
# Arma Reforger Experimental

We know that many of you have been waiting for the next Arma Reforger update. As with all development, plans change, and we aim to adapt accordingly depending on the goals of our internal team and the desires of the community. That's why we want to be as open and upfront about our current plans as possible and shed some light on where we are in the process. If you read our latest **[Dev Report](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/dev-report-12)**, you know that we've been actively preparing the first major update (0.9.6), as well as our first _Release Candidate_ build. Many were understandably disappointed in our change from the original bi-weekly timetable but we did so in order to focus our efforts on providing a quality update that players would enjoy. While we can't promise our exact release schedule moving into the future, we're finally ready to release to the public the _**[0.9.6 Experimental build](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/september-29-experimental)**_. You can find all the detailed changes and known issues in the **[changelog](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/september-29-experimental)**.

The _Arma Reforger_ _Experimental_ is a separate Steam client application that maintains a build of experimental content and features for owners of [**Arma Reforger**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874880/Arma_Reforger/). Ahead of the main application updates, we prepare the build on this separate public application for testing. This testing period may vary, but the goals are as follows:

- To allow frequent and flexible updates to test our work publicly.
- To discover potential issues in the varied player base and receive early feedback. This is complementary to our in-house testing by the various QA teams.
- To validate ideas, try out concepts, experiment with technologies or content, and gather player feedback on it all.
- To allow mod teams and other custom content creators to prepare for changes and adapt their works if necessary.

You might have noticed the change in its name, in contrast to the original _Release Candidate_ proposal. However, we believe this terminology helps everyone to better understand its purpose and intended goals for the title. Another benefit of two separate Steam applications, there's no need to switch between branches that would normally involve re-downloading data. Its primary purpose is to allow users an advanced look at features in which to test. Your feedback is vastly important to these builds, and as always, we appreciate your assistance!

## Caution

- The _Experimental_ build may still contain issues that we look to address during the testing period.
- Features and content are still considered provisional and are not guaranteed to be added or adjusted for the main release build.
- _Experimental_ is only available to Steam clients and thus not crossplay compatible.
- Multiplayer is only compatible with other users of _experimental_. However, we cannot guarantee what experience or issues players may face while using it.
- Mods or other custom content may not be compatible with _experimental_.
- Frequent updates may occur until the full release, so consider your bandwidth.
- This build is not 100% representative of a final main release build.

## Usage

Opt into the _Experimental_ build in your Steam client:

- Go to your Steam application.
- Select _Library_.
- Select _Arma Reforger_ _Experimental_ in your games list.
- Click _Install_.
- Let it download and launch once complete.
  - To ensure a valid build, consider verifying the integrity of the local game cache using the Steam client.

## Reports

- The best place to report issues is our [Feedback Tracker](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/feedback) ([how-to guide](https://feedback.bistudio.com/w/fthowto/)).
  - Please mark your exact version number and usage of the _experimental_ build clearly.
  - Please also try to replicate the issue in an un-modded build.
  - Please prioritize reports on issues new to the _experimental_ build (not present in the main release build).
- The _experimental_ build can also be discussed in [this forum's discussion thread](https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/240031-general-discussion-experimental/).

Thank you kindly for your help with making Arma Reforger a better game!


Arma Reforger Experimental


# Attention soldiers,

We're here to introduce the Arma Reforger Experimental build on Steam. It's now being released on Thursday, September 29, 2022. There are also new servers created for the _experimental_ build for players to enjoy.

Arma Reforger 0.9.6.38 Changelog:

## Assets

- Added: Prone roll animations (default key Q/E)
- Added: Adjusted lower crouch stance, controllable with Ctrl+Mouse Scroll
- Added: Weapon inspection animations instead of IKpose
- Added: New poses for US Army bandage
- Added: Unfolding of M16 M203 sights
- Added: Brake/collision reaction animations for characters in vehicles
- Added: Animated internal parts to the BTR turret
- Changed: New animations for flat top ladder
- Changed: Boonie model was remade from scratch
- Tweaked: Character locomotion animations
- Tweaked: Grenade usage animations
- Tweaked: Hands and arms poses for various weapons
- Tweaked: Jump animations
- Tweaked: Reload animations for sniper rifles
- Tweaked: Death animations
- Tweaked: Polished swimming animations
- Fixed: Various fixes and improvements to buildings
- Fixed: Various typos in road signs and other text assets
- Fixed: Wrong width on some ladders
- Fixed: M16 fire selector not being animated
- Fixed: Ladder setup in Fire Station

## Game Master

- Added: Quick placing bar
- Added: Added new ping that is only visible and usable by Game Masters
- Added: In Game Master, the description of system entities (i.e. Zone Restriction) is now shown in the tooltip
- Added: Logic was added to prevent certain Game Master context actions (such as ping and lightning strike) from being spammed
- Added: Armavision now allows players to add different types of lens flare
- Added: Game Master can now interact with objects in the world (i.e. open a door, play the piano, or flush a toilet)
- Added: Game Master can now instantly fill vehicles with crew and passengers by means of context action or when placing them over a vehicle
- Changed: _Take control AI_ moved from key C to U to avoid overlapping input
- Changed: Game Master slot type and slot size filters are combined. Instead of selecting Slot type Flat/Road then Slot size Large/Medium/Small they are now combined into Small Flat, Large Road, etc.
- Changed: Editor UI has been shuffled to allow for the introduction of a quick placing bar
- Changed: When transforming an entity in Game Master (i.e. moving it around with its ghost preview visible), context menu actions are no longer available
- Tweaked: Sounds when editing layers
- Fixed: Wind direction is now correctly displayed in Game Master
- Fixed: In Game Master, hovering over an entity that was not selected and pressing "Delete" key did nothing. Now it deletes the entity, taking precedence over selected entities. The same for neutralizing entities by pressing "End" key
- Fixed: Transitioning from Game Master to Armavision or back could break camera controls

## Conflict

- Added: FIA Supply Depots - these can be raided to obtain additional supplies and distribute them to your bases
- Added: Randomized starting location
- Added: Respawning on Conflict bases now requires supplies
- Added: Barracks composition to spawn defenders (in exchange for supplies)
- Added: Heavy Vehicle Depots
- Added: Antenna installation - extends radio signal range of parent base
- Added: Base icons now flash for the whole duration of them being captured
- Added: Base defenders can now alert others about attacks on their base
- Added: FIA will now try to retake their supply depots
- Changed: Conflict winning condition - you are required to seize a certain amount of points and hold them for a given time
- Changed: Supplies generation frequency in main bases
- Changed: Requesting vehicles now require supplies
- Changed: Spawn protection time
- Changed: Supply depots are no longer automatically pre-built
- Fixed: You can no longer capture Coastal bases without radio signal.
- Fixed: Possibility to spawn on a base recently captured by the enemy
- Fixed: Modded factions visualization on map
- Removed: Radio capture in Conflict bases - bases are now seized by maintaining a superior presence in the area
- Removed: Overrun base mechanics

## Player Management & Server Administration

- Added: You can now cancel your vote for a player after casting it
- Added: Players who are targets of a vote, e.g., to kick or receive Game Master rights, are now highlighted in player list.
- Added: _"-autoreload 10"_ CLI param, where number specifies after how many seconds a scenario should restart after finishing
- Added: Reload and missions server commands
- Added: Command to list all players
- Added: Player kicks now support timeout, which serves as a ban
- Added: Bans commands (Ban / Unban)
- Added: Command to display local player ID
- Changed: In-game kicking is now based on player ID

## UI

- Added: Protractor to map tools
- Added: HUD adaptive opacity depending on scene brightness
- Added: Author blocking and unblocking in the Workshop
- Added: Adaptive Opacity enabled for a few more GUI elements
- Added: Control hints for gadget selection on a controller
- Tweaked: Dragging tools in the 2D map
- Tweaked: Weapons and muzzles UI information

## Topographic Map

- Added: Bridges visualization
- Added: Walls visualization
- Added: Castles visualization
- Changed: Road rendering process split to have smoother transitions
- Changed: _Export Data_ plugin feedback updated to new format
- Tweaked: Building default parameters
- Fixed: Contours array management when levels are hidden

## Network

- Added: An improved method for calculating the lag compensation rewind time, improving the accuracy of hit registration
- Added: Ragdoll state replication
- Changed: Static destructibles are now using new system, optimized for network traffic
- Changed: _Music Manager_ had its streaming disabled, previously it was dependent on _TFL_NO_LINK_ flag functionality, which is no longer supported
- Changed: Inconsistent behavior of streamable flag in a hierarchy, this information could be lost with hierarchy moves
- Changed: Inconsistent streaming when changing hierarchy from non-root old or new parent
- Changed: Turned off network sync of _ArmIK_, _AimIKXYZ_, and _AimTransXYZ_
- Changed: Disabled streaming for Groups
- Tweaked: Traversing replicated nodes
- Tweaked: Network streaming
- Fixed: Behavior of _EnableStreaming(Node)_
- Fixed: Streaming calls potentially still left in their ques after a node has changed hierarchy
- Fixed: Server could get stuck on startup with some downloaded mods
- Fixed: Calling _TrySpawnPrefabToStorage_ on the server would cause desync on clients

## Game

- Added: Character roll mechanics
- Added: Ragdoll effectors, using energy inputs ([#T166662](https://feedback.bistudio.com/T166662))
- Added: Sight switching. Uses default ALT-RMB to switch between different sights. Currently available on SVD/PSO-1
- Added: Weapon action, which enables/disables bipods
- Added: Blending of hands poses when switching muzzles or using gestures like pointing
- Added: Sway and recoil on weapons with deployed bipod in prone will be significantly lower
- Added: _Detach scope_ from weapon action and _Attach scope_ from inventory action.
- Added: _US_AR_ and _USSR_AR_ loadout configs, added _US_AR_ and _USSR_AR_ loadouts to _USxUSSR_ loadout manager
- Added: New destructibles system
- Added: Elevate turret weapon for reloading
- Added: Ability to toggle grenade launcher or cycle grenade type by reselecting the assigned quick slot
- Added: Unbind action to keybinding settings
- Added: Support of currently held gadgets for weapon inspection
- Added: Possibility to specify additional per item offset when holstered as well as override holstered visibility state
- Changed: Killfeed system was refactored and integrated into all playable content and notifications
- Changed: Exhaust effect underwater
- Changed: ADS, sprinting, and other character controls logic of interruptions
- Changed: Configuration of inventory parameters of items, oversized items now should not fit into smaller containers anymore
- Changed: Cameras are consistent with head angles
- Changed: Character ragdoll handling refactor and ragdoll configuration tweaks
- Changed: Replaced procedural animations for weapon inspection
- Changed: Inspection will be disabled on stance change
- Changed: Character magazine reload is restricted when a gadget is held in the left hand.
- Changed: Updated radio menu controls, added logic for switching between squad channels
- Changed: _Right Thumbstick (Single Click)_ toggles freelook, _Right Thumbstick (Hold Trigger)_ focuses instead of freelook while not driving
- Changed: Stance adjustment and leaning moved from RB + Right Thumb to RB + Left Thumbstick
- Changed: Sight illumination gamepad rebound to RB + Y to deconflict gadget selection while aiming
- Changed: Dropping items via RMB when arsenal is open drops it on the ground
- Tweaked: Zeroing on M60, PKM, M249, RPK74
- Tweaked: Vehicles suspension and axles configuration
- Tweaked: Weapon sway
- Tweaked: Steering curves for wheeled vehicles
- Tweaked: Lateral friction on wheeled vehicles, M998 gearbox controller
- Tweaked: Increased explosive damage multiplier for vehicle wheels, hulls, and engines
- Tweaked: Various tweaks and fixes related to tires and friction, roughness, added dirt road material
- Tweaked: Truck and APC steering speeds including recentering
- Tweaked: Weather simulation, moon position, time of day
- Fixed: Added test for surface evaluation to fix the cases when the character can fall into tight holes
- Fixed: Getting out of a vehicle could clip the character into vehicle geometry
- Fixed: Backpack radio not visible on back if spawned as initial loadout
- Fixed: Camera movement when jumping, falling, climbing walls, ladders, and entering/exiting vehicles should now be smoother.
- Fixed: Frozen fire animation when a weapon was dropped during firing
- Fixed: One-handed aim modifier will now work properly while playing pickup item gesture
- Fixed: Weapon inspection transitions should suppress firing
- Fixed: Character doesn't get detached from a vehicle being destroyed while getting in/out animation is played
- Fixed: Joystick and TrackIR input breaking inventory interface
- Fixed: Turret base movement sounds
- Fixed: Character collision test now performs against kinematics as well to prevent characters from passing through another character even when interaction is enabled
- Fixed: Backpacks and weapons not properly hidden when equipped during switching seats
- Fixed: If you set your car on fire and die in it, you should not get punished for friendly fire
- Fixed: Tutorial - Requesting supply truck stage would get delayed due to slow supplies income
- Fixed: Wrong melee instigator resulting in melee kills counting as suicides
- Fixed: Sometimes players had to press deploy multiple times to respawn
- Fixed: Respawning with saved loadout could disable the primary weapon ([#T166317](https://feedback.bistudio.com/T166317))
- Removed: Timeout for fatigue-based semi-lowering of weapons

## AI

- Added: AI usage of melee
- Added: AI reaction to melee attack
- Added: AI can now throw grenades
- Added: New AI weapon and target selection system
- Added: AIs now react to vehicle horn
- Added: Special Attack behavior tree for machineguns
- Added: Special Attack behavior tree for sniper rifles
- Added: _Find Fire Position_ behavior, used by snipers when they lose sight of target
- Added: Doors that are opening should cause AI to move away from them
- Added: Weapon ballistic tables, used by AI to better predict aiming point
- Changed: Split navmesh into smaller files
- Changed: Create navmesh on sea level instead of seabed
- Changed: AI aiming moved to character controller
- Tweaked: Assigning waypoints to many groups
- Tweaked: Behavior of an AI healing another AI is more reliable now
- Fixed: Soldiers not tracking targets while friendly is in aim
- Fixed: AIs were seeing enemy vehicle occupants through enemy vehicle view geometry
- Fixed: AIs were not able to switch weapons in a turret
- Fixed: Leaking memory in Behavior Tree
- Fixed: Suppressive fire wrong parameters, aiming point sizes adjusted, aim error calculation distance correction

## Audio

- Added: Depth and direction perception of both shots and explosions improved. Greater emphasis on different environment types
- Added: Bullet crack sounds for HMGs
- Added: Caliber-specific bullet flyby sounds as well as UGL flyby sounds
- Added: Collision sounds for RDG2 smoke grenade.
- Added: Upper-body movement in water will now cause slightly audible splashes
- Added: Any character movement inside bushes will now have audible bush rustling
- Added: Vehicle sinking and leaking sounds
- Added: Drop sounds for Pistols, Rifles, LMGs, Launchers, Clothes, Vests, Backpacks, Shoes, and Rifle Magazines
- Added: Sounds for scope illumination and zooming
- Added: Bipod fold/unfold sounds
- Added: Thunder sounds
- Changed: _Music Manager_ refactored
- Changed: Horn sounds logic
- Changed: Scale and behavior of the "Dynamic Range" audio setting, now ranging from 0-200%. 0% = compressed mix; 200% = very high dynamic range. In order to hear the new default mix, set it to 100% (as it now ranges from 0-200%) manually, as the new default value might not be set at first on start of the game
- Tweaked: Trunk open/close sounds
- Tweaked: Ambient rain sounds are more intense now
- Tweaked: HDR and NightMode mix settings
- Fixed: Issue with respawn menu music continuously playing after respawning

## Audio Editor

- Added: Scattering delay network reverb DSP
- Added: Priority signal input on sound node
- Fixed: Volume inheritance from config works properly for filter and sound nodes now

