EXPBG Gamemaster Tools
by M.Pac
0.3.4
Full-modset e2e logs 2026-10-14/15 (Operation Watchtower): a class that a mod declares as `modded class X`
without restating vanilla's class attribute is unknown to the config loader ("Unknown class 'X' at offset
N"), and every config entry of that class is dropped (same cause as the missing cigarette fixed in EXPBG
Ambient Units 0.1.6).
- **Garrison: AI smoke cover works again, for every AI on the server.** The garrison smoke backstop (0.1.22)
modded `SCR_AIGoalReaction_ThrowGrenadeTo` without `[BaseContainerProps()]`. Loading
`AI/AIAgents/SCR_ChimeraAIAgentFull.et` logged "Unknown class 'SCR_AIGoalReaction_ThrowGrenadeTo' at offset
2892" and the throw-grenade goal reaction was dropped from every AI agent: no AI acted on a throw-grenade
goal message at all, so group smoke cover (SCR_AIActivitySmokeCoverFeature: smoke for a wounded soldier,
the Deploy Smoke Cover waypoint) and any behaviour tree sending that goal threw nothing, for all AI, not
only garrison squads, and the backstop itself never ran. The attribute is restated; garrison squads still
never throw smoke, every other AI throws it again.
- **Unit Scripts: the Game Master's Disembark context action is back.** Stay mounted's hand-off (0.1.22)
modded `SCR_DisembarkContextAction` without `[BaseContainerProps(), SCR_BaseContainerCustomTitleUIInfo("m_Info")]`.
`Configs/Editor/ActionLists/Context/TempEdit.conf` logged "Unknown class 'SCR_DisembarkContextAction' at
offset 3929" and lost the entry, so the context menu had no Disembark for anyone and Stay mounted was never
ended through it. The attribute is restated; Disembark is listed again and ends Stay mounted on a static
weapon gunner before vanilla takes him off.
- AI Skill & ROE and AI Surrender & Intel: the modded `SCR_AttributesManagerEditorComponentClass` (attribute
injection) restates vanilla's `[ComponentEditorProps(...)]`; Advanced Briefing Map and Unit Caching: both
modded `SCR_MapEntity` declarations restate vanilla's `[EntityEditorProps(...)]` (vanilla puts it on the
entity class itself). Workbench metadata only (category, description, icon, box); no "Unknown class" was
logged for either and their runtime behaviour does not change.
- Tests: `tests/Test-AttributeDecorators.ps1` pins the exact vanilla decorator of every decorated vanilla
class this pack mods (10 classes, 12 declarations) and requires it directly above each `modded class`;
other modded `*Attribute`, `SCR_AI(Goal|Danger)Reaction_*` and `*ContextAction` classes must repeat a
`[BaseContainerProps(...)]` decorator.- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:32:34 GMT
- Last Modified
- Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:32:43 GMT
0.3.3
Full test round 2026-10-14 (owner request: "full testing of all features including unit cache with animations applied"). - **Unit Caching: animated squads cache without minutes of delay.** A squad whose soldiers play EXPBG Ambient Units animations is cached in Simulation only while every animation is playing at that moment. A playlist switches between its animations and a repeated gesture pauses between repeats, so an attempt often found one of them "still starting"; that refusal then started the same 60 s safety cooldown as a real danger, again and again (native: two refusals in a row, the squad awake for over two minutes with no player near). A refusal suspends nothing, so this one is now retried after 3 s; every other refusal keeps the 60 s cooldown. - **Unit Caching: the wake status counts a soldier the Game Master changed while he was cached as kept.** Giving a cached soldier another animation (or Hold, Freeze) worked: he plays it after the wake. The zone status still said "released while cached; not re-applied" and counted him as "not resumed"; it now says "kept; script changed while cached". - **Unit Caching asks the animation whether it may pause (new pose hook `IsPoseSettled`).** Until now only an animation that was playing at that instant could be cached; a repeated gesture between two repeats, a playlist between two steps or a Bon item just dropped refused the cache although the wake starts them again anyway (native 2026-10-15, full modset on Watchtower: a fire team with a repeated gesture took 90 s to cache). The default stays "while it plays"; EXPBG Ambient Units 0.1.5 answers yes between two plays and no while anything is half started (an entry queued, a Bon item on its way to the hand, a loiter exit or a gesture running). - **A script that replaces another one keeps his held spot and heading.** Giving a soldier a new animation (or Hold, Freeze) bound it to the facing he had at that instant; an animation such as Smoke turns the body for a moment, so he could end up facing elsewhere (native 2026-10-14: 125 degrees). The new script now takes the replaced one's held spot and heading, where the Game Master put him, while he is still within 1.5 m of it. - Tests: `tests/EBG_ScriptedSimulationGameplay.c` carries the stand-in player seam of the Unit Scripts fixtures, so its three animations also play with EXPBG Ambient Units loaded; new pin in `tests/Test-UnitCachingScripts.ps1`; `Test-UnitScriptsPoses.ps1` pins the 16th pose hook and `Test-UnitScriptsHold.ps1` the held-spot write at bind. `EUS_FreezeLeaderGameplay.c` moves its chair soldier to an open spot when his formation left him by a fence (it refused with "no room", correctly). EXPBG Ambient Units has a new fixture for its animations in a cache zone (`EAN_CacheGameplay.c`: two cycles, a playlist, a gesture, Bon items, a change while cached). Full test round 2026-10-14/15: every fixture with EXPBG Ambient Units loaded, Gamemaster Tools' own runner kinds, Ambient Sounds, the CDF round trips and a full-modset game session on Operation Watchtower (see `tests/GAMEPLAY.md`).
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:37:43 GMT
- Last Modified
- Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:38:07 GMT
0.3.2
Owner reports 2026-10-14.
- **Unit Scripts: possessing a held soldier no longer leaves him crawling.** A soldier under Hold,
Freeze, Stay mounted or an EXPBG Ambient Units animation (also an EXPBG Garrison guard on a post
or patrol) stands with a zero speed cap and his AI's idle pace. Vanilla possession ("Take
control") gives the body to the player's machine first and resets the pace on the server only
after that, so the possessed body kept the idle pace on the player's machine and walked at
about 0.5 m/s ("frozen"). Measured on the player's machine: dynamic speed 0.2. Now, before
vanilla hands the body over, the unit script ends and every EXPBG speed cap is lifted while the
server still owns him, and the player's machine applies the server's speed and the default
pace itself (twice, 0.5 s and 2 s after the hand-over). Other slowdowns (barbed wire, wounds)
are untouched. E2E: 9.4 m in 3 s after the fix, the same as a soldier that never had a script
(1.7 m before).
- **Unit Scripts never apply to players** (owner request 2026-10-14). Hold, Freeze, Stay mounted,
animations (EXPBG Ambient Units) and dialog (EXPBG Ambient Units) refuse any player's
character: the one he controls or possesses, and his own character while he is in the Game
Master editor or possesses another unit (`EUS_Codes.IsPlayerCharacter`). The attribute tab and
the context actions are not offered on them. Players keep Bon Action Animations' own shortcut.
- Tests: portable suite unchanged in scope (pins pass); native fixtures re-run (see
`tests/GAMEPLAY.md`).- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:28:56 GMT
- Last Modified
- Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:29:16 GMT
0.3.1
- **Unit Caching: drones count as presence** (#98, owner request 2026-10-13). With **Realistic Combat Drones** (Workshop `65AD60E204191D37`) loaded, a drone that a living player operates wakes cache zones and keeps them awake exactly like his character (wake and sleep radii, height band, Full wake confirmation, wake order, casualty cleanup), so the operator sees real units through the drone camera. The zone may cache again once the drone leaves, is disconnected (landed and switched off) or destroyed, or its operator dies or leaves. A drone that is carried, in a case or crate, or lying disconnected does not count. No dependency: Gamemaster Tools names none of that mod's classes; it finds the mod's connection registry and drone controller by type name at runtime (`EBG_DronePresence`), reads them once per scheduler tick (0.5 s, at most 32 drones) and turns drone presence off with one warning if their contract changes. Without the mod nothing changes. With it, the zone status says that a drone a player operates counts. New log lines: `[EBG DRONES]` (mod detected, once per mission), `[EBG DRONE]` (a drone starts or stops counting) and `drone=` on `[EBG WAKE WAVE]`. - Tests: portable `Test-DronePresence` (no compile-time reference, the soft contract, the presence path in the scheduler, the fixture and runner wiring, and the mod's names in its installed archive when present); native fixture `EBG_DronePresenceGameplay.c`, run with and without the mod (new `Run-Gameplay.ps1 -Drones`, `tests/GAMEPLAY.md`).
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:14:29 GMT
- Last Modified
- Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:14:51 GMT
0.3.0
- **Split** (owner decision 2026-10-13): Ambient Civilians (residents, pedestrians, traffic, No
Civilian Zones), Ambient Unrest (the Civil Protest Zone) and Unit Dialog ("Speak to <Name>") left
Gamemaster Tools for the new mod **EXPBG Ambient Units** (`29CFD45254FAEAC3`, repository
`mod-ambient-units`), which depends on Gamemaster Tools and on Bon Action Animations. Their
prefabs, class names, resource GUIDs and save keys are unchanged: load EXPBG Ambient Units to keep
them in missions and saves. Their string table, licence, the protest zone strings, the civilian
voices and the civilian and protest cards left with them (`tools/expbg-data.json`,
`tools/audio-data.json`; EXPBG Gamemaster Data 0.1.3 drops those files, EXPBG Ambient Units ships
them).
- **Unit Scripts** keeps Hold position, Freeze, Stay mounted, Release and night discipline. The
ambient animations moved to EXPBG Ambient Units (set in its own "EXPBG Ambient Units" tab, with
playlists): the Unit Scripts tab no longer lists the seven "Animation: ..." entries and shows a
soldier playing one as the read-only "Animation (set in the EXPBG Ambient Units tab)", which Hold,
Freeze or Normal AI replaces and saving the dialog never ends. The poses (unit script codes from 10
up) come from a companion through a new seam: `EUS_Poses` (a singleton a companion mods) and pose
hooks on `EUS_UnitControl`; the loiter code (entries, retries, the in-command loop, the hand-held
props) is EXPBG Ambient Units'. Saved unit scripts are payload version 2 with the companion's
settings; version 1 saves still load. Without EXPBG Ambient Units a saved animation is refused (the
soldier stays normal AI) and the other scripts load. New end reasons `DANGER` and `PLAYLIST_DONE`
for companions. Unit Caching resumes a pose through its control.
- New module **Editor Text Fields** (`addon/editor-text`): the text fields of Game Master attributes
(single-line and multiline edit boxes with a character counter), formerly part of Unit Dialog, with
the same layout GUIDs. Time and Weather's Time Skip and Mission Intro texts use it, and so does
EXPBG Ambient Units' Unit Dialog.
- Garrison and Random Garrison use the shared `EBG_Buildings.IsRuined` (Unit Caching) instead of the
civilians' ruin test.
- Fix: the `Character_Base` override (Persistent Battlefield) still listed the Unit Dialog "Speak"
action, a class Gamemaster Tools no longer defines; the entry is removed. EXPBG Ambient Units has
to attach "Speak to <Name>" itself.
- Fix: the Unit Scripts attribute description held a stray double quote that ended the text early.
- The standalone conflict check no longer names the retired standalone Ambient Civilians item
(`A9C45E82D6710B3F`): it clashes with EXPBG Ambient Units now, not with this pack.
- Tests: the civilian, protest zone and Unit Dialog tests and fixtures moved to EXPBG Ambient Units;
new portable guards `Test-UnitScriptsPoses` (the pose seam) and `Test-EditorText` (the text
layer); the Unit Scripts fixtures run their pose parts only with a pose companion loaded
(`tests/GAMEPLAY.md`).- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:55:26 GMT
- Last Modified
- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:55:37 GMT
0.2.4
- New module **EXPBG Flags** (`addon/flags`, owner request 2026-10-13): two placeable EXPBG flags, "EXPBG Flag (Black)" and "EXPBG Flag (White)" (the EXPBG logo on a black or white field), in the military structures next to the vanilla flag poles. Each is the vanilla wooden flag pole (FlagPole_02) with the vanilla 1:2 flag cloth and its wind animation, so it waves like the vanilla flags; only the flag material is new. Textures, materials and the editor cards are in EXPBG Gamemaster Data 0.1.2 (`Assets/EXPBG/Flags`, `UI/Textures/EXPBG_Flags`), which this version requires. The placeables are appended to the vanilla military structures list, so no vanilla entry changes.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:24:05 GMT
- Last Modified
- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:24:13 GMT
0.2.3
- Time and Weather: the Weather Transition module is now a **weather plan** (owner request 2026-10-13:
too complex to set up, transitions looked wrong, only two phases).
