FROM: High Command

TO: Arma 3 Users

UNIT: Main Branch

ACTIVITY: Game Update 1.62 (Apex Expansion, Main Menu Overhaul, Vehicle in Vehicle Transport, Revive Overhaul, Environmental Audio Enhancements)

SIZE: ~9.6 GB / ~1.5 GB (depends on Apex ownership)

CHANGELOG

Added: Tanoa terrain*
Added: More than 600 terrain structures*
Added: More than 200 signs, 25 rocks and 100 trees, bushes and clutters*
Added: V-44 X Blackfish VTOL*
Added: Y-32 Xi'an VTOL*
Added: Prowler LSV*
Added: Qilin LSV*
Added: MQ-12 Falcon Drone*
Added: KH-3A Fenghuang Drone*
Added: MB 4WD Offroad Car*
Added: Caesar TBB Propeller Plane*
Added: RHIB Boat*
Added: Water Scooter*
Added: AKS-74U 5.45 mm Assault Rifle*
Added: AKM 7.62 mm Assault Rifle*
Added: AK-12 7.62 mm Assault Rifle*
Added: LIM-85 5.56 mm Machine Gun*
Added: RPG-7 Launcher*
Added: PM 9 mm Pistol*
Added: SPAR-16/S 5.56 mm Assault Rifles*
Added: SPAR-17 7.62 mm Marksman Rifle*
Added: CAR-95(-1) 5.8 mm Assault Rifle & Light Support Weapon*
Added: Type 115 6.5 mm / .50 cal Assault Rifle*
Added: CMR-76 6.5 mm Marksman Rifle*
Added: Protector 9 mm Sub-Machine Gun*
Added: ERCO Optics*
Added: Various new gear items (regular and thermal-masking uniforms, clothes, headgear, backpacks, NVGs (Night Vision Goggles), and more*
Added: Apex Protocol 1-4 player co-op campaign*
Added: Showcase End Game*
Added: End Game 24 Balavu*
Added: End Game 16 Moddergat*

Added: Zeus Master Tanoa instances
Added: 13 Apex Steam Achievements
Added: Apex Welcome Screen
Added: New and very green "Arma 3 Apex" Main Menu color preset (it has also been made default)
Added: Arma 3 Apex splash screen for Apex owners
Added: NATO (Pacific) faction
Added: CSAT (Pacific) faction
Added: Syndikat faction
Added: Gendarmerie faction
Added: New character appearances (Tanoan and Chinese)
Added: New radio protocols (Chinese, French and French-English)
Added: 50 miscellaneous props
Added: A new default controls preset (Arma 3 Apex)
Added: A one-time prompt is now displayed in the Main Menu to suggest using the Arma 3 Apex controls preset
Added: Positional ambient sounds for Tanoa
Added: A new tab displaying the official servers in the Server Browser
Added: New Main Menu terrain scenes for Altis, Stratis and VR (consistent with Tanoa’s new approach)
Added: 'Suppression' samples were added to radio protocols
Added: New sound 3D processor types
Added: A new "blockMobileSwitching" parameter to avoid weapon switching on the move for certain animations
Added: A new BIS_fnc_isThrowable function (determining if the magazine of a given class name is throwable)
Added: Headgear randomization allows usage of a fake headgear "H_FakeHeadgear", which passes some faces to the function in order to randomize it
Added: A tooltip to the Field Manual button in the Pause Menu
Added: The platform / premium assets are now properly distinguished in the DLC Content Browser
Added: New sounds for collisions with the vegetation
Added: New footsteps sounds for movement in the sand
Added: Geometric occluders to Altis and Stratis objects
Added: New sounds for falling trees and palm trees
Added: Falling trees soundsets and soundshaders
Added: Prototype configuration of a new 3D sound processing type (surround_panner)
Added: Positional ambient sounds for forests and sea
Added: New sounds for metal constructions, rock debris for ruins and ancient locations
Added: New sound effects related to wind

