plane with no flaps.

- New: Event handlers LandedTouchDown and LandedStopped

- Added: functions id setAirportSide side, airportSide id, plane landAt id, plane assignToAirport id

- Fixed: Group leader left by team switch no longer orders some commands

- Optimized: Reduced amount of data transferred when JIP into a complex and long running mission.

- Fixed: Bugs in VoN OpenAL source management.

- New: Animation controllers gmeterx, gmetery, gmeterz

- Fixed: Connection to GameSpy during dedicated server reporting was sometimes lost (Windows 2000 SP2 or newer are required now)

- Fixed: Scripting function soldier moveInCargo [vehicle,position] was not implemented.

- Fixed: Tanks now slow down when destroying a tree or other big objects.

- Fixed: Scripting function person moveInTurret [vehicle,[x,y,z]] crashed when [x,y,z] was invalid.

- Fixed: External camera was sometimes forced close to the person when some tree or bush was behind it.

- Fixed: Changing audio options while playing MP could cause VoN not working or crash the game.

- Fixed: MP: setPos and setDir effects are now transferred across the network.

- Fixed: In some situations, Rearm / Repair / Refuel did not fill all

Data Change Log

A10.pbo

• config.cpp
  • fixed Maverick rocket indirect hit range (to match other rockets)
  • set damageResistance
  • only one Maverick per target is used now.

Air.pbo

• Ah1Z fire geometry fix
• 2D optics models enlarged for 16:9 aspect
• config.cpp
  • set damageResistance
  • balanced helicopter armor and hitzones, so they survive emergency landing but remain vulnerable to AA gunfire
• Tweeked texture of 2D optics

Air3.pbo

• config.cpp
  • set armor and damageResistance

Anims.pbo

• Fixed wrong "stand" links in several action maps
• introduced primaryActionMaps
• Ladder moves reworked (rifle moves introduced)
• Transition erc rfl low to pne added
• Interpolation for AI movement erc stp ras rfl to erc spr low rfl added

Animals.pbo

• fixed shadow problems with small insects

Buildigs.pbo

• fixed maping in 1st LOD of castle\helfenburg.p3d
• fixed "empty or no skeleton" errors for hotel and kostel_mexico
• fixed Z-fight flickering on misc\zidka03
• fixed shadow volume at brana02nodoor.p3d
• fixed top roof ladder in Tovarna2
• misc\runway_papi* increased shining flare

Ca.pbo

• Getting rid of hardcoded strings
• Fixing turret errors on some of the library objects
• Bouys are not reported by AI anymore

Desert.pbo

• Map repacked to lower VRAM usage
• Updated ilsTaxiIn for Rahmadi strip,
• Added drawTaxiway value

Characters.pbo

• Fixed clan for all civilian
• deleted faulty last lod of np_soldier_pilot

Misc.pbo

• config.cpp
  • increased armor of sanbags fence to 800 (equal to fortress)
  • decreased arnmor of barrels and pallettes to 20 (equal to civil car)
  • empty skeleton error on armored target fixed
• paletaA, paletyC, paletyD fixed fire geometry
• Bilboard_Revolucion_bez_noh.p3d changed damage settings
• drevena_bedna.p3d changed damage settings

Sara.pbo

Map repacked to lower texture usage

• sara.wrp
  • Bush moved from gate.
  • Terrain adjusted, pavement accessible.
  • Rock moved, scaled, rotated.

• • Terrain of Pita runwaz flattened.
• config.cpp
  • Added class SecondaryAirfields, 3 more ILS definitions in it.
  • Updated ilsTaxiIn for Rahmadi strip
  • Added drawTaxiway value.

Sounds.pbo

• Church bell sounds had wrong paths

Tracked.pbo

• 2D optics models enlarged for 16:9 aspect
• T72, M1A1 changed comander_out view + improved hitpoints
• T72, ZSU, M1A1 fixed fire geometry
• config.cpp
  • set damageResistance
  • HUD reworked for M113 variants
  • HUD removed for ambulances
  • set real T72 and M1A1 main turret elevation
• Tank commanders have new 2D square optics, some optics models cleaned
• tweaked 2D optics of brdm

Ui.pbo

• Introducing class RscInGameUI.RscUnitInfoNoHUD as default no hud class
• Introducing class RscInGameUI.RscUnitVehicle, that works together with compass hud

Water.pbo

• config.cpp
  • zoom for ironsights on turrets set equal to other weapons

Wheeled.pbo

• Enabled landrover police version
• Increased magazine loads on ammo trucks
• HUDs for armed vehicles changed to work with compass

Weapons.pbo

• 2D optics models enlarged for 16:9 aspect
  • G36 fixed after 1.07 beta
• cfgAmmo.hpp
  • redesigned indirect hit and ranges for HE ammo and explosive hit
  • small arms amo now has tracers only in arcade, reduced visible fire too
  • changed ammo audible/visible settings
  • defined Vickers mgun tracers
  • all SD ammo defined as subsonic
  • reduced GBU12 bomb indirect hit to not harm that much distant tanks
• cfgMagazines.hpp
  • M24 uses traceless ammo
• AmmoBoxes.hpp + cfgVehicles.hpp
  • ammocrates destruction
• VehicleWeapons.hpp - PKT 100rnd mags introduced, mag.reload times balanced for all MGuns
• MP5 magazines have names now.
• M16 GL, AK GL and M4 ACOG+GL have new grenadelauncher ironsights

add in readme: Grenadelauncher ironsights can be now used for aiming on 150m distance, in case M4 it is 200m

• GP-25 set to correct 40mm ammo
  • tweeked textures of 2D optics of acog, ags and soflam

Weapons3.pbo

• 2D optics models enlarged for 16:9 aspect
• M16A4 GL and M16A4 ACOG+GL have added ironsights for grenade launcher and new view axis
• Burst rate of fire for M16A4 changed, required cahnges in config.cpp of all 4 versions. |
• config.cpp
  • changed ammo audible/visible settings
• ammo B_25mm_HE indirectHitValue fixed

Wheeled.pbo

• 2D optics models enlarged for 16:9 aspect
• config.cpp
  • set damageResistance
  • zoom for ironsights on turrets set equal to other weapons
• Tweeking 2D sights
• Humers and Landrover with turret no more injures gunner while getting out.

--Maruk 12:31, 5 June 2007 (CEST)