- Up to 6 steps, each a preset: Clear, Cloudy, Overcast, Light drizzle, Rain, Heavy rain / storm,
Fog / mist (or Not used), with how long it stays (0-240 min). One change time; after the last step:
hold, automatic weather or start again.
- Each preset sets clouds, rain, fog and wind together; rain is capped by the cloud cover, so no
contradictory weather (clear sky with a downpour, storm wind with clear sky) can be set.
- Logical order: clouds build before rain starts, rain stops before the sky clears; a big jump such
as Clear to Rain passes through Cloudy and Overcast. Too-short change times are lengthened to the
engine minimum (about 10 in-game minutes for clouds, 14 with rain) and the module shows the
effective time.
- A plan runs only after the GM right-clicks the module and chooses **EXPBG Start weather plan**
(**EXPBG Stop weather plan** holds the weather reached); saving the dialog never starts or
restarts a plan. New modules carry the example Clear, Cloudy, Overcast, Light drizzle, Rain.
- A running plan is saved and continues after loading (native and CDF saves). Old modules and saves
load as a one-step plan; class names, GUIDs and save keys are unchanged. Time Skip still only
finishes the change in progress.
- New fixture ETW_WeatherPlanGameplay (5-step plan, save and resume mid-change).
- The module's editor description now explains the plan (it still described the old single target).
- Fix (found in the live GM test): server context actions were refused on a dedicated server because the
server runs CanBeShown again and there is no local editor there. Affected the new Start / Stop weather
plan actions and Garrison's **Release all garrisons** (which so far did nothing on the dedicated server).- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:33:53 GMT
- Last Modified
- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:34:03 GMT
0.2.2
- Renamed: EXPBG GM Tools is now **EXPBG Gamemaster Tools** (same Workshop item FC1402F65B2F4A45, same addon and resource IDs; repository ExpBG-Tech/mod-gamemaster-tools). EXPBG Data is now EXPBG Gamemaster Data, EXPBG CDF Compat is EXPBG CDF GM Save Compat, EXPBG Audio Data is EXPBG Ambient Sounds Data (owner decision 2026-10-13). - Sounds: Gamemaster Tools ships no audio and no longer depends on EXPBG Ambient Sounds Data (198987BE7BAC4C84). The Ambient Civilians voice bank (EAC_CivilianSounds.acp) and the Intel Items laptop startup (EII_Startup.acp) moved with their 55 samples (9 MB) to EXPBG Gamemaster Data 0.1.1, byte for byte at the same paths and GUIDs, so civilians and laptops sound as before. Dependencies: the base game and EXPBG Gamemaster Data only. The Civil Protest Zone crowd sound stays EXPBG Ambient Sounds' crowd module (spawned only when that mod is loaded).
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:13:58 GMT
- Last Modified
- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:14:09 GMT
0.2.1
- Ambient Destruction: zones on Everon (Operation Watchtower) placed no wrecks (2026-10-12 server
log: 658 of 662 attempts rejected, 0 of 50 wrecks, then the zone was moved and deleted).
- Generation: up to eight placement attempts per 100 ms tick (2 ms budget) instead of one
for a lone zone, so 50 wreck slots take seconds, not a minute or more.
- Narrow roads (no room for a wreck and the 4.5 m free lane) push the wreck onto the verge
beside the road instead of rejecting every spot; the free lane rule is unchanged.
- Sloped and cambered roads: the clearance box starts above the highest footprint corner,
so the terrain no longer counts as an obstruction (corners still within 0.3 m).
- Every finished generation logs `[EAD READY]` (placed against asked-for wrecks and
bodies) and `[EAD REJECTS]` (failed attempts by reason: no road, no fit, junction,
obstructed, spacing, uneven, blocked, ...), also at debug level 0; the periodic debug
output carries `[EAD REJECTS]` too.
- Off-road wrecks: a wreck slot that finds no legal road spot in 6 of its 12 attempts tries
spots off the road (yards, verges, fields) with its footprint 1.5 m clear of every
carriageway. Under the 25-40 m road spacing a 50 m zone holds only two or three road wrecks
(production-world proof: 2-3 of 50), so "Wreck intensity" now fills small zones too.
- Garrison: a garrison in a building placed in the world without prefab data (Everon map buildings,
for example the Montignac municipal office) was left out of the garrison ledger ("its building
is unknown") and saved as an ordinary squad. Such buildings are now identified by their mesh, so
their garrisons are saved and restored like any other (native and CDF saves).
- AI Surrender: "Surrender only while nearby friendly squads are at most (%) alive" (default 50,
100 = off) and "Nearby friendly squads radius (m)" (default 200). A breaking squad holds on
while same-faction AI squads within the radius are stronger than the limit (their conscious
soldiers against their full strength); the next casualty is judged again.
- AI Surrender: "Interrogation: reveal password (%)" (default 30), also per squad and per
soldier. Rolled once, independently of intel items, the prisoner tells the passwords of his own
locked laptops and of the nearest locked laptops, tablets and server racks within the reveal
search radius (at most three). An owner's laptop password now follows this chance instead of
the intel chance. Intel 0 / password X: passwords only; intel X / password 0: locations only.
- Intel Items: download failures are rolled when the download starts and stop it part-way
(3-95%) with "Download aborted: corrupted data"; nothing is saved.
- Intel Items: server racks can be password locked like laptops (GM lock, generated or custom
password, Enter password, lockout after wrong passwords, native and CDF saves); a locked rack
refuses downloads. Players find the password by interrogation or in intel text.
- Intel Items: a laptop or server rack placed locked (World Editor or a locked prefab) and then
unlocked by the Game Master stays unlocked after a native or CDF load (the unlocked state is now
saved too; it used to save nothing, so the item came back locked).
- Intel Items: the Enter password window no longer shows "Wrong password. Try again." before
anything was typed (the vanilla warning line of the password content is now hidden).
- Intel Items: fixed a laptop download being interrupted when a second laptop was within reach;
repeated password answers no longer pile up in the Enter password list.
- Ambient Civilians: civilians appear sooner and towns fill faster. Theme preparation, house
indexing and placement retries each work within a ~2 ms budget per tick, with the old rate as
the minimum; still one civilian in flight and at most one spawn per tick.
- Ambient Civilians: house indexing no longer offers the tick to one player at a time, so a
player who is loading, dead or far away no longer stalls indexing for the players in town;
cells outside every module area no longer use up the tick, and the cells around a player are
indexed first. The character prefab check is done once per prefab, not on every attempt.
- Ambient Civilians: with Diagnostics 1 or higher, an `[EAC fill]` line and a summary term report
the seconds from a player entering an area to the first civilian, and civilians per minute.
- Advanced Briefing Map: clients lost frames while a board was streamed (live briefing).
- Live briefings render at 20 FPS (was unlimited); idle stays 5 FPS.
- A board out of the camera's view renders at 1 FPS and gives the game map renderer back.
- Roads, buildings and names (the game map renderer) are drawn only while the board is in
view within 30 m (new attribute); farther boards show the plain map image.
- Default detail layer 720 (was 1080): fewer buildings and contour lines on the board.
- View and distance are checked every 0.5 s (was 1 s).
- Unit Dialog: the dialog line boxes show again. The multiline row layout added a second SCR_EditBoxComponent to the vanilla multiline edit box instead of overriding the vanilla one (a new component id instead of `{59BA916B7193FCE6}`), so the input box stayed hidden; it now overrides it like the Intel Items text box does.
- Garrison: new garrison attribute "Deploy only near players" (Off by default). On: whenever
no player is within the garrison's sleep distance it caches as soon as every guard holds
his post, every time, so with Full its squad is in the world only while a player is
within the wake distance; alarms and every other hold still keep it awake. Saved with
the garrison in native saves and, through EXPBG CDF Compat (no change needed), CDF
saves; older saves load with it Off and older releases ignore it (ledger schema stays 2).
(#86)
- Garrison patrols: a patrol leg the engine plans no path for (the building plan links
the two stops, the navmesh does not) is dropped for the whole building after the second
walk (any patroller) that stalls on it without a path, with one `[EXPG PATROL]` line per
pair (at most 64 pairs remembered per building); a leg whose path existed but was
blocked is never dropped. (#92)
- Garrison performance: the 5 s save-exclusion pass re-checks only garrisons that
changed (squad join, leave, death, deletion and order events; another squad, Full or
not, a guard newly dead or possessed); unchanged ones confirm what they kept. Every
60 s, before every native save, load and CDF capture, and when the CDF mode changes,
every garrison is checked in full. The Verbose `[EXPG EXCLUSION]` line names the
re-checked garrisons. (#64)
- Tests: `ESR_SquadAttributesGameplay.c` skips its combat sub-cases (R far burst and
provoked, W warning rounds and lethal fire, F) when no client is connected, since
headless AI does not fire, and reports them as `skip` with `combat=skipped`; the rest
stays strict. The cases are in the client end-to-end checklist in `docs/TESTING.md`.
(#92)
- Not done from #92: a fill level on Add Garrison (no add-time dialog exists; needs a
product decision and a new client step), caching Enclosed/IndoorFloor further (already
answered per plan node and per floor part; no measurement shows a gain), and splitting
`EXPG_GarrisonManager.c` / `EXPG_RandomGarrisonModule.c` (behaviour-neutral but about
20 portable test files pin those paths).- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:23:24 GMT
- Last Modified
- Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:23:40 GMT
0.2.0
- EXPBG Data split: models, textures and art moved to the new required dependency EXPBG Data (AE27DCE212F2C44D); no gameplay change; resource GUIDs and paths unchanged so missions and saves keep working. - Ambient Sounds modules moved to the EXPBG Ambient Sounds mod (formerly Ambient Radio, E55EB66BC1B173CA); load it to keep them. Their prefabs, resource paths, GUIDs, classes and save keys are unchanged, so missions and saves that contain them load as before with that mod. The Civil Protest Zone keeps its crowd sound when EXPBG Ambient Sounds is loaded (its emitter prefab moved there; GM Tools has no dependency on it) and is silent without it, with one warning in the log. GM Tools still depends on EXPBG Audio Data for the Ambient Civilians and Intel Items sounds. - Game Master placing: when the server's new entity reaches the placing client after the vanilla 30-frame wait, the client keeps waiting up to 3 s instead of logging "Error when creating entity from prefab" and skipping the selection; one `[EXPBG PLACE]` line when the wait was needed. (#16) - Garrison: a garrison is released when its building itself takes another damage phase (a broken window or other part does not count; loads and replayed Ambient Destruction collapses do not either); the next request analyses the building again. (#86) - Garrison performance: taken posts are indexed by a 2 m grid for the spacing check; a building's structural-floor verdict is remembered per part; the 5 s save-exclusion pass logs its time under debug. (#62, #64) - Garrison and Random Garrison quality: one save keeper rule for retiring entities, pending squads and the garrison save exclusion (a pending squad's NON_SERIALIZABLE flag is set again if something cleared it); test-only plan helpers moved to the contract test; the always-false Unit Caching native lock check removed. (#59, #65) - Native saves from a newer release load their first settings with one warning instead of deleting the Civil Protest Zone or refusing cache zone settings and Unit Caching mission metadata. (#73) - Unit Scripts: the per-unit cost guard line has its own tag `[EUS PERF]`. - Saving (for EXPBG CDF Compat #10): `EBG_CacheSnapshot.SettleForCapture(out reason, out settled)` and `EXPG_GarrisonPersistence.SettleForCapture(out reason)` prepare the end-of-mission capture at once, on the server, with or without players: Unit Caching wake and release requests are cancelled (Simulation groups stay suspended, Full groups stay cached), an unfinished Simulation restore and native scalar rollbacks are retried in place, pending native member callbacks are delivered and a Prepare for save pause that is not Ready ends; nothing is spawned, woken or refilled. Both return the save check's verdict and reason; saved-ownership issues, failed Full transactions and a load in progress still refuse. One `[EBG SETTLE]` line when something changed. - Spawn hold seam: Ambient Civilians (pedestrians and traffic) and Ambient Unrest crowds ask `EBG_SpawnGate.Held` before each spawn batch; GM Tools never holds, a companion mod can (EXPBG CDF Compat holds them while a CDF load runs). Admissions already under way finish. - Tests: `Run-Gameplay.ps1 -CdfSession` runs the Ambient Civilians CDF ownership fixture with CDF GameMaster Save in the fixture only (#4); the soak fixture puts a dropped weapon that fell through the ground back and logs it with the nearest casualty's cache state (#40).