## Workbench & Modding

- Added: Generic **[_"-load"_ CLI param](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Startup_Parameters#load)** for all WB editors
- Added: Option to remove your addon from the Workshop
- Added: Audio & _ProcAnimEditor_ - Group shortcut and menu entry for both editors
- Added: World editor - An option to show/hide layers without shown entities
- Added: New parameter for terrain objects material - _UseOnTerrainHeightmapShadows_ - this enables usage of heightmap shadows computed on terrain level for terrain objects
- Added: Links to documentation embedded directly in Workbench UI
- Added: It is now possible to invoke _EventHandlerManagerComponent_ events from script.
- Added: Created ballistic table configs for all projectiles, generated ballistic table data, and assigned configs to their projectiles
- Added: Grouping nodes in Behavior Tree Editor
- Added: World editor - Possibility to reposition entity using drag and drop from Hierarchy window to scene window
- Added: Added a way to set max decimal length when saving float in JSON format
- Added: Added a way to write/read the top-level object of JSON when writing an object as the first item
- Changed: Weather cycles: Added new lightning default configuration to cycles
- Changed: _MultilineEditBoxWidget_ refactored
- Changed: Unified FactionAffiliationComponent and _VehicleFactionAffiliationComponent_
- Changed: Generating of Navmesh should now be more deterministic
- Changed: Improved copy/paste functionality in Behavior Tree Editor
- Changed: ScriptAPI: **[user authorization](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Startup_Parameters#scriptAuthorizeAll)** for methods that might be harmful (Thanks [Arkensor](https://twitter.com/Arkensor) and other reporters)
- Changed: Current _ArmaReforgerWorkbench.exe_ will be replaced by new _ArmaReforgerWorkbenchSteam.exe_ and in order to launch will require running the Steam app which owns the _Arma Reforger Tools_ app
- Tweaked: Peer tool properties, added admin password
- Fixed: Saving animation workspaces that contain vanilla data
- Fixed: Workbench freeze fix on a combination of prefab preview, world loading, and script debugger breakpoint
- Fixed: _PointInfo_ could not be used as an attribute in script
- Fixed: Refactored _PointInfo_ to fix adding of new _WheelPositions_ in _VehicleWheeledSimulation_
- Fixed: _BaseMovementComponent::Launch_ now activates the triggers the launched projectile has
- Fixed: Very slow height-map modifications on huge terrains (with possible out-of-memory crashes)
- Fixed: First editor content browser tab not loading correctly on restart

## Script API

- Added: _Entity.RemoveChild keepTransform_ param added
- Added: Getter of aimpoints in _PerceivableComponent_
- Added: Getters for _FocusFOV_ in PlayerCamera
- Added: Exposed _ComputeEffectiveDamage_ to script. Now incoming damage can be modified before it's applied.
- Added: _Set.IsIndexValid_ method
- Added: _Array.IsIndexValid_ method
- Added: _Particles.MultParam()_
- Added: _String.ContainsAt, String.IsDigitAt() and String.IsSpaceAt()_ methods
- Added: _SCR_ParticleEmitter - Create\*\*\*_ methods (to replace _Play\*\*\*_ methods of _SCR_ParticleAPI_)
- Added: World editor - API function _ClearVariableValue_
- Added: _BaseContainer.GetDefaultAsString_
- Added: _BaseTarget.GetPerceivableComponent_
- Added: Functions exposing Ballistic tables to script
- Added: Method indicating whether a car has an automatic gearbox
- Added: GUI based on _SCR_InfoDisplayExtended.c_ doesn't need to handle entity switching by itself, there is now a new interface method _DisplayControlledEntityChanged_
- Added: Added a new function to set the ammo count of a magazine, _SetAmmoCount_
- Added: _TurretController::DoReloadWeaponWith_
- Added: _BaseLightSlot::GetLightEntity_
- Changed: _SCR_ParticleAPI_ is now completely obsolete
- Changed: Particle effect stages functionality moved from _SCR_ParticleAPI_ to _SCR_MotorExhaustEffectGeneralComponent_ and optimized
- Changed: Script - _String.ToFloat()_ and _String.ToInt()_ now have 3 optinal parameters
- Changed: Script - _String.Get()_ now throws an exception for invalid index
- Fixed: _OnCompartmentEntered_ should not get called multiple times for turret
- Fixed: _CallLater_ did not support overloaded functions.
- Fixed: Factually incorrect _GarbageManager::GetGarbageLifetime_ comment, added _GarbageManager::GetGarbageRemainingLifetime_ (Thanks [_**Arkensor**_](https://twitter.com/Arkensor) for the report - [#T167252](https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167252))

## Mod Manager

- Added: Mod manager action for updating mod and downloading mod dependencies
- Added: Mods presets
- Added: Mod manager export tools
- Tweaked: Mod manager auto disables mod that needs dependency if the mod dependency is disabled

## Known Issues

- The US Army truck has a problem turning to the left, and the wheels aren't turning visually.
  - The only thing to do is to drive carefully and slowly.
- Session progress isn't loaded after a server crash or restart.
- Downloading of addons fails if the player downloads mods in the background while doing other actions.
  - Workaround is to patiently wait in the downloading screen after initiating mod download until it finishes.
  - If your addons get corrupted, and you're getting "Failed to start with the following mods" even after a restart of the game, delete your addons from your device.
- Players with NVIDIA GTX 10 series video cards are crashing more often than other players.
  - We need to gather more information about the issue.
- Spawning on Radio Operators is unreliable.
  - We need to gather more information about the issue.
- Game Master:
  - GM using Containment Zone can result in a death warning persistently stuck on the screen of all players.
    - Reconnecting to the server is the only way to solve it.
  - Entities from addons can be incorrectly shown in the GM Entity browser.
  - The equipped weapon gets stuck when choosing the saved loadout in the deploy screen.
    - Switch to a secondary weapon or select a grenade and jump.


0.9.6 Experimental Changelog

Community Radar #4


# ATTENTION

We know that many of you are wondering when our next update will be and we wanted to advise everyone on our current status. Obviously, there are many questions regarding our upcoming 0.9.6 major update and several of you have already noticed there have been some changes to our current schedule. We'll provide more details about this, the plans for the public Release Candidate (RC) build, and some sneak peeks for the new update.

## INTELLIGENCE

Our focus is entirely on preparations for the first major update 0.9.6. We've spent the last several weeks working on necessary aspects of this build, and as part of this process, you'll be happy to know that we are planning to publish the first Release Candidate build shortly. Players will be able to get an early look before the main release. The benefit of this system is it allows a buffer period to truly test the final build publicly. While our Release Candidate may change often, the RC build (configuration) is not 100% identical to the main branch and may contain long-term experimental features and content. It helps us to discover potential issues in the player base, complementary to our in-house testing by the various QA teams; allows mod teams and other custom content creators to prepare for changes and adapt their works if necessary; and, it stress tests the multiplayer environment. Be aware that this branch of the game may still contain issues that we will look to address during the RC period, there may be some compatibility issues with servers or mods, and other various limitations to using it. You can expect more instructions on how to enable this when it's distributed at a later date. As usual, your feedback will be important to securing a solid update release, and we appreciate your assistance considerably! However, we will need to adjust our update schedule to accommodate.

While we stated we planned to release bi-weekly, unfortunately, there will be no new updates until the 0.9.6 release. We apologize for this change, but we hope to get new content and fixes out to you as quickly as possible. These changes in our schedule may be disheartening, please know that we're doing so to provide the best quality experience for this release.

We've also been putting together and releasing frequent documentation examples for new and veteran players to explore the capabilities of the Enfusion engine. Our most recent example includes a lot of our [**scripting logic basics**](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Scripting_Example). We plan to continue putting more of these types of examples in the future.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">📖 Interested in scripting? <br><br>This tutorial aims to provide scripting logic basics for writing, optimization, and setups. <br><br>See more here:<a href="https://t.co/WE5CuruvDT">https://t.co/WE5CuruvDT</a> <a href="https://t.co/qSzeIKqp0R">pic.twitter.com/qSzeIKqp0R</a></p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1568992914906177537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

## OPERATIONS

After reading and analyzing some of your feedback recently, we thought we could provide some insight into what is happening regarding a few aspects of the game.

### Modding

We saw users would welcome the possibility of running a dedicated server with local mods for testing purposes and we can confirm this function will be enabled soon.

### Gameplay

Nowadays, it might look like we focus on the PvP gameplay elements only. The truth is we deem Arma Reforger open for any gameplay types. Our official game mode _Conflict_ is being improved and the PvE element now takes a more significant part than before. Our target is to provide a balanced mix of PvE and PvP. This is achieved by the FIA faction not just being "cannon fodder." There's a constant fight for the resources the FIA doesn't want to give over. The first part of the overhaul comes with the upcoming releases (0.9.6 & 0.9.7). We're also working on the dynamic scenario called _Combat Ops_. This should bring lots of fun for both co-op and singleplayer experiences in the future. This will be coming with the _Ground Support_ milestone.

The next update will bring a much-needed refresh of Conflict rules but also changes to visuals and features. There are new audio effects in combat, tweaked particle effects, and smoothed out animations. There are also new moves that players will be able to use. The hit registration has been tweaked, ragdolls are heavily improved, and network traffic is significantly optimized.

We've also listened to your feedback and improved tabs in the server browser for easier finding of community servers.

### Multiplayer

We're aware of the low number of simultaneous players and the issues this is causing. While the state of the game has improved over the months, the count of the players hasn't been growing for a variety of reasons. We hope the forthcoming releases will break this deadlock. If you look at the **[Roadmap](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/roadmap)**, there will be many incentives in further releases.

As a bit of another sneak peek at the 0.9.6 update: regarding AI units, they will now engage in melee if an enemy is close enough and they cannot fire their weapon. They will also respond to melee attacks! You can also look forward to new compositions for roads, in three different sizes, for both the US and Soviet factions.

## LOGISTICS

We understand that waiting for the new update is long but we hope our major update will make up for the period of downtime. Thank you for understanding, and as always, for your feedback and support.


Dev Report #12

Dev Report #11


# Community Radar #3

Welcome to the latest **Arma Reforger** **Community Radar**, or as we also call it: **#COMRAD**. This month we explore another batch of excellent community content for everyone to enjoy. Let's get right into it!

- [COM-ART](#COM-ART)
- [COM-DEV](#COM-DEV)
- [COM-OPS](#COM-OPS)
- [COM-VIDEO](#COM-VIDEO)
- [COM-STREAM](#COM-STREAM)
- [COM-REP](#COM-REP)
- [SEND TIPS & SUGGESTIONS](#SEND_TIPS)

<br/>

<section id="COM-ART">

## COM-ART

It's always important to recon your objective area before engaging the enemy. In this well-composed [image](https://twitter.com/Santeeee_tw/status/1556137102856830978) created by _[Santee](https://twitter.com/Santeeee_tw)_, we see an FIA sniper, with his spotter, scouting out the target area.

![FIA sniper, with his spotter, scouting out the target area.](/content/news/comrad_3/sniper.jpg)

As the convoy halts a moment, Soviet soldiers set up a security perimeter along the road. This detailed [screenshot](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2811149959) really shows off the faction-specific loadouts. Thanks to _[Ghostovich](https://twitter.com/GhostovichSSOT)_ for making such high-quality shots!

![Soviet soldiers set up a security perimeter along the road.](/content/news/comrad_3/convoy.jpg)

Spending your night doing sentry duty at the docks may not be the most ideal for this US Army soldier, but it's certainly a wonderful [image](https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/238773-arma-reforger-artwork-photography/?tab=comments#comment-3461060) for us. This photo, created by _[EO](https://forums.bohemia.net/profile/789906-eo/)_, really makes use of the engine's wonderful lighting.

![Sentry duty at the docks.](/content/news/comrad_3/docks.jpg)

Definitely be sure to check out this featured picture by _[Cdenyl](https://forums.bohemia.net/profile/789906-eo/)_. While this FIA soldier takes his turn on watch duty, there are many elements to admire from this [image](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2809531921). The hazy morning fog, the gradient light across the camp, or the excellent use of depth of field. We can't wait to see more artwork like this!

![FIA soldier on watch duty.](/content/news/comrad_3/soldier.jpg)

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## COM-DEV

If you're looking for a little extra range to your gameplay, scope in on this [Modern Optic Pack](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/59D490B11B7775D4-ModernOpticspack) by RiverX. It comes with a variety of holographic, red dot, and magnified sights for near or far engagements. They're frequently updated and you can try them out from the in-game Workshop today! Be sure to also check out their modded weapons to attach these scopes, such as the [MK14 EBR](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5A0E900A0F043766-Mk-14EBRMod0), [M4, and MK18](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5965770215E93269-M4%2526MK18withattachments).

![Riverx optics pack.](/content/news/comrad_3/pack.jpg)

Watch your step! As shown in this [video](https://youtu.be/iD69NF36Pro) by _[RWD Mods](https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCQQL9XS_uqZ5gLhDZ4Dwdbg/featured)_ it may not be long before these bear traps take a nasty bite out of soldiers' legs, if they're not careful. This mod is still a work in progress, but we hope to see this out on the [Workshop](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop) soon!

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We've definitely been impressed by the realistic terrains that players have come up with in our Tools. For example, _[Lukáš Koťátko](https://twitter.com/LukKotko)_ has designed this creative [terrain recreation](https://twitter.com/LukKotko/status/1554009366914895872) of the [Ore Mountains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore_Mountains) around [Přísečnice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99%C3%ADse%C4%8Dnice) dam. We look forward to seeing more progress on this map in the future and others like it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New Enfusion map - Ore Mountains<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Arma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Arma</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Enfusion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Enfusion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Reforger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Reforger</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Arma4?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Arma4</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Armaplatform?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Armaplatform</a> <a href="https://t.co/IUxpHNPkbt">pic.twitter.com/IUxpHNPkbt</a></p>&mdash; Lukáš Koťátko (@LukKotko) <a href="https://twitter.com/LukKotko/status/1554009366914895872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2022</a></blockquote>

Have to travel at night, but forgot your flashlight? No worries, because _[Greg](https://twitter.com/gregfr_3d)_ has you covered with his Night Vision System that provides usable [Night Vision Equipment](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/59A30ACC02650E71-NightVisionSystem). You can pick it up on the workshop now, and if you're a modder, grab a [sample project and tutorial](https://github.com/Gregfr3D/ArmaReforgerNightVision) to learn how it works.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today is the day ! The Night Vision mod is now available on the Workshop. (Night Vision System) !<br><br>You can find the sample project and the tutorial for modder here : <a href="https://t.co/ryIYa9t0iX">https://t.co/ryIYa9t0iX</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArmaReforger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArmaReforger</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArmaPlatform</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NightVision?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NightVision</a> <a href="https://t.co/D0SP8aO7iK">pic.twitter.com/D0SP8aO7iK</a></p>&mdash; Greg (@gregfr_3d) <a href="https://twitter.com/gregfr_3d/status/1543896638401437696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2022</a></blockquote>

Zombies! You read that right. The island of Everon has been infested with the [Ravage](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/59D7714FC99182F6-Ravage) mod by _[haleks](https://forums.bohemia.net/profile/878679-haleks/)_. It's not even Halloween yet and you can experience the horrors of running, climbing, and slashing undead in a provided single-player scenario. There is more to come, so be sure to follow their progress over on the [BI forums](https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/238966-ravage/) to get the latest updates. To showcase this mod, watch the following [video](https://youtu.be/nD77f7rMWEQ) by _[420 Toke](https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCCzCrpcKVbX3R1ih_U99N3g)_.

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## COM-OPS

If you're looking to get into Reforger content development, _[NightOps](https://twitter.com/NightOpsModding)_, an international modding team, has come together to create an entire website dedicated to modding tutorials, documentation, and knowledge for the Arma franchise. They've already put together frameworks and tutorials for topics such as [basic mission creation](https://nightops.de/arma-reforger-basic-mission-guide/) (with samples), [dynamic spawning](https://nightops.de/documentation/dynamis-spawn-framework/), [dynamic tasks](https://nightops.de/documentation/dynamic-task-framework/), and more on the way.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are happy to announce the NightOps modding project. We provide frameworks and custom gamemodes in Arma Reforger for everyone to use. This makes creating a coop or solo scenario very easy for mission makers. Our first tutorials will lead you through it! <a href="https://t.co/rR1ZwLbmhz">https://t.co/rR1ZwLbmhz</a></p>&mdash; NightOps (@NightOpsModding) <a href="https://twitter.com/NightOpsModding/status/1539643980115476485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2022</a></blockquote>

We know our community has been keen on learning and exploring our games' options. That is why _[Vladimír Jaške](https://twitter.com/VladimirJaske)_, Director of the [Arma Reforger launch trailer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIervYhiEZ8), recently put together a step-by-step workflow for creating amazing [cinematics and visual effects](https://youtu.be/gm2NjrWQWpY) in the Enfusion engine. We hope to create more video tutorials like [this](https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1556656657211473921) in the future!

