BetterMuzzleFlash -ABANDONED-

Statement on the Suspension of My Arma Reforger Mods Development

After about four years, over 3 million downloads, countless hours of pure euphoria playing and modding Arma Reforger, and thanks to the many great people I've met on this path, I must announce the suspension of all my solo mods support.

The reason is not a lack of desire, but the technical state of the game and its tools after the release of the stable version 1.6. Over the past few months, 90% of my time has been spent not on creating new content, but on endless fixes for mods broken by updates. The process that once brought me joy turned into a struggle against unstable tools, unpredictable bugs, and a sharp drop in performance.

I have exhausted both the emotional and physical capacity for this fight. The current situation in my life requires me to focus on other things, and I can no longer afford to spend hundreds of hours waging a war against the engine and its tools.

I am eternally grateful to this community for your unwavering support and amazing feedback over all these years. Being a part of it has been incredible. For more detailed thoughts, you are welcome to check the "Betters Mods" branch on the official Arma Discord server.

The mods will remain on the Workshop, but all further support and updates are suspended indefinitely. I will definitely return someday — perhaps in Arma 4, perhaps sooner, when the time is right.

Enhance your experience with BetterMuzzleFlashes, offering heightened realism and enhanced visibility for muzzle flashes, accompanied by lifelike smoke effects.

If you want to support my work - boosty.to/suvwar

[2025.11.21] - FINAL UPDATE: This mod is no longer supported. Please read the description and "Betters Mods" branch on Arma server for details. Thank you for everything.
//v2.2.3 Exp - stable
//v2.2.1 WCS AK12 and AKM muzzle flashes and smoke compat
//v2.2.0 Fixed M2 flash, increased light visibility from shots and setted timings, tweaks for all muzzle flashes, suppressed effects improved
//v2.1.10 AK sparks reduced
//v2.1.9 Small fixs
//v2.1.8 Tweaks for actual light from muzzle flash, updated screenshots and previewe
//v2.1.3 Many effects improved, improved ground smoke, now ground smoke is affected by muzzle device (for example ak with flash hider has more ground smoke on sides), removed ground smoke for suppressors
//v2.1.2 Ground smoke improved, RPG effects moved here from BHE, smoke effect improved on some weapoms
//v2.1.1 Screenshot updated
//v2.1.0 Suppressors reworked, RHS compability improved
//v2.0.11 Some fixes. Ground smoke improved
//v2.0.9 Test
//v2.0.8 AK-74 more realistic smoke and flash, m16 smoke improvments, tweaks
//v2.0.7 Tweaks
//v2.0.6 Hotfix
//v2.0.5 Hotfix
//v2.0.4 Hotfix
//v2.0.3 Hotfix
//v2.0.2 Hotfix
//v2.0.1 Hotfix
//v2.0.0 Re-made from scratch, better now
//v1.5.0 Experimental > Stable
//v1.4.3 Improvments
//v1.4.3 New ground smoke (and now side smoke, if you shoot close to wall, small hill etc) system, some improvments
//v1.4.1 Horfix
//v1.4.0 Optimization, improvments
//v1.3.9 Description update
//v 1.3.8 Tweaks
//v 1.3.7 Quick update for Arma Reforger 1.0, slightly optimized muzzle smoke for some  weapons. Will be continue to improving
//v 1.3.6 Improvments
//v 1.3.5 Improvments
//v 1.3.4 Improvments
//v 1.3.3 New system for muzzle flashes
//v 1.3.2 Optimization, tweaks
//v 1.3.1 Fixes
//v 1.3.0 Optimization, improvments
//v 1.2.9 Зашибись
//v 1.2.8 Minor changes
//v 1.2.7 Optimization, reduced ammount of smoke
//v 1.2.6 Some changes
//v 1.2.5 Some changes
//v 1.2.2 Minor changes
//v 1.2.1 Minor changes
//v 1.2.1 Some impr
//v 1.2.0 Big update! Now smoke is longer lifetime and other improvments!
//v 1.1.3 Some fixes
//v 1.1.2 Vz58 effects added
//v 1.1.1 Improvments of ground smoke and others
//v 1.1.0 Some improvments
//v 1.0.9 Merge version from experimental branch
//v 1.0.8 AK-74 Ground smoke fix
//v 1.0.7 Some fixes
//v 1.0.6 Added ground smoke effect, like in arma 3 (will be better)
//v 1.0.5 New smoke effects for all weapons and new flashes for heavy mg
//v 1.0.4 Fixed muzzle flash from MGs
//v 1.0.3 Glows more, so its more noticeable from a distance
//v 1.0.2 Less sparks and some fixes
//v 1.0.1 First version, may be baggy