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:31:58 GMT
- Last Modified
- Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:32:08 GMT
0.1.22
### Unit Caching - Soldiers or squads deleted while a cache zone manages them are retired (no respawn, earlier casualties keep cleanup) instead of blocking every CDF capture and native save; Full survivors deleted during a wake are abandoned; a remaining hold names its group and Game Masters get one notice. (#48) - New zone settings "Wake confirmation" (5 s; teleports and possession changes restart it; players within 300 m wake at once) and "Minimum awake after Full restore" (120 s, with back-off after a quick re-cache); one `[EBG WAKE WAVE]` / `[EBG RECACHE WAVE]` line per wave; the zone notice shows both radii and warns about churn-prone settings. Restored Full survivors keep their AI paused for 3 s while clients receive them; at most one proximity Full wake per zone per second; heavier loadouts count more in the wake budget; a position a GM leaves by possession keeps squads awake for 30 s. (#45) - A GM waypoint wakes a Simulation-cached squad; new zone setting "Keep ordered squads awake (min)" (10, 0 = off) keeps squads on Move, Forced move or Attack orders awake. (#49) - Crews of parked ground vehicles (engine off, stationary, no player aboard) are Simulation-cached in their seats; moving or running vehicles and aircraft stay awake. (#50) - Squads whose only seated soldiers are static-weapon gunners Full-cache; the seat travels in the CDF snapshot, the wake seats the gunner again and he gets Stay mounted. A gunner who cannot be seated stands next to the gun (one log line); a seat still held by a deleted body is waited for. (#81) - Prepare for save reminds the Game Master every 10 minutes; new controller option "Resume caching after the next save"; new controller action "Check CDF save (no pause)"; CDF saves do not need Prepare for save. (#51) - The cleanup ledger's 60 s safety sweep is spread over the scheduler pump; slot changes of items still on their soldier cost one row. (#52) - Zone counters are no longer replicated; zone status reaches Game Masters only; unchanged overlays are not resent; zones have no frame hook. (#55) - Scheduler timing log under zone debug; light check for Simulation-cached squads, one agent list per squad per tick, soldier-to-record lookup. (#58) - Removed about 1,800 lines of unreachable native Full Cache code; the save gates share one record check each; fewer static initializers; "native persistence unavailable" is one info line per mission; Unit Caching no longer writes the replicated Unit Scripts count to ask other modules. (#59, #72) - Zone settings schema 6 (27 values); older native and CDF saves load with the new defaults. ### Unit Scripts, Unit Dialog, AI Surrender, AI Global Skills - New "Stay mounted (static weapons)" script keeps a static gunner on his gun in firefights (only his AI get-out is blocked); applied automatically after a Full-cache wake and by CDF Compat. (#81) - Freeze turns are aligned in place without teleports (an alignment that does not shrink the turn falls back to the teleport, which cancels the running alignment); restores no longer teleport soldiers already on their spot; the scripted count follows regroups; pose LOD pins are capped at 8; pose retries back off up to 300 s; context action texts corrected. (#72) - A pose that ends next to a wreck or prop waits for its exit animation, then moves to the nearest clear spot (never below ground), judged on his held spot (including inside hollow wreck hulls) so a pose entry never snaps him back into an object; the per-unit cost guard can trigger and its `[EUS] PERF` line names the nearest obstacle; release lines report pose restarts and loop stops. (#66, #67) - Unit Dialog: lines are multiline boxes with a visible character counter (300 per line); over-long text is cut instead of rejected; `[br]` in old saves still works. (#82) - Smoking soldiers and civilians: the cigarette starts in the hand (no "Suspicious parent velocity" warnings on clients). (#31) - "Unit was removed" releases, Full-cache script restore summaries and AI Skills cache/save lines print only with debug on. (#44) - AI Surrender: an own surrender chance is rolled only once the dice are thrown; refused rolls stay armed and are logged once per reason; a GM setting a chance rolls at once under threat; new module setting "Own surrender chance rolls on" (under fire / enemy seen / enemy close). (#41) - AI Surrender: a surrendering soldier or grenade leader loses his Unit Script first, and prisoners can't be given one. (#71) - AI Surrender / AI Global Skills: cheaper save-time reads; a native save from a newer release loads the first settings with one warning; the interrogation point is moved instead of respawned; no static initializers in the module classes. (#73) ### Garrison and Random Garrison - Window guards always stand and garrison soldiers never throw smoke, with no option to switch either off; door watchers are never prone; frag grenades stay configurable. Older saves set to Native or Allowed load as Stand and Never. (#87) - Prepared zones: the radius is analysed once in the background when switched on, building plans are kept and filled by level (Light / Cover all sectors / Full) with door watchers and indoor patrols; a save carries each garrisoned building's finished plan, so native and CDF loads place garrisons without analysing the building again; under alarm, patrollers go first to window sectors that lost their guard. Ledger schema 2 (schema 1 still loads). (#86) - Garrison squads wait for the engine's AI spawn queue instead of giving up after 45 s. (#54) - Full-cache transitions are frame-paced across modules: garrison Full wakes use the shared coordinator and wake budget, and a Full sleep no longer deletes a whole squad in one frame. (#56) - Building analysis is faster (adaptive budget, nearest-player ordering, resumable phases). (#62) - A guard once possessed by a GM no longer keeps his Full-mode garrison awake forever. (#63) - A patroller whose walk has not moved him 0.5 m in 5 s (no native path, or wedged beside standing guards) stops at once instead of waiting out 15 s; left off his stop with none free near him, or woken from Simulation caching beside a stop that just failed him, he takes another free stop of his area (at most twice in a row, never in an alarm). - Unit Caching asks a garrison about a squad through an index of its own soldiers; placing an added squad's soldiers is spread over several ticks (at most 32 traced probes each). (#64) - Quality: status codes, server-only settings, shared save-safety and cache helpers; Random Garrison status published at most every 2 s. (#65) - Random Garrison: generated squads sleep sooner, failed analyses free their planner slot, and analyses run in parallel as intended. (#88) - RHS factions with several camouflages are handled by the garrison squad picker. (#26) ### Ambient Destruction - Wrecks use simple box collision instead of the detailed vehicle collision and dead soldier props have no collision (the suspected cause of the 1.3-1.85 s server stall); road wrecks keep a 4.5 m lane free and are spaced 25-40 m apart. (#47) - Dead soldiers are placed against and beside military wrecks (leaning and prone). (#84) - Blood pools under about four in ten dead soldier props (Heine's blood decal, APL-SA, imported with independent GUIDs), cosmetic only and deterministic from the zone seed. (#85) - CDF saves are no longer refused while a zone is still generating or after a GM disabled a zone mid-generation. (#68) - A saved building collapse replayed after a CDF load goes ahead next to restored soldiers, vehicles and props and leaves them where the load put them; public replay cursor and interior-batch count for the CDF timing line. (cdf-compat#12) - Sweep: in-session loads after combat collapses, zones that never sleep, prefab Static flag, wall trace rate, dead code. (#74) ### Ambient Sounds, Civilians, Intel Items, pack - Placed chatter radios: player actions to turn them on or off and to raise or lower the volume, plus GM quick actions. (#83) - A start that fails at the edge of a radio's range no longer counts as a clip failure. (#43) - Ambient Civilians: a player still loading, on the deploy screen, or a GM without a character no longer stops civilian spawns server-wide (#53); new "Hidden-proof trace range" setting and far cars re-proved at most once a second (#42); production diagnostics at DebugLevel 0 (#42, #53, #57); no throwaway groups for refused admissions (#57); appear/disappear distances apply per module area (#60); quality sweep (#61). - Intel Items: carried intel items and USB drives no longer show a GM icon under their carrier (#89). Locked laptops: GM lock, generated or custom password, wrong-attempt lockout, Enter password action; the owner can give the password up under AI Surrender interrogation. Server racks accept an unlocked laptop as a faster download device; USB downloads can fail (20 % by default). (#90) - Replication hygiene: per-player results go only to that player, props are not re-bumped without a change, weather writes less often, Ambient Destruction batches its records. (#69) - Advanced Briefing Map: the briefer no longer re-sends the whole board while panning and clients rebuild only changed lines. (#70) - Pack sweep: intro shown once per game process, static-initializer leftovers, small module items. (#75)
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:39:04 GMT
- Last Modified
- Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:41:27 GMT
0.1.21
- Unit Caching: the Hold/Freeze script and the Unit Dialog of a Full-cached soldier are now written
into the portable (CDF) Full snapshot ("eusScript", "eudDialog"), so a Full-cached squad keeps
them through a CDF save, a server restart and a load. Snapshots without them still load.
- Unit Scripts: a pose entry keeps the soldier's AI out of its maximum LOD for 15 s (the same pin
Ambient Civilians uses), so a soldier far from every player starts his animation instead of
waiting for someone to come near.- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:22:16 GMT
- Last Modified
- Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:30:34 GMT
0.1.20
- New Mission Intro module (Systems): every player, late joiners too, sees it once when he first spawns in a game session. The screen is black, the title and a "time | date | location" line fade in, then the view fades back in (Time Skip black screen). Title and location are set in its attributes; empty uses the mission name and the map grid of the spawn. On and the text duration are saved with CDF; the texts are session settings like the Time Skip text. - Unit Caching: Hold Position and Freeze soldiers now Full cache. Their script (code, held spot and heading) rides the Full survivor carry and binds again on the respawned soldier, like Unit Dialog. Only squads with a Unit Scripts animation still fall back to Simulation in a Full zone. - Unit Scripts: an animation the server does not start (production 2026-10-10: 14 poses far from every player after a CDF load) is no longer dropped after 4 attempts. The soldier keeps his spot and the pose is tried again every 30 s. - Unit Caching: new "Never cache this squad" switch in the EXPBG Unit Caching tab of a squad's or soldier's Edit properties (saved with CDF). Squads in helicopters and planes are never cached; ground vehicles and static weapons keep Simulation caching. - Global controller: zones paused by Prepare for save now count as disabled, and the action description explains Prepare for save (pause, AI restored, zones resume with Enable) versus Disable all zones. - AI Surrender: a soldier with his own surrender chance rolls it once when he first comes under threat (danger or combat), whatever the size of his squad. A lone soldier at 100% now gives up when fired at; squad breaks still roll as before. - Garrison: a squad added to a building whose spawn never reports complete within 45 s no longer stays outside as a normal squad; the soldiers that exist take their posts. - Log noise: per-unit Unit Scripts lines, Prepare progress, AI Skills override lines, Garrison status lines and settings-hold warnings print only while a cache zone has Debug messages on.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:14:26 GMT
- Last Modified
- Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:15:09 GMT
0.1.19
- Unit Caching: a Full cache zone now falls back to Simulation for every squad Full cannot take,
instead of leaving it awake:
- squads whose soldiers run Unit Scripts (Hold, Freeze or an ambient animation): a Full cycle
would respawn them without their script; in Simulation they keep the same actors, scripts and
poses and wake as in a Simulation zone;
- squads with a soldier in a static weapon seat: CDF cannot save a Full-cached gunner and
refused the whole save ("Mounted Full survivors require restoration"); in Simulation the gunner
stays seated and CDF saves him with his seat. Gunners Full cached by an earlier version wake
once and sleep again in Simulation;
- a squad whose Full attempt is refused tries Simulation at once (no cooldown) and tries Full
again after it next wakes;
- every squad of the zone while Full is unavailable in the session.
Squads that neither mode can take stay awake with their reason. A Simulation-cached squad in a
Full zone names why in its status; each refused Full attempt logs one `[EBG FULL FALLBACK]` line.