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## COM-VIDEO

Community Regiment member, _[Ceb Cin](https://twitter.com/KnoWhatCeb)_, has dived deep into learning the tools and capabilities of the Enfusion engine for the purpose of creating cinematic greatness. We highly recommend giving [this video](https://youtu.be/ZKBEcKdgcKM) a watch with over three minutes of epic battles, dramatic scenes, and more. We know this is only the beginning, so we're excited to see what more can be produced.

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At the beginning of this month, our team released the [Developmental Roadmap](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/roadmap) for Arma Reforger. If you missed it, come listen to Regiment member _[Sherman](https://youtu.be/Ug-jD_XzMGU)_ give an explanation of some of the features, assets, and content to come in this in-depth [video](https://youtu.be/Ug-jD_XzMGU).

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If you've been looking to play custom single-player content, _[Scalespeeder Gaming](https://twitter.com/scalespeeder)_ shows you exactly where you can find, download, and play single-player missions, scenarios, and challenges from the Workshop in one of their latest Reforger [tutorial videos](https://youtu.be/bb6Os3w0lHY). Take a [look](https://twitter.com/scalespeeder/status/1551914215237115907) over on their [Youtube](https://youtu.be/bb6Os3w0lHY) channel for more Reforger information!

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For something a little different, you should watch French Youtuber _[RackBoyTV](https://twitter.com/RackBoyTV)_ play [UAZ Death Race](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/59A361BBB1A4FF20-UAZDeathRace), created by Sparker. It's a Mario Kart-style race in which players compete to the finish line, armed with RPGs and speed boosts. See who wins on his [Youtube](https://youtu.be/Jph3b9_IRrw) channel.

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## COM-STREAM

Enjoy an evening of creativity as _[TheAussieMerc](https://twitter.com/TheAussieMerc)_ streams himself creating mods using the Arma Reforger Workbench tools. See what different projects he's up to lately or other Arma content over on his [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/theaussiemerc) channel.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On the stream tonight, I&#39;ll be bringing in a classic 1911 pistol, model provided by it&#39;s original creator!<br><br>Come on and check out the workflow as I load it up and start working on it from scratch.<a href="https://t.co/k90GEmEnjF">https://t.co/k90GEmEnjF</a></p>&mdash; TheAussieMerc (@TheAussieMerc) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAussieMerc/status/1545379121907245057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2022</a></blockquote>

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<section id="COM-REP">

## COM-REP

### New Roadmap

As mentioned previously, we were happy to share our [Roadmap](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/roadmap) for the future of Arma Reforger development. Our first significant milestone update - Ground Support - is expected Q4 2022. You can find more details on our planned features and assets on our [website](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/roadmap).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">📣 Dear Community<br>We&#39;re happy to share with you our roadmap for the future of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArmaReforger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArmaReforger</a> development. <br><br>Our first significant milestone update - Ground Support - is expected Q4 2022. <br><br>Check out the road ahead here:<a href="https://t.co/ONuNziI4mV">https://t.co/ONuNziI4mV</a> <a href="https://t.co/TO5IWAXdRg">pic.twitter.com/TO5IWAXdRg</a></p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1554154514156081155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2022</a></blockquote>

### Web Workshop

We know many have requested some way to externally browse mods and share with your friends outside of Arma Reforger. Well, now you can with our web [Workshop](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop), available online on our website. This is only the first version and we will keep working on improving it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">📻 Dear Community,<br><br>We have added the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArmaReforger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArmaReforger</a> in-game Workshop to our website! This is only the first version and we will keep working on improving it. <br><br>For now, browse mods whenever you like and share with your friends!<a href="https://t.co/VZgQVHMSlk">https://t.co/VZgQVHMSlk</a> <a href="https://t.co/0zYCzpbAcF">pic.twitter.com/0zYCzpbAcF</a></p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1559223528062345217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2022</a></blockquote>

### Modding Documentation:

- **[Weapon Modding](https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1560944878489636864)**
- **[Prop Creation](https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1558815821056688129)**

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">📖 Want to learn about custom weapons? We&#39;ll show you how to:<br><br>▶️ Retexture materials assigned to weapons<br>▶️ Change some basic firing characteristics of weapons<br>▶️ Add new magazine types<br><br>Learn more here:<a href="https://t.co/otUSW0yftH">https://t.co/otUSW0yftH</a> <a href="https://t.co/840bAbJl8G">pic.twitter.com/840bAbJl8G</a></p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1560944878489636864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2022</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">📖 In this tutorial you will learn:<br><br>▶️ How to prepare prop in FBX format for Enfusion<br>▶️ How to import FBX into Workbench<br>▶️ How to configure new prop in Workbench<br><br>... and much more here: <a href="https://t.co/juwzlK6g0A">https://t.co/juwzlK6g0A</a> <a href="https://t.co/MxzzBZlEh1">pic.twitter.com/MxzzBZlEh1</a></p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1558815821056688129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2022</a></blockquote>

### Dev Blogs:

- **[Dev Report #10](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/dev-report-10)**

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A new <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArmaReforger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArmaReforger</a> Dev Report is here! <br><br>We discuss the release of the crossplay feature, upcoming 0.9.6 update (with some extras), and a new web Workshop!<br><br>Take a look at our team’s recent operations and developments here 👇<a href="https://t.co/zgZbzRG2Ge">https://t.co/zgZbzRG2Ge</a> <a href="https://t.co/S5zptvQii2">pic.twitter.com/S5zptvQii2</a></p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1558102304586448901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2022</a></blockquote>

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<section id="SEND_TIPS">

## SEND TIPS & SUGGESTIONS

If you would like to suggest content for next month's #COMRAD, make sure you tag **[@ArmaPlatform](https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform)** or **#ArmaReforger** on Twitter, or submit your suggestions to:
[Nillers](https://twitter.com/Nillers_) on [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/Nillers_), [**Discord**](https://discord.gg/arma), or our [**forums**](https://forums.bohemia.net/profile/814722-nillers/).

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Community Radar #3


# Attention soldiers,

We're going to update the Steam and Xbox versions of the game. The Steam version will be updated on Wednesday, August 24th. There will be server downtime between **12:00 - 15:00 CEST**.

The Xbox version will be updated on Thursday, August 25th. Some official Xbox servers will be unavailable between **12:00 - 15:00 CEST**.

Arma Reforger 0.9.5.116 changelog:

## Multiplayer

- Fixed: Disconnection after alt-tabbing while joining a MP session
- Fixed: Replication save that could sometimes fail due to multithreading issue, which led to the disconnection of a player
- Fixed: Possible crash on server shutdown
- Fixed: Possible crash on joining a modded server
- Fixed: Xbox - crash after leaving a modded scenario

## Game

- Fixed: AI message "northwest" was not localized
- Fixed: PKM barrel, ammo belt, and magazine were sometimes black
- Fixed: Errors in BSP setup of one of the Garage objects
- Fixed: Horn sound kept playing if the driver switched seats while using the horn
- Fixed: Possible crash in _AnimationPlayerComponent_
- Fixed: Camera could be wrong for a spawned unarmed character
- Fixed: Conversion of large floats to integer
- Fixed: Crash in Workbench Layout Editor
- Fixed: UGL grenades were pickable after they were fired
- Tweaked: M203 is not visible in inventory anymore
- Changed: Logo, splash screen changed to Reforger for Xbox
- Added: Option to set item visible in inventory


0.9.5.116 Update


# ATTENTION

This time we are presenting the release of the crossplay feature, upcoming 0.9.6 update (with some added bonuses), and the new **web Workshop!** This machine never stops!

## INTELLIGENCE

We are happy to announce, that after several weeks of development, we're finally delivering the **crossplay** feature! PC and Xbox players are hereby able to play together. This is especially good news for Xbox players who have wished to play on servers with mods. We've already prepared several official servers hosting the Game Master, Conflict, and Capture & Hold game modes where you can battle together immediately. Server admins are also allowed to create their own crossplay servers running either the vanilla content or with modded content, and we've updated our **[BIKI documentation](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Server_Hosting#supportedGameClientTypes)** to explain how to configure it. For players, simply check out the Multiplayer server browser, click on your filters, and enable crossplay to join in on the fun.

Some necessary **quality-of-life improvements** were also shipped this week. For example, now the game allows you to unbind the control keys. If you find a default binding for a particular action that you don't need, you may unbind it and your life in Everon becomes a bit easier.

Another two of the upgrades may save said life, now you don't need to manually assign the available bandages to the slot in a stressful situation. Available bandages get reequipped automatically to your slot bar. Also, _Slot 4_ now has the controller hint in order to let players know how to select grenades quickly.

In regards to the highly anticipated **network optimizations**, version 0.9.5.109 brought multiple smaller traffic optimizations and important fixes for known cases of kicks from the game. Thanks to your highly appreciated feedback, our internal playtests, and improved diagnostics methods and tools we were able to locate these issues. We found and resolved several significant problems that happen when there are a lot of replicated items and the player's connection gets flooded by it.

## OPERATIONS

As in every Dev Report, we aim to inform you also about what can you expect in the future and what is planned to be in development.

Coming soon, our first major update 0.9.6 is very close and we are focusing on delivering the best results we can. As one of our biggest updates yet, you can expect not only a larger number of fixes and stability improvements but also, as a small surprise, some of the features that were originally meant for the _Ground Support_ milestone. We'd like to know how you feel about the new features before they become final.

Here is a little visual teaser of what is to come.
![A1](/content/news/dev_report_10/a1.jpg 'A1')

Additionally, in case you missed it, we've released our plans for the further future and you can learn about them in our **[Developmental Roadmap](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/roadmap)**. These updates will guide us to our 1.0 release and we are working hard on the features we promised.

As a clarification, updates like the [**0.9.5.109 update**](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/august-update-10) we released this week are among the **minor updates**. These focus on bug fixes, stability, optimizations, and tweaks. The updating 0.9.6 version mentioned previously will include new features, and content belonging to the **major updates**, as well as fixes, tweaks, and minor optimizations. As for **milestones updates**, like the closest _Ground Support_ listed in our **[Roadmap](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/roadmap)**, they will include a set of related features and content which fulfill a certain topic or theme for players.

Now that the distinction is clear, we have two important announcements:

- You can expect improvements related to weapon deployment, Game Master, and Conflict gameplay rules in the upcoming 0.9.6 major update.
- The features released in _Ground Support_ will be getting improvements with the other major and milestone updates in the future. The development of them won't stop after the first milestone.

Last, but definitely not least, **we have added the in-game Workshop to our [website](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop)!** This is only the first version and we will keep working on improving it. For now, you can now browse mods whenever you like and share with your friends, without having to start the game.

## LOGISTICS

Now to our great community that is consistently creating amazing things. We managed to select some of the outstanding content out there to highlight in our latest Community Radar. Check **[COMRAD #2](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/comrad-2)** to see what players are making for the community.

Additionally, the Director of the Arma Reforger launch trailer, _Vladimír Jaške_, made a highly recommended **[Cinematic and VFX Tutorial](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/cinematic-tutorial)** for all of you interested in making cinematics, community videos, screenshots, or just learning about the fascinating field of game development and the Enfusion engine.

You might have noticed, but we've begun to name our updates to reflect the numerical build versions. The reason for this is a clearer distinction when specifying updates and when dealing with two platforms. Thanks for understanding!

And, as always, we are grateful for your feedback, your contribution is immeasurable.


Dev Report #10


# Attention soldiers,

We're going to update the Steam and Xbox versions of the game. The Steam version will be updated on Wednesday, August 10th. There will be server downtime between **12:00 - 15:00 CEST**.

The Xbox version will be updated on Thursday, August 11th. Some official Xbox servers will be unavailable between **12:00 - 15:00 CEST**.

**As you might have noticed, we are renaming our updates - now the title reflects the numerical version of the update.**

## Arma Reforger 0.9.5.109 changelog:

### Crossplay

- **Added: Crossplay is enabled now**
- **Added: Dedicated server config allows platform setup of PC or Xbox+PC crossplay**
- Added: Server browser crossplay filters
- Added: Warning to loading screen displayed when joining a crossplay server
- Added: Crossplay privilege checked and used on Xbox
- Added: Player list showing a column with platform icon

### Game

- Fixed: Missing open trunk user action on Ural truck
- Fixed: Possible crash in building mode
- Fixed: Possible crash when exiting ladders
- Fixed: AI getting stuck when exiting ladder after climbing it up
- Fixed: Semi-lowered weapon does not shoot immediately on mouse click but raises the weapon
- Fixed: Crash possible after grenade throwing is canceled
- Fixed: _Get in_ and _switch seat_ action on cargo variants of trucks is now accessible
- Fixed: Controls conflict between saved camera in GM and saved selections
- Fixed: Control hint for using slot 4 on the controller was missing
- Tweaked: Deploying MHQ on top of rocks is restricted
- Changed: Server browser now sorts by ping by default
- Changed: After using a bandage, automatically assigns a new one to the quick bar
- Fixed: Arrow keys were no longer controlling character movement
- **Added: Unbind action to keybinding settings**
- Added: Official and community server filters in server browser
- Added: Possibility to delay deactivation of an animated object on _BaseItemAnimationComponent_

### Modding

- Fixed: Crash caused by clicking on _Retry_ button in Virtual Machine Exception window
- Fixed: World Editor invalid bounding box when starting a mission with an empty world
- Changed: Workbench profile folder is now separated from the game, called _ArmaReforgerWorkbench_
- Added: Script methods to bind and call custom commands and variables in animation data
- Added: _CallCommand4I_ was missing in _AnimationControllerComponent_

### Multiplayer

- Fixed: Prevent certain network desyncs when removing items from replication to crash the game
- Fixed: Prevent a crash when the client receives an RPC for an item that has locally been removed from replication
- Fixed: State replication could be stalled by bandwidth limit
- Tweaked: Optimized http requests using the same connection
- Tweaked: Minor streaming optimization for _UniversalInventoryStorageComponent_
- Tweaked: _InventoryStorageSlot_ streaming optimization
- Tweaked: Destructibles streaming traffic
- Tweaked: _RplComponent_ streaming traffic
- Added: Separate _RplError_ value for kick due to flooding and stalling to better differentiate between these two cases


0.9.5.109 Update


# Cinematic & VFX Tutorial

Welcome to the Cinematic VFX tutorial! Community videos and cinematics (also known as machinimas) have always been a part of [**Arma**](https://arma3.com/armachinima-contest) and DayZ platforms. And you, our community, have always been keen on learning and exploring our games' options. That is why **_[Vladimír Jaške](https://twitter.com/VladimirJaske)_**, Director of the Arma Reforger [**launch trailer**](https://youtu.be/AIervYhiEZ8), will show you a step-by-step workflow for creating awesome cinematics and visual effects in the [**Enfusion engine**](https://enfusionengine.com/).

We want to help you achieve the most out of [**Arma Reforger**](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/buygame) and its engine Enfusion, that is why we will be bringing more tutorials from our developers in the future.

Now let's get to the first one – the cinematic tutorial. Happy creating!

<div class="aspect-w-16 aspect-h-9">
<iframe  src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gm2NjrWQWpY?origin=https://reforger.armaplatform.com" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>

## Download sample files here:

[https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples/tree/main/SampleMod_CinematicTutorial](https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples/tree/main/SampleMod_CinematicTutorial)

## List of used software:

Arma Reforger Tools: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874880/Arma_Reforger/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874880/Arma_Reforger/)

Blender 3.x: [https://www.blender.org/](https://www.blender.org/)

VirtuCamera (mocaping camera): [https://virtucamera.com/](https://virtucamera.com/)


Cinematic & VFX Tutorial

Roadmap

Community Radar #2


# ATTENTION

Welcome back to another week of updates from the team. In this **Dev Report**, we continue to inform you about our ongoing short and long-term activities as we make progress on bug fixes, optimizations, new additions, and more. In particular, our team wanted to provide some details about how we plan to continue delivering our updates. We've also got some exciting new information on our upcoming release of crossplay, useful additions for modders, and our plans to publish a Release Candidate build for players in the near future.

