Arma Reforger News

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Attention soldiers,

You can read up on the past week's updates and upcoming changes in the third Dev Report.

Read more here 👇
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/dev-report-3

Thank you all for your patience, support and feedback, it's very valuable to us.

Attention soldiers,

We are going to update the Steam version of Arma Reforger today, 7th of June. There will be downtime of the servers between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.


Arma Reforger 0.9.5.66 changelog:

Game:

• Added: Spawned player protection
  
• Fixed: Compartments or HitZones may have been not initialized properly in some cases
  
• Fixed: Character heads clipping through the roof when climbing inside buildings
  
• Fixed: Vehicles which were left empty are now put to sleep to save performance
  
• Fixed: Vehicles would be left in undefined state if their driver’s game session terminated unexpectedly (“the flying vehicle” issue)
  
• Fixed: Various pathfinding and navmesh generation tweaks and crash fixes
  
• Fixed: Possible crash when releasing radio frequencies
  
• Fixed: Deploy menu wouldn’t close properly after deploy was requested
  
• Fixed: Camera when using weapons on tripods wasn’t aligned correctly
  
• Fixed: Items in inventory or arsenal was reshuffling when picked up
  
• Fixed: AIs could get stuck when performing some of the requests
  
• Fixed: Character could get pushed under the terrain
  
• Fixed: Camera shake no longer runs on headless build
  
• Fixed: Wrong LOD settings on some equipment
  
• Fixed: Building task no longer created outside of small bases
  
• Fixed: Players would not have a group after using "Quick Deploy" in faction screen
  
• Fixed: Quick bar could not be used on passenger seat
  
• Fixed: Game no longer tries to localize server names, can contain “#” now
  
• Fixed: Unpenetrable weapons
  
• Changed: Editable entity pipeline was made a part of game data to improve modding workflow
  
• Changed: GM can no longer finish the scenario, it could result in undefined server state
  
• Changed: Base randomization
  
• Changed: XP bar reflects kills now
  
• Changed: Conflict HQ tents contain medical boxes now
  
• Tweaked: Zeroing on M249, RPK74, PKM, SVD, M21
  
• Tweaked: Latrine destruction
  
• Tweaked: M21 optics position
  

Replication:

• Added: Authentication timeout added to ensure connections slots do not remain stuck in authenticating state due to unexpected backend issues
  
• Changed: Improved issues diagnostics
  
• Fixed: Animation state synchronization
  

Engine:

• Fixed: Allow rendering on GPU adapters with no connected output (this should help mostly on mobile devices with multiple GPUs)
  
• Fixed: Crash when an incompatible material was selected
  
• Fixed: Particles could crash the game in certain situations
  

Known issues:

• Base callsigns are not consistent between clients. Please use town names instead.
  

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Attention soldiers,

Second Arma Reforger Dev Report is here! This series aim to inform you about updates from the last week and planned changes in the near future.

Read more here 👇
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/dev-report-2

Thank you all for your continuous support.

Attention soldiers,

We are going to update the Steam version of the game on Wednesday 1st of June. There will be downtime of the servers between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.

Arma Reforger 0.9.5.61 changelog:

Game

• Fixed: Rendering artifacts related to shadow cascades
  
• Added: Smaller Conflict scenarios available in the Play and Scenarios menus
  
• Fixed: AI in Idle behavior was not checking its surroundings and now does
  
• Fixed: Explosives containers in Conflict would contain regular items instead
  
• Fixed: Changed the faulty background in the PlayerTile groups layouts
  
• Fixed: Magazines would stay attached to hands when a reload was interrupted by the equip action
  
• Fixed: Crash in inventory when dropping a vehicle inside a turret
  
• Tweaked: Ural upshift RPM increased to 1250
  
• Added: Option to change the gamepad Y-axis orientation
  
• Fixed: Potential character teleport under the surface when exiting a flipped vehicle
  
• Tweaked: AI perception at night
  
• Fixed: Mouse aiming of turrets became unreliable with high FPS
  
• Tweaked: Collisions and destruction of certain small props, walls and environmental objects
  