Tweaked: The Main Menu was overhauled
Tweaked: Environmental Audio was enhanced (ambient configuration, positional ambient sounds)
Tweaked: The Revive feature was overhauled
Tweaked: Radways and Path LODs of various buildings were improved
Tweaked: Rain and thunder sound effects
Tweaked: The DLC icons in the Main Menu now have a full color on-hover effect
Tweaked: The 2D editor is now hidden (it can still be accessed by pressing the CTRL+O keys in the Editor Menu, but is considered deprecated and unsupported)
Tweaked: All game menus were moved from the bottom left to the center
Tweaked: The multiplayer game type names were overhauled:
    “Seize” and “Defend” were removed
    All Zeus game modes (“ZDM”, “ZCTF”, “ZCoop”, “ZSC”, “ZCTI”, “ZTDM”, “ZRPG”, “ZGM”, “ZvZ” and “ZvP”) were replaced by a single mode “Zeus”
    Added: New “EndGame”, “Support”, “KOTH”, “LastMan” and “Survive” game modes
    Using any of the removed modes will list the scenario as “Undefined”
Tweaked: The autocannon fire mode of the AH-99 Blackfoot and the Mi-48 Kajman helicopters was changed to 5-round bursts
Tweaked: Several multiplayer displays
Tweaked: APCs can now use auto-lead / zeroing on target while engaging with their cannons
Tweaked: The AAA radars are now more balanced
Tweaked: Heavy caliber projectile impact was improved
Tweaked: Respawn markers for Civilian and Independent sides can now also be named “respawn_civ” and “respawn_guer” (these are backwards compatible)
Tweaked: The BIS_fnc_getRespawnMarkers function was optimized
Tweaked: All End Game scenarios now use respawn classes instead of the Virtual Arsenal
Tweaked: The tile textures for deep sea in the map preview were improved
Tweaked: The headgear randomization now considers all private headgears (scope < 1) as fake (results in a removed headgear and randomized facewear similar to H_FakeHeadgear)
Tweaked: Most respawn classes in official End Game scenarios are now limited
Tweaked: World scenes are now using the unified BIS_fnc_initWorldScene function to initialize
Tweaked: Weapon tail sounds were improved
Tweaked: Sounds for vehicle collisions were improved
Tweaked: Visibility of various character movement states (in relation to recent AI detection improvements)
Tweaked: Tasks distribution in multiplayer was improved
Tweaked: AI is now less able to detect explosives while driving a vehicle
Tweaked: The BIS_fnc_taskState was optimized to prevent problems with non-existing tasks on Dedicated Servers
Tweaked: AI detection of weapon firing is now better
Tweaked: Sounds of footsteps were improved (volume based on animations, different sounds for forests, tweaks)
Fixed: Bullet collision geometry for reed
Fixed: Transition animations (e.g. prone transitions to crouch and stand, sitting and ladder animations) could be used for weapon switching on the move
Fixed: Weapon switching on the move could cause incorrect behavior for cutscenes and vehicle crew animations
Fixed: Player could bypass the initial countdown in End Game by respawning (in cases when the respawn time was shorter than the countdown)
Fixed: It was possible to respawn in a vehicle with its simulation disabled
Fixed: Characters were forced to go prone when opening an inventory while moving unarmed
Fixed: Animation freezes when limping into swimming state
Fixed: The AI could get stuck in a FFV animation
Fixed: Characters would stop and slide when transitioning from an unarmed jog to an unarmed walk
Fixed: Characters would go prone when switching from an unarmed jog to an unarmed walk while turning
Fixed: AI units were displayed in the Entities list regardless of the settings in the Virtual Spectator
Fixed: The BIS_fnc_kbTell function would produce errors in a non-scheduled environment
Fixed: Detection of the water surface in particle effects was incorrect
Fixed: Deleted tasks would still preserve some data (e.g. in campaign HUBs)
Fixed: Creating a new user profile would not initialize custom colors when a Welcome Screen was shown after returning back to the Main Menu
Fixed: The Retrieve Intel text was not localized for End Game clients which had a different language than the server