## INTELLIGENCE

As many of you have probably already seen this week, we've introduced a number of new fixes and changes with the latest [0.9.5.101 Update](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/july-update-20). While there is a lot to cover, we wanted to highlight some notable items.

In this latest update, we found and fixed some issues related to how weapons were synchronizing their state, specifically the fire mode selector. This led to problems with hitting targets, as sometimes the server would think you have a different fire mode than on the local player's machine. The only way to notice it was that targets weren't dying even when hit directly with multiple shots. The same effect can be caused by animation desync as well, so we don't guarantee that the inability to kill people is completely gone, but it's partially solved. We'll continue to investigate this further.

Additionally, we've provided a fix for not being able to switch to the third-person perspective. It was happening for singleplayer games which use respawn on the map (i.e., Conflict and Game Master).

Workarounds with reinstalling BattlEye should no longer be necessary. We updated the BE files and will keep updating them with future updates. This resolved some of the connectivity issues that players could encounter.

We've even gone as far as to provide a fix for a feature that we don't officially support yet. By this, we're referring to the inverted controller not working vertically with helicopter pitch actions. So now, some users can fly their modded helicopters a little smoother.

While we're on the topic, our team has done a lot to tweak, fix, and add to game controls for our players, such as the following:

- Gamepad combos are now properly displayed in the keybinding menu;
- Smoother input curve for aiming using a gamepad;
- Weapon inspect keybindings, and default bindings have been adjusted;
- Ability to rebind _Hint_, _Hint Details_, _Objectives_, and _Current Objective_; and,
- Removed default joystick bindings until joystick rebinding is supported.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">📻 Dear community,<br><br>We are going to update the Steam version of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArmaReforger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArmaReforger</a>. There will be downtime of the servers between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.<br><br>Read more here 👇<a href="https://t.co/sQ3Arcm27d">https://t.co/sQ3Arcm27d</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZO1dDlEuEk">pic.twitter.com/ZO1dDlEuEk</a></p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1549680667277025280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2022</a></blockquote>

Lastly, modders might appreciate a couple of our added additions in the latest updates.

The first improvement has been made to the serialization system. We reworked how the serialization system works for modders, and they can serialize any kind of value without difficulty. On top of that, we've added binary serialization. Which takes up less disk space and is quicker to operate with but is not human-readable.

The second improvement relates to those that make use of navmesh. We implemented a way for scenario makers to make partial changes or additions to navmesh data. This allows multiple addons to modify Everon's navmesh as necessary, and they don't have to publish full data but only differential. Conflicts between mods are resolved by generating the conflicted tiles at runtime. You can read the detailed documentation [available on our community wiki](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Navmesh_Tutorial).

## OPERATIONS

To begin talking about our upcoming operations, let us explain how we're planning to approach releases and updates going into the future. We basically have three stages:

- **Minor Updates**: These will be just like the ones you've been receiving since the release of the game. They're focused on bug fixes, stability, optimizations, and tweaks. Basically reacting to your feedback and fixing the game so it's a better gaming experience with current content.

- **Major Updates**: As you'll see in a few weeks with our upcoming release of version 0.9.6, these updates will bring new features, content, and an even bigger list of fixes and improvements.

- **Milestone Updates**: Similar to major updates, these milestones will include a set of related features and content which fulfill a certain topic or theme for players. These types of updates and their contents will be touched on, in more detail, in the near future!

Until now we've only been releasing minor updates, but we want to bring you new content as well! That's **why we'll be switching to a two-week update cycle**, and the remaining 0.9.5 updates will be smaller in scope. That's to allow us to focus on preparing major updates for release. This change in the update cycle will also allow us to release our planned **Release Candidate build**, available for you to try before updating the main game branch. These changes will give us the ability to test larger-scale multiplayer, gather your immediate feedback, and make sure that the public, stable version isn't affected. More details on this process will be provided when the first major version is ready.

However, we don't mean to worry you about currently known issues; we still have plenty of plans for optimizations incoming, especially for network traffic issues related to items and inventory, and bug fixes in the short term that we'll be working to resolve.

We're planning to change the profile directory for the Workbench application so it's separated from the game profile. We noticed some users may have unpacked mods into their profile folder, which leaves them unable to connect to a multiplayer server due to data mismatch. Additionally, we'll change the server browser and divide the server list between official and community tabs. This may be confusing at first glance, but don't worry, if you look at the tabs you'll still find your favorite servers right there.

And more importantly, as introduced in last week's [Dev Report #8](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/dev-report-8), we're continuing our efforts in testing crossplay. We're in the final stage before delivery, testing it internally. Everything seems to be going well, but we're checking for edge cases and how it will impact general network stability. We may need to do more open testing with you, the players, on both platforms before fully releasing.

## LOGISTICS

Something that might interest those working on animations, we've recently updated the BIKI to include a demonstration of how our Procedural Animation Editor works. You can find a step-by-step tutorial on the BIKI [here](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Procedural_Animation_Editor_Basics_Tutorial). We know some of you have been interested in more examples of our tools, and we'll continue to release more of these types of demonstrations over time.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Introducing new mechanics, assets, textures, and more. <br><br>The only limit is your imagination. Reshape the game and share your own creative vision!<br><br>Read more <a href="https://t.co/PXpXPmCIHz">https://t.co/PXpXPmCIHz</a> <a href="https://t.co/amFherUq1X">pic.twitter.com/amFherUq1X</a></p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1548699351798759426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2022</a></blockquote>

We look forward to providing you with more insights about our upcoming plans and stay tuned for details about additional content in the near future.

For more news and updates, be sure to follow Arma Reforger on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/armaplatform), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/armaplatform), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/armaplatform), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/armaplatform), [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/armaplatform), [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874880/Arma_Reforger/), and [Xbox](https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/arma-reforger-game-preview/9nkckd1wndq0).

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Dev Report #9


# Attention soldiers,

We're going to update the Steam and Xbox versions of the game. The Steam version will be updated on Wednesday, July 20. There will be server downtime between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.

The Xbox version will be updated on Thursday, July 21. Some official Xbox servers will be unavailable between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.

Arma Reforger 0.9.5.101 changelog:

## Game

- Fixed: Wrecks blocking vehicle spawnpoints
- Fixed: Reordering of items upon pickup
- Fixed: Crash in _BaseLoadoutManagerComponent_ when the cloth has an invalid area occluder in data
- Fixed: Switch to the third-person camera was sometimes not working
- Fixed: Crash possible on replicated entities due to _hitzones_ getting released too early
- Fixed: Crash on accessing _AttachmentSlotComponents_ of weapons
- Fixed: Crash if sway modifiers are wrongly configured
- Tweaked: Better default particles (disappearing less radically)
- Added: Container opening sounds to vehicles and traversing

## Multiplayer

- Fixed: Muzzles not synced entirely when streaming could cause broken hit registration
- Fixed: Player disconnection was possible when a replicated entity was released from replication and made a part of another replicated entity
- Fixed: BattlEye was accidentally enabled even for servers with it disabled
- Changed: _HitZones_ no longer replicated, replication routed via the parent _hitzone_ container
- Changed: Updated BattlEye binaries
- Added: A2S bind address can now be configured independently from replication itself

## Audio

- Fixed: Xbox communication device handling, consistent with device permissions
- Fixed: Changing the microphone when the default device is edited while in game

## Controls

- Fixed: Gamepad combos were not displayed properly in the keybinding menu
- Fixed: Rebinding certain actions were not setting proper input filters
- Tweaked: Smoother input curve for aiming using a gamepad
- Changed: Split VONToggle into separate actions, using VON of another type will now cancel the original if toggled
- Changed: Push to talk is now on press instead of delayed hold
- Added: Weapon inspect keybindings and default bindings adjusted to Ctrl+R / RB + X, grenade slot binding to View + B
- Added: Ability to rebind Hint, Hint details, Objectives, and Current objective
- Removed: Default joysticks bindings until joystick rebinding is supported

## Modding

- Fixed: Inverted controller vertically didn't work with helicopter pitch action
- Changed: _NavmeshEditorTool_ to allow saving of parts of navmesh
- Added: Rework of serialization system
- Added: _BinSerializationContainer_ for serialization
- Added: Support for modding of parts of navmesh


New Updates for Steam and Xbox #8


# ATTENTION

Apart from past updates and planned changes, this week we wish to discuss information about current issues and what we are doing to resolve them. Specifically, we want to address some of the major reasons for player disconnects and crashes. Besides that, we look forward to showing you our changes on voice over network and some of the other major, upcoming additions - such as cross-play!

## INTELLIGENCE

First, we want to address issues that you can usually encounter: problems with connecting, kicks, and crashes. This is obviously a dire situation and we are fully focused on resolving those issues. We recognize and understand the frustrations of our players so we would like to explain the situation in detail.

There are three major areas. Connectivity issues, basically all the situations when you cannot get into the server either because of mod's error, loading error, or client crash. The second area is disconnections or kicks from running game sessions. Most of them are caused by extensive network traffic, often caused by desynchronization states of entities between your client and server. There are also multiple valid reasons for the disconnection - for example, server restart, scenario ending, kick caused by team-killing, or voted. That makes the issues to be hard to reproduce in a reliable way. They are complex, often actions that lead to them having to be done with precise timing and order.

We have fixed several bugs and inefficiencies that could lead to disconnects. We also improved delivery guarantees on more unstable connections, which have also shown to cause disconnects. We have improved network traffic both for streaming and objects already existing in the game (such as characters and vehicles). This mostly helps people with slower and less stable connections (e.g. wireless networks) but can also improve how quickly replicated objects show up in the world. More significant optimizations are coming soon.

We are currently working on addressing other related bugs. Because of complexity and difficult reproduction, we had to develop tools to better diagnose the causes. We are currently using those tools to investigate known repro-steps and your feedback. We are confident that this method will lead to significant improvements in network reliability.

And what are we doing about crashes?

Most severe are the crashes of the server. Every bit of information from your feedback is extremely helpful, as we are working on isolating and fixing them. There is a video card memory crash on consoles. It's related to something called memory fragmentation and we already have a fix delivered on PC version and pending for consoles. Regarding the crashes on clients - they are often related to mods. We are trying to test mods as well, but it is a lot more combinations than we can afford. They can cause issues when multiple mods are combined. Our target is to prevent the crashes by gracefully failing the mod, for example with an error message or by disabling problematic features. With all the possible combinations we heavily depend on your feedback and reports. A very common crash happens just on the closing of the game application and does not cause further issues, we consider it harmless at the moment.

And now for this week´s delivered updates.

User interface elements related to voice over network and radio communication were reworked to be more visually consistent with other HUD and take less space. Additional lock icon informs players when they have voice transmission toggled. Icons were made more generic too, making certain mods completely obsolete.

![New UI for radio communication](/content/news/dev_report_8/von.jpeg)
![New UI for radio communication](/content/news/dev_report_8/von1.jpeg)
![New UI for radio communication](/content/news/dev_report_8/von2.jpeg)

We optimized the usage of the map, hopefully, this will stop the degradation of performance that some players were experiencing.

We also fixed lots of smaller game issues related to the following:

- the usage of gadgets
- spawning on radio operators
- using picture-in-picture scopes

Modders might find it interesting that we fixed the usage of weapon pivot in the configuration of sights and scopes. This should help with the use of those attachments between different weapons.

## OPERATIONS

What can you expect in the near future? Again, some good news for modders, we are preparing an improved serialization system, the ability to save and load not only from JSON files, but also binary files, improvements to script API, and easier handling of containers during saving or loading. We are also working on a new script API and methods to modify animation logic on characters, we want you to be able to create your own animation commands and communicate with the animation system.

You can look forward to control improvements - on Xbox we are tweaking the responsiveness of aiming and enabling weapon inspection. For PC players we fixed controls binding of inventory and some other similar actions, added customizable keybinds for quick slots, weapon inspection, hints, and tasks.

Regarding a pressing issue of servers restarting - we are testing a change which, instead of doing a hard reset at scenario end, will reload the mission without disconnecting players. The first version will be delivered soon for Capture & Hold servers, where we intend to test it more.

And finally, **cross-play is coming!** That's right! PC and Xbox players can battle it out together in the near future. We are currently doing final internal tests and planning to enable it on official and community servers. This should allow Xbox players to finally enjoy modded multiplayer matches. We also hope that the PC scene will welcome Xbox players and the influx of players into one playing space. Keyboard and mouse support for Xbox is not ready for public release just yet.

## LOGISTICS

As always, we thank everyone for your continued support and for providing valuable feedback.

Let's keep marching forward, Arma community!


Dev Report #8


# New Updates for Steam and Xbox #7

Attention soldiers,

We're going to update the Steam and Xbox versions of the game. The Steam version will be updated on Wednesday, 13th of July. There will be server downtime between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.

The Xbox version will be updated on Thursday, 14th of July. Some of the official Xbox servers will be unavailable between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.

Arma Reforger 0.9.5.97 changelog:

## Multiplayer

- Fixed: Improvements to door network synchronization
- Fixed: Explosion projectiles applying damage to multiple items was optimized
- Fixed: _NwkMovementComponent_ extrapolation would work with the previous value rather than the latest one
- Tweaked: Logging _RplId_ of nodes that could not be found during creation
- Tweaked: Added a note regarding prefab _entityID_ network serialization
- Added: Streaming all content of the current cell first logic

## AI

- Fixed: AI getting stuck in aiming after an attack and investigating
- Fixed: Rotation of AI when provided with a _lookAt_ location
- Added: New navmesh area type for ladders

## UI and Localization

- Fixed: Disabling and enabling a dependency of a mod showed a wrong confirmation dialog
- Fixed: Faction attribute now supports other entities that use the faction controller
- Fixed: Author name in the loading screen
- Fixed: Multiple strings for localization
- Fixed: Login dialogs need the player's email instead of their username
- Fixed: Opening the context menu by clicking RMB on an entity did not hide its tooltip
- Fixed: Script error when opening the entity browser
- Changed: Kick notifications now state the reason why the player was kicked (if it happens through player interaction, e.g. a vote to kick for excessive teamkilling, etc.)
- Changed: Debug info in entity tooltips is now based on the debug menu
- Changed: Visuals of VON UI unified with other HUDs and simplified; the whole widget is about 25% smaller in both X and Y axis
- Changed: Icon indicator for continuous transmission changed to "lock"
- Added: Feedback Tracker link to the community section

## Game

- Fixed: Opening the inventory now pins a grenade instead of throwing it
- Fixed: Camera shaking when the player would melee while in ADS
- Fixed: Set 'draggable' to false on all arsenal, ammo, equipment boxes; block users from moving boxes into vehicles/inventories
- Fixed: Dropping a transmitting radio would not end the transmission
- Fixed: Spawning inside radio operators
- Fixed: AI could block construction sites
- Fixed: In some cases the building process was not blocked for the player when building was in progress
- Fixed: Reloading while holding the fire button does not break the reloading animation anymore
- Fixed: Changing fire mode cancels weapon firing to prevent 'full-automatic shooting' with semi-automatic weapons using rapid fire mode changing
- Fixed: The death camera was not following the player character
- Fixed: Toggling between Picture-in-Picture and 2D scopes should no longer cause issues
- Fixed: PiP HDR possibly using an improper camera index
- Fixed: VME when swapping PiP scopes
- Fixed: Correct collider materials assignment and fixes to hit effects and decals on the municipal office building
- Fixed: Complex loadout compositions may break if inserted via a request spawn item, as an entity needs a _HierarchyComponent_ in order to be parented via the _SpawnParams_ Parent property
- Hotfixed: Ragdoll Y position not synchronized when streaming ragdolls in
- Tweaked: Shaking of the turret in ADS while rotating it or the vehicle moving
- Changed: Door component disabled for _Door_FactoryHall_E_01_Elevator_
- Changed: Map deactivates/activates the player camera when it opens/closes
- Changed: Rocket M72 with a new model and rig (fixes sticking out fins)

## Backend

- Fixed: HTTP response queue depletion, when joining to / disconnecting from a modded server
- Fixed: Potential Workshop crash
- Fixed: Backend - Crash when someone exceeds the data size and JSON creation fails during Save or Upload
- Fixed: Checking ping before entering the server browser
- Tweaked: Backend - Service status test time value reset on errors
- Tweaked: Backend - Removed the _SetFailed()_ state from _OnErrorHandling_ response callback as it was redundant and called already
- Tweaked: Support for deleting mods (API)
- Changed: _JsonApi_ buffer for local saves increased to 1MB
- Changed: Backend - Environment connecting process for clients to be infinite, which allows re-connecting when there are temporary connection issues
- Changed: Backend - Refactored Error + Timeout calls to get rid _SetFailed()_ + _SetTimeouted()_
- Changed: Backend - All possible JSON parse errors in _WorkshopApi_ result in a failed state
- Added: Backend - _IsInitialized()_ API function to indicate an environment load is being processed
- Added: Hiding an author's content request
- Added: Author is blocked API
- Added: BattlEye server filter with icons and a localized string
- Added: Server browser kick dialogs fallback to error group

## Modding

- Fixed: _BaseWorldAPI::ProjectViewportToWorld_ missing one parameter in the script declaration
- Fixed: Pivot ID not being applied to camera transformation in PiP scopes
- Changed: Only allow _CharacterAnimationComponent_ on _ChimeraCharacters_
- Added: Option to set PiP camera angles for specific kinds of optics

## Game Master

- Fixed: "Clear all destroyed entities" action deletes destroyed vehicles now


New Updates for Steam and Xbox #7


# ATTENTION

As you will notice, we're releasing this Dev Report earlier than usual. This is due to a public holiday in the Czech Republic; we won't update the game this week. While our developers are resting, let's talk about our immediate and longer-term plans for future updates.

