FROM: High Command
TO: Arma 3 Users
UNIT: Main Branch
ACTIVITY: Game Update 2.02 (Art of War DLC)
SIZE: ~1.5 GB / ~231 MB (depends on Contact ownership)

NOTES

Contact consists of 2 data packs / folders:
- Contact (via PLAY CONTACT or -mod=Contact): for the singleplayer "First Contact" campaign experience (accessible only to owners - optionally loaded)
- Contact (Platform): for most other use cases, including sandbox multiplayer (loaded by default for all players)
Consider using the Steam client option to verify the integrity of the local game cache to avoid corrupted data after downloading this update.
Consider defragmenting your HDD after downloading large updates.
Updating a deeply moddable game and its platform is not without risks. We use various methods to communicate upcoming changes to our awesome modding community, such as via the Dev Hub. We also co-operate directly on troubleshooting, and we offer an opportunity to test updates via our Release Candidate tests. Modders, server administrators and other members of the community do their best to prepare for updates and to address issues post-release as quickly as possible. Please be mindful of some interruptions (especially in the first hours / days after a release) while we all work to improve the game together.
A Legacy Build Steam branch is available for advanced users. It contains the previous significant main branch version (2.00). It can be used to compare specific changes between major releases. The access code for this branch is: Arma3Legacy200
This update does not apply to the experimental Linux and Mac port betas.
You can find the servers in the Steam library (switch the filter to "Tools") - "Arma 3 Server" (based on your OS, it will download the Windows or Linux version).
- Administrators can also use the command-line SteamCMD utility. The app ID is to be 233780.
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In case of problems, please check the Bohemia Interactive support F.A.Q., Arma 3 F.A.Q., BattlEye F.A.Q., or Launcher troubleshooting guide.
You can help us to further improve the game by posting your feedback on the Feedback Tracker.

CHANGELOG

DATA

Added: Art of War DLC*
Added: Showcase Art of War
Added: Showcase Cultural Property**
Added: Formal Suit (Black / Gray / Blue / Khaki / Black T-Shirt / Gray T-Shirt)*
Added: Parade Uniform (Regular and Decorated - US / CSAT / AAF / LDF)*
Added: Parade Cap (US / CSAT / AAF / LDF)*
Added: Civilian Backpack (Blue / Red / Green / Black / Vrana / Astra / IDAP)*
Added: Art T-Shirt (6 prints)
Added: Coffin
Added: Military Coffins
Added: Folded Flags
Added: Memorial Wreaths
Added: Flower Bouquets
Added: Portrait Photo Frames
Added: Easels
Added: Canvases
Added: Gallery Frames
Added: Gallery Labels
Added: Gallery Dioramas
Added: Gallery Interiors (special-purpose structures with interiors only)
Added: 8 Steam Achievements
Added: Art of War Welcome Screen
Added: Firing Drills / Time Trials can now be configured in description.ext (making them self-contained and ready for Workshop publication)
Added: Proper tooltips in Pylon Settings for Laws of War Demining Charges and Leaflets
Added: Gray color support also for Time Trials
Added: Muzzle flashes to UH-80 and CH-67 miniguns
Added: Ability to override loading screen world information in scenario or campaign configs
Added: New animation for Speedboat minigunners
Tweaked: Credits (kudos to all Art of War contest contributors!)
Tweaked: Removed the ability to use telekinesis from UH-80 and CH-67 side door gunners
Tweaked: Changed slots configuration on all weapons from the array-based old method to the class-based one (this should also fix any issues with muzzle accessories)
Tweaked: Exposed Firing Drills / Time Trials modules in Eden Editor (see documentation for usage)
Tweaked: After contacting the quartermaster, NATO Pacific Engineers received appropriately colored magazines - FT-T154021
Tweaked: Virtual Garage onPhaseChanged and lockCargo parameters were not always evaluated when more advanced inheritance was used
Tweaked: Increased proximity fuse on SAM missiles to 40 meters
Tweaked: Steam Workshop Firing Drills / Time Trials will show personal records in the selection menu (after the first run)
Tweaked: CH-67 and UH-80 minigun ammo belt skinning
Tweaked: Minigun limits on the UH-80
Tweaked: Qilin minigun barrel and gunner animation
Tweaked: Passenger view occluders on MH-9 and AH-9
Fixed: Typo related to Taru Event Handler configuration - FT-T153882
Fixed: Some of the FV-720 selections were set incorrectly in resolution LODs
Fixed: VR Suit armor hidden selection ("camo3") was not retexturable
Fixed: ED-1D and ED-1E are now correctly called out as UGVs, instead of tanks
Fixed: Typo in the French text on the back of the Eau de Combat box
Fixed: Duplicated civilian characters in Zeus
Fixed: ACRO, RCO, MRCO and Promet Modular Sight were using non-existing optics Post Processing effects
Fixed: Demining waypoint - FT-T154841
Fixed: Eden Editor camera bank did not reset properly - FT-T127549
Fixed: Malformed diver animation when swimming to the right
Fixed: Splendid Camera presets did not all properly save - FT-T127572
Fixed: RPT error caused by BIS_fnc_animType - FT-T152922
Fixed: Incorrect loadouts were used for some Livonia ZGM instances
Fixed: In some cases inspectable text was covered by scrollbars
Fixed: Players could see a Get In action when a MQ-12 drone had no AI crew - FT-T156500
Fixed: Collision shape of unarmed characters when moving to the left while crouched
Fixed: Incorrect font heights in Warlords
Fixed: CoF: Gray fireworks now work better on other locations for those wanting to re-use the scripts (ASL compatibility)
Fixed: CSAT ammo bearers had a wrong type of 7.62 magazines in their backpacks - FT-T156431
Fixed: Incorrect animation sources were used on the Type-115 - FT-T121686

