Arma 3 Version 1.44

Arma 3 version 1.44 has been released on Steam.

Arma3 1.44 Servers : http://arma3-servers.net/version/1_44_130654/

CHANGELOG

DATA:

• Added: Healing other characters now has its own animation
• Added : Another height to Weapon Deployment
• Added: Amphibious vehicles have a proper gearbox for water movement
• Added: DLC Content Browser can now be closed using the same shortcut as for opening (LShift + P)
• Added : Stomper RCWS and variants are available in Virtual Garage
• Added: "Default" faction
• Added: Possibility to override both mission config and respawn template respawn delay by using: missionNamespace setVariable ["BIS_customRespawnDelay", 60]
• Added: Respawn delay can now be dynamically overridden in scenarios
• Added: The profiles containing a huge variable BIS_fnc_diagAAR_data now trigger a performance warning which offers an option to wipe it out when the pause menu is displayed
• Added: Camouflaged face variants from standard profile faces, not available in profile selection, seen on full ghillie snipers
• Added: Localized indicators in Virtual Arsenal
• Added: buoyancy = 1 property and value for all models that use buoyancy
• Added: Command bar icons for launchers (http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=23920)
• Added: New config parameters for setting the color of text on the right side of ListBox andComboBox items
• Fixed: VR Garage script error
• Fixed: Cannot try a vehicle once you've clicked on a UAV in Garage
• Fixed: FD vehicles did not have their direction / speed reset on restart
• Fixed: Screen would sometimes fade in, in MP, before it was supposed to (Showcase FFV)
• Fixed: Wrong class name in the model.cfg of M320 camo
• Fixed: Proper names for new music tracks
• Fixed: FPS drop in the respawn menu when too many inventory load-outs are present
• Fixed: Dust created on the water surface when SDAR was fired underwater
• Fixed: Muzzle flash of Panther GMG was not visible at a low framerate
• Fixed: MBT main cannon zeroing didn't work for the highest values (seehttp://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=23318)
• Fixed: High caliber rifle ammo was able to pass through the VR Gorgon (seehttp://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=23064)
• Fixed: Sound of the bounding mine trigger
• Fixed: Silenced Rook 40 sound inside buildings
• Fixed: Pre-loading of textures for the stance indicator
• Fixed: VR Garage vehicle position was sometimes incorrect
• Fixed: VR humming was missing from Arsenal
• Fixed: Arsenal script error
• Fixed: When changing crewed vehicle type in Garage, crew in the new vehicle was using an incorrect shader
• Fixed: Vehicle crew in Garage sometimes left the vehicle
• Fixed: Cargo positions in some vehicles in Garage were duplicated
• Fixed: Displaying of usage statistics in DLC Debriefing for models whose path is missing a.P3D extension
• Fixed: Start-up timer animation exploit - sit down and salute disabled
• Fixed: Hitting ‘Enter’ to save a vehicle didn't work
• Fixed: FIA Quad Bike has a proper woodland texture variant
• Fixed: It was possible to make the right glass of the Offroad levitating in the air
• Fixed: The components (animation sources) of the Offroad took long to show / hide themselves
• Fixed: Zeus wasn't able to put bipods to ammo boxes
• Fixed: Binoculars switch while moving forward, crouching with your weapon lowered (both rifle and sidearm)
• Fixed: Missing muzzle flashes for the GMGs of RCWS turrets on M4 Scorcher and 2S9 Sochor
• Fixed: “Support” markers were visible in the editor
• Fixed: Attenuation for commander and gunner positions of the Strider / added bush collision
• Fixed: Default coordinates were missing in RscListNBox
• Fixed: Added sound for walking - crouched - with lowered sidearm
• Fixed: BIS_fnc_getParamValue didn't work when paramsArray was undefined
• Fixed: Drivers of randomized Karts now have the appropriate uniform and headgear
• Fixed: ZSU-39 Tigris commander's turret was not rotating in external view
• Fixed: Cleared paths to non-existent and unused SFX samples
• Fixed: BIS_fnc_diagAARRecord is no longer called automatically to avoid accidentalprofileNamespace spam (scenario designers can still call it manually for debugging purposes)