## INTELLIGENCE

As heavily requested by console players, we increased the capacity on some of the Xbox servers to 32 players. We'll monitor these servers and your feedback before making further adjustments. If you encounter performance issues or more network issues, please let us know. Smaller servers are provided, so in the event of trouble, you have a tried and tested place to play. We hope you enjoy the bigger battles.

## OPERATIONS

Let's start with improvements that we're planning to deliver soon.

We improved spawning on radio operators, hopefully eliminating situations when players would clip with each other and get blocked.

We changed the way blocking of new buildings is done in Conflict game mode. Now, when creating bunkers or other base compositions, AI won't be blocking the selected locations, they should move away from the area and allow construction to be finished.

We changed visual elements on the screen responsible for direct voice and radio communication. It has new icons, takes less space, and is more consistent with the rest of the HUD.

You can look forward to AI fixes. Constant rotation should be gone and investigation behaviors are slightly improved, eliminating rare cases when AI would get locked aiming at a wrong spot. AI groups no longer climb to the roof when the waypoint is inside an office building.

The first-person perspective camera during death will be more visually correct. There should be less jarring movement and clipping as we snapped the camera to the actual head of your character.

As always, we also have a range of long-term plans we're hoping to get out.

One of the recurring issues is the inability to distinguish planned server restarts from kicks caused by network issues. We're planning to add in-game information about regular server shutdowns, so they can't be mistaken for disconnections due to low network quality or unresponsive servers.

We're also designing a method to run servers with mission rotation. For server admins out there, that basically means providing multiple mission headers inside the server config. This feature will be connected with mission reloading and both should be available in the upcoming months.

We're still fighting with save and load issues. After delivering a few fixes in recent updates, we found out that the feature still isn't performing as it should. We identified the problems and will be delivering fixes in future updates.

Official servers with Capture & Hold scenarios will have third-person cameras disabled. We hope this change will make matches fairer and bring the PvP scene back into the game.

## LOGISTICS

Soon after releasing 0.9.5.90, we discovered that spawning a lot of compositions in Game Master mode can crash the server during auto-save. As a workaround, we provided a small mod "DisableGMAutosave" which should be automatically downloaded when joining any official GM server. As far as we know, community GM servers should not be affected by this crash.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We&#39;ve released a Hotfix for crashes on Official Game Master Eden servers in the form of a Workshop mod.<br><br>In order to join Official GM Eden servers, a download of this mod to your client is required. This mod disables any save attempts in the Game Master Eden scenario if active.</p>&mdash; Arma Platform (@ArmaPlatform) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmaPlatform/status/1542903792328495107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

We'd like to remind you that using mods can lead to instability and game-breaking bugs. We're testing mods ourselves and giving feedback and supporting mod creators whenever possible. If you encounter issues, please always try to disable all mods and reproduce the issue in the vanilla game. You can then start enabling mods, one by one or in small groups. This way you can find out which addons are actually causing the issues and turn them off as a workaround. We also invite you to join the official [Arma Discord](https://discord.gg/arma) server where most of the creators are actively sharing feedback and helping each other with solutions.

We're grateful for your support and helpful feedback!


Dev Report #7


# Hotfix for crashes on Official Game Master Eden servers

Attention soldiers,

We've released a Hotfix for crashes on Official Game Master Eden servers in the form of a Workshop mod.

In order to join Official GM Eden servers, a download of this mod to your client is required. This mod disables any save attempts in the Game Master Eden scenario if active.

We're sorry for the inconvenience. This is a temporary solution and will be fixed in our next update.


Hotfix for crashes on Official Game Master Eden servers


# ATTENTION

Welcome to our sixth Dev Report!

In the last issue, we informed you about having to delay last week´s update to this week. All should now be in place as the update went public on June 29th. You can see what was changed and fixed in the Intelligence section below. Thank you for sticking with us through the growing pains of Early Access; we value your essential feedback and all of the community content you are producing!

## INTELLIGENCE

This delayed update brought a number of fixes and tweaks. Regarding multiplayer, we corrected network replication of vehicles during movement which was causing them to jump forward and back, as well as generate broken dust and exhaust effects. AI should be behaving better due to fixes too. There will be no more failing to open doors when too close or seeing players through smoke on Dedicated servers. Those using Workbench might be happy to hear that we added a texture compression configuration for UI textures without compression and road dielectric reflectance to satmaps.

You can read a more detailed changelog for this week's game update on our **[webpage](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/june-update-29)**.

## OPERATIONS

First, we want to acknowledge issues we are approaching with the utmost attention and care. We are first and foremost working on network traffic and connection stability - we added more logging, which should help us find the remaining issues. In the last game update, we delivered a number of optimizations and fixes towards these connection issues. This is still our main focus and we are looking forward to any feedback you provide in regards to network and connection problems, as every report the community provides helps us with identifying and fixing them.

Overall, we want you to know we are meticulously processing all of your feedback. Approximately half of what has been reported to us has been resolved. Unfortunately, some of your suggestions are not going to be realized in Arma Reforger as they are out of the game's scope, but we will be considering them for Arma 4.

In regards to 32 players servers for the Xbox version of the game, we have been conducting internal tests and also ran limited public tests. Few servers with 32 limit were used to capacity by the community, but from the feedback and data we gathered, we decided to run a few of those server instances per region.

Continuing with short term tasks we are working on, we are fixing the collision of the task list and the map controls. Detection of blocking objects when building compositions in Conflict is being improved, as well as Navmesh modding.

Some other tasks worth mentioning:

- Mod deletion support.
- More visual improvements of the Voice over Network (VON) UI, which will be more compact and have better icons.

For long term tasks, we are improving ragdoll and death animations, expanding functionality of weapon inspection, and merging attachment compatibility mod into vanilla data. Don’t expect these in the next update, but further down the line.

## LOGISTICS

We released our first **[Arma Reforger Community Radar](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/comrad-1)**, or COMRAD for short. Check it out and see a curated selection of the amazing content that has been pouring out of the community since Reforger's early access launch.

We salute you, Arma community!


Dev Report #6


# New Updates for Steam and Xbox #6

Attention soldiers,

We're going to update the Steam and Xbox versions of the game.

The Steam version will be updated on Wednesday, 29th of June. There will be **server downtime between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.**

The Xbox version will be updated on Thursday, 30th of June. Some of the official Xbox **servers will be unavailable between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.**

Arma Reforger 0.9.5.90 changelog:

## Multiplayer

- Fixed: Network replication of vehicles during movement, causing vehicle to jump forward/back, broken dust and exhaust effects
- Fixed: Removal of an entity from replication did not properly remove all of its associated bump tasks
- Fixed: Issue with moving dead bodies corrupting the replication spatial map
- Changed: DoorComponent streaming data optimization
- Changed: Slightly optimized streaming of big amounts of network data when moving quickly through the world
- Changed: Improved logging of replication issues

## Game

- Fixed: AI failing to open doors when too close
- Fixed: AI was able to see through smoke on Dedicated Servers
- Fixed: Placing a waypoint or faction objective in the sky is no longer possible
- Fixed: Hiding the interface in Armavision hid also player overlays, f.e. player tags or blurred faces
- Fixed: Weapon item previews were cropped in the inventory when dragging
- Fixed: Server list scrolling and displaying of proper data
- Fixed: Mods should be now downloaded for hovered-over servers; this should prevent crashes from missing mods when joining
- Fixed: Equipping sounds not playing
- Fixed: Right feet had a misconfigured health hitzone damage multiplier
- Fixed: Changing weapons and stance at the same time could get characters stuck without a weapon
- Fixed: Workshop did not show that a mod update was available until the user opened mod details page of that mod
- Fixed: Aiming ADS sensitivity multiplier set in the gameplay settings will not affect freelook anymore
- Fixed: Bases randomization in Tutorial is now fixed, and there were minor changes / tweaks to controls
- Fixed: Adding bleeding from the Game Master context menu sometimes did not add bleeding for no apparent reason
- Fixed: Weapon inspection can no longer occur in vehicle compartments
- Fixed: Xbox web browser opening
- Fixed: InventoryItemComponent would trigger some events even while its entity was being deleted (fixes a crash involving flashlights on deleted characters)
- Fixed: Possible crash in CanSwapItemStorages
- Fixed: Occasional crash in the server browser after updating the list
- Tweaked: Fragmentation damage increased
- Tweaked: Pop-up notification layout: size, color, transparency, frequency
- Tweaked: Moved a Conflict spawnpoint in Quarry; AI no longer spawn inside walls
- Changed: Curves for flashlight visibility during daylight, as well as performance tweaks
- Changed: Strapped flashlights now provide a more consistent angle of illumination when holding weapons
- Changed: Enforced interrupted weapon switching while jumping
- Changed: Creating a group of soldiers directly inside a vehicle is no longer possible
- Added: Servers loading indication in the server browser
- Added: 'Clear Destroyed Entities' - a toolbar action in Game Master that deletes all dead soldiers and destroyed vehicles with one click
- Added: Spacing between waypoints placed by a Game Master for multiple AI groups at the same time
- Removed: More redundant task notifications

## Workbench

- Fixed: Procedural Animation Editor - Using a smoother node does not interrupt preview anymore, preview values on signal nodes are saved
- Tweaked: Allowing to use sRGB color format for mouse cursors
- Tweaked: Terrain satellite mask is now used for simulating road roughness
- Added: Road dielectric reflectance to satmaps
- Added: Prepared a texture compression configuration for UI textures without compression

## API changes (for modders)

- Fixed: BackendAPI.IsActive() and IsRunning() results were incorrect
- Added: BackendAPI.GetCommTestStatus()
- Added: GarbageManager::Flush script API
- Changed: JsonApi improved logging


New Updates for Steam and Xbox #6

Community Radar #1


# ATTENTION

Welcome to our fifth Arma Reforger Dev Report!

First, we must inform you that we were unfortunately unable to deliver an update to the game to you this week. We found an issue that could in some instances cause crashes of the game, so we decided to postpone the update to next week. However, this means you will get more fixes in the next patch along with the ones that were intended for this week. We thank you for patience!

## INTELLIGENCE

This week we released a minor update of the Arma Reforger Server Steam App launch options. Previously, you had two “Play Dedicated Server” options that had now been removed. They were replaced by a single “Server Hosting Docs” launch option that will open server hosting documentation and examples, available at this web page [here](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Server_Hosting).

We also removed some unused official servers and some scenarios as it won't be feasible to support them all with lower server numbers.

## OPERATIONS

Let's start with updates that will most likely be delivered in the next patch:

We fixed regression caused by network optimization, which caused vehicles to at times move in a jarring way, seemingly without interpolation.

We are still working on optimizing network traffic and fixing remaining network issues. Some of these problems remain elusive, so part of the work is about improving logs and diagnostic tools. Updates to logs are likely in the next update, while traffic optimizations however are a long term issue that will take more time.

- We are adding a way for Game Master to clear all destroyed entities. Such function was available through a community mod, which we have used as inspiration. We recognize that it's useful tool to have as part of the game, and we thank you for showing us this.

Other noteworthy updates for next week:

- Spacing of waypoints when ordering multiple AI groups in Game Master. That should help a bit with AI bunching together on the way to or on the destination point itself.
- Notifications in Conflict are going to be less frequent and they will take less space. The transparency will also be adjusted to fit darker scenes.
- Fragmentation damage of explosives will be increased.

Finally, here are some long term tasks that will be included in future updates:

We recognize that generating navmesh for your large coop scenarios can be a pain, to save both your time and our disk space - we are working on new methods to modify the navmesh for your scenarios. There will be the ability to save only modified data for your objectives area. The rest of the navmesh would be loaded from vanilla data. This method should also work with multiple combined mods.

Last week, we informed you about working on transparent and adaptive UI brightness controlled by the scene brightness. We are on the right track and hopefully will be able to deliver a solution next week.

We also talked about updating the task system so modders can more easily create a new task without having to modify the task manager. We have made progress, and the new system is already working in single-player. Internally, were going to convert the actual tasks to fit the new architecture and adjust their multiplayer behaviour.

Adding support for multiple save slots, and community dedicated servers for Xbox are also planned for future updates.

## LOGISTICS

Our [Community Wiki](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger) is a massive archive of useful information for you as a player, server host, and as a mod developer. We are constantly adding more documentation, and you can browse latest documents [here](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Special:NewPages?namespace=5050&tagfilter=&username=&size-mode=min&size=&wpFormIdentifier=newpagesform).

For those of you who are soldiering on Xbox, we are testing 32 player Xbox servers internally, and depending on the results, we will enable them for public, but in a limited amount at first.

Please note that we monitor your feedback daily and thank you for your ongoing help and support! If you have any feedback to submit, you can do so [here](https://feedback.bistudio.com/project/view/66/).


Dev Report #5


# Removal of unused official servers

Attention soldiers,

We'll do another server culling this week to remove unused Official Reforger servers. We'll also get rid of some scenarios as it won't be feasible to support them all with thinner server numbers.
Unnecessary servers will be shut down gradually over a period of 1-3 days and there should be minimal to no impact on your play during this process.


Removal of unused official servers


# Update of Arma Reforger Server Steam App launch options

Attention soldier,

The two "Play Dedicated Server“ options will be removed. A new "Server Hosting Docs“ launch option will open this web page with server hosting documentation and examples: [https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Server_Hosting](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Server_Hosting).


Update of Arma Reforger Server Steam App launch options


# ATTENTION

In this fourth Arma Reforger Dev Report, we will address the latest changes - both major and minor ones - from this week's game updates on both PC and Xbox platforms. We will also share some more short and long-term plans for the game, and will also outline for you some known issues.

## INTELLIGENCE

First, we would like to present to you the most important fixes from this update.

We have optimized network traffic for characters and vehicles, so if you've experienced kicks caused by flooding network messages, this should be of help. Furthermore, connections in Multiplayer should now be more stable as we fixed some edgecases related to authentication.

We also have some good news for terrain modders! We hope they will have a better time modding since we made a big pass on issues related to terrains in World Editor, and a number of fixes for road generation. Also, Everon has been through a big makeover; floating objects, broken doors in one bunker and lots of other issues were fixed in this latest update.

As was promised in the last Dev Report, Voice Over Network (VON) was greatly improved in multiple ways:

- The direct speech from non-friendly characters no longer clutters the display.
- Enemy nicknames are no longer displayed in radio transmissions.
- The voice loopback issue was hotfixed - the speaker won't hear them self over the secondary radios anymore if they speaks on the platoon channel.

