0.9.7.91 Update

Attention soldiers,

We're going to update the game today, expect server downtime between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST. Read about a newly introduced feature Free Roam Building and Known Issues on our web.


0.9.7.91 Changelog

Game

• Added: Free Roam Building feature
  
• Changed: Changed crack puddle sharpness for a bit more explicit puddles from detail textures
  
• Changed: Moved the MG in compositions to make sure Players stand behind it rather than sit
  
• Changed: Sorting is always set to default - behavior is now consistent across all browsers
  
• Changed: Optimized usage of pathfinding component in AI movement
  
• Tweaked: Position of context for open door action
  
• Fixed: Color values in LightRunway_02 prefab
  
• Fixed: AILimit counter condition when removing AI agents
  
• Fixed: Fixed Arland time zone
  
• Fixed: Wrong lighting on bunkers
  
• Fixed: Streamed out friendlies appeared as unknown source in VoN display UI
  
• Fixed: Combat ops - End screen only shows objectives that were completed while the player was connected
  
• Fixed: Conflict - Wrong points color in HUD
  
• Fixed: Coastal bases do not have Signal/antenna icons when missing range
  
• Fixed: Spawning in Morton, added 2 bunkers
  
• Fixed: Destroyed vehicles do not shut the engine down
  
• Fixed: Incorrect keybind hint in tutorial stage 67
  
• Fixed: Tutorial - Screen flickering upon scenario start
  
• Fixed: Vehicles collide with grenades on the ground and can get stuck
  
• Fixed: Cannot loot binoculars and compass from dead bodies
  
• Fixed: Services in bases can be duplicated
  
• Fixed: Updating mesh of every frame on supply trucks in conflict
  
• Fixed: Players can get stuck on loading in deploy screen when deploying to remote locations and getting spawn killed
  
• Fixed: Tutorial - Wrong waypoint position for bunker building stage
  
• Fixed: Wristwatch was not being updated after dropping and picking up
  
• Fixed: Entities were force-streamed to the client even when the editor was opened, but the mode that required streaming was not active
  
• Fixed: Compression on flashlight overlay textures in the map changed from ColorHQCompression to DXTCompression to remove the artifacts
  
• Fixed: Budgeting for stationary nodes with per connection streaming disabled
  
• Fixed: Create permission record on the fly
  
• Fixed: Conflict - Spawnpoint activation upon building an antenna in a base when all other conditions are already fulfilled
  
• Fixed: Conflict - Spawnpoint activation upon connecting a base to the HQ radio network by capturing another base on the way
  
• Fixed: UAZ wheels damage, misconfigured roof frame, and canvas
  
• Fixed: HQ Tents should no longer use Medical crates. Morton spawn moved.
  
• Fixed: A check is added to make sure that opened storage is still within the vicinity of the player
  
• Fixed: Crash when looting dead character
  
• Fixed: Engine not starting up reliably on high FPS
  
• Fixed: Disappearing interaction in vehicle depots
  
• Fixed: Conflict - No XP loss when causing a friendly fire from a turret
  
• Fixed: Regenerated vehicle maintenance depots for Conflict and editable prefabs for new signs.
  
• Fixed: Crash on shooting barbed wire
  

Modding

• Added: Math3D::IntersectionSphereAABB API
  
• Added: CharacterVicinityComponent::GetDiscoveryRadius API
  
• Added: Workshop API to get unfinished download
  
• Changed: Editor manager variable was not available in all events
  
• Tweaked: Workbench - Resource manager - Anim file types enabled for being duplicated in addon
  
• Fixed: Server events for mode activation and deactivation were not called in all situations
  
• Fixed: When importing FBX from not loaded project error message
  
• Fixed: When importing FBX check for it in all loaded Addon Projects
  
• Fixed: Check if FBX is imported from not loaded project
  
• Fixed: Error message when importing a model with wrong GUID and relative path
  

Scenario Framework

• Added: ScenarioFramework - Mission header for CombatOps with the ability to set the number and type of tasks
  
• Added: ScenarioFramework - Add Task Defend
  
• Changed: Names of the classes of the SF components.
  
• Tweaked: ScenarioFramework - Replacing obsolete GetTitleText() with GetTitle()
  
• Tweaked: ScenarioFramework - Formatting of code to comply with set conventions
  
• Fixed: ScenarioFramework - Exfil task is called move for clients
  
• Fixed: ScenarioFramework - Multiplayer issues with SCR_CharacterTriggerEntity, improved exfil countdown, and further polished the feature
  
• Fixed: ScenarioFramework - Randomized task generation issues that sometimes prevented tasks from being created
  

Xbox

• Added: UGC privileges are now considered in custom group texts
  
• Added: Group name/description now respects UGC and is also a friendly option
  
• Added: View target user created content Xbox permission
  
• Changed: Xbox mod storage has been increased to 20GB. Players on Xbox need to re-download all the mods.
  
• Fixed: Avoid underflow of Xbox PLS space reservation
  
• Fixed: XR-045 - Player with Blocked UGC privilege can see custom group names in deploy screen
  

Rendering

• Added: Upper limit when computing offset to light cluster structure to avoid possible GPU crash
  
• Fixed: Broken river flow-maps generating
  
• Fixed: GPU crash due to page fault when accessing const buffer out of uploaded range
  
• Fixed: GPU crash due to vertex buffers overwrite in particles system
  
• Fixed: Rendering glitches on particles
  
• Fixed: GPU crash, fog read from unset const buffer instead of the internal structure
  
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Multiplayer

• Fixed: Fixed rare case where reliable RPC sent once, followed by a constant stream of unreliable RPCs, may never be ACKed and gets resent constantly.
  
• Fixed: It isn't possible to join a modded server with dependencies after the game restarts
  
• Fixed: Rare case when sliding window ACK sending is blocked due to uninitialized RTT.
  
• Fixed: High memory consumption on server - caused by replication stats
  

Workshop

• Tweaked: Workshop checks for an invalid state to improve API stability
  
• Tweaked: Improved download pause and resume stability
  
• Tweaked: Prevent downloading a mod twice at the same time
  
• Tweaked: Safety check on creating a http transfer
  
• Fixed: IsEnabled didn't work correctly for local mods
  
• Fixed: Mods from a different environment break update
  
• Fixed: Race condition in request scheduling
  
• Fixed: Deleting and re-downloading mod leads to a crash
  
• Fixed: If the player deletes and re-downloads a mod, it is deleted after opening the workshop
  
• Fixed: Mods in certain state after download can prevent game starting
  
• Fixed: Crash on mod update on a Linux server
  
• Fixed: Infinite addon update if patch is empty
  
• Fixed: Pausing and resuming download results in failed addon data validation
  

Performance

• Fixed: Items in arsenals had active physics
  

Free Roam Building

• Changed: Free Roam Building activation limited to user action only
  
• Changed: Virtual area shaders now inherit from VirtualArea.emat. Shader set to MatCommon base on discussion Base building area is now more transparent at the bottom and less towards the top. -
  
• Changed: Made the virtual area gradient not transparent, just at the line of contact with the ground in building mode. This change doesn't affect other virtual area usages
  
• Fixed: Provider can't be accessed outside of the provider range.
  
• Fixed: Removing obsolete file
  
• Fixed: Bases without HQ tents were missing a sign to initiate a Free Roam Building
  
• Fixed: The missing sign at Chotain military base.