• Fixed: Commanders of the Strider no longer have the manual fire option
• Fixed: Vermin has a magazine with red tracers at the end by default, added tracer magazines for all colors (http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=21399)
• Fixed: L / BL / B / BR rifle lowered movement binocular switch (http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=23349)
• Fixed: Zamak first set of rear wheels didn't change into destroyed shape
• Fixed: Cropped Singleplayer tab text in Czech translation in the DLC Content Browser
• Fixed: Missing link to silenced interior tail for automatic shooting of Katiba
• Fixed: Wrong samples linked for silenced shots in automatic fire mode of MX
• Fixed: Unarmed version of PO-30 Orca didn't have countermeasures
• Fixed: RCWS versions of Stomper / Saif now have distinguishable tracers per side
• Fixed: AI can now correctly see through ground floor windows of shops
• Fixed: The iron sights on the MMG_01 (Navid) are now being hidden when an optic is attached to avoid model clipping
• Fixed: The animation source AddGunHolder was not defined in the config of the Mohawk
• Fixed: Arm-shields of the AAF heavy vest to fit with BLUFOR / OPFOR
• Fixed: When exporting from Garage when there is no animation source to change, the export will force the default state of the animations (instead of a randomization)
• Fixed: Static HMGs now have distinguishable tracers per side
• Fixed: Wrong assignment of the flashlight in Showcase AAF
• Fixed: Wheels on the Zamak that were clipping through the model
• Fixed: Self-healing animation speeds to avoid sound desynchronization
• Fixed: Greyhawk had a broken damage indicator in vehicle info
• Tweaked: Weapon Deployment heights regarding new engine behavior
• Tweaked: Many translations for Marksmen
• Tweaked: FD12 - Medal times nerfed based on play testing
• Tweaked: Lowered the volume of the music to not overwhelm the voice-acting (Showcase FFV)
• Tweaked: Music for Marksmen
• Tweaked: Stance Indicator - ‘can deploy’ and ‘rested can deploy’ separated
• Tweaked: Fire particle effect for Fireplace and Campfire
• Tweaked: Minor tweaks in VR courses
• Tweaked: Smoke screen for Strider and Ifrit
• Tweaked: Centered all Zamak models
• Tweaked: Adjusted ambient animals density
• Tweaked: Refactored weapon deployed actions
• Tweaked: Defined Inverse Kinematics for warming up animations (plus tweaks and optimizations)
• Tweaked: Improved launcher sway in all stances and also optimized the differences between walking and tactical pace in crouch with a launcher
• Tweaked: Marksmen characters re-factored
• Tweaked: Cleaned radio static from clicks and fade in and fade out applied
• Tweaked: Slightly increased Zafir's inertia coefficient to better correspond with the gun's weight
• Tweaked: Shadows of the xH-9 family of helicopters
• Tweaked: Volume of closure samples for MX
• Tweaked: Positions of optics on Navid
• Tweaked: Some OPFOR Recon soldiers got LBV Harnesses instead of obsolete ELBV Harnesses
• Tweaked: Configured countsForScoreboard for base classes
• Tweaked: Sound for Check Point Clear used in Firing Drills and Time Trials
• Tweaked: Dirt runways were not producing dust effects and now are
• Tweaked: Configured isLockingDisabled to disable locking and targeting on House_F,FloatingStructure_F and Lamp_base_F
• Tweaked: Vermin magazines tracer variants localized
• Tweaked: Changed audibility of footsteps
• Tweaked: Changed names of samples for swimming
• Changed: External camera position for static laser designators
• Changed: Default muzzle flash of ASP-1 Kir to be on par with other suppressed weapons
• Changed: Disabled Sling Load Assistant for Taru helicopters with pods
• Changed: ELBV Harnesses are not visible in the game anymore, since they are now obsolete. LBV Harnesses can be used instead.
• Changed: BIS_fnc_initVehicle_textures is no longer defined by the VhC function because it was a duplicate of the command getObjectTextures
• Removed: Obsolete backpacks containing parts of non-existing autonomous weapons
• Removed: Surplus items from CfgPatches
• Removed: CA_TextReserved class from RscDisplayConfigureAction.hpp (label about reserved keys)
• Removed: FlareLoop effect from the editor