Last but not least for the important updates, you can now bind your mouse buttons!

As for the minor updates, drivers will be pleased to hear that we improved BTR-70 and Ural gear shifting. This should lead to better vehicle performance and therefore a more enjoyable ride. Speaking of more pleasant activities, we fixed ladder usage in churches, so gaining sniper/scout positions in bigger towns should now be easier!

If your modding has been hindered by a weaker GPU, you might like to hear that with -EnableWARP CLI parameter, Workbench should work for you too.

We listened to your feedback about some weapons feeling too slow, so we have made the Aim Down Sights (ADS) speed quicker for most of the weapons. Please let us know if the speed changes are _too_ fast!

Other noteworthy minor updates:

- The throwing speed of all grenades was decreased.
- Remnants randomization in Conflict game mode - they should be a little less predictable now.
- We removed the unused red markers on the map when playing Conflict in solo mode.
- The G key for dropping items is not clashing with the VON menu anymore. Dropping of items was moved to X key.

## OPERATIONS

There are still a number of other fixes and updates we are hard at work on. First, let's show you the ones that should be delivered in the next update.

We are going to temporarily lower the number of the official servers for the PC platform, since PC players are mostly playing on community run ones.

Regarding Xbox players, we will have servers for 32 players – this is where we will definitely need your critical feedback, soldiers!

We also will increase the fragmentation damage of the explosives and remove compression from cursor textures, as it causes them to at times not appear or work properly.

More short-term tasks include:

- Stopping weapon/item preview images from being cropped when using drag'n'drop in the inventory.
- Improving the popup notification layout - size, color, transparency, and frequency in Conflict.
- Improving the building of compositions - stop them from being blocked by AIs.

Let’s now take a peek at our long-term plans for Arma Reforger that won’t appear in the next update.

One of the issues that is taking a lot of our attention is the task system. We are improving the architecture to support modding more since now it's difficult for modders to create a new task type without modifying the task manager.

We also plan to add support for multiple save slots for solo play in game modes that support them, such as Game Master and Conflict, as we are looking for a way to let players preserve their creations and return to them later. This is a feature we had already wanted in Arma 3 Zeus.

Another thing we are working on is transparent and adaptive UI brightness that is controlled by scene brightness.

We are also making steps towards allowing people to host their own modded community dedicated servers for the Xbox platform.

## LOGISTICS

You might have read about executed fixes in this week's [update](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/june-update-15). We want to address two items from the changelog that are unfortunately not completely fixed. First is the fact that the reshuffling of inventory bug is still in the game, and we are working on a fix. The second is the update status of mods in Workshop should work better, but there is still use case when it does not show up, and we will investigate this problem further.

Among other known issues is also the Save & Load feature for solo play of game modes not working properly in a certain situations. We are also aware that vehicles interpolation in multiplayer games is now broken. You may notice vehicles jumping/jerking when observing them from non-driver perspective, and also excessive dust effects, sounds, and passenger animations, such as g-force reactions. This is a regression caused by some of our recent changes in previous updates, and we will fix it as soon as possible.

Be assured, soldiers - we are listening to you and are infinitely thankful for your feedback and support!


Dev Report #4


# New Updates for Steam and Xbox #5

Attention soldiers,

Another update for the Steam and Xbox versions of the game is incoming.

The Steam version will be updated on Wednesday, 15th of June. Some of the **official servers will be unavailable between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.**

The Xbox version will be updated on Thursday, 16th of June. Some of the **official Xbox servers will be unavailable 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 issues
- 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


New Updates for Steam and Xbox #5


# ATTENTION

In the third Dev Report, we again aim to inform you about the past and upcoming changes in Arma Reforger's development.

## INTELLIGENCE

Vehicle driving should run more smoothly with an added fix that corrects vehicles moving forward and possibly even flying when a driver disconnects. Another important fixed issue regarding driving is that you can now use quick slots from the passenger position. That means you can finally use the map while not driving and help the driver navigate.

When wounded and in need of bandages, you can now find them in HQ tents and help yourself or your fellow soldiers. You will also find that your weapons will not stop bullets anymore. Items in arsenal should have also stopped reshuffling when you pick them up!

Other noteworthy changes:

- You can use # character in server names again.
- A sandbox solution for spawn protection was added.
- Various saving and loading issues were fixed.

Many of these fixes are recorded in [the minor update changelog from last week](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/june-update-7). We are gathering and processing your feedback and we thank you for your valuable input.

## OPERATIONS

We are still working on network instability issues causing kicks. Thank you for your patience. In the update, there is a fix for the authentication stage that should help with connecting to servers, especially those that are almost full. We also added more logging, so further diagnosis of network issues should be easier for us.

We also have identified a couple of traffic optimizations, which are being worked on now and should be available in upcoming updates. We are very thankful to you, the Arma community. You are actively helping us to find these complex issues. If you are hosting Dedicated Servers for Arma Reforger, make sure to join our [official Discord](https://discord.com/invite/arma) and share your experiences there.

Issues with terrain making in Workbench are mostly fixed internally; they should be available in a next update. You will also notice that in Conflict, there will be less UI task notifications, shorter voice messages, plus smaller and more transparent UI.

There are also a few Voice over Network (VoN) updates to be found in the next build. They should make your experience with radios better. Direct speech from hostile characters will not clutter the screen anymore, enemy nicknames will not be displayed in the radio transmissions, and speakers will not hear themselves over the secondary radios when speaking on the platoon channel. You can also disable VoN notifications on servers.

Further highlighted changes:

- We will add transparent and adaptive UI brightness (controlled by the scene brightness).
- In the task system, we are improving the architecture to support modding more.
- We are improving the building of compositions - not being blocked by AI characters anymore.

## LOGISTICS

On Monday, we had an unfortunate 7 hours long downtime of our official servers. We managed to restore them and we have also found the cause. We are working on a fix. Network-related issues caused the servers to hang, and they had to be restarted manually. We are sorry for the inconvenience. This kind of situation is exactly why we've released into Early Access first. We thank you tremendously for your patience. The issues will be solved during the coming weeks, so that servers which are disconnected from our online services should gracefully shut down.

We are also aware of the issue with randomized objective names. We added the randomization of base code names, but during later testing, we found out a problem with synchronization over the clients leading to different code names on each client. We are working on it!

Last week, we've released an example mod: _[Hexcavate](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/mod-hexcavate)_. We hope you had some fun with it and were inspired to create your own mini-games!

We are saying it again and again, but it needs to be said: thank you for your support and feedback, always! We are on the road to Arma 4 together.


Dev Report #3


# Something Different

Back in April, before the Arma Reforger announcement, a small team in our Amsterdam studio held a week-long game jam. Their mission was to create a small game as a mod. The result is **_Hexcavate_**, and today we've published it to the game's Workshop for all players to try. We hope it demonstrates how far beyond the original vision of the game you can take the [Enfusion](https://enfusionengine.com/) engine and its [Workbench](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Official_Tools) tool suite. And it may offer a fun little singleplayer distraction, both on PC and Xbox!

![You can enjoy Minesweeper-like tactics!](/content/news/mod_hexcavate/you_can_enjoy_minesweeper_tactics.png)

You may be wondering why we're doing this now, when there are still issues to iron out in the main game. Don't worry, this isn't taking away any developers from the Arma Reforger development team. Their full focus is on the game itself and making sure it continues to become better and better with each update. For a little bit more background: our Amsterdam studio has in recent years split its focus between Arma 3 Live Ops and Arma Reforger development support. And since not all of the team members had much experience with Enfusion yet, one of the jam's goals was to help them learn the tools and scripting. There's simply no faster way to do so than to create an actual game. Other goals were to test and validate the modding pipelines, and also a bit of team-building and fun together.

Welcome to Hexcavate, an archaeology Minesweeper-like with depth.

## Dig Deep

Our only briefing for the game jam was to create something inspired by the classic [Minesweeper](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)>) game. After some brainstorming on the first day, we settled on a direction that would use the theme of archeology. You'll be excavating historical artifacts from multiple layers of terrain. But beware of the obstacles! If you're not careful, you'll accidentally destroy a precious discovery. And your sponsors are known for their tight control of your budget, so don't run out of cash.

We'll leave it at that, just go and play for yourself! In Arma Reforger's main menu, visit the _Workshop_ and search for _Hexcavate_ by _Bohemia Interactive_. Download the mod and then you can start the scenario directly from the item details. Or you can go to the _Scenarios_ menu and start it there. A quick information guide will greet you at the start. You can view it again from the pause menu.

To gamepad players we have good and bad news. The good news is that the game can be fully played on gamepad and it even uses rumble! Unfortunately though, we didn't have quite enough time to add proper control hints (except for a page in the guide). The camera controls should be quite intuitive, using the thumb sticks to move and rotate, and the triggers for zooming. The A-button will dig up a tile and the B-button marks it as a hint to yourself. But here comes the slightly confusing part: selecting the artifacts you're excavating. Use the d-pad to select the artifacts at the bottom of the screen (on PC you can just click them). Then use the left shoulder button to confirm excavation, or the right shoulder button to cancel. Perhaps we'll find some time in the future to improve this, but for now there are other things for us to do.

![Dig your way through Hexcavate.](/content/news/mod_hexcavate/dig_your_way_through_hexcavate.png)

## Unsolved Mysteries

So now you've played your first round of Hexcavate and you're curious about some of the technical details? What does this mod demonstrate?

- The ability to rapidly create a small game, even one quite unlike the main Arma Reforger experience
- The use of a level that is programmatically generated (meshes and materials), instead of a more typical Arma terrain based on a heightmap
- The power of Enfusion scripting, since no C++ programming was necessary for these results
- The rapid creation and import of custom art assets from third-party tools, with a hexy visual style throughout
- The flexibility of the sound and particle effect editors, by re-mixing base game effects and quickly creating new ones

We know this mod doesn't bring you anything particularly useful within Arma's military gameplay, but we hope it inspires creators as to what's possible. Just imagine what could be created given a little more time and experience. In fact, we're already seeing the impressive first results on the Workshop. If you're keen to learn more yourself, be sure to check out our ever-growing [documentation](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding), the [sample mod sources](https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples), or join community channels like [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/arma). And by all means, open Hexcavate in Workbench to peak behind-the-scenes (it's published under the [Arma Public License](https://www.bohemia.net/community/licenses/arma-public-license)). Just keep in mind that it was created during a game jam, so we know the code tends to be hacky and rough. It's perhaps not a showcase of best practices! We'll likely not develop Hexcavate much further, but we will try to keep it functional after future game updates.

![Become an archeologist and find interesting pieces.](/content/news/mod_hexcavate/become_an_archeologist.png)

Have fun digging!


New example mod Hexcavate


# New updates for Steam and Xbox

Attention soldiers,

We are going to update the Steam and Xbox versions of the game.

The Steam version will be updated on Tuesday, June 7. There will be **downtime of the servers between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.**

The Xbox version will be updated on Wednesday, June 8. 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.


New updates for Steam and Xbox


# ATTENTION

Welcome to the second **Dev Report**, in which we'll inform you about our most recently conducted development ops for _Arma Reforger_. You'll also find various highlights of upcoming changes / updates which are currently in development or will be in the near future.

## INTELLIGENCE:

We are well aware of the issues in multiplayer, and these have our utmost priority to resolve. We've already applied multiple network-related fixes and improvements in the recent updates on both platforms. Our main focus here is to improve network traffic and fix desynchronizations during gameplay, since those are the primary cause for the disconnections you may have experienced. Our secondary objective is to improve connectivity to servers and the usage of mods.

Various other noteworthy changes are:

- Fixes to rendering artifacts while using Picture-in-Picture weapons scopes or the inventory menu (these should also fix some flashing textures, bright artifacts, and very dark building interiors)
- Added inverted control options on gamepads and fixed audio issues on Xbox
- Improved cancelling of binding input actions on PC

Many of these fixes were also communicated in the [minor update changelog](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/june-update-1) on the 1st of June, whereas others will arrive in upcoming updates. We've also spent significant time on processing your valuable [feedback](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/feedback) from many channels, and we've generated a plan with improvements to be made in more updates. One example is a fix for a very annoying bug which causes items to be reordered in containers as you try picking them up. Op preparation should become smoother with that in place.

We'd also like to thank server admins for helping us with diagnosing issues. This has for example led to one fix related to player counts on servers. That too should help with some of the connectivity issues, especially on higher cap servers.

## OPERATIONS

We're of course continuing our investigations of multiplayer issues in the public version of the game. Thanks to your ongoing reports, we've already identified various new bugs to target next. Our primary focus is still on the stability of multiplayer sessions, for both players and servers.

Some other things on our hit list:

- Fixing the saving upon exiting and the continue-feature
- Fixing enemy nicknames being visible in direct speech communications
- Fixing the incorrect first-person camera position on AI characters
- Adding better spawn protection for Conflict and other game modes

## LOGISTICS

We've received a lot of questions on when we'll restore Xbox servers to their higher player limits. We'll be increasing those limits on the official servers as soon as we solve the most pressing networking issues. We want to avoid causing more issues at the same time as trying to identify, reproduce, and fix the current ones. Having said that, it's our intention to get more of your enjoying Conflict together on Xbox as well.

Another frequent request was to open forums sections for Arma Reforger. After removing some technical obstacles, we're happy to invite you back to this [familiar community watering hole](https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/forum/401-arma-reforger/). As with the other places you are all actively discussing the game, we'll do our best to read through your discussions, reports, and suggestions. Even if you may not always get a direct answer, please know that we have plenty of devs lurking and absorbing everything.

Have you also kept track of the flow of modding documentation dropping on the [official wiki](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/wiki)? We know you are hungry for all the information you need to make your creations, and you've already arrived at some great crowd-sourced intel. Just keep in mind this is just the very beginning of this new era of Arma modding. Of course we'll continue to deploy more official documentation and improved existing pages.

Finally, you may recall us mentioning an upcoming new official example mod _"**Hexcavate**"_&nbsp; in our last [Dev Report.](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/dev-report-1) We plan to deploy it to the Workshop next week. Expect a tiny singleplayer game, built as mod to Arma Reforger, quite unlike the game itself. And please note that this effort has not taken away any core developers from fixing issues. We'll have more details in a little blog alongside the release.

As always, we thank you for all of your patience, support and feedback. This next generation of Arma has only just begun, and we're sure it's going to be a wonderful journey together!


Dev Report #2


# June 1st Update

Attention soldiers,

We are going to update the Steam and Xbox versions of the game.

The Steam version will be updated on Wednesday 1st of June. There will be downtime of the servers between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.

The Xbox version will be updated on Thursday 2nd 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

## Xbox

- Fixed: Password entry on the virtual keyboard
- Changed: TV audio is no longer muted when headphones are plugged into the controller

## 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


June 1st Update


# ATTENTION

Welcome to the first _Arma Reforger_ **Dev Report** – an ongoing series to inform the community of our team’s recent operations and developments, as well as ongoing efforts to continually improve the game in the future.

Arma Reforger has launched into Early Access and is now available on [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1874880/) and [Xbox Game Preview](https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/arma-reforger-game-preview/9nkckd1wndq0), our first game in the Arma series to be made available on console for nearly 17 years! Our team is already actively monitoring all feedback coming in from the community and has begun prioritizing and working on update deployment for all platforms.

## INTELLIGENCE

We’ve have loved seeing so much interest from players getting back into the series (or being introduced to it for the first time) with our first release on our new engine, Enfusion. Though, there were unfortunate issues that we have already begun to address. Many of these problems were communicated in our [Known Issues](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/known-issues-0-9-5) Dev Blog, along with some useful workarounds. We’ve dealt with a large number of critical issues already in our [first Steam update](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/may-19th-update) and a [subsequent Xbox update](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/update-may-25); however, there is still much work to be done.

## OPERATIONS

One of our biggest focuses at the moment is working to resolve any remaining critical or blocking performance issues for players. In particular we’re working to solve the reoccurring disconnection issues, random players being kicked with session errors, and other various server and client crashes.

