Highlights include toning down the AI's cat-like hearing, autosave logic which avoids saving at unsafe times, crash and stutter fixes, and improved building destruction.

While the patch is only 135MB, Bohemia says Steam installations will face a 4.3GB download due to an issue with Steam's patcher. The changelog follows:

Engine

• New: Functions getPosATL and setPosATL to allow controlling position relative to terrain.
• New: command line option -showScriptErrors introduced to show errors in scripts on-screen
• New: Direct analogue throttle and brake for airplanes now available.
• New: More flexible configuration of Flares in the config (brightness, size)
• New: Mission name (with
• indicated unsaved work) displayed in the mission editor
• New: Keyboard shortcuts in the mission editor
• Improved: better handling of gravitation for shots (esp. for grenades)
• Improved: Building destruction
• Improved: Better airplane HUD visibility both night and day
• Optimization: Reduced frame stutter near map borders.
• Hotfix: Players are forced to reconnect after MP Load on server.
• Fixed: no particles effect when hit object with destructNo
• Fixed: grenade could destroy a building just by impact
• Fixed: grenades may explode only on the final impact
• Fixed: when a grenade bounces on a ship deck, the proper particle effects is shown now
• Fixed: missiles should pass through vegetation
• Fixed: Player connected to loaded game was sometimes frozen.
• Fixed: Game crashed when launched on a system with more then 8 CPUs/cores.
• Fixed: Possible crash with laser designator active.
• Fixed: Sometimes crew of a close vehicle was visible through the vehicle.
• Fixed: Infinite looping of commands 'Stop' in radio.
• Fixed: Leaning 'limits' do not work in TrackIR.
• Fixed: Clients were often endlessly stuck in 'Receiving...' window after MP Load.
• Fixed: Rainbow could be visible even with sun below horizon.
• Fixed: 3D Editor - civilian and resistance units did not work correctly
• Fixed: Sea surface was not rendered in NE area out of map.
• Fixed: Terrain surface was sometimes using wrong parallax map.
• Fixed: Grenade could sometimes destroy a building just by impact
• Fixed: Radio messages sometimes echoed
• Fixed: Team switch did not work when player died
• Fixed: Reduced AI detecting slowly moving enemy vehicles by ear.
• Fixed: Prevent killed AI units reporting who killed them.
• Fixed: After respawn in MP, player's tasks, diary content and skills are transferred to the new entity
• Fixed: Leaning 'limits' did not work with TrackIR
• Fixed: MP client frozen in Receiving... screen sometimes
• Fixed: Problems with saving and loading games in cooperative campaign

• Fixes and improvements in most of the campaign missions (Into the Storm, Harvest Red, Bitter Chill, Manhattan, Badlands, Dogs of War)
• Improved: autosave logic to not save when it was not safe
• Improved: Eye for an Eye in Scenarios

• Fixed: Warfare fast travel on clients was not using logistic values
• Fixed: Warfare money sending
• Fixed: Warfare HQ multiple reports
• Fixed: First-Aid: Action module caused healing scripts to run twice
• Fixed: Supply drop not ending (wrong vehicle class)
• New: First-Aid modules work with respawn
• New: First-Aid ability to stop healing
• New: Added ability to add Support Requests that do not expire.
• Improved: First-Aid modules more robust and faster
• Improved: Better support for side Resistance in SOM / ACM.

• Fixed: Invisible driver in UAZ (MG and GL)
• Fixed: AI soldiers were able to hear extremely well
• Fixed: various minor problems on buildings
• Fixed: rocks destruction effect changed
• Fixed: penetrability of some vegetation
• Fixed: collision geometry of A_BuildingWIP
• Fixed: react FSM core conversations
• Fixed: cargo animations in LAV25
• Fixed: indicators in Ka52 when using NVG
• Fixed: cargo animations in BTR
• Fixed: Warfare keypoint on Chernarus