End Game

• Added: Time Acceleration parameters to lobby
• Added: Timer for End Game (scenario can now end in a draw if sides are not able to upload schematics before the timer runs out)
• Added: There are no predefined tasks anymore, users can create their own unique set of tasks for End Game
• Added: Module parameters exposed
• Added: Safe check for undefined gvar BIS_fnc_respawnMenuPosition_systemSelect
• Added: Respawn handling now specific to End Game instead of scenario
• Added: Last phase timer can now be changed in the lobby
• Added: "Attacking Side" parameters to the StartGame objective module that flags the side which will have to establish their FOB at the given StartGame objective
• Added: Respawn delay can now be dynamically overriden in mission
• Added: When player is the carrier, he now sees a icon on his screen when he is not concealed from the enemy
• Added: Retrieve Intel objectives can now have side specific respawn points
• Fixed: AreaManager locations are now unregistered after End Game has started
• Fixed: Retrieve Intel tasks icons (3D and 2D) were not attached to their object
• Fixed: Missing textures for RscHvtPhase
• Fixed: Laptop could not be destroyed after the intel was being downloaded from it
• Fixed: The destroy Intel container conversation was playing even if the object was already destroyed
• Fixed: After a side downloads Intel, the opposite side could not download Intel from the same objective
• Fixed: Function header
• Fixed: Pick-up locations on dead bodies were not blacklisted from the garbage collector
• Fixed: Possible bad initialization for remote players
• Fixed: Respawns at the enemy upload points were not unlocking after the last phase started
• Fixed: In singleplayer there was a chance that the rules would never display
• Fixed: Both RscHvtPhase and RscRespawnCounter did not use proper rscLayer and could be overridden by a cutText
• Fixed: Proper names given to rules-specific sound effects
• Fixed: Sound effects' names localized
• Fixed: Area markers would not be deleted when the last phase would start
• Fixed: Players could download Intel while incapacitated
• Fixed: RscHvtPhase was visible upon death
• Fixed: Respawn at the enemy upload points were not unlocking after the last phase started
• Tweaked: Major improvements to RscHvtPhase
• Tweaked: The destroy Intel container conversation now plays sooner after the download has completed
• Tweaked: Modules work
• Tweaked: Rifleman (AT) replaced with Engineer to allow players to repair knocked-out vehicles
• Tweaked: Mines removed from Virtual Ammoboxes, now they are available only at certain ammo crates, vehicles and AAF units
• Tweaked: Lobby display names of units are now localized
• Tweaked: Carrier icon visuals
• Tweaked: Decreased respawn delay when in the last phase of End Game

Dynamic Groups:

• Fixed: When selecting themselves, players would see kick / ban instead of disband as options
• Fixed: UI would flash every time there was an update to it
• Fixed: Making a group private would require closing / opening the UI to be able to make the group public again
• Fixed: Script error
• Fixed: Pressing the open / close key would close the interface when a player would have focus on the group name edit box
• Removed: Log in the PlayerIsLeader sub-function

Revive:

• Added: Units close to death are now visualized
• Added: Units being revived are now visualized
• Added: Showing when a unit becomes incapacitated
• Added: Showing when a unit dies
• Added: Fail-safe to ensure icon effects do not get applied prematurely
• Added: BIS_fnc_keyHold to allow custom hold 'Space' interactions

Potential spoilers:

• Added: New method of ensuring AI properly board the extraction truck (Wet Work)
   
• Fixed: The wrong ending could sometimes be shown if the player used all of the UAV's ammo to destroy the wreck in Showcase FFV
• Fixed: Checkpoint inspector's animation would break if the player failed to pass the checkpoint (Drawdown 2035)
• Fixed: No longer possible to disable the Marshalls and break the mission (Resurgent West)
• Fixed: Crash landing on water wasn't properly handled (Gunships)
• Fixed: Paratroopers would not exit their helicopters correctly (Tipping Point)
• Fixed: Truck would sometimes be too damaged to drive away (Wet Work)
• Fixed: Mi-48 pilots should now behave properly if they successfully bail from their helicopter (Tipping Point)
• Fixed: Depending on the circumstances, AI squad mates would occasionally fail to board the truck properly (Wet Work)
• Fixed: Player can no longer shoot from the helicopter (Drawdown 2035)
• Tweaked: UAV returns to base after the helo wreck is destroyed (Firing From Vehicles)
• Tweaked: Removed camera shake caused by UnitPlay (Wet Work)

ENGINE:

• Added: BattlEye Service implementation (more info)
• Added: New scripting command sort for sorting arrays (ascending or descending)
• Added: New script commands diag_activeSQFScripts, diag_activeSQSScripts,diag_activeMissionFSMs
• Added: Possibility to configure crew in each turret separately (property gunnerType in turrets)
• Added: Reloading magazines properly shows bullets in the new one (e.g. for MMGs)
• Added: New parameter countsForScoreboard to ignore MP score for some objects
• Added: Extended logging for simple serialization in the netcode (to assist with diagnostics)
• Added: New config parameters for setting the color of text on the right side of ListBox andComboBox items (colorTextRight, colorSelectRight, colorSelect2Right)
   