Of course there are plenty of other fixes and changes you can expect in the near future, such as:

- Fixing render glitches when using scopes;

- Workshop administration features; and much more…

For our gamepad users, we will be adding options to change gamepad y-axis orientation and several other control improvements.

## LOGISTICS

Many of you have inquired about our official [Bohemia Interactive Forums](https://forums.bohemia.net/) pages for Reforger. Rest assured, they will be live very soon for players to share and communicate knowledge regarding the game.

For something a bit different, we plan to release a new official example mod soon to the public Workshop called “**Hexcavate**.” Some will have spotted this Workshop item already during our announcement livestream. It is the result of a short in-house game jam from some time ago. This might be particularly interesting to players and content developers alike, as it may offer another example of how far you can push Reforger modding.

We have a long journey ahead of us, but we want to thank all of you for your continued support. All players’ feedback is especially welcome in the [Feedback Tracker](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/feedback).


Dev Report #1


# Minor update for Arma Reforger for Xbox

We are going to update the Xbox version of the game. There will be downtime of the servers between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.

**Arma Reforger 0.9.5.51 [Xbox] changelog**:

- Fixed: UI: Temporarily disabled tooltips (not used in the game at all) as a hotfix for a crash during game exit
- Tweaked: Proper handling of a download error for a bug where there were no files to download
- Changed: Raised the maximum connection limit in _RplNet_ to 256 in order to match server config limits
- Fixed: Added missing view geometry to several models
- Fixed: Typo in the Instagram web link
- Fixed: M88 injured materials were still using the wrong texture
- Fixed: AI sometimes did not see players in very dark areas, even up close
- Fixed: Possessed AI had bad collisions
- Fixed: Broken character movement when changing items while prone
- Fixed: _GameConnection_ got stuck when _PrepareReload_ happened in a state other than _Ready_
- Fixed: Crash when a world reload happened just as the stream was being prepared
- Fixed: Deletion during loading not properly modifying _RplScheduler_'s spatial map
- Fixed: _EnableStreaming(Node)_ not working properly with layering
- Changed: _RplScheduler_'s budgeting considers the amount of streams the client has open when opening streams
- Tweaked: Improved replication / _RplScheduler_ / BattlEye logs in order to reduce spam and improve informational value
- Fixed: Stretched character arms when using the mounted turret on M1025
- Tweaked: Horizontal aim limits on M1025 turret to match aimspace values
- Fixed: Conflict: Levitating fireplace
- Fixed: Conflict: Levitating radio in Lamentin


May 25th 2022 Update


# Minor update for Arma Reforger on Steam

We are going to update the Steam version of the game. There will be downtime of the servers between 12:00 - 15:00 CEST.

Arma Reforger 0.9.5.51 [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874880/) changelog:

- Fixed: Inherit prefab in addon action disabled on read-only data

- Fixed: UI: temporary disabled tooltips (not used in game at all) as hotfix for crash during game exit

- Tweaked: Proper handling of download error for no files to download bug

- Changed: Raised max connection limit in RplNet to 256 to match server config limits

- Fixed: Crash when number of adapters in system was over 4

- Fixed: Added missing view geo to several models

- Fixed: Typo in Instagram link

- Fixed: M88 injured materials are still using telnyashka texture

- Fixed: AI sometimes don't see players in very dark area, even from upclose

- Fixed: Possessed AIs collide have bad collisions

- Fixed: Broken character movement when changing items in prone

- Fixed: GameConnection stuck when PrepareReload happens in state other than Ready

- Fixed: Crash when world reload happens just as stream is being prepared

- Fixed: Deletion during loading not properly modifying RplScheduler's spatial map

- Fixed: EnableStreaming(Node) not working properly with layering

- Changed: RplScheduler's budgeting considers the amount of streams client has open when opening streams

- Tweaked: Improved replication / RplScheduler / BattlEye logs in order to reduce spam and improve information value

- Fixed: stretched character arms when using mounted turret on M1025

- Changed: horizontal aim limits on humvee turret to match aimspace values

- Fixed: Campaign MP - Levitating fireplace

- Fixed: Campaign MP - Levitating radio in Lamentin


Minor update for Arma Reforger on Steam


# May 19th 2022 Update

We are going to update the Xbox version of Arma Reforger today. There will be downtime of the servers between 13:00 - 16:00 CEST.

Arma Reforger 0.9.5.44 [Xbox](https://www.xbox.com/cs-cz/Search?q=reforger) changelog:

- Fixed: The respawn menu could cause several characters to be spawned

- Fixed: Camera collision in 3rd person view

- Fixed: Kicking players out of a session when replication restreams static items in a streamable hierarchy

- Fixed: Crash during replication caused by items inserted during loading

- Fixed: Some AI pathfinding issues in the Game Master scenario

- Fixed: Script compiler causing a vector out of index crash

- Fixed: Texture memory leak and possible crash when deallocating

Later today we will also update the Steam version of the game. The downtime of these servers will be between 16:00 - 19:00 CEST.

Arma Reforger 0.9.5.49 [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874880/) changelog:

- Fixed: Connection issue related to initial backend packets

- Fixed: Crash when backpacks are stored inside each other

- Fixed: Character stuck in a falling animation

- Fixed: Multiplayer kicks caused by streaming of certain nodes

- Fixed: Loading/saving settings

- Fixed: Services for addon publishing linked to Workbench

- Fixed: Alpha blending on the M923A1 truck and several other asset materials

- Fixed: Server browser - items were hidden, filtered

- Fixed: Respawn selection menu

- Fixed: Fire mode not being animated on certain weapons

- Tweaked: Main menu music

- Tweaked: Bohemia account processing on different platforms

- Tweaked: License and readme files


May 19th 2022 Update


# Known Issues 0.9.5

This list is a sampling of Arma Reforger's most obvious known issues, as well as several workarounds. Also visit our [Feedback Tracker](https://feedback.bistudio.com/) for other reported issues.

## Versions:

- Steam: 0.9.5.44
- Xbox: 0.9.5.42

## Issues:

- When you customize your settings and leave the "Settings" menu, some of the settings are not properly saved and instead reset to their defaults.

- If you cannot see any servers in the "Multiplayer" browser, wait for a minute and "Refresh" the browser. Or try going back to the main menu and then back to the "Multiplayer" browser. If servers still do not appear, restart the game.

- If you cannot find a specific server in the "Multiplayer" browser when accessing it from the "Play", "Game Master" or "Scenarios" menus, then access the "Multiplayer" browser directly from the main menu.

- (Xbox) If you only see servers of one specific type (Conflict or Capture & Hold), but no other modes, select the "Scenario" column in the top bar (to the left of the "Search" field) to switch to the other server types.

- Sometimes when you try to connect to a server with required mods, the game will automatically try to download necessary updates for such mods. This process may get stuck at 0%. If this happens, first try to manually update the mod(s) in the "Workshop" menu. If that is not possible, restart the game. If that also does not help, go to the "Workshop", delete the older version of the mod and download the proper version. Then try to connect to the server again.

- Sometimes when you report a mod in the "Workshop", another one gets removed from your local Workshop catalogue.

- The game client sometimes crashes when connecting to a server.

- The game client's performance sometimes drops below 10 FPS and remains there. Restarting the game should solve this.

- When you keep getting deployed at a spawn point that you did not select, try selecting the desired spawn point by clicking on it on the map.

- When you get kicked from a server, try to connect to a server with a lower ping or with a smaller population.

- When you deploy into a multiplayer session and you cannot interact with anything or anyone, try disconnecting from the server and reconnecting again. There is a possibility the issue will persist regardless.

- When you are in a multiplayer session and you can move normally but other clients either see you as stuck or cannot see you at all, then open the interrupt menu and "Respawn".

- When you play the "Tutorial" and you are not able to figure out how to perform certain actions due to incorrect or missing hints, open the "Settings" in interrupt menu. Under the "Controls" tab, check how to do the specific action you want to perform. You can also inspect the "Field Manual" for helpful information.

- Respawning in singleplayer may also spawn many AI characters at the spawn point.

- (Xbox) If you join a Dedicated Server A running Capture & Hold, and from this server you join Dedicated Server B running Conflict or Game Master, and finally you disconnect from the server B to the main menu, you will then be unable to navigate in the main menu (lost focus) until you restart the game.

- Other players' characters and vehicles in a multiplayer session may appear laggy and will be very hard to hit because of that. This is caused by network issues, usually on the server side.

- When you are playing in a multiplayer session and the server crashes, you may lose your progress after a restart of the server.

- When a Game Master session is finished, the server may not restart. A regular restart of the servers is planned.

- Some actions are done twice upon a single input. For example, the inventory opens and immediately closes again even though you may have only pressed Tab once. This is likely caused by custom key bindings. Revert back to the default key bindings to solve this issue.

- AI characters may see their enemies through some obstacles where they should not.

- When you are looking at some roads, then open the inventory and close it again, you may see visual artifacts on the ground.


Known Issues 0.9.5


# Interview with Ján Dušek, project lead

<p class="text-xl text-white">From Audio Lead in Arma 3 to Project Lead in Arma Reforger, Ján Dušek led this installment to its release and is overseeing its development. Come meet one of the founding fathers of Arma Reforger.</p>

![Photo of Ján Dušek](/content/news/interview_jan_dusek/dusa.jpeg 'Ján Dušek')

**Hi Jan, can you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about yourself?**

Hello, my name is Jan Dušek, I am the project lead of Arma Reforger and have been with Bohemia Interactive for around 12 years already. During that time, I went through various roles, mainly sound design and music, video editing, and with my background in physics, I was participating on development of our audio engine.

**Tell me, how do you feel about releasing the game you’ve seen grown for so long?**

You mean grown from scratch, right? (laughs) It was a very long and challenging journey we’ve been through. It’s the most difficult discipline to start development of such a complex project from scratch when at the same time the game engine is in development too, and in addition to that, Arma came to consoles for the first time! We went through a lot of prototyping, R&D, struggles, and of course mistakes from which we have learned a lot. But it was not only a game which was in development. We started with a few people and in 3 years have grown into a team of almost 150 developers. Last, but not least, our workflows and pipelines went through massive evolution as well. You see, it was extremely challenging on all fronts. I am very proud of what we have achieved so far, so I feel totally excited about the release!

**Arma Reforger is presented as a creative platform with vast array of options of playing or modifying it, can you tell us what does that mean specifically?**

Arma Reforger is a package of features, assets, playable content, tools, and services. You can either play our official game modes with your friends, start exploring your creativity by playing first with Game Master, dive deep into Enfusion and start modifying/creating game assets, or creating more complex mods using Workbench – the tool we are using for development as well. And in the end, you can share your creations with others using our internal Workshop solution.

**Why are you releasing the game in Early Access? What changes can be expected in the future?**

No Arma game can be created without a community. Arma Reforger is a foundation to Arma 4 and we really want community to be with us as soon as possible to give us feedback from the very beginning. Yes, the game we are releasing to Early Access has limited scope and of course there are problems, but it’s already solid to play with. We are very honest here.

In 1.0 you can expect content expansion of both features and assets, but more important for us is to focus on optimization, stabilization, fixing, and improvements of the core features. The foundation has to be solid.

**Arma Reforger is being released on Xbox, the first Arma game from the series. Since Arma was always on PC, how did you manage to transfer the experience to Xbox and how is it different for console players compared to PC players?**

Well, it was very challenging, as with everything in Arma development. The key for bringing the same experience to console players is in simplification of controls but preserving the experience as much as possible at the same time. We’ve been through a lot of iterations and we are still not done yet. No matter how great design you have, everything is about playtests, where the ideas are proven right or wrong. So hopefully console players will give us feedback too! In some cases, the experience is even more fluent on consoles, especially when you can benefit from an analog controller.

**What do you think is the most exciting feature of Arma Reforger?**

I think the environment itself! Thanks to the brilliant Enfusion engine and, of course, whole amazing team of Environmental designers and artists! Already in Early Access we have achieved really impressive audio-visual authenticity and immersion. Here we will definitely be focusing on much broader interactivity with environment. We want people to enjoy the game as much as possible just by walking around. I am also personally very excited for simulation of vehicles, which is already much better than in our previous titles.

**So you are leading the development of the game as a project lead, what does your role entail?**

The role of the project lead can be really different in different projects, but more importantly it’s changing through the project development phases. In the beginning my main goal was to literally start a development from blank canvas with just a few developers. The goal was to deliver a prototype of new complex Arma project on new engine and deliver a first prototype in 40 weeks! After 4 tough months, the team did an amazing job and we were playing the first multiplayer deathmatch scenario for the first time, the milestone was called “The First Blood.” This is how it started.

Now, after 3 years we not only have a solid foundation for Arma 4 with huge potential. We have a big and strong enthusiastic team, so my role now is to maintain and reinforce the team, as well as to maintain a direction of game development, sharing the vision, unify, and play the role of a dentist, fixing whatever does not work. And much more, for instance I am still personally involved in the creation of our beautiful soundtrack.

**You worked as an audio lead for Arma 3, how was that shift from being a lead of part of the project to being a lead of the whole project for you?**

Complexity of my agenda grew exponentially, but otherwise, absolutely no change in my thinking happened. I was always devoted to Bohemia Interactive and Arma specially, since my first day, so no matter what I am doing I want our games to be the best we can make them to be. I always considered myself to be a service for the team and project and this will never change.

I even benefit from my other skills, for instance I’ve composed music for all my life, so maybe the leadership has something in common with it. When you compose the music, it’s also a complex matter. You need to decide which players are leading the melodies and which players are in their “teams” so everything is well coordinated, otherwise nobody will ever listen to it.

**Arma Reforger is an incredibly complex project, developing new game (platform) and a new engine simultaneously, how did you approach managing such large matter?**

An incredibly complex project is incredibly challenging to manage, but at the end everything is about hierarchy and iterations. In the very beginning we started with multiple brainstorms about what direction we wanted to go, what Arma 4 should be about from all points of view and started processing it. After some time, we simplified this complexity to a hierarchy of game systems and relationships between them and started creating feature teams which were changing every milestone, simply because we did not have enough resources. Regarding planning the situation is reversed; you must start simple and add complexity to planning only if the previous step worked. So the hierarchical approach is the key. But again, evolution of our project management, like everything else, will never end.

**What were the most significant differences between developing Arma 3 and Arma Reforger, besides creating new engine, from your point of view?**

Those are totally different stories.

Firstly, Arma 3 release was an evolutionary step from Arma 2 on stable engine on PC only with relatively small but stable team of developers. Brilliant and complex Arma 3 as we know it is a result of several other years of further iterations, additions through all the DLCs, but still on stable engine and one platform.

Arma Reforger is a different challenge. We had almost nothing in the beginning, not even a team. We had Enfusion engine in some state of development, we had some assets from our other games to play with, but nothing really worked yet. So development of Arma Reforger was about building up a team hand in hand with the game itself, staring from implementation of core game features step by step from scratch, and of course, it was about setting up close cooperation with brilliant Enfusion developers.

Regarding the technical aspects of development, everything is different in Arma Reforger than in Arma 3: different engine architecture, authoritative server, Enforce scripting language. It has been built on a completely new technology.

But nothing from this really matters. We have created Arma again, because we are following the legacy, it’s about passion, about love, things shouldn’t just work, it needs to have something deeper in it otherwise it will die. It’s not in the technology; it’s in the people – in all our amazing and passionate developers that love working on this amazing project so much.

**What makes Arma “Arma” according to you?**

Complexity and authenticity created by people who are totally passionate about it.

**Thank you Ján for the interview! I have only one question left, what is your favorite Arma moment? Be that in the game or development.**

I have three!

First was when I’d seen amazing positive feedback on Arma 3 audio upgrade several years ago. Then I fully understood how much passion for Arma is in our beloved community.

Second was when I heard my composition, This Is War (Arma 3 main theme) played live by the orchestra for the first time.

And the third one? Arma Reforger release!

Arma is far from just being a game.


Interview with Ján Dušek, project lead


# Capture & Hold

<p class="text-xl text-white">Arma Reforger's First Official Mod</p>

## Seizing the Initiative

Together with the Early Access / Game Preview release of Arma Reforger, we're also sharing with you our very first official mod, Capture & Hold.