* Restrictions apply to those who don't own Arma 3 Art of War DLC.
** Content requires ownership of Arma 3 Art of War DLC.

Old Man (potential spoilers)

Fixed: Missing sound for specific radio chatter
Fixed: Script error in CSAT bases (searching for poles with loud-speakers)
Fixed: Various WAV file references changed to OGG, and removed a class with non-existent sound
Fixed: Disable autonomous turrets quest: unfinished uploads and a script error when the player picks up the USB stick
Fixed: Several economy imbalance issues

ENGINE

Added: SQF HashMap container
Added: import directive for importing main config classes for use in mission configs
Added: Implemented new continue / continueWith and break / breakWith commands for use in loops
Added: New parameter to the attachTo command that causes the attached object to follow the rotation of the memory point / bone it was attached to
Added: Script commands setObjectScale and getObjectScale (note: not fully supported in all contexts; scale responsibly)
Added: Firing Drills and Time Trials from Steam Workshop are now listed in the Challenges menu (consider updating Workshop tags to avoid confusion)
Added: getSteamFriendsServers script command (already in 2.00, but omitted from its log)
Added: getLighting, getLightingAt script commands (already in 2.00, but omitted from its log)
Added: configOf script command (already in 2.00, but omitted from its log)
Added: unitCombatMode and setUnitCombatMode script commands - FT-T146461, FT-T152965, FT-T133164, FT-T83929
Added: New script command getTextRaw to retrieve unlocalized text from a config entry
Added: New script command forceCadetDifficulty - FT-T152762
Added: New script command ctrlStyle - FT-T153098
Added: MarkerCreated / MarkerDeleted mission Event Handlers
Added: MarkerUpdated mission Event Handler
Added: markerChannel script command
Added: markerPolyline script command
Added: setMarkerPolyline / setMarkerPolylineLocal script commands
Added: getPlayerID script command
Added: ctrlTooltip and ctrlURL script commands
Added: ctrlSetMousePosition script command
Added: extended support for binocular 'weapons'
- magazinesAmmoFull now includes a binocular magazine if there is one
- Added binocularItems script command
- Added addBinocularItem script command
- Added removeBinocularItem script command
- Added removeAllBinocularItems script command
- Added binocularMagazine script command
Added: ctrlSetURL script command
Added: ctrlFontHeight script command
Added: Command syntax string into the supportInfo returned array - FT-T154114
Added: diag_scope script command
Added: isNotEqualTo script command
Added: tvSelection, tvSetSelected, tvIsSelected script commands for working with multi-selection Tree View controls - FT-T146592
Added: Missing removeAllSecondaryWeaponItems script command - FT-T76273
Added: ctrlTextColor script command - FT-T153507
Added: "Suppressed" entity Event Handler - FT-T154215
Added: missionNameSource script command
Added: Better RPT context for preprocessor errors - FT-T153041
Added: -debug command line parameter for more verbose logging
Added: LogObjectNotFound server config option
Added: SkipDescriptionParsing server config option
Added: Script command forceUnicode (provides an option to switch the mode of operation of the following commands to Unicode: copyToClipboard, copyFromClipboard, select, count, in, find, splitString, reverse)
Added: Alternative syntax for find command adds an option to start searching from an offset
Added: Alternative syntax for reverse command now supports a string argument
Added: Rendering of MagazineProxy in sidearm holsters - FT-T153802
Added: New syntax for the units script command that returns all units of a specific side
Added: PostInit Event Handler - FT-T118235
Added: getAllPylonsInfo command with added support for [-1] driver turret for consistency (the currently used empty array [] for the driver turret is supported as well for backward compatibility) - FT-T147576