- Unit Caching: a soldier a player controlled once (Game Master "Take control") no longer keeps his
squad out of caching forever. Once the player has left him, his squad enrolls again and caches
in Simulation (Full still refuses him, and cleanup still never deletes his things). Only a
soldier a player controls right now holds his squad awake.- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:27:33 GMT
- Last Modified
- Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:28:24 GMT
0.1.18
- Ambient Civilians: every placed module now populates its own area. Until 0.1.17 a second module was treated as a duplicate and spawned nobody. Each module brings its own radius, civilian limit, neighbourhood limits, residents per house, theme and faction, while the first placed module runs the shared scheduler and its activity, traffic, sound and diagnostic settings apply mission-wide. The mission total is the sum of the module limits, at most 200; when modules ask for more, each gets a proportional share and the log reports the area as capped. A full area no longer holds the others back, and the console summary and GM overlay list each area's civilians and limit. - Unit Scripts: Freeze and Hold now hold until the Game Master releases them; damage, unconsciousness and ragdoll no longer end them (corrections pause while the unit is down). Ambient animations loop inside the same animation without the gap that let units step and drift, and every restart begins on the held spot. Only entries that never start count as failed attempts, and a Unit Caching pause no longer uses them up. Moving a unit held in a compartment without an editable vehicle (for example ACE Captives helpers) no longer throws in the editor transform. Running unit scripts are saved with native mission saves and restored on the saved spot and heading; a versioned state API lets EXPBG CDF Compat do the same for CDF saves. Releases record a precise reason, and Game Master replies say scripts are saved (night discipline stays mission-only). - Unit Caching: Simulation zones now cache squads whose soldiers run Unit Scripts (Hold, Freeze, ambient animations). They are paused and resumed in place with their script still bound; an animation that ended while paused is started again at the same spot. Night discipline and other modules' reservations still keep a squad awake. Full zones still refuse these squads (a Full cycle would respawn the soldiers without their scripts); the zone note and the hold reason say so. The hold reason "Unsupported vehicle, medical or movement state" is split to name the actual compartment, medical or movement state. - AI Global Skills / AI Surrender: the squad and soldier settings now show for every AI squad and AI soldier of any faction or mod (vanilla, RHS and others), with or without a module; in 0.1.17 they stayed hidden until a module was placed. Squad values also show when you edit one of the squad's soldiers, like the vanilla Group tab. New "AI skill (squad)" and "AI skill (soldier)" (Novice to Expert) sit with the rules of engagement in the renamed "EXPBG AI Skill & ROE" tab; the soldier's value wins over the squad's, and the squad's over the module. A squad's or soldier's own skill and rules of engagement apply without a module too, and stay when the module is deleted. Skills are kept by native saves, CDF saves, Unit Caching and Garrison caching; earlier saves load unchanged. Surrender and interrogation chances read "Squad ..." and "Soldier ..."; they can be set before the AI Surrender module is placed, but surrenders still need the module. Both modules also add these settings in script, so another mod's attribute list override cannot hide them. - Garrison: a patroller whose walk fails beside a standing guard no longer sleeps or wakes metres from his stop; he takes the nearest free stop where he stands (failed walk, forced settle, Simulation wake) or walks back to his stop on waking.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:52:24 GMT
- Last Modified
- Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:53:45 GMT
0.1.17
- New entity browser art: every placed sound (28), both server racks, the USB drive, the briefing board and projector, the AI Cache Zone and the Unit Caching controller have their own card and their own gold icon instead of a shared card and the generic speaker icon. No behaviour change; saves and missions are unaffected. - tools/art/Import-PackArt.ps1 cooks any number of textures in one Workbench run and can write the results into another addon folder (-TargetRoot).
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:29:41 GMT
- Last Modified
- Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:32:31 GMT
0.1.16
- The sounds of Ambient Sounds, Ambient Civilians and Intel Items moved to the new dependency EXPBG Audio Data (198987BE7BAC4C84), byte for byte at the same paths with the same resource IDs: everything plays exactly as in 0.1.15. Servers must load EXPBG Audio Data (0.1.3 or later) with GM Tools; clients get it as a Workshop dependency. Saves and missions are unaffected. - The download of this item is about 590 MB smaller. - Workshop listing: a short feature list, licence Arma Public License Share Alike (APL-SA). Credits stay in the addon's Credits and Licenses files.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:42:47 GMT
- Last Modified
- Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:44:04 GMT
0.1.15
Fixes from the 2026-10-07 op and a performance pass: less server and client
work per frame and per second, mainly on long sessions with many players and
AI. Saves from 0.1.14 load unchanged. Behaviour is unchanged except where a
bullet below says otherwise.
- Random Garrison: "Exclude support squads" (default on) let ammo teams and
helicopter crews through, because only squads labelled medical, logistics or
essential on the group were skipped. It now also skips a squad when every
soldier is a medic, ammo bearer, vehicle or helicopter crewman or driver
(vanilla ammo teams, FIA's medical section) and, for squads of other mods
without such labels, when the prefab's file name says medic, ammo,
ammunition, supply or supplies, logistic, crew or pilot (for example
REAPER_USSR_HelicopterCrew). Transport and guard teams (labelled essential)
are skipped as before; rifle squads, machine gun, AT, sniper, recon and
special forces squads stay. Each squad is classified once when the faction's
catalog is read; the server log line "squad catalog" now also counts the
support squads. Saved settings are unchanged.
- Unit Scripts: Freeze now really keeps a soldier on his spot, squad leaders
and lone soldiers included. He no longer drifts off while his squad has a
waypoint or while he stands idle, and he no longer turns round to glance
about; only his head follows a nearby player. If anything other than a Game
Master move shifts him more than about a third of a metre, or turns him far
away, he is put back. Hold position does the same once a soldier is pushed
more than 1.5 m.
- Unit Scripts: moving a soldier who runs Hold, Freeze or an animation with
the editor (dragging him, moving his squad, or the position field) sets his
new spot. The server log says "moved by the Game Master" only for real
editor moves. Other displacements show as "held on its spot", at most once
per soldier every 5 minutes, instead of the misleading "re-anchored".
- Unit Scripts: "Sit on a chair" now needs room. A soldier standing at or in
furniture (for example at a desk) is refused with "no room for 'Sit on a
chair' here: <object> is in the way" and keeps the script he had. In the
2026-10-07 op, one officer sitting in a table cut the server from 240 to 70
FPS for an hour. If furniture is placed into a seated soldier later, or
anything other than the Game Master pushes an animating soldier more than
1.5 m, the animation ends at once instead of retrying four times with server
stutters.
- Random Garrison: when a building is too small for the chosen squads or has
no usable rooms, the zone now keeps trying other buildings, up to three
times the number you asked for (and at least 16 more). Buildings of a type
that just failed are tried last. Villages full of sheds and one-room houses
(for example on Chernarus Minus) now get the number of buildings you set,
and the same seed still gives the same buildings.
- Random Garrison: when a generation finishes or is stopped, the Game Master
who started it gets a message with the buildings and squads placed. If fewer
buildings than asked for were garrisoned, the message also says how many
were tried and why the others were skipped.
- Random Garrison: if a Game Master stops another Game Master's generation,
both of them get the Stopped message.
- Random Garrison: when a generation stops because the AI limit was reached,
the zone now stays Stopped and shows that reason. Before, it immediately
showed Done instead, which hid why fewer buildings were garrisoned.
- Random Garrison: the status now lists failed buildings by reason with a
count for each, instead of only the first reason. It also says how many
buildings took fewer squads than drawn.
- Random Garrison: pressing Generate while the zone is still working now shows
how far it has got. It says to wait or use Stop, or only to wait while the
zone is clearing.
- Time and Weather: the Weather Transition's clouds now really blend over the
chosen time. Before, the sky did not move during a transition and jumped to
the new weather at the end. Rain, fog and wind now move with the clouds, so
everything arrives at the same moment and the weather stays there.
- Time and Weather: when the weather changed only a short while ago (for
example a weather picked in Scenario Properties a few minutes earlier), the
clouds start as soon as the game allows, instead of waiting another 10
in-game minutes.
- Time and Weather: picking a target weather, in the Weather Transition module
or in Scenario Properties while smoothing is on, no longer shows the new sky
at once on the Game Master's screen and then jumps back on Save. The sky
only changes by blending from where it is.
- Time and Weather: the game needs at least 10 in-game minutes to change the
clouds (10 real minutes at the normal day length). Right after another
weather change, it may first hold the current sky that long. A shorter
transition then takes longer than set; the status says when the clouds
start, and says so when the transition takes longer.
- Time and Weather: if another weather mod takes over the weather during a
transition, the transition now leaves the clouds to that mod until the end.
Rain, fog and wind still arrive, the other mod's weather is no longer frozen
at the end, and the status says the clouds were left to another weather
source.
- Ambient Sounds: placed radios keep playing their chatter when lots of other
sounds are playing. When the game cut a radio short to make room for other
sounds, the radio stayed silent for the rest of its recording (up to 10
minutes). It now starts again after about 3 seconds. If it keeps being cut,
it waits a little longer each time (up to 30 seconds), but never longer than
it would have waited before. Radio and emergency-alert TV recordings now
have a higher sound priority, so the game cuts other sounds before them, and
being quiet no longer makes them the first to go.
- Ambient Sounds: radios, TVs, crowds and placed sounds no longer fail to
start, or switch themselves off after three tries, when you are at the very
edge of their audible distance. They now start once you are within 90% of it
(27 m for a 30 m radio) and keep playing out to the full distance. If the
game refuses a start, the source tries again later instead of staying quiet
until it is placed again.
- Ambient Sounds: up to four radios, TVs, crowds or placed sounds near you
still play at the same time. A radio that was cut or refused now comes back
on its own.
- Ambient Sounds: the "[EAS] Radio start failed" log line now appears at most
twice per placed source until its settings change. It shows the retry delay
and whether the sound was too quiet to start, instead of "parked". With
Debug on, the log also shows 'evicted', 'refused' and 'inaudible' events,
and the summary line counts evictions.
- Unit Caching: when a mission ends, a last CDF save made during shutdown no
longer logs the misleading "[EBG CDF HOLD] Optimizer loading or native
restoration is in progress". If the mission has cache zones, that late save
is still skipped, and the log now says "The mission is ending, changing or
not running; capture skipped and the existing save kept". A mission without
cache zones is no longer held back by Unit Caching at that moment.
- Unit Caching: removed an unused hook on every Game Master placement and
every squad member spawn. GM Tools no longer shows up in the script stack of
placement errors. Nothing read the flag it set, so gameplay is unchanged.
- Persistent Battlefield: reconnect log lines now show the disconnect cause by
name, for example "cause=REPLICATION/SHUTDOWN (1/9)" instead of
"cause=0x0x10009 {}". A refused reservation now says why: no controlled
entity, character is dead, and so on.
- AI Global Skills: Return Fire Only and Warning Shots First squads now open
fire only when actually fired upon, then return fire until the contact is
over. That means a member hit or killed by an enemy, an enemy round within
about 4 m of any member, or an enemy explosion within about 10 m. Before,
the vanilla rule fired whenever an enemy shot passed within 13 m of the
squad leader or a gunshot went off within 15 m of him, even at other
targets. It also ignored hits on members other than the leader; any member
hit now counts.
- AI Global Skills: setting vanilla Set combat mode on a squad with EXPBG
rules of engagement switches it to Exempt (vanilla), so both tabs agree.
After a Unit Caching Full wake, a native load or a CDF load, a squad keeps
its own vanilla combat mode, and a woken squad takes its rules of engagement
at once. Native saves and Full cache snapshots made before this version
store the EXPBG mode as the squad's own. On such a squad, set Set combat
mode once and then the EXPBG rules of engagement again.
- AI Global Skills: a soldier with his own Return Fire Only no longer joins
his squad's suppressive fire.
- AI Global Skills: Warning Shots First also warns a player in a vehicle. If
the spotter cannot fire, the next member who sees the target fires the
warning. No warning is given once the squad is already being fired upon, and
the switch to lethal and the re-arm are logged.
- AI Surrender: the surrender chance texts say that nothing happens until the
squad has lost the casualty threshold (default 50%). A casualty taken while
a squad's cache state is held is now rolled once the squad is awake.
- AI Surrender: a soldier whose death the game reports only after taking him
out of his squad still counts as that squad's casualty (the death of a squad
member could go uncounted, so the squad never rolled to surrender). With
surrender diagnostics on, a casualty that cannot be matched to a squad is
logged.
