EXPBG Overlord JTAC

0.3.7

- Lighter script start-up (no gameplay change): internal lists and registries are created on first use and
  kept in container types the base game already has, lowering the #InitGlobals start-up load that crashes
  servers with large mod lists. The laser codes (1688, 1687, 1111) and the RHS: Status Quo check no longer
  set any value when scripts start.

0.3.6

- **Cancel is on F9 only.** The End key no longer cancels a JTAC strike, because RHS: Status Quo
  uses End for hearing protection: putting on or taking off ear protection with RHS loaded used to
  cancel your strike as well. The strike prompt and hints now read CANCEL [F9].
- Tests now check the default JTAC keys (F5, F7, F9, Insert) and, with RHS loaded, that no RHS key
  is also a JTAC key.

0.3.5

- **Works with Arma Reforger 1.9.0.37.** The game update of 2026-11-06 changed the vanilla dialog
  buttons, so Overlord JTAC no longer loaded its scripts on the updated game: the laptop terminal and
  every other part of the mod stopped working. The terminal now sets its button labels the new way.
- **Loads in large modsets on 1.9.** Game 1.9 limits how many different container types all loaded
  mods may use together; Overlord JTAC now uses the game's own types and adds none of its own.

0.3.4

- The laptop now tells you why it does not open: "Request denied: you are not an authorized JTAC."
  when the server requires the JTAC role, or "You already have a JTAC session on another laptop."
- Choosing a package that the server has switched off now says so ("... is not available on this
  server." or "Air support is disabled on this server.") instead of doing nothing.
- Pressing **Confirm strike location** (or **Confirm and clear hot**) before choosing both the strike
  area and an ingress direction now says "Select the strike area and an ingress direction first."
- Choosing another package clears the old strike-area mark from the map.
- Radio calls: a JTAC standing more than 2.5 m from the laptop (was 5 m) also hears them as a private
  voice, so a third-person camera at the edge of the laptop's 5 m earshot no longer misses them.
  Between 2.5 and 5 m a call can be heard twice, quietly from the laptop and as the private voice.
- The show-of-force setting description no longer promises an illumination flare without RHS: the
  package needs RHS: Status Quo.
- Smaller download: the 12 unused helicopter radio clips (about 5 MB) are no longer shipped.

0.3.3

Workshop listing only: a shorter, simpler description, and a second contributor who can publish updates. The mod's content is unchanged; only the version number differs from 0.3.2.

0.3.2

- Clear hot is on **F7** (was Home in 0.3.1, F8 before).
- While a confirmed strike waits for clear hot, a small prompt at the bottom of the screen shows
  the laser, clear hot and cancel keys as currently bound; it goes away once clearance is given.
  The confirmation message names the bound keys too.

0.3.1

- Clear hot moves from F8 to **Home**, because F8 is taken by other mods' attack command. It
  stays rebindable under Settings > Keybinds > EXPBG Overlord JTAC.

0.3.0

- Fixed being stuck in the planning map when a confirm is refused (for example while another JTAC
  holds the aircraft): Escape and M now close it, it closes when the session ends, and the map's
  right-click menu has **Cancel strike (exit map)**.
- Clear hot (F8) is a single press for every package: pressed early, it is granted as soon as the
  laser has been held for two seconds. F9 cancels (End still works).
- The laser draws only a small glowing spot at the target, no beam from the JTAC.
- Laptop radio 40 % quieter and audible to 5 m; startup chime at 20 % volume, also 5 m.
- Show of force always uses the F-22, in two staggered pairs instead of wingtip-to-wingtip.
- Mortar and artillery no longer voice the clearance and keep-clear calls (subtitles remain).
- Artillery, mortar and show of force no longer need the laser: clear hot (F8, the laptop button, or
  **Confirm and clear hot (no laser)** in the map menu) fires on the confirmed map point. A laser held
  on the area at clearance is used instead. Precision strike and cruise missile still need the laser.
- A clearance given late in the aircraft's holding time keeps its release countdown instead of
  timing out.
- Radio calls still reach a JTAC who is out of the laptop's 5 m earshot (or whose laptop was picked
  up after release), as a private voice.
- Radio calls keep their order; a laptop draining to 0 % shows as flat; danger close ignores dead
  teammates; repeated laser-off and abort presses no longer reach every client.
- Lower per-frame cost of the laser readout and map markers.

0.2.0

- Place and interact with the laptop to open a package terminal. Select a strike area, cardinal
  ingress and confirmation through the map's right-click radial. Temporary marks show the plan.
  Removed F6/F7 requests and the old direct map request.
- Every release requires an active rangefinding binocular laser held for two seconds, then explicit
  clearance. Unfinished procedures abort after 30 seconds without activity; the terminal can abort.
  Server sessions bind the player body and placed, charged laptop, with ownership and cleanup checks.
- Precision/cruise ordnance follows fresh laser positions after release; losing the laser retains
  the last valid point. Optional RHS passes are cosmetic, with one separate credited guided blast.
- Mortar and artillery area support use native Game Effects bombardments. Removed helicopter rockets.
  Show of force requires RHS and flies four jets in two left/right buddy pairs.
- Shared world laser, once-per-session startup sound, 10 m spatial laptop audio, corrected browser
  icons and inventory handling. Carried laptops have no GM world marker and cannot authorize support.
- Startup recording retains its separate original notice in `Licenses/OJT_Startup_Sound.txt`.

0.1.2

- Server config: an `m_OJT_Settings` block in the server-config JSON (`missionHeader`) that lists
  only some keys no longer switches the others off. Before, every key left out became 0 or off, so
  a block such as `{ "m_iBudget": 50 }` disabled the mod and all five packages. Keys left out now
  keep their defaults, as in a mission .conf.

0.1.1

- RHS: the FA-18, F-22 and Su-57 passes and the Kh-55 now come in along the JTAC's line of sight,
  over the JTAC's shoulder towards the mark (they always came from the east).
- RHS: kills by the RHS GBU-12 and Kh-55 are credited to the JTAC like every other munition, also
  when the JTAC is no longer a live player when the bomb lands.
- The server log names an RHS pass that could not be spawned and its vanilla fallback.
- Tested on the full EXPBG live modset (138 addons, RHS, ACE): no script errors from the mod, Game
  Master module edits apply at once; the server spends about 6 microseconds per strike tick.

0.1.0