Added: Missing script commands for menu strip control: menuSetUrl, menuSetShortcut, menuSetText - FT-T154366
Added: Script command fileExists
Added: allVariables support for display type namespace
Added: trim script command
Added: flatten script command - FT-T155186
Added: tvSortAll and tvSortByValueAll script commands
Added: insert script command - FT-T155531
Added: tooltipPerColumn property to ListNBox - FT-T154380
Added: Basic preprocessor #if support
Added: New predefined preprocessor macros
Added: Preprocessor support for the #pragma directive
Added: Preprocessor __has_include macro / operator - FT-T153547
Added: compileScript script command
Added: #captureSlowFrame server command
Added: Logging to attachTo for invalid memory points or invalid arguments
Tweaked: Improved general script execution performance
Tweaked: setMimic now automatically converts its argument to lowercase
Tweaked: Extended createMarker / createMarkerLocal with parameters for chat channel and creator
Tweaked: Enabled PhysX Geometry LOD for intersect, lineIntersectsSurfaces, checkVisibility script commands
Tweaked: AnimStateChanged Event Handler was improved - FT-T153368, FT-T81216
Tweaked: CT_CONTROLS_TABLE controlBaseClassPath[] will now look for the class in a mission and then the campaign config if it cannot find it in the main config - FT-T153452
Tweaked: Additional option to include / exclude empty magazines in the magazinesTurret script command
Tweaked: Increased CfgSoundCategories maximum 'limit' from 4 to 64 - FT-T136179
Tweaked: It is now possible to override the sender and text in the HandleChatMessage Event Handler
Tweaked: HandleChatMessage Event Handler output array was extended
Tweaked: VoN direct chat volume moved from effects to VoN volume slider - FT-T154335
Tweaked: Improved startup time when the official server list has to be updated
Tweaked: Moved RPT logging into a separate thread to reduce performance impact when lots of logging is going on (but please fix errors and warnings regardless)
Tweaked: Mitigated freeze on every MP client when addCuratorAddons is called with many addons
Tweaked: Increased default shadow offset to mitigate the shadow banding effect
Tweaked: Eden Editor Compositions that are missing addons will now be greyed out in the list (but still can be placed)
Tweaked: Improved speed of stringtable loading during game start
Tweaked: channelEnabled would return [nil, nil] instead of [false, false] on non-existing channels
Tweaked: Markers now cannot be placed in a channel if both VoN and chat are disabled. Group channel is now always available for server command input even if disabled if no other channel is available. Channel switching will select the next channel relevant to the context. If a player is using VoN, this will cycle VoN enabled channels, etc. Disabled VoN and chat icons were made more obvious.
Tweaked: URL-enabled controls would not update their tooltip after the ctrlSetURL command
Tweaked: The toString script command now supports a code argument and will return a source string expression
Tweaked: Rendering / Handling performance of Edit control text - FT-T154837
Tweaked: Rendering performance of Edit controls that have a large portion of their text off-screen - FT-T154837
Tweaked: Optimized configClasses command performance if the condition is "true" or "getNumber (_x >> 'scope') > 0"
Tweaked: Optimized configProperties command performance if the condition is "true" or not provided
Tweaked: Optimized configProperties command performance if the condition is "isClass _x" or starts with "isClass _x &&"
Tweaked: Optimized configClasses command performance if condition is "getNumber (_x >> 'scope') == 2"
Fixed: Freeze when opening the Zeus interface with many mods active
Fixed: getAttackTarget returned a null object when no target was assigned by the leader - FT-152567
Fixed: Rare Linux server freeze when loading specific modded terrains