- Garrison: a guard pushed off his post no longer leaves a patrol claim within
1.5 m of his new spot: nearby patrollers move on to another free stop, and
posts off the building plan count for claim spacing. A patroller whose walk
ends or fails beside a standing soldier moves on instead of dwelling pressed
against him.
- Tests: the fixture runners delete their copy of the pack after each run
(each kept about 0.8 GB).
Performance:
- Unit Caching (server, except where noted): the 500 ms possession safety net
no longer re-checks every player against the whole cleanup ledger on every
tick. A player is re-checked when his controlled character changes, after
a cache record, member or ledger binding change, and otherwise in turn (one
player per tick); taking control of a unit is still handled at once. The
ledger's part of that check uses a per-member row index. When a tracked
item changes inventory slot (reload, pickup, loot), and in the other
per-group cleanup checks, the ledger visits only that group's rows through
a per-group index instead of scanning every row. Player-history and saved
release-id checks use hash lookups instead of list scans. The bayonet,
cloth-blade and RHS rail samplers share one timer per kind (each item is
still sampled about once a second) instead of one 1 s timer per item.
Between the 500 ms ticks, wake protection is reused unless a record, member
or Full Cache change happened. Zone enrolment reads each AI group's members
once per pass instead of once per zone. Inventory events, on server and
clients, find a cached part's owner through a map instead of scanning every
cached character (this was quadratic when a group was suspended). "Soldiers
only" now names only the first civilian group each zone skips; later ones
are counted in one summary line per zone at most every 300 s.
- Garrison: the costly Unit Caching support check on each guard now runs
only when the garrison could go to sleep, not on every garrison tick while
players are near (up to 40 garrison ticks a second, each over every living
guard); the near-player test reads each player's and guard's position once
per call. Posted and patrolling guards keep their per-frame movement gate,
but it no longer looks up the guard's replication component every frame
and a patrol tests ownership once per frame instead of twice; a calm
guard's look request is re-sent once a second instead of on every garrison
tick. The Unit Caching reservation and status lookups match a garrison's
own squad before checking its guards. The save-exclusion sync runs every
5 s instead of every second, with one pass over each garrison's guards
(every save and load still syncs first). Building analysis checks its 4 ms
slice after every step instead of every 8, and a Full-cached garrison
skips its floor check until it wakes.
- Random Garrison: while every zone is idle, the director ticks every 2 s
instead of every 100 ms and returns to 100 ms as soon as a zone has work
(an idle zone's status text refreshes within 2 s instead of 0.5 s). While
the AI limit leaves no room for any squad a building could take, the squad
already drawn is kept instead of being redrawn every tick, so the length
of such a wait no longer changes which squads a seed produces; once any
squad has room, a squad is drawn afresh as before. A seed that hit the AI
limit can therefore give different squads than in 0.1.14. The building
census makes cheaper checks and keeps its eligibility checks within the
director's per-tick time budget.
- Time and Weather: during a transition, the rain, fog and wind overrides
are written (and sent to clients) only when their value changes, instead
of every 0.5 s; a channel that stays at its current value is written once.
The final values are still set when the transition ends.
- Ambient Civilians: where a mission has a transit-blocking exclusion zone,
a resident's route (walk, activity approach, shelter and emerge) is first
checked against the route's bounding box, and the per-segment exclusion
test runs only when a zone touches that box. A resident's components are
looked up once when it is bound; the shelter check no longer repeats the
possession query the danger check has just made; home discovery stops
probing a ring of cells that is already fully indexed; residents far from
players have their 2 s checks spread over four passes. Clients (not a
listen-server host) no longer run the module's frame handlers, and the GM
debug view asks the server for snapshots only while civilian debug is on.
Traffic remembers its hidden-from-players test for the rest of each step.
The scene-prop memo grows from 512 to 4096 paths (DebugLevel 3 shows how
full it is).
- AI Surrender: the interrogation point used to follow the prisoner's face
ten times a second on every machine. It now does so only within 20 m of
the local player and once a second otherwise, which includes a dedicated
server (the server's 5 s upkeep also moves it). At most 128 squad and
intel map markers are kept per session: each marker published past that
removes the oldest one, if it is still on the map (also when markers are
set to stay forever).
- Ambient Destruction: a zone with no player near but still occupied by
characters or vehicles checks occupancy every 10 s instead of every
second, so it can go to sleep up to 10 s later; the suppressed-prop scan
runs only while a suppression is pending; prefab path checks are
remembered (up to 4096 paths); and sleeping zones skip the wall-support
step.
- Small fixes: the AI "proper fire mode was not found" warning is printed
once per weapon prefab and requested mode (the first 256 pairs per server
run; later new pairs are not logged); Ambient Unrest looks up each
protester's AI control once, at spawn; Unit Scripts no longer logs a
routine loiter re-issue (the first loiter of each script, real retries
and the final failure still log).
- Portable guards for this work (`tests/Test-PerformanceGuards.ps1`,
`tests/Test-Perf*.ps1` and additions to `tests/Test-RandomGarrison.ps1`
and `tests/Test-TimeWeather.ps1`), `tools/Measure-LogRate.ps1`, debug
cross-checks of the new unit-caching indexes against the old full scans
and of the new civilian route check against the old per-segment loop
(`tests/EAC_RouteEquivalenceTest.c`), and a Unit Caching A/B soak fixture
(`tests/EBG_PerfSoakGameplay.c`).- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:47:17 GMT
- Last Modified
- Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:58:15 GMT
0.1.14
- Garrison: the "EXPBG Garrison" tab in a garrison squad's Edit properties
(cache mode, wake and sleep distance, status, Release Garrison) was there but
invisible: the dialog shows tabs as icons only and the category had no icon.
It now shows the EXPBG badge. The same fix makes the Ambient Civilians
(Ambient, Traffic, Diagnostics, Exclusion) and Ambient Destruction tabs
visible.
- Time and Weather: the vanilla weather setting of Scenario Properties was
missing ("Unknown class 'SCR_WeatherInstantEditorAttribute'": the modded class
lacked its container decorator), so smooth Scenario Properties weather
changes never ran. Restored.
- Workshop description without the version number.
- Portable guard: every attribute category has a pack icon and every modded
editor attribute keeps [BaseContainerProps()].- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:26:21 GMT
- Last Modified
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:33:20 GMT
0.1.13
- Fix for Windows clients failing to join with "Can't compile 'Game' script module ... Too many instructions per function" in large modsets (seen with GM Tools + EXPBG CDF Compat + about 130 other mods; Linux servers were not affected). Every static initializer of every loaded mod runs in one engine function with an instruction limit; GM Tools' 122 collection statics (arrays, maps, helpers) are now created on first use instead, which frees most of GM Tools' share of that limit. No behaviour change.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:48:53 GMT
- Last Modified
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:54:46 GMT
0.1.12
- Time and Weather: "Weather Transition" and "Time Skip" show EXPBG preview cards in the entity browser instead of the missing-image sign (0.1.11 left the cards out until the textures were cooked). - New module Random Garrison (Systems): place "Random Garrison", set it up and choose Generate. It garrisons random buildings within its radius (default 150 m): a number of buildings (1-32, default 4) or a share of those that can be garrisoned, each with one to four random squads (default 1-2) from the Game Master squad list of one faction (default USSR), or of two factions with each building drawing one, so one building never holds both. Squad sizes go by the number of soldiers (fire teams, squads, large, small teams); a squad only goes where it fits the building's posts, and medical, logistics and essential squads are skipped by default. No building closer than 200 m (adjustable) to a player character is used; Game Master cameras do not count. A seed repeats a generation (0, the default, draws a new one and shows it). Every squad is an ordinary EXPBG garrison: posts, indoor patrols, caching with the zone's cache mode and distances (a change applies to the zone's garrisons at once), Force Move and Add Garrison work as usual, casualties are never refilled and the zone never generates again by itself. Regenerate clears the zone's garrisons and generates again, Clear generated garrisons deletes them, Stop ends the work in progress and keeps what has deployed. Deleting the zone keeps its garrisons (default) or deletes them. A read-only status row shows the progress (reopen the attributes to refresh). Garrisons and zone settings are saved with the mission (native saves; CDF saves with EXPBG CDF Compat) and after a load the zone finds its garrisons again; it never resumes by itself. Building analyses run after any waiting EXPBG Add Garrison request. - Garrison: EXPBG Add Garrison now refuses a squad whose prefab does not spawn its soldiers by itself (it used to wait 45 s and leave an empty squad). The garrison save ledger keeps which Random Garrison zone made each garrison; saves from 0.1.11 still load. - Garrison: a guard who came to rest 0.5 to 1 m from his post on a spot that could not become his post was sent back to it about ten times a second for as long as he stood there: the log filled with "came to rest ... not a plausible post; sent back to it" and his garrison could not cache. Within 1 m he counts as on his post (as before) and now holds where he stands.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:41:17 GMT
- Last Modified
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:50:51 GMT
0.1.11
- Garrison: garrisons are saved with the mission. Build a mission, save it and
load it: every garrison comes back in its building with its posts and patrol
stops, cache state (awake, Simulation or Full, the Full ones still with nobody
in the world), wake and sleep distances, casualties (never respawned) and the
AI Surrender and AI Global Skills squad and soldier overrides. Loadouts and
wounds restore as prefab defaults, as Full caching does. Native saves carry a
garrison ledger of their own; CDF Game Master Save carries the same ledger
with EXPBG CDF Compat 0.1.6 or later. Garrison squads and soldiers are no
longer saved as ordinary squads: the native autosave no longer fails while a
garrison is active ("[EXPG SAVE] Refused active garrison ownership" and
"[PERSISTENCE] Save failed" are gone) and Unit Caching Prepare for Save no
longer releases garrisons. On load each garrison waits for its building's
analysis, takes its posts back by position and wakes with its soldiers' AI
held until every guard is bound; a garrison whose building is gone restores
as an ordinary squad. Add Garrison waits while garrisons load. A save whose
garrison ledger cannot be read loads without garrisons and tells every Game
Master. With an older EXPBG CDF Compat, CDF keeps the 0.1.8 rules (Full runs
as Simulation, CDF saves wait for Prepare for Save).
- Garrison: Full caching now captures and removes the squad itself too and
recreates it at wake (as Unit Caching Full does), so no empty squad is left
behind for a save, a load or a Game Master to delete. A Full-cached garrison
has no squad in the world until it wakes. A squad that cannot be captured
(orders or AI settings it cannot own) caches in Simulation instead, with the
reason in its status, and tries Full again ten minutes later.
- Garrison: EXPBG Add Garrison never deletes soldiers. The 0.1.10 live test
placed 2 of a 9-man rifle squad on a small house and deleted the other 7.
Now the whole squad deploys: soldiers beyond the building's posts take free
posts, then patrol inside, then other watch positions, then places close
around the building, last where they spawned (the order for added squads).
- Garrison: "EXPBG Release All Garrisons" (right-click a garrison squad) wakes
every garrison and returns its squad to normal AI control, for a mission that
will be saved and used without EXPBG GM Tools.
- Unit Caching: a native save's group that was eliminated (no living AI) no
longer holds every later save with "Original member has retained UUID-less
transfer lineage"; its record is forgotten on load.
- Briefing Projector Screen (and the wall-map board): the screen shows the map
again, now with roads, buildings, names and contours. In the 0.1.10 live
test it stayed plain white on both sides, before and after "EXPBG: Brief on
map". 0.1.10 drew the board in a second render target and showed it on the
screen through an image; that image never received the board picture, so its
plain white colour covered the screen. Both screens map their picture a
quarter turn round, and the game's own map view cannot be turned, so each
player's game now places a flat panel with an upright picture just in front
of the screen (a base-game pane, covering about 96% of the projector and 98%
of the wall map; the rest shows plain paper) and draws the board on it
unturned: the game map view with roads and buildings over the world map
image, drawn lines, markers and the title, north-up. If the map view cannot
draw, the map image, markers and lines still show; if the panel cannot be
created, the board is drawn on the screen itself with every element turned
so it still reads north-up (the single render target path 0.1.9 drew live).