• Hotfixed: Sound: Null pointer access
• Fixed: Weapon attachments properly affect AI aiming
• Fixed: Assembled autonomous turrets have a default 0.5 skill now
• Fixed: Occasional error where player gets stuck in a cargo animation when 2 players try to get in the same position at the same time in MP
• Fixed: Rare turret desync if turning out at the very beginning of a MP mission
• Fixed: Update vision mode when switched through binoculars
• Fixed: Items disappearing after dragging from a non-local linked bag
• Fixed: Invalid initialization of the sessionInfo class for the MP browser
• Fixed: Weapon Deployment - Player can end under a building or end up levitating when deploying a weapon
• Fixed: Weapon Holders were not removed automatically (even empty ones) when near an ammo box
• Fixed: Correct position and direction of weapon particle effects while in a FFV position
• Fixed: AI got stuck if it joined another group during healing
• Fixed: Deleting corrupted items right after failed publishing and in published list processing (SteamLayer)
• Fixed: Item update - updated data was not copied (SteamLayer)
• Fixed: Weapon crosshair visible for turned out commanders even if disabled in difficulty
• Fixed: Correct server status in MP browser
• Fixed: Popping of subscribed items (SteamLayer)
• Fixed: Content list checking period (SteamLayer)
• Fixed: Possible CTD on weapon effects when in FFV
• Fixed: Saves for Steam scenarios could get lost if the scenario would be updated
• Fixed: Old versions of Steam scenarios were loaded if a scenario would change its name
• Fixed: Using mouse, sticks or head-trackers in combo keys
• Fixed: Maximum aiming deadzone clamped by aiming limits from a unit's class
• Fixed: Scripts blocking keys
• Fixed: Crash when users try to delete a listbox column with negative index
• Fixed: Reloading while on a ladder consumes a magazine from inventory
• Fixed: Selecting more appropriate level of details for land clutter with the "Objects" setting set to "Standard" in the video options
• Fixed: Enabled strict parsing rules for squad.xml in an attempt to get rid of RPT spam andsquad.xml abuse
• Fixed: Crash by script command lnbDeleteColumn
• Fixed: Key combinations - can do combos on dragged keys
• Fixed: Possible CTD when working with cargo items if there's no supply,
• Fixed: Sun was getting brighter with higher levels of FSAA
• Fixed: It is no longer possible to deploy a weapon on the quad copter
• Fixed: Correct title text in MP browser when selecting different modes (Internet / Recent / LAN / Friends)
• Fixed: ExplosionEffects are shown only if a projectile stops
• Fixed: Countermeasure always considered successful for airplanes even when it shouldn't be
• Fixed: Airplanes were moving on their own with their engine on
• Fixed: Random crash in AI reload checks
• Fixed: CTD when an object is animated and dead at the same time
• Fixed: Possible CTD
• Fixed: Possible CTD in the server browser
• Fixed: Fire disappeared after loading
• Fixed: Strange soldier neck glitch
• Fixed: Sound: Looped sound repeating with short empty gap
• Fixed: Occasional stuttering of 2D icons
• Fixed: Crash after respawning
• Fixed: Crash when releasing constraint without any actor (PhysX-related)
• Fixed: Spam of AskForPilotLight network messages
• Fixed: Player will not lose command after use of the respawn button
• Fixed: #logEntities admin command
• Fixed: Deaths not being recorded in all cases
• Fixed: Teary movement when unable to deploy a weapon
• Fixed: Canceling Steam server search when creating a new session in the server browser
• Fixed: Crash caused by a null pointer
• Fixed: switchCamera to a unit inside of a vehicle
   