Fixed: RPT spam when using the name script command on a dead person (the command will now return the name of the dead person wherever applicable) - FT-T125883, FT-T126032, FT-T114369, FT-T112053, FT-T90545, FT-T88071, FT-T69631
Fixed: ctrlSetBackgroundColor did not work for CT_BUTTON controls - FT-T78904
Fixed: ctrlSetFontHeight can now set font height for Structured Text controls
Fixed: Laser Designator batteries can now be added directly into the device with addWeaponItem if a player has no storage containers
Fixed: ctrlText did not work correctly with picture buttons - FT-T153510
Fixed: UAV airplane drones automatically turning their engine off even after turning them on via the engineOn script command - FT-T150735
Fixed: HandleChatMessage Event Handler returned the wrong owner and did not trigger for all chat events
Fixed: UAVs would start engines by themselves in Virtual Garage
Fixed: Possible crash when using ctrlTextSelection - FT-T154240
Fixed: elevatePeriscope with instant option would not work in Eden Editor
Fixed: Passing an empty texture to setObjectTextureGlobal would not remove the texture
Fixed: VoN radio volume being controlled by the Effects setting instead of the VoN setting - FT-T154335
Fixed: say3D start offset parameter was not working in all cases
Fixed: disabledChannels did not work during briefings
Fixed: getPlayerChannel would return -1 when a player was talking on the Direct channel
Fixed: Optics Post Processing effects not updating when switching between optics modes - FT-T80695
Fixed: Short game freeze when searching in Tree controls (including Zeus)
Fixed: menuShortcutText did not return key combinations - FT-T154395
Fixed: Bug in setPylonLoadout when no optional turret was given, the current turret was reset to the driver - FT-T154307
Fixed: The hideText config property was not working with multiline versions of CT_EDIT
Fixed: ComboBox scrollbars did not update on resizing
Fixed: Being able to place units into locked vehicle turrets in Eden Editor / Zeus
Fixed: allVariables always returning an empty array on the control namespace
Fixed: Tree UI control rendering performance with many items - FT-T154837
Fixed: say script command not properly playing LIP sync files
Fixed: Not being able to remove a picture with lnbSetPicture - FT-T155366
Fixed: Eden Editor move widget behaving erratically when moving the cursor off-axis - FT-T155172
Fixed: ListBox item shadow was offset incorrectly when rowHeight is used - FT-T154442
Fixed: RscEdit would not adjust text width during or after resizing - FT-T154710
Fixed: Groups in Eden Editor custom compositions not always correctly being placed into a separate layer
Fixed: magazinesAmmoFull only returning empty arrays on Linux servers - FT-T155504
Fixed: onTreeExpanded / onTreeCollapsed events not firing when an item was double clicked - FT-T154819
Fixed: HandleChatMessage Event Handler not working properly for system messages
Fixed: Crash / freeze when calling setAccTime from within a HandleAccTime Event Handler
Fixed: Crash / freeze when sending a chat message from within a HandleChatMessage Event Handler

LAUNCHER

Added: Art of War DLC as default DLC
Added: New -debug parameter for more verbose logging

SERVER

Updated: Stand-alone Windows Dedicated Server (2.02)
Updated: Stand-alone Linux Dedicated Server (2.02)
- The data in -mod=contact is not fully multiplayer compatible (it is meant for the singleplayer campaign experience); we recommend only hosting servers with it for special use cases
  - This data is signed by a new A3C key whose presence can be used to control what client data is allowed on the server
- Known issue: Steam client modifies the steam_appid.txt file incorrectly. In case of issues, verify its content is: 107410
- Known issue: Sometimes the add-ons are loaded from the wrong installation (e.g. main game)
- Try adding -mod=curator;kart;heli;mark;expansion;jets;argo;orange;tacops;tank;enoch;aow to your arma3server.exe shortcut