The panel follows the board when a Game Master moves it. The board no longer
resizes its layout root (the "EBM_Root: Position/Size works only when min and
max anchor is the same" log error), and it binds the render target again if
the screen's model object changes. Client option -ebmDiagnostics 1 (or the
board's "Debug trace" attribute) logs board creation, the panel, the render
target bindings with the models' materials and the drawing path
(path=engine or path=raster) as "[EBM DIAG]" lines; -ebmDirect 1 skips the
panel for a comparison. Not yet tested in the game.- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:12:23 GMT
- Last Modified
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:22:23 GMT
0.1.10
- New module Time and Weather (Systems): "Weather Transition" blends the
weather to a chosen target (clouds, rain, fog, wind) over 1-120 real minutes
(default 10) instead of switching at once. Saving its settings starts the
transition; a new one takes over smoothly from the current values. While the
module exists, weather picked in Scenario Properties blends too (switchable).
"Time Skip" fades every screen to black, shows "6 hours later" (editable) and
the new time, moves the clock forward (the date rolls over) and fades back in
(defaults 6 h, fades 2/3/2 s). Not yet compiled or tested in the game; the
card art follows.
- Game Master entity browser: pack items no longer start with "EXPBG", so the
item name is readable at a glance; they still carry the EXPBG logo and EXPBG
faction. For example "Radio Black", "Sound: Church bell", "Ambient
Civilians", "Intel - Server Rack A", "AI Cache Zone" and "Briefing
Projector Screen". A browser search for "EXPBG" no longer finds them by
name. Context actions (EXPBG Add Garrison, EXPBG: Brief on map), attribute
tabs and the EXPBG label keep their names. A portable guard now rejects
entity names with the prefix.
- Garrison: guards no longer stand where they block a door. In a live test 17
guards held a two-storey Morton house through four firefights, but one stood
right behind the front door, so it could not be opened (a guard on a post
cannot step aside). Every door leaf of the building now has a keep-out zone:
its full swing on both sides (native doors open either way) and the doorway
1.5 m deep on each side. No post, patrol stop or alarm position lies in it,
including entrance posts, extra positions of added squads and places around
the building (nobody stands on the step in front of a door); soldiers still
walk through. Door guards now stand 2-4 m inside the outer door, at least
1.2 m deep, preferably diagonal to the doorway, facing it. Small houses may
offer a few fewer posts.
- Garrison: soldiers beyond the window, door and stair posts now patrol inside
the building. Each walks at walking pace to a free stop of the same indoor
area (stairs included, never outside, never in a doorway), stays 10-30 s
watching a hallway or doorway, then moves on; stops are claimed, at least
1.5 m from every other guard, so patrollers never bunch up, and enough stops
stay free that they can always move on. Added squads take free posts first,
then patrol inside while there is room, then other window, door and stair
positions that leave every patrol stop free, then stand around the building
(now at most about 25 m from its walls). When a firefight starts
(any guard of the building is shot at, injured or sees an enemy) each
patroller runs to the nearest free window, preferably facing the enemy; if
none is free he watches a door or stairs from a free spot nearby, or holds
his stop. A window post whose guard was killed can be taken during an alarm
(unless the body lies on it); posts are never refilled in peace. A minute after
the last alarm they return to patrol one by one. Caching waits until every
patroller stands at a stop (at most about 20 s), and Full and Simulation
caching bring patrollers back as patrollers at their stop; casualties are
never replaced. A patroller whose walk fails steps onto a free stop next to
him or walks back to the stop he came from, so he never stands in a hallway
beside another guard, and after Simulation caching each patroller first
stands at his stop again. Patrol movement passed the native interior test on
a two-storey Everon town house.
- Garrison log: the "added to building" line also counts soldiers patrolling
inside.
- Garrison: a guard on a post now stays there. Live report: guards left their
spots and ran around, and their garrison was no longer cached. One guard
knocked more than 1.5 m off his spot (ACE ragdoll or unconsciousness, a blast,
a push through a doorway, an ACE carry or drag, a Game Master move), possessed,
moved to another squad or deleted released the whole squad without a word, and
released soldiers are ordinary AI (EXPBG RO AI sends them to cover). Now each
case concerns that guard alone: knocked off his spot, he holds where he came to
rest (he never walks back and keeps the plan position if one is within 0.5 m)
when that spot is plausible: within 6 m of his post and, for a post in the
building, on its indoor floor (never on the roof or outside); otherwise, once
he is conscious and still, he is put back on his post. A newly placed soldier
is bound only once he stands on his post (the move is sent again if it has not
landed), so nobody takes his spawn point as his post;
possessed, he holds where the player leaves him; moved to another squad, he is
forgotten; deleted, he is never respawned. The others keep their posts and
their caching. Guards on posts still crouch, go prone, turn, aim and fire in
place; only patrollers move, and only inside (one who cannot patrol for 10 s
holds where he stands). A whole garrison is released only by Force Move, the
Release attribute, Unit Caching (regroup, Prepare for Save), a deleted squad, a
moved or replaced building or the last guard's death. The server log then
prints "[EXPG Garrison] group=... released (reason)" and the garrison's status
shows "Released: reason".
- Garrison caching: a garrison that should cache but cannot says why in its
status and the server log, for example "Cache held: guard 3: Unsupported life
or movement state" (unconscious), a bleeding or possessed guard, a soldier who
is not one of its guards, or a combat alarm. Full cache refusals name the guard
or the squad reason. A Full restore no longer stays frozen when one survivor's
spot fails its safety check (after 10 s he wakes where he stands) or a survivor
is missing (he counts as dead and is never respawned). A soldier who was ever
possessed is never cached (Unit Caching rule), so his garrison stays awake
while he lives; the status says so.
- AI Surrender: new setting "Commander: grenade suicide instead of surrender
(%)". It defaults to 0, so nothing changes until a Game Master raises it.
When a broken squad's leader would surrender, this chance is rolled once for
him. If it hits, he does not surrender: he stops fighting, crouches, places a
fragmentation grenade at his feet 1-2.5 s later, and it goes live a second
after that. The grenade's own fuse (about 4 s) and explosion do the rest, so
the blast also hurts anyone close by, including his surrendering men. The
rest of the squad surrenders as usual. The leader is the squad's leader; if
the squad has none, its highest-ranking able soldier. "Commander must carry a
grenade" (default ON) means he uses one of his own grenades, and a leader
without one surrenders; with it OFF, such a leader gets a vanilla M67 (US) or
RGD-5 (other sides). Players, possessed soldiers, soldiers in vehicles and
cached squads are never affected; a grenade that someone picks up, or whose
leader a Game Master possesses, before it goes live is never set live. He
does not shoot himself, because vanilla has no animation for that. Saves now
store the commander settings; older saves still load, with the two new
settings at their defaults, but a save made with this version does not load
in 0.1.9. The native fixture `tests/ESR_CommanderGrenadeGameplay.c` is
written but has not been run yet.
- AI Surrender: new setting "Interrogation: reveal intel items (%)" (default
30). The first time a prisoner answers anything but a refusal, this chance is
rolled once, on its own; the squad and identity chances are unchanged. If it
hits, he also points out the nearest intel items (EXPBG Intel Items, at most
three) within the "Reveal search radius (m)": lying on the ground, in a crate
or vehicle, or on a body. Items a player carries, items he carries himself,
and laptops or tablets a player has already read or picked up are left out
(Intel Items keeps no read state for notebooks and manuals, so those count
until a player carries them). Each item gets a map marker "Intel
(interrogation)" for the interrogating player's faction, kept or removed like
the squad marker ("Intel marker lifetime"), and his answer ends with a line
such as "He also points out 2 intel items: about 75 m north-east, about 150 m
south." Asking again repeats it without new markers. Saves now store
thirteen AI Surrender settings; older saves still load, with the new setting
at 30%. Intel Items now keeps a read-only server list of the intel items in
play for this search. The native fixture `tests/ESR_IntelRevealGameplay.c` is
written but has not been run yet.
- AI Surrender: surrender and interrogation chances per squad and per soldier.
A new "EXPBG Surrender & Intel" tab in the Edit properties of an AI squad and
of an AI soldier (shown while an AI Surrender module is placed) has "Surrender
chance (%)", "Interrogation: reveal squad (%)", "Interrogation: identity (%)"
and "Interrogation: reveal intel items (%)", 0-100% in steps of 5. Each starts
on "Use module setting" (squad) or "Use squad or module setting" (soldier), so
nothing changes until a Game Master sets one. A soldier's own value wins over
his squad's, and the squad's over the module. A squad's values apply to all
its soldiers, including later reinforcements. Whether a squad breaks is still
decided by the module's casualty threshold; then every able soldier rolls his
own surrender chance, and a set chance is exact (the random factor only
spreads the module chance), so 0% never surrenders and 100% always does. A
prisoner takes his squad's interrogation values with him when he surrenders,
so later changes to the squad do not affect prisoners already taken; his own
values can still be changed while he is a prisoner. The values stay with the
squad and soldier through Unit Caching and Garrison caching (Full and
Simulation) and are kept by native saves and by CDF Game Master Save; missions
and cache snapshots saved before this version load with no overrides. With
Diagnostics on, the server logs each change, each squad's chance and source,
and each prisoner's effective chances. The native fixture
`tests/ESR_OverrideGameplay.c` is written but has not been run yet.
- AI Global Skills: rules of engagement per soldier. The squad's rules of
engagement move from "EXPBG ROE" in the vanilla Group tab to "Rules of
engagement (squad)" in a new "EXPBG Rules of Engagement" tab, next to a new
"Rules of engagement (soldier)" on AI soldiers with the same choices (Return
Fire Only, Fire on Sight, Warning Shots First, Exempt) and "Use squad setting"
as the default. A soldier's own choice wins over his squad's, and the squad's
over the module default. With his own Return Fire Only he holds fire until his
squad is fired upon, even in a Fire on Sight squad; with Warning Shots First he
fires the warning rounds himself and turns lethal 5 s later. Player squads keep
vanilla behaviour. The soldier's choice survives Unit Caching and Garrison
caching and is kept by native saves (earlier saves still load, and a save
without soldier choices still loads in 0.1.9) and CDF Game Master Save. Squad
rules of engagement now also survive Unit Caching Full caching, which
recreates the squad.
- Advanced Briefing Map: the map on the board was a quarter turn round (north
pointed left, the title ran up the left edge), squeezed and cut off on one
side. Cause: the wall-map model shows its render texture turned 90 degrees
and uses only three quarters of it. The board is now drawn upright in its own
canvas, sized to the screen surface's texture area, and handed to the
model's render texture turned the other way, so north is up, the title reads
left to right and nothing is cut off or stretched. Markers and drawn lines
turn with the map and stay on their places.
- Advanced Briefing Map: the board now shows roads, buildings, place names,
contours and the grid like the in-game map. Before, it showed only the
world's map image (terrain shading). It now borrows the game's own map
renderer, styled by the scenario's map settings, for the briefer's view. One
board per player draws it, and only while that player's own map is closed: a
second board nearby, or the board while your own map is open, shows the plain
map image as before. Your own map then opens at your own zoom and position.
- Advanced Briefing Map: the Game Master item is now "Briefing Projector
Screen" (Systems): the Prop - Projector Screen model from Structures For GM
byHeine by Heine.CRV (Workshop 628EDA2ABC937159, APL-SA; credited in
`docs/licenses/advanced-briefing-map` and the module's Credits folder), about
4 x 2.3 m and floor-standing, with the live map on its screen. The picture is
on the side the roller case sticks out to; turn that side toward the
audience. Heine's screen image and prefab are not included. The wall-map
"Briefing Board" stays for existing saves (with the orientation fix) but is no
longer offered in the Game Master list. None of this has been checked in the
game yet: the turned canvas, the game map on the board, the projector's look
and its collision still need a native test.
- Ambient Destruction: new zone setting "Vehicle types" (after Wreck
intensity): Civilian, Military or Both. Both is the default and keeps the
previous mix, so existing seeds still give the same layouts. Civilian zones
spawn only car, van, bus, taxi, police, ambulance, pickup and civilian truck
wrecks; Military zones only BRDM-2, BMP-1, BTR-70, M113, T-62, M151A2, HMMWV,
UAZ-469, UAZ-452, M923A1 and Ural-4320 wrecks. Judgement calls: the UAZ-452
van and the UAZ-469 count as military (Soviet army vehicles in the base
game); police car and ambulance count as civilian. The category of each
wreck is data in the wreck catalog, so a mod that adds wrecks can classify
them too. Changing the setting regenerates the zone's scenery (destroyed
buildings stay destroyed). It is saved with the zone: CDF saves now write
zone snapshot schema 3, and older saves still load, as Both, with their
wrecks unchanged (0.1.9 and older cannot load the new saves). The native
fixture `tests/EAD_VehicleCategoryGameplay.c` is written but has not been
run yet.