Available for download via the in-game Workshop, it marks our first foray into the Enfusion modding scene — and it's completely free for all to enjoy! But what's it about? Quite simply, it's a multiplayer game mode where two groups of players must secure sites and defend them for as long as possible. In other words, it's about achieving tactical superiority of an area, combining the action packed deathmatch with the classic gameplay of a 'capture the objective' scenario.

![Factory battle](/content/news/capture_hold/cah_screenshot_factory.jpeg 'Factory')

But that's not to say Capture & Hold lacks tactics! Indeed, without teamwork, you're probably going to suffer some. Communication, just like real-life, is key, and group cohesion will make all the difference. Plus, it's not just one mission. There's plenty to choose from, with differing objectives and strongpoints. Teams will have to adapt and exploit the terrain to their advantage; what works for one battlezone might not for another. In this way, you'll begin to experience Arma's authentic combat through trial and error, honing your skills against other players. It might mean a learning curve, but it's a good follow-up to basic training!

Moreover, you'll be pleased to hear that Capture & Hold is fully compatible with Game Master and although the rubric of the game mode cannot be changed, you can add assets, AI units, and tweak the environment parameters, such as the weather and time. In fact, if you really want to, you can use Workbench to create something similar, with your own rules. If nothing else, we hope that this official mod will act as a 'proof of concept'. To show you what's already possible using Enfusion's tools. We don't doubt that your collective creativity and passion will quickly surpass our own humble efforts here. Like you, we're learning as we go!

![Military base](/content/news/capture_hold/cah_screenshot_milbase.jpeg 'Military base')

Capture & Hold will also enable the curious modders among you to look beneath the hood — just open it up in Workbench and begin exploring. You'll soon see what's what and how it functions. In this respect, we're rather hoping it will supplement our documentation. After all, getting hands on with things and taking them apart is a great way of seeing how everything fits together.

On the whole, we spent some time on Capture & Hold to support the initial scope of Arma Reforger's playable content. But more than that, we wanted to reconnect with our memories from prior game modes, and to see what was still fun and what was less so. And that's actually how all this came about — it started as an internal playground for combat mechanics. In this regard, your feedback is warmly welcomed and will play an essential part in our decisions going forwards.

Finally, we also needed to know that generating user content is achievable, using the tools we're sharing. Through Capture & Hold, we built an add-on and published it, without redirecting major resources from the core development of the game.

That last point's important because we believe that individuals and smaller modding teams should be able to accomplish something similar. Creating content and uploading it on Arma Reforger's Workshop should never mean you need a dizzying number of people with expert skillsets... unless of course, you're dreaming big!

Capture & Hold is free and available to play now. Just launch Arma Reforger and download it from the in-game Workshop. [Be sure to tell us what you think!](https://reforger.armaplatform.com/feedback)


Capture & Hold


# Talk with our creative director Ivan Buchta

<p class="text-xl text-white">Passionate, experienced, and with a keen eye for detail, our Creative Director is responsible for the vision of Arma Reforger. Meet Ivan Buchta whose job is to channel the team's creativity and create an immersive world.</p>

![Photo of Ivan Buchta](/content/news/interview_ivan_buchta/ivan.png 'Ivan Buchta')

**Hi, Ivan! Tell us about yourself!**

I am just an Arma developer! [Laughing]

**Aha! A humble one! Go on, give us a bit more...**

Okay - okay. I am one of the many people at Bohemia Interactive who have contributed to the development of the Arma franchise.

After some modding on Operation Flashpoint, I joined the ranks of Bohemia Interactive. That was in 2006. Since then, I have taken part in developing a lot of the titles in the Arma series - from Arma: Cold War Assault to Arma 3. I've also worked on some of the expansions in varying roles. Mostly I've been involved with the settings, environments, and sandbox features of these games. Thanks to my background in environmental sciences, I've been able to assist in making them more authentic and interesting.

**You are now in the role of Creative Director - what does that job entail?**

Being a creative lead for an Arma game encompasses setting up the vision, as well as expectations of quality, and promoting them throughout the team while simultaneously providing a good service in directing the content - the 'look' and 'feel' of the game - towards our intended goals. I have to rely on the contribution of many departments and individuals of various specializations and must do my best to keep their particular efforts concerted during the whole development process. Sometimes it means being strict and even going against the team's general opinion. And sometimes it's about humility, and letting other people's creativity shine and work its magic.

**What did you do to make Arma Reforger feel authentic and to convey the feeling of 'being there' for players?**

The most obvious areas we focused on relate to the game's art and environment. These were carefully crafted based on our team's huge experience with authentic landscapes and realistic art, supported by extensive research. We also paid special attention to an elaborate soundscape and the implementation of all of the great assets, attempting to capture the 'feel' of particular weapons, vehicles, tools, and so on.

We also wanted to avoid excessive guidance for players. Our intention was to keep interfaces clear and minimalist, and to provide players with practical tools (e.g., compass, map, radio) instead of extra helpers. I hope this will leave more room for players to roleplay as soldiers and encourage them to pay attention to where they are, what they see, and what their objective is.

**Arma Reforger's Everon has been reimagined based on the original terrain featured in Arma: Cold War Assault. How did you approach recreating Everon in the brand new Enfusion engine?**

Enfusion technology and the accumulated knowledge of making authentic landscapes in meticulous detail allowed us to create a spectacular and immersive virtual world. This greater fidelity called for a richer definition of our goals. There was simply many more things to define and design for the terrain to feel as authentic as we wanted. We had to interpret the original design and to make sure all of the newly introduced features played well together.

Our current approach to making virtual landscapes is very different from the pioneering work of the original Arma: Cold War Assault team, and there's a lot more to address these days too: narrative design and 'flavor' aspects, arising from the setting - much more fidelity which brings in many must-have features - light sources, a 'nightscape', sound design, toponyms, and things like signage.

**What would you say is the most important part of this new Everon?**

The most important goal was to maintain the 'soul' and atmosphere of the original Everon - to preserve the general topology and to make sure the iconic places, remembered by players from the original, were present. Veterans will certainly recognize the terrain and its many landmarks, from the airfield in the north to the castle ruins in the south.

But on the other hand, we didn't hesitate to add or make changes - especially where they would contribute to the world's general usability. The major enrichments are the mountain pass with the road connecting Durras and Régina, the brand new village of Villeneuve north of Le Moule, and Pinewood Lake, which occupies the formerly flat area south of Montignac.

**What is your favorite place on Everon?**

There are a couple of seemingly common-looking spots which I keep coming back to, mainly because they look so real. But I have to admit, there are too many stunningly beautiful and memorable places on Everon to name them all. It often seems to me that our artists and environment designers achieved something truly special with the island, adding to every place something lifelike and special.

**Were there any differences in the process of creating a world for Arma Reforger compared to prior Arma installments?**

It was probably not very different from the later phases of Arma 3's development, in which we adopted a more deliberate and controlled process with clear goals. In Arma Reforger, we've leveraged our past experience and sought more opportunities to present players with hints regarding the background of the game world, as the sandbox-orientated Conflict and Game Master game modes don't provide much room to tell Everon's story.

I also have to add that compared to the past, Everon is more of a collaborative effort. These days I rely on many other people, who have done their parts tremendously well - be it research, design, or art. I advise and talk to people, rather than taking a direct and firmer role in the creative process. This allowed me to enrich the creation of Everon at a higher level, employing Concept Artist, Josef Surý, as well as inviting our game urbanist, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, for consultations.

**As a keen player of Arma games, do you feel there's anything in Arma Reforger you didn't manage to address well as a developer?**

I am happy to say there are no real showstoppers. I appreciate everyone's efforts to bring their best to the project, and while there are areas I would love to see improved or reworked in the future, I regard their current state as a necessary step to discovering the right way forward.

**What was the greatest challenge for you as a Creative Director when working on Arma Reforger?**

My role is chiefly about influencing and convincing colleagues to follow the game's vision. Therefore the greatest challenges were those relating to communication.

**Everon is inspired by the reality of 1980s Czechoslovakia with plenty of Czech signs, while there are French local names and some French and even English signage. Why and how did you combine them?**

We intended to preserve the legacy of the original terrain from Arma: Cold War Assault - all we knew was that the village names were French and the locals had Czech names, suggesting they spoke Czech. From there, we attempted to create a plausible explanation for a Czech-speaking diaspora with French roots on an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, which is exactly as hard as it sounds!

As the original architecture and signage were inspired by Czechoslovakia (or Czech countryside of the 1990s), we decided to keep borrowing from 1980s Czechoslovakia, which was also consistent with the rural landscape we aimed to recreate.

**Parts of the team went for several field trips, there was a lot of research and gathering references in the field. How was this research used in making the game?**

This had been addressed on several levels; landscape and natural authenticity, era-specific architecture and props, and by the definition of a general aesthetic for the fictional visuals - e.g., various in-game brands.

The landscape had to be understood and interpreted by the environment designers, who were gradually exposed to Bohemian landscapes on dedicated field trips. Particular items like houses or props were researched, and the art researchers worked hard to find out as much as possible and to accurately describe them.

These are steps in the process of creating assets to make sure they are correct for the setting. But success depends a lot on communication of the vision to the team and the general understanding of goals.

**What do you regard as the greatest feature of Arma Reforger?**

It's very hard to say, as there's simply too many things which make the Arma player in me very excited. I'm very happy with our designers' work on making the core infantry experience more authentic (climbing obstacles, radio communication) and I'm equally happy with the new environment technology (e.g., rain and wetness, streams and lakes, vegetation movement in the wind), and I appreciate the effort put into the more ambitious aspects of the multiplayer gameplay.

I also believe the usability of our Enfusion tools should receive some praise, as they're a blessing for us and a great feature for the Arma modding community.

**Everon is full of elaborate details which will look familiar to Czech and Slovak players who remember the end of the 1980s. Do you also intend to share a bit of the historical reality of your homeland with the world through this?**

The primary goal is to present the setting of a fictional world and the Armaverse as a whole, and to base it on a solid historical background. But I'd be very glad if this would spur some interest in modern history among the players of Arma Reforger.

**You've said before that your degree in Environmental Sciences and passion for nature and hiking help you in your work - were there any particular instances where these helped you for Arma Reforger?**

My background certainly helps me to cope with the high demand for authenticity, as well as the depth of the game's rules - to understand and interpret the reality in a way that's beneficial for the project. I particularly regard the broader context and understanding of the relationship of natural science and the humanities as useful for inventing plausible environments and gameplay. My education also helps me to find and interpret facts and to provide particular types of expertise to the team.

In Arma Reforger, it allowed me to suggest the basic natural features of Everon and to assist with the research of a variety of topics, related to both the environment and the gameplay.

I'm not alone though. Most team members have either hobbies or educational backgrounds, allowing them to contribute beyond their development roles, and I support this synergy. We have flying geeks designing airfields, urbexers and military history enthusiasts contributing to the environments, a colleague with an MSc in History adding insights, and even a Norwegian in the company, to design the Atlantic coastline properly.

**As a keen reader who focuses on a variety of game genres, did you use some of your reading experiences to enrich the story of Arma Reforger?**

Arma Reforger's initial release doesn't contain any 'flavor' items. or books scattered around houses, but I would like to introduce items in the future, hinting at a vibrant Everonian literary culture and the island's strong national identity. We have invented several fictional authors, one of them inspired by my favorite Czech-German writer, Karel Klostermann.

Scott Alsworth, our Narrative Designer (with degrees in Classical History and Literature), has an interest in Jan Neruda, which also permeated into Reforger's narrative. And indeed, Neruda's state even appears on Everon.

When we design ficitonal brands, I often feel inspired by the specific Czech humor of the Theater of Jára Cimrman - a fine blend of language jokes with a dash of black or absurd humor; it's something which has occasionally emerged in Bohemia's games since Arma: Cold War Assault.

**You often say that empathy is an important trait to have as a game developer, and to be able to get into a player's shoes. How does this relate to Arma Reforger?**

I think a lot about the user's experience when playing games, be it Arma or some other title. As a player, I often get confused or lost, and I try to understand and remember those moments, in order to avoid them in our own work. One of our mantras is 'keep the player informed', and I believe no matter how complex a game situation may be, we should always hint to the player about the opportunities available, or directions they can take to overcome particular challenges.

Mind you, it's not about holding the players' hands though, either. It's about treating players fairly. If Arma delivers a gritty combat experience, it's our duty to make sure the player is able to figure out how to fight efficiently. If players lose, it must not be because they're battling controls or interfaces, or because we failed to tell them about an important gameplay mechanic. We want players to eventually be rewarded by beating fairly complex situations based on their experience and skill.

**Thank you for all the great insights, Ivan! One last thing; what did you enjoy most during Arma Reforger's development?**

Being involved with a single project for several years means you come away with a lot of stories. Some of them are good, some of them are quite amusing, and some are a bit more sobering or not entirely enjoyable. It's probably too early for my favorite memories to materialize. But I can say that Arma Reforger has been a rare experience of team synergy and cooperation. There are many 'development heroes' who have contributed to the game, a lot of talent - and although this may sound like the usual PR speel, I really do mean it. After years of working in close cooperation. it's my colleagues that have left the lasting impression.

Besides this personal aspect, there's a lot of cool things we did as part of the development process. Research, field trips, teambuilding. There's one moment which truly stands out though, and resonates with those good ol' Operation Flashpoint vibes... during the photoshoot for our key art, I arrived at our first location, walked through some forest on a dirt road, and then, suddenly, a scene opened up in front of me - a vision, straight from how I imagined our game. I saw a column of US vehicles, surrounded by American troops, all in their woodland uniforms, veiled by the a low-lying mist. I didn't care that the mist was artificial, or that there was a photographer and his crew, with a backstage, and a bunch of fellow Bohemians. For that moment, I was just amazed by the atmosphere, which was so close to what I'd always wanted to achieve in Arma!


Talk with our creative director Ivan Buchta


# Welcome to Arma Reforger!

<p class="text-xl text-white">Boots on the ground, Arma Reforger's here! Get ready for unforgiving Cold War combat in an expansive and visually stunning open-world.</p>

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It's time to return to the mid-Atlantic island of Everon — a 52km² microstate, which many of you will remember from Arma: Cold War Assault. This iconic terrain has been reimagined and faithfully restored, undoubtedly becoming our most photorealistic and beautiful environment to date. Thanks to new possibilities, made available through our next-gen Enfusion engine, we have recreated the jewel of the Malden Islands for a 1989 setting. So gear-up, set out, and explore! Take in the many sights and vistas. The glittering ocean bays, lakes, and rivers. The forests, hills and pastures, animated by the shadows of rolling clouds. There is so much to discover!

But what's an Arma game without conflict? Arma Reforger's Conflict game mode returns players to war. Join US or Soviet forces in a dynamic, multiplayer, team versus team scenario. Build support structures and defenses, oversee logistics, and capture key objectives by working together. To survive and overcome the enemy, you'll also have to rely on your wits and fieldcraft. Make no mistake, your map and compass will be every bit as important as the rifle in your hands.

In addition to this, Arma Reforger's playable content is supported with a real-time mission editor; Game Master. In this titular role, players can curate events, set tasks, and dynamically respond to other players on the battlefield, setting down challenges, compositions, and more. No combat encounter will be the same and if you're one of those in the midst of the action, you'll have to think fast to stay alive.

Last but not least, for our talented modding community, there's a lot of new tools available. In fact, we're sharing the very same technology used to make Arma Reforger — giving you an enormous amount of creative freedom. All these programs are collected on one site known as Workbench. Although only accessible to PC users, addons can be published on Arma Reforger's exclusive mod repository, the Workshop, for everyone, including console players, to enjoy!

And remember, all of this is just the beginning of the evolution of the Arma franchise. It's going to be an exciting journey, and we're glad to have you with us!

For more information, or if you have any questions, please visit our [FAQ page](/faq). If you want to download Workbench, check our [Dev Hub](/dev-hub).

Explore Bohemia Interactive’s webpages that present the past, present and future of Arma. <a href="https://armaplatform.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arma Platform</a> congregates all the Arma titles, easy access to the games themselves and information. <a href="https://arma4.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arma 4 web</a> will outline the upcoming title in the future. Discover more about our new engine on <a href="https://enfusionengine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Enfusion website</a>.

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