• Fixed: Steam platform saves are now gracefully freed
  
• Fixed: Potential crash when closing Game Master mode
  
• Fixed: The vicinity would not get refreshed when proxy clients manipulate items inside a storage hierarchy
  
• Fixed: Skipped paths in the climbing test for valid climb-over points (climbing through a window)
  
• Fixed: Suppressing sprint when going into ADS with binoculars or another gadget
  
• Fixed: Potential crash on exit related to UI
  
• Fixed: Collision of cars with gate bars could sink the cars under the terrain
  
• Fixed: Characters killed (or players disconnected) while inside a vehicle could end up stuck next to the vehicle or sitting on the road
  
• Fixed: Improved door contact detection
  
• Fixed: Item gestures would not be possible with the character in a throwing stance
  
• Fixed: Weapon equip actions are now checking the availability of gestures to prevent delayed pickups
  
• Fixed: Binding keys can now be cancelled by pressing the Escape key
  
• Fixed: Equipping a weapon could potentially crash the game
  
• Fixed: Changing the model of an animated items could potentially crash the game
  
• Fixed: Radios would not be returned to the radio pool on disconnecting
  
• Fixed: Players could get stuck during the Tutorial scenario when building a bunker
  
• Changed: When a player gets banned, the duration of the ban is displayed to them
  
• Tweaked: Localization strings and phrasing
  

Multiplayer

• Changed: Improved the ACK system to reduce resend rates and bandwidth spikes when the server streams a new map regions to players
  
• Fixed: Clients are now handling disconnection from the server during a world reload
  
• Tweaked: Optimized the transfer of fire action in turrets
  
• Hotfixed: Graceful return from an online session to the main menu on resuming from being suspended
  
• Fixed: Sanitized ServerCommandHandler in case the player is no longer available
  
• Fixed: Improved the network frames acknowledgement mechanism
  
• Fixed: Network streaming or disconnecting could potentially crash the game
  
• Changed: Animation data from owners (rather than the server, as it previously was) is now played on proxies by default (this can be disabled by -noForwardOwnerAnimations on the server)
  
• Tweaked: Improved smoothness of characters in multiplayer
  

Rendering

• Hotfixed: Rendering artifacts visible on some surfaces when using scopes or the inventory
  
• Hotfixed: Building interiors going suddenly pitch black
  
• Fixed: Clutter not being removed by decals
  
• Fixed: Flickering clutter when removed by decals and flickering decals
  

Enfusion

• Fixed: An incorrect sub-scene name could be shown in the scene tree
  
• Changed: BattlEye is now always loaded from the game installation folder
  

Workbench

• Tweaked: Height resampling is default now when importing a height map in World Editor
  
• Fixed: RDB cache showing files not present in an addon
  
• Added: The current backend environment is shown in the status bar now
  
• Fixed: World Editor - Crash when trying to save a world into a read-only folder
  
• Fixed: Ignoring "Armature" bones from Blender
  
• Changed: Forbidden use of Workbench as a replication client
  
• Tweaked: World Editor - Better default camera position
  
• Fixed: World Editor - Crash when displaying an entity's context menu
  
• Fixed: Changing properties of DecoratorEntity in Behavior Editor could crash Workbench
  

Backend

• Fixed: Crashing for some people when they are manipulating the server browser
  
• Removed: Local rating update in Workshop
  
• Changed: Backend - Dedicated Server shutdown invoked in 3 seconds, after a heartbeat fails 3 times
  
• Tweaked: Manifests of old addons are now properly removed when updating
  
• Fixed: Backend - When room registration fails, a server now properly shuts down
  
• Fixed: Sometimes servers would not be visible in the server browser after disconnecting
  
• Changed: Improved error reporting of service-related issues
  

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Attention soldiers,

Arma Reforger Dev Report is here! This is a new ongoing series to inform the community of our team’s recent operations and developments.

Read more here 👇
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/dev-report-1

We have a long journey ahead of us, but we want to thank all of you for your continued support!