- Ambient Sounds: the entity browser offers exactly three radios: Radio Black
(civilian) and the military Radio AN/GRC-160 and Radio R123M. Their Recording
holds radio chatter and broadcasts only: radio static, Apache, US
battlefield, Russian, Chinese and Arab chatter, the per-language Random
choices, and now also the Hanoi Hannah broadcast. Nokia ringtone, church
bell, firefights and the other non-radio sounds stay on the placed
"Sound: ..." modules, which keep all 28 recordings. The eleven radio-chatter
"Sound: ..." items now show the Sound effects picture instead of a radio, so
the browser no longer looks as if every track had its own radio. Radio Red
stays out of the browser and still loads from saves. Saved radios keep their
recording (radios store a permanent recording ID, not a list position); a
save with a radio set to Hanoi Hannah does not restore that radio in 0.1.9.
The Credits now list the thirteen unchanged Vinny - Sounds recordings.
Portable guard `tests/Test-Radios.ps1`; Hanoi Hannah on a radio has not been
heard in the game yet.- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:49:04 GMT
- Last Modified
- Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:53:19 GMT
0.1.9
- AI Surrender: a prisoner who gave away squads could answer "He insists there
is nobody else out here." although a squad of his side stood a few hundred
metres away (seen in Morton with a large mod set). The search walked every
moving object in the radius (props, wrecks, vehicles, dropped weapons and the
gear every soldier and civilian carries) and gave up after 2048 of them, in
no particular order, so in a busy town it could stop before reaching the
squad. It now reads the squads directly from the AI, once per answer, so the
nearest living squad of his side (or of a friendly military side) within the
radius is always found however crowded the area; civilians of a friendly
side never count, and his own remnants are still named only when nothing
else is near. Squads that Unit Caching or Garrison holds in Full cache have
no soldiers in the world while they sleep and are still not revealed.
- Garrison: EXPBG Add Garrison on a building that has not been analysed yet
no longer opens the squad picker straight away, only to refuse the squad
choice ("Structure analysis is still running"; about 90 s on a large
two-storey house). The picker now opens by itself once the structure
analysis is done; until then a hint (and a chat line) shows "Analysing
building structure... NN%" with the real progress. EXPBG Add Garrison on the
same building again stops waiting; the analysis keeps running, so asking
again later continues from there. A failed analysis says why. A second
request or a second Game Master on the same building joins the running
analysis instead of starting another; while one Game Master is choosing a
squad for the building, the next request waits (it was refused before) and
its picker opens when the first is done, oldest request first. If the
analysis finishes while the Game Master is placing something or another
window or menu is open, the picker stays closed and EXPBG Add Garrison opens
it at once. Analysed buildings open the picker at once, as before. Buildings
already analysed or garrisoned no longer take turns with a new analysis:
each one stretched it (the likely cause of the 90 s; a native fixture
analyses a similar house in about 10 s). The analysis results are unchanged;
a door destroyed while its building is analysed is now skipped instead of
stopping the analysis with a script error.
Results stay cached per building, not per building type: they depend on the
terrain, neighbouring objects, door states and damage around each house.- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:18:46 GMT
- Last Modified
- Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:24:58 GMT
0.1.8
- Ambient Destruction: road wrecks no longer stand in a line on the road's
centreline, all facing the road direction. Each wreck now gets a random spot
across the carriageway or on either shoulder (its turned footprint is kept
on the road plus a 2.5 m shoulder where it fits), a heading 8-35 degrees
off the road, about one in six lies across the road, and wrecks on the left
side mostly face the other way. About three in ten pile up just ahead of or
behind an earlier wreck; the others keep a random gap, so spacing is
irregular. The existing ground, water, building and clearance checks still
apply. Layouts still follow the zone's seed, and layouts saved through CDF
Game Master Save (and sent to joining clients) keep their exact wreck
positions; only newly generated layouts change.
- Garrison: with CDF Game Master Save loaded, garrisons set to Full (the
default) were never cached ("Full cache held: CDF saves cannot keep Garrison
Full survivors") and the Unit Caching zone listed them as "held by another
EXPBG module". They now cache in Simulation while CDF is loaded: the same
soldiers stay on their posts with AI paused and wake where they slept, with
the garrison's own wake and sleep distances. The status (and one server log
line per sleep) reads "Simulation cached (CDF loaded)"; the Full choice is
kept and works again without CDF. Full survivors cannot survive a CDF load,
so Full stays off under CDF.
- Garrison: posts are spread over the whole house. Before, a garrison bunched
up in the ground-floor hall by the front door, some soldiers stood outside
on the entrance steps, and none went upstairs. Stair treads and ramps are
now sampled and linked (up to 45 degrees), so upper floors the stairs reach
can get posts. Soldiers take window posts first (one per window, nearest to
it), then posts just inside the outer doors (never on the outer step;
interior doors are no longer watched), then the rest; the floors take
turns and each post goes to the part of the floor farthest from the posts
already taken. Posts keep 1.5 m apart on a floor (planned posts were 1.2 m
apart), also for squads added later, so a small building may hold fewer
posts and a fresh squad may be trimmed further. In a house (a building
mostly walled in) a post needs walls on six of eight sides, so porches,
entrance steps and ground under the eaves are not used; open sheds and
barns keep their roofed floor. Only soldiers beyond the building's room
stand around it, as before.
- Unit Caching: the zone status and notice now say which nearby squads a
garrison caches itself, with their state ("Cached by EXPBG Garrison itself,
with its own wake and sleep distances: 4 groups Simulation cached (CDF
loaded)"), instead of counting them as not enrolled.
- AI Surrender: "Interrogate" now sits on the prisoner's face instead of his
chest, so ACE Medical's actions on a bleeding prisoner no longer overlap or
hide it. Look at his face (from the front, within 3 m) to interrogate; his
torso, arms and legs keep the medical actions. The prompt follows his head
whether he sits (vanilla) or stands with raised hands (ACE), and when he is
moved or carried. Its target is also smaller (0.15 m radius instead of
0.45 m), so it no longer covers his chest.- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:22:28 GMT
- Last Modified
- Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:29:50 GMT
0.1.7
0.1.6 was prepared but never uploaded: the Workshop refused its 231-character summary (limit 200). 0.1.7 ships the same code with a shorter summary and a portable check for the limit. - Compatibility: GM Tools now warns when the old standalone EXPBG mods are loaded next to it (GM Optimizer, Intel Items, Ambient Civilians, Ambient Sounds, Ambient Destruction, Persistent Battlefield and their CDF companions). One check of the loaded addon list at mission start; the server and every client log `[EXPBG GM TOOLS] Conflicting standalone mods loaded: <names>` as an error, and each Game Master gets a persistent hint plus a chat line the first time the full editor opens. GM Tools already contains those mods; disable them (EXPBG CDF Compat replaces the old CDF companions). If their duplicate scripts stop the game from compiling, only the engine's script error appears. - AI Surrender / AI Global Skills: fixed the script error "No suppression volume provided!" (vanilla SuppressBehavior.bt), seen in a GM session seconds after AI Surrender took a soldier. Any vanilla suppress tree running without its suppression volume now ends quietly with a log warning naming the soldier's current action (at most ten per game run) instead of a script exception. A surrendering soldier also drops every suppress behaviour before his AI is switched off, and again whenever upkeep finds his AI back on. - AI Global Skills: warning shots could make the vanilla suppress code compute an invalid aim height (NaN) at or beyond the edge of their 1 m aim sphere, which asserts on diagnostic servers. Vanilla sweeps every suppression line at least 2 degrees sideways, often past the sphere's edge, so this happened at any range and on every burst fired from more than about 30 m; fixed. Aim points inside the sphere are unchanged. The burst is also aimed further to the side of the target at range (at least 1 m + 2 degrees of the distance + 2 m, so about 4.7 m at 50 m and 13.5 m at 300 m), so that sweep never carries a warning round onto the target. - AI Global Skills: the four "EXPBG ROE" right-click entries are removed; with ACE, GME and loadout-editor entries the soldier context menu grew taller than the screen. A group's rules of engagement are now set with "EXPBG ROE" in the group's Group tab, next to Set combat mode (Module default, Return Fire Only, Fire on Sight, Warning Shots First, Exempt), shown while an AI Global Skills module exists. Saved overrides are unchanged; the server logs each group's override once per change. - Unit Scripts: EXPBG Hold Position and EXPBG Freeze are no longer listed for a soldier who already runs that script. - Unit Scripts: the EXPBG Light Discipline and EXPBG Terror Tactics right-click entries are removed to shorten the context menu. Night discipline is now set with "EXPBG Night discipline" in the group's Group tab (None, Light discipline, Terror tactics), replacing the former entry in the EXPBG Unit Scripts tab, which keeps the unit scripts and animations. Hold Position, Freeze and Release stay on right-click; Release on a group still ends night discipline. The server logs each change once; still mission-only. - Unit Scripts: a squad that a Unit Caching zone already manages now stays awake while any member runs Hold Position, Freeze or an animation, or while the squad has night discipline (zone status "Held awake by EXPBG Unit Scripts"). Before, Full caching could delete those soldiers and silently drop their scripts. Normal caching resumes after Release. - Ambient Sounds: debug rings and the sound legend also hide while a GM context menu (right-click actions or waypoint commands) is open and return after it closes. - Ambient Sounds / Ambient Unrest: new "Rioting crowd" recording (Mixkit, prepared as a seamless mono loop) in the EXPBG Ambient Crowd Sound recording list and in Random crowd. The EXPBG Civil Protest Zone has a new "Crowd sound" setting: Angry crowd, Rioting crowd or Alternate (switches between the two on every loop). New zones and zones from older saves use Alternate. - Ambient Unrest: the EXPBG Civil Protest Zone caches itself like Full caching. New "Wake distance (m)" setting (50-3000, default 300): while no player character is within it (Game Masters count by their character only), an On zone sleeps; once every player is 50 m beyond it for 10 seconds, the crowd, its group and its sound are removed a few entities at a time. A returning player brings the same civilians back to their spots; casualties are not replaced. The zone stays On; the new read-only "Status" line and the debug log show Sleeping. Protesters also turn to face a player they can see within 40 m (random among several, kept 8-15 seconds) and turn back to the protest direction when nobody is in sight. Older saves load with 300 m. - Unit Dialog: the talking gesture now plays once, when a player starts the conversation; Continue and Restart no longer repeat it. Ending the conversation and speaking to the unit again plays it again. - Garrison: EXPBG Add Garrison works again on a building that already has a garrison, as often as you like (0.1.5 refused with "This building already has a garrison"). Every added squad deploys in full as its own garrison: first on building posts no other garrison holds, then on other verified positions in the building, then on standing places around it, facing outward. Existing garrisons are untouched; each garrison keeps its own cache settings and sleeps, wakes and is released by Force Move on its own. The server logs one `[EXPG Garrison] group=... added to building ...: placed N of N soldiers` line per add, with the count per kind of position. An added squad spawns on open ground beside the building, so it never pushes the existing guards. - Unit Caching: a cache zone now says why it enrolls or caches nothing. Its status (selected module on the GM map, debug panel, `[EBG DEBUG ZONE]` log) names each refusal of a group inside the affected radius (held by Unit Scripts, Garrison or ambient crowds, marked Exclude, civilian faction with Soldiers only, containing a player, still spawning, managed by another zone), counts AI Surrender prisoners and other soldiers who left their squad (never cached), reports how many groups a player character keeps awake inside the sleep radius (a Game Master's own character counts, the free GM camera does not; the notice and debug panel also give its distance), why Full cache cannot run in this session (for example no GameMasterSystems systems config in Workbench play), and old standalone EXPBG mods loaded next to GM Tools. A zone with no AI nearby says so. The Game Master who saves a zone or uses a global zone switch gets the same explanation once as a hint and chat line (`[EBG ZONE NOTICE]` in the server log). Locally hosted and single-player GM missions cache exactly like a server; caching itself is unchanged. - Intel Items: the EXPBG server racks and the EXPBG USB Drive use real models (Heine's server rack and hard drive, APL-SA, credited in the Licenses folder) instead of a vanilla electrical cabinet and debris. Server Rack A/B, the USB Drive and the new modules (AI