• Tweaked: Ground weapon holders are ignored when looking for focus objects in optics
• Tweaked: Gestures ignored when positioning soldiers against deployment points
• Tweaked: Stance indicator shows Rested and CanDeploy as separate states
• Tweaked: Smoother deployment camera transitions
• Tweaked: Sound: Supersonic crack improvements
• Tweaked: Coloring tabs in the MP browser according to current filter (Online / LAN / Friends / Recent) selection
• Tweaked: Keyboard & mouse combos
• Tweaked: drawIcon3D improvements (align, do not rotate sideArrow)
• Tweaked: Published corrupted items detection (SteamLayer)
• Tweaked: Adjusted number of network messages
• Tweaked: Removed restrictions for the squad.xml header
• Changed: Switched to open-source version of PhysX
• Changed: Script command load and loadAbs return 0 instead of <null> when a wrong parameter is given
• Changed: Script commands loadUniform, loadVest, loadBackpack and getMass return 0 instead of <null> when a wrong parameter is given
• Changed: createTrigger command - trigger can be created locally
• Changed: Command menu no longer offers Team Switch to a dead soldier
• Changed: Weapon resting / deployment indicator hidden while healing yourself
• Optimized: Inventory-related network message
• Optimized: Inventory networking
• Optimized: Minor CheckVisibility improvements
• Optimized: Network traffic for some of the AI related messages
• Optimized: Re-factored FFV visual states and simulation
• Optimized: Refactored and optimized serialization functions for the *variable messages(optimized the size of various types of data sent across the network via scripts, e.g. arrays, groups and nils)
• Optimized: Small performance optimization for the str script command
• Optimized: Various netcode optimizations to reduce the amount of redundant information being synchronized (in gear, position, turret and other updates)
• Removed: Deprecated "Addon" tag for Workshop
• Removed: Error message for unknown GlassesType (moved to RPT)

LAUNCHER:

• Added: BattlEye Service support
• Added: Support for branch name
• Added: A branch ribbon for indicating the currently active beta branch of Arma 3
• Added: Game version information
• Added: Minimize to tray support
• Added: A combo box that sets Launcher behavior after the game is started (Do nothing | Minimize | Shutdown before game starts | Shutdown after game ends)
• Added: A preset list to a play split button that allows you load a mod preset and play the game in a single click (OK, actually it's two clicks)
• Added: An indication of signed mods (presence of a BISIGN file)
• Added: Caching for news to speed-up loading process
• Added: Animations to the news expander
• Added: Animations to the mod detail expander
• Added: A notification about unusual / unexpected endings of the game process
• Added: A special case for the mod signatures check when no PBO is found in the Addonsfolder
• Added: Copyright information the for wpf tray license
• Added: Support for new BattlEye states and messages
• Added: A menu item to access the BattlEye log
• Added: Localizations for 1.44
   
• Fixed: Localization of the filter of the dialog for Cgf parameter in Japanese
• Fixed: The list of presets expands beyond popup boundaries and it is clipped instead of enabling a vertical scroll bar
• Fixed: Profile Path parameter quotes were not enforced when a path element contained a space in its name (a more complex fix may follow)
• Fixed: null in a BasePath property can cause a CTD when a dialog is displayed for a folder value parameter
• Fixed: The play shortcut Ctrl+P was not bound correctly
• Fixed: Typo in code
• Fixed: The game parameter processor was not properly initialized before use
• Fixed: Handling of missing executables and informing the user about existing problems
• Fixed: If there is a problem with running the game, the PLAY button is now immediately re-activated
• Fixed: Updated implementation to match changes in the SteamLayer library
   
• Changed: The last update and the file size of a mod is now displayed in a system format and better formatted overall
• Changed: ArmaExecutor functionality has been divided into separate classes ArmaLocator andArmaExecutor
• Tweaked: When the Launcher is automatically minimized when the game starts, it's then automatically restored after the game ends
• Tweaked: Parameter styles moved to separate sub-folder, shared styles extracted to a special file
• Tweaked: Small update of animations and positioning of visual elements
• Updated: Launcher / game version info and safe-mode and HW acceleration flags
• Updated: Localization
• Optimized: News post content is now pre-processed a little bit more and then processed faster on the UI thread
• Optimized: Caching of the news
• Improved: English texts
• Improved: Parameter quoting is more reliable
• Improved: The parameter label is clickable for all parameter types (it toggles the check box next to it)
• Improved: -maxMem and -maxVRAM minimum value and increment has been updated
• Removed: All localizations of the FontWeight property of the WhyButton
• Removed: All localizations of the Click event from buttons in the remove local mod dialog
• Removed: Localizations from non-localizable elements

SERVER:

• Updated: Stand-alone Windows Dedicated Server (1.44)
• Updated: Stand-alone Linux Dedicated Server (1.44)
  • Known issue: Steam client modifies the steam_appid.txt file incorrectly. In case of issues, verify its content is: 107410
  • Known issue: Sometimes the add-ons are loaded from the wrong installation (e.g. main game)
  • Try adding -mod=curator;kart;heli;mark;dlcbundle to your arma3server.exe shortcut

Source : http://dev.arma3.com/post/spotrep-00042