Arma Reforger News

Attention soldier,

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Attention soldiers,

Another Dev Report is here; read up on updates, fixes and plans for the future.

Read more here 👇
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/dev-report-4

As always, thank you for being patient with us and providing feedback in these fixing times.

Attention soldiers,

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



Arma Reforger 0.9.5.73 changelog:

Multiplayer

• Fixed: Finalizing connections while they are being established could crash the game
  
• Fixed: Dedicated Server shutdown issue
  
• Tweaked: Network traffic optimization (characters and vehicles use half of the previous version's traffic on average)
  

Game

• Fixed: Binding of mouse buttons
  
• Fixed: TagMainIdle was missing from IdleTurnMaster, possibly causing excessive idle-to-move transitions and crashes
  
• Fixed: Potential crash in AI movement
  
• Fixed: Map contours were not always aligned with other map data properly
  
• Fixed: An unused map descriptor in small Conflict scenarios would be visible
  
• Fixed: Ladder position on church prefabs
  
• Fixed: Incorrect colliders on certain walls
  
• Fixed: A hidden dialog on top of the main menu that would prevent interacting with it
  
• Fixed: RegisterRemnantsPresence access out of bounds
  
• Fixed: Vehicle and turret inventory slots can no longer be drag-and-dropped
  
• Fixed: Damage state event for vehicles
  
• Fixed: Enemy direct speech UI is not visible anymore
  
• Fixed: Searching for scenario-specific servers did not work
  
• Fixed: Server Browser would get stuck on the addon downloading screen if a multiplayer session required a newer version of the addon
  
• Fixed: Server Browser cache may have become corrupted in some cases
  
• Fixed: Default character animation state is always a bit different now, so characters do not look like clones after spawning
  
• Fixed: Animations could crash the game in rare situations
  
• Fixed: Environment feedback was processed and a pass of fixes was applied to Everon
  
• Fixed: Randomization of base callsigns
  
• Fixed: Completing the Tutorial communication stage with an invalid condition
  
• Fixed: Calling Identity.GetFullName() could crash the game
  
• Fixed: Mod version checking would not work correctly
  
• Fixed: Mods did not show 'update available' until a user requested data explicitly
  
• Fixed: Scrolling in the Workshop while loading addons could lead to a game crash
  
• Fixed: Multiple crashes in Workshop
  
• Fixed: Workshop could get stuck if you opened and closed it in quick succession
  
• Fixed: Incorrect links to the Reforger Wiki in the main menu
  
• Tweaked: BTR-70 and Ural gear shifting
  
• Tweaked: Lowered throwing speeds of all grenades
  
• Tweaked: Lowered ADS toggling time on all weapons
  
• Tweaked: Minor memory allocation optimization for AI perception
  
• Tweaked: Receiving on a second radio while transmitting on platoon channel
  
• Changed: Remnants randomization in Conflict (should be a little less predictable now)
  
• Changed: Keybind to drop an item from the inventory changed to the X-key
  
• Added: Wreck models for various vehicles
  
• Added: Static models of various vehicle wrecks used on the map
  
• Removed: Radio menu hint removed from VonDisplay
  

Backend

• Fixed: Access tokens would not refresh properly, possibly leading to failure of communication with the backend
  
• Fixed: Workbench would get switched to Edit Mode in case of failure of communication with the backend
  

Enfusion

• Fixed: Script compiler issue related to modded classes and protected static methods
  
• Fixed: Unknown classes at the end of a parent scope are now correctly skipped when reading containers
  

Workbench

• Fixed: Multiple crashes related to terrain and roads
  
• Fixed: Terrain tool would stay available even after deleting the terrain
  
• Fixed: Road/flatter layer would remain even after deleting the terrain
  
• Fixed: Missing the road/flatter heightmap layer in some cases
  
• Fixed: Roads were not always updated when sculpting terrain after its deletion/creation or undo/redo operations
  
• Fixed: Incorrect list of surface materials in some cases
  
• Fixed: Terrain deletion undo could corrupt memory with invalid terrain edit info
  
• Fixed: Terrain entity renaming after undo/redo could cause loading of the terrain again
  
• Fixed: Crash after disabling a hidden entity
  
• Fixed: Crash after resetting a widget slot
  
• Fixed: Crash when deleting a point in the spline tool
  
• Fixed: Overriding layouts in addons would result in duplicated widgets
  
• Changed: Terrain tool's maximum sculpt strength changed to 5000
  
• Changed: Layout Editor can use prefabs from packed data now
  
• Added: WAV file overriding in mods
  
• Added: Starting Workbench with -EnableWARP CLI makes it possible to run even without a D3D12-capable GPU
  
• Removed: Obsolete navmesh prefabs
  

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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.