Global Skills, Briefing Board, Civil Protest Zone, AI Surrender) now show up when searching the Game Master entity browser. - Intel Items / AI Surrender: while the intel reader or the interrogation window is open, the interaction prompt is hidden and no action behind it can be used; both return when the window closes. - AI Surrender: with ACE loaded (optional, never a dependency), prisoners take ACE Captives' own surrender state (hands up), so ACE's Take prisoner, Escort and Release work on them. Without ACE they sit down as before. - AI Surrender / Unit Caching: a prisoner leaves his squad's cache record at once; he is never cached, respawned or deleted by Unit Caching. - Unit Dialog: a unit's speaker name and dialog lines survive Full caching (Unit Caching and Garrison), so the restored soldier still offers Speak to. Session memory only; CDF Full snapshots do not hold it. - Ambient Civilians: indoor residents are placed again. The spawner now finds the ground-storey floor (houses stand on raised slabs) instead of testing 0.1 m above the terrain, which never fit in 0.1.5. A home that keeps failing indoors is filled outdoors, and an Indoor spawn distance of 0 makes every home outdoor. Ruined houses are skipped. Civilians and their groups are kept out of native saves (0.1.5 restored five leftover civilians at every server start). - Unit Caching: casualty cleanup no longer stalls on RHS: Status Quo gear. RHS preset vests, weapon parts and the Dovetail mount RHS adds to the vanilla AK-74N are left out of the save with the body instead of raising a save Issue and holding the group; headgear accessories in clothing slots (Comtac on a boonie hat) are removed with their wearer. - AI Global Skills: AI ammunition refill works for weapons without a magazine template (RHS M40A5); they are refilled with the magazine they carry. - Unit Scripts: Light Discipline switches on worn RHS helmet night vision and switches it off again on release or Terror Tactics; gear the soldier already had on stays untouched. - Tooling: `tools/Invoke-ReleaseHousekeeping.ps1` (run by `release.ps1`) moves superseded build, gameplay and release folders to the configured archive; it deletes only with an explicit `-Purge`.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:15:31 GMT
- Last Modified
- Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:25:26 GMT
0.1.5
New modules: - Unit Scripts: right-click AI soldiers or squads for EXPBG Hold Position, EXPBG Freeze (static, head follows nearby players) and EXPBG Release Unit Scripts; an EXPBG Unit Scripts attribute tab adds seven vanilla ambient animations. Squads get EXPBG Night Discipline: Light Discipline (flashlights off, worn night vision on) or Terror Tactics (flashlights on, facing nearby players). Scripts end when the unit is hurt or a player takes control. Mission-only; scripted squads are not enrolled by Unit Caching. - Advanced Briefing Map: a placeable EXPBG briefing board. One player at a time uses "EXPBG: Brief on map"; their map opens and the board shows the world map with their view, markers and drawn lines live for everyone nearby. Closing the map, walking away or disconnecting frees the board. - Ambient Unrest: "EXPBG Civil Protest Zone" gathers 10-15 unarmed civilians in one group inside the zone; they stand still and protest with vanilla raised- hand, pointing and arm-sweep gestures while an angry-crowd loop from Ambient Sounds plays. Off, delete and world end remove the crowd; saves keep only the zone settings. - Unit Dialog: Game Masters give an AI unit a speaker name and up to ten dialog lines in its "EXPBG Unit Dialog" attributes; players get "Speak to <Name>", which opens a conversation window (Continue, then Restart or End conversation) with an optional short gesture. The name defaults to the unit's own identity name; dialog reaches join-in-progress players and is kept in native mission saves. - AI Surrender: "EXPBG AI Surrender" system module. AI squads that lose a set share of their members may surrender: prisoners drop their weapons, leave their squad, turn civilian and sit down (vanilla has no hands-up animation). Players "Interrogate" them for one nearby squad's position (a removable map marker for their faction) or the prisoner's name, bio and squad leader. - AI Global Skills: "EXPBG AI Global Skills" system module. Per-faction AI skill and aim accuracy with Rifleman, MG/LMG, Marksman and Leader overrides (roles from the actual weapons; modded factions detected at runtime), default rules of engagement (Return Fire Only, Fire on Sight, Warning Shots First) with right-click "EXPBG ROE" per group, and AI ammunition (unlimited magazines or N refills, primary magazines only). Everything starts on vanilla. - Intel Items: EXPBG server racks (A/B) with GM-set intel title, text and download time (5-900 s), and a placeable EXPBG USB Drive. A player carrying a drive uses "Download intel"; a progress bar shows to that player only; moving more than 3 m away, dying or pressing again stops it. The intel is stored on the drive, travels with it and shows when hovering the drive. Rack and drive text are not yet kept by CDF or native saves. Fixes and changes: - Unit Caching: the game's own autosave and saves work while cache zones are on, as long as no group is cached or being restored; after every Full-cached group has woken, normal saving is allowed again on its own. - Unit Caching: every Game Master, including voted ones, sees cache zone icons, rings, map labels and Full-cached group icons; the testing monitor and group ids are for logged-in admins only. - Unit Caching: groups waking at the same moment come back a few at a time (up to 12 soldiers at once, then about 4 per second); a single group still wakes immediately. - Unit Caching: new controller action "Release blocked groups (escape)" for a Prepare for save that stays Blocked; soldiers already brought back are kept and never doubled. A zone stuck on "Restoring saved module settings" logs what it waits for after 10 s and resumes after 60 s if the game's save system never started. - Ambient Civilians: deleting the last civilians module no longer leaves its traffic cars and drivers behind (removed out of sight and far from players, never a car a player used). A traffic slot is no longer lost when a driver dies and the game later cleans up the car. The debug summary sits below the Game Master compass. - Ambient Sounds: debug rings and the sound legend hide while the entity browser, an attributes window or the pause menu is open. - Persistent Battlefield: bodies stay while a player is within 80 m (was 50 m), as in the last standalone release.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:34:38 GMT
- Last Modified
- Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:44:55 GMT
0.1.4
Fixes from the first full client test on a dedicated server with the production modset (ACE, RHS, CDF GameMaster Save, Game Master Enhanced and 110+ other mods). - Unit Caching: casualty cleanup now simply deletes the body, with everything it carries, and its dropped weapon in the same tick. There are no per-item checks any more, so modded kit (entrenching tool, ACE Overheating weapons, character-mod heads) never blocks a body. Before, kit was removed piece by piece and a body that failed a check was left stripped. Items a player picked up or stored are never touched; bodies with an EBG keep component or valuable intel are still kept. ACE's overheating helper attachment and character-mod heads are accepted in Full cache snapshots. The zone status shows the native-save pause only while Full groups are actually absent, the admin cache monitor is hidden outside the GM editor, the GM entity list no longer throws when entities are deleted while paging, and a blocked Prepare for save names the group, its position and its zone. - Garrison: "EXPBG Add Garrison" (renamed so it is distinct from Game Master Enhanced's "Add Garrison") now opens its squad picker on dedicated-server clients; the access check used a server-only editor lookup and always failed on clients. Every refusal now logs one `[EXPG GARRISON]` reason, and feedback also appears in chat for players with hints disabled. Window guards stand directly at the window (nearest window posts are chosen first). - Intel Items: reading opens a dedicated window (title, scrollable text, Close / Escape) instead of a hint, so it works with hints disabled. One read per press (repeats within 1 s are ignored). `[br]` in the intel text makes a line break. - Ambient Destruction: a CDF save of destroyed buildings loads after a server restart even when native mission persistence already removed the building; ambiguous matches are still refused. Building collapses are paced at least 3 s apart across all zones to avoid client freezes. Diagnostics is an Off / Lifecycle / Counts selector and sliders show whole numbers. Debug rings no longer draw huge wedges near the camera. Removed an invalid material remap from the Afghan truck wreck. - Ambient Sounds: the crowd is now "EXPBG Ambient Crowd Sound". Radio, TV, crowd, war and sound modules share the same "On/Off" first and "Debug" last attribute order; saved settings are unaffected. All sound items use one speaker mini icon and the EXPBG badge. The debug legend moved to the right edge and is removed when no debug module remains and when the world ends. Failed-start retries for long-range sounds need at most 50 m of approach. Removed an unused sample. - Ambient Civilians: traffic works again. A car's destination town had to be 500-5000 m away and also inside the 400 m module radius, which no town can be; journeys may now leave the module radius (exclusion zones still apply), the car is freed from the radius once it departs and is removed out on the road, far from players. Neighbours visit each other's tables: the join range is 150 m, a nearby idle resident is called when a spot opens, and visitors walk back home. Deleting the module no longer leaves an empty civilian group. The debug summary sits at the top centre and the legend on the right, clear of the GM panels and the sound legend, and both are removed when the world ends. Civilian entities are excluded from CDF and vanilla saves with the editor's "not saved" flag instead of the obsolete `Serialize` override. - No Game Master Budget: the switch is now "EXPBG Enable Game Master Budgets". - Persistent Battlefield: weapon safety on spawn is applied only by the owning peer once the character is registered, removing the RPC errors on mission load and on clients.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:10:07 GMT
- Last Modified
- Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:21:03 GMT
0.1.3
- Ambient Sounds: 28 new placeable sounds under the EXPBG Sounds browser category, covering every sound from Vinny - Sounds by Vinuesa (Workshop 61D358A07E15C5FE, APL-SA): radio static, Apache, Russian, Chinese and Arab radio chatter, Hanoi Hannah, close and distant firefight, distant shelling, two jet flybys, a drone, market, market seller, street singing, Muslim prayer, traffic, church bell, car alarm, police car, Nokia ringtone, distant barking and distant sheep. They are labelled Radio transmissions, War sound effects, Crowd or Sound effects. - Each sound is a new invisible EXPBG Ambient Sound module with Game Master On/Off, Recording, Volume, Audible distance (30-1500 m), Loop, Pause between repeats and Debug. New placements start Off at 50% volume; looping sounds default to Loop on, one-shots (jet flybys, drone, church bell, car alarm, police car, ringtone, barking) to Loop off. Settings are saved with the session. - The sounds share the radio/crowd/TV playback limits (at most four of these voices at once, 32 active sources) and wake within 1000 m or their audible distance plus 50 m, whichever is larger. Radios, crowds, TVs and the war module are unchanged. - Vinny - Sounds is not required and Game Master FX is not used. Thirteen recordings are included unchanged; the other fifteen reuse the radio, jet, firefight and shelling recordings Ambient Sounds already ships.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:12:33 GMT
- Last Modified
- Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:29:44 GMT
0.1.2
- New module: No Game Master Budget. A Game Settings switch, "Enable Game Master Budgets" (ON by default), lifts the Game Master placement budgets for props, AI, vehicles, waypoints and systems when OFF; campaign building budgets are unchanged. Same behaviour as the Disable Game Master Budgets mod, rebuilt from scratch (no code reused): toggling now applies and restores the budget limits immediately, and the switch is read from the replicated game mode so late joiners and new missions never act on a stale value. - Unit Caching Group cleanup now works per casualty. A managed AI soldier's body and owned kit are deleted once that casualty reaches the Minimum corpse age and no player has come within the wake radius of the zone, the squad or the remains for the clear delay. The rest of the squad no longer has to die, and cleanup also runs while survivors are Simulation-cached or Full-cached. Survivors are never deleted or refilled; caching and restoration are unchanged. Bodies of an eliminated squad now go one by one as each reaches its own corpse age. - A soldier killed by script while his group is Simulation-cached (hidden and untargetable) is not confirmed dead while the group sleeps; his body is kept and never deleted by the cleanup. Known limit; normal play cannot reach it. - Remains that cannot be verified as safe to delete (unregistered or transferred contents, unapproved modded items, or a refused deletion) are retried at most three times, a minute apart, then handed back to the game's body cleanup (vanilla or Persistent Battlefield) with one `[EBG CLEANUP RELEASE]` log line. Remains protected by an EBG cleanup keep component or holding valuable intel stay protected as before (`[EBG CLEANUP KEEP]`), also when the same body or container holds other unverifiable items. Other casualties keep draining meanwhile. - Debug group lines and zone markers show casualty cleanup progress for groups with survivors.
- Game Version
- 1.8.0.13
- Created
- Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:42:47 GMT
- Last Modified
- Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:49:30 GMT