15-Nov-2024: 0.1.0.2 Build #77 (14678) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Moskva class CVGH had Titan sonar instead Orion [FIX] P-3C Orion now has AN/APS-115 Radar [FIX] Typo in Dong Hoi Briefing [FIX] SS-N-14 missile causing duplicate torpedos [FIX] T-55 gun swapped for proper D-10 [FIX] Map fullscreen state machine [FIX] Logger should work faster now, also fixed System.IO.IOException [FIX] Description error: 403 is OPLAP, not ODLAP [FIX] Hyperlinks in tutorials [FIX] Typo in Tu-154 Description [FIX] Pause music when playing video tutorial [FIX] Memory leak in map texture creation (thank you BroodjeKipcorn!) [FIX] IRINA SH-3D description [FIX] Weapon status was not changed by Winchester [FIX] Aircraft went to weird behaviour when RTB to broken FlightDeck [FIX] Block Request ID if own unit is not selected [FIX] Mission Editor: Formation Type was not read from mission file correctly [FIX] Mission Editor: Aircrafts not teleported to 85k feet in Circle formation [FIX] Wingmen of Circle Formation were loaded with twice the height of a leader [FIX] There was a typo in a string here that might have been causing the "NOESIS: BBCode tag '%s' color property value '%s' is not a valid color string" spam [FIX] Add a way to pass through Key in getText as the standard error format breaks BBCode formatting. [FIX] Ivan Franko class are in Liners category now [FIX] Only do terrain hit checks in case the (air) object has control [FIX] Height calculation job could be done for destroyed units [FIX] Null ref in ObjectsManager when LOD object is missing [FIX] Lots of null refs [FIX] Race condition in terrain chunk [FIX] Texture leak in ocean [FIX] Texture leak in terrain system [MOD] German, Russian and Chinese translations [MOD] Tweaked a crutch in guns aiming [MOD] Rebalanced time compression limits for gun and CIWS [MOD] Enabled version watermark in beta branches [MOD] Bring initial UnitMetadata Loading under the control of the loadscreen (should reduce blank screen time on startup) [NEW] Added backward compartibility case when singular Condition if is specified for ConditionsCompleted property without <> brackets [NEW] Rollout of virtual ini files to all language files (i.e. systemgroups and ammunition_names were missing) [NEW] Il-62 damage models [NEW] Added many missing lods on aircraft [NEW] QOL: Unit Ref in toolbar in Mission Editor [NEW] QOL: Quick Access to Weapon Info from Bottom Bar [NEW] Auto rebasing of air units

16-Nov-2024: 0.1.0.3 Build #80 (14721) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Memory leak in entities [FIX] Various ships propellers rotation fixes [FIX] Some spelling mistakes [FIX] Decimal Point in UI Scale and Snapping on Volume Sliders [FIX] Typos and spelling in Trollfjorden Briefing [FIX] Added missing lods, improved lod rotor discs for helicopters [FIX] Mission Editor: Teleported units stacked upon each other [FIX] Mission Editor: The Teleport action checkbox state was not saved correctly in UI [FIX] Mission Editor: When switching between Conditions by selecting them on map, parent Trigger wasn't changed on Right pane [FIX] Mission Editor: Optimised assignment of internal Trigger/Condition fields from viewmodel [FIX] Missing flags on Oscar, Alfa [FIX] Inverted director on Belknap [FIX] Chaff obscured unit and thus prevented opening context menu by right-click in 3d scene [FIX] Lots of null refs [MOD] Polish Air Force liveries corrections on MiG-17/Lim-6, MiG-21 [NEW] Experimental new voiceover

16-Nov-2024: 0.1.0.3 Build #82 (14743) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Update Kobben description [FIX] Typo in Mk 84 [FIX] Race condition where mission loading went wrong when previous loading wasn't finished [FIX] T43 and T43K propellers sizes [FIX] Fixed missing polygon on S-3 wing [FIX] Fixed duplicate carrier name on S-3 livery [FIX] Removed duplicate BuNo on all S-3 liveries [FIX] Fresco/Lim rudder position, Lim elevator axis rotation fix [MOD] Russian and German translation [NEW] Sleipner class added hullnumbers [NEW] Rubin-1A_FCR virtual fire control radar for Tu-16K

18-Nov-2024: 0.1.0.4 Build #83 (14800) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Lots of underwater rendering issues [FIX] Wrong squadron on Ranger [FIX] Animation error on Slava [FIX] Lods were misnamed, A-7E, Yak-38 [FIX] Missing flagpole on Sturgeon SSN [FIX] Lots of null refs [FIX] Mast spray foam position was applied incorrectly in code [FIX] Mast spray positions was incorrect for several submarines [FIX] Rada mast could influence submarine speed [FIX] Turya bow polygon fix [FIX] Restore loading system names into Language Data [FIX] Standard stuck on ascend while attacking surface targets [FIX] Weapons could insta-level on altitude at certain conditions [FIX] Self destruct timer always reset [FIX] Some missiles missing required TerminalDiveDistance [FIX] Mi-14 main rotor rotating in the wrong direction [FIX] AH-1 J T rotors offset/wobbling fix, max swashplate angle adjusted to prevent clipping into fuselage mesh on tilting [FIX] H700 had wrong pilot model [FIX] ARM could not attack land units [FIX] SA-2 site still not ideal but at least it is killable now [FIX] Seasprite tail rotor clipping trough Knox hangar doors [FIX] Underwater vegetation had wrong bounding boxes which led to flickering depending on camera angle [MOD] Russian, Chinese and German translation [MOD] Anti-air SARH and RC-only missiles are self destructed when connection is lost [MOD] Shootdown effects for C340, H700 [MOD] Smoothed out APK-8 pod model

19-Nov-2024: 0.1.0.4 Build #85 (14819) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Added missing Cuban flag for 3d [FIX] Credits should now work after mission exit [FIX] Aircraft formation change handling while RTB [FIX] SARH missiles self destructed at the start of terminal [MOD] Adjusted variants files for Okean, Okean Mod, Zhuk ME, Tarantul RE [MOD] Small ship hits fx tweaks

21-Nov-2024: 0.1.0.5 Build #93 (14889) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Added missing Chinese translations for Under Cover Of The Rain mission [FIX] Typo in description for knm_msc_saud minesweeper (thanks @joemama619) [FIX] SARH missiles lost connection to guiding radar when target was at less than 2nm at moment of launch, had some hardcoded debug value left in [FIX] Corrected Baltim mission: changed year to 1973, assigned Egypt nation, egyptian PTGs were soviet ones [FIX] Latakia: unit nations are uppercase now and actually applied [FIX] Added proper Osa variants to Baltim and Latakia missions [FIX] Kirov transparent girders holes caps, possible fix for P6 "teared" flag mesh [FIX] Disable carrier AI for damaged flightdeck [FIX] Cables not rendering underwater [FIX] SARH was not accounting for FCR horizons in AI weapon selection [FIX] Airstrike target distribution included destroyed units [FIX] Another possible fix for aircraft going into space on RTB/landing [FIX] T43 missing bonk collider [FIX] Null refs [FIX] AI Vessels were not launching ASW patrol helicopters [FIX] P-3C squadrons had missing name references [FIX] Typo in FD/RTB state [MOD] Russian, German and Chinese translations [MOD] Updated quality settings - changed shadow settings to be better [MOD] Voiceovers [MOD] Upgraded HelicopterStates to cleanup bottom bar status [NEW] AI carriers (except Tarawa) and airfields are now can do very basic air strikes with bombs [NEW] Osa I class variants for Egypt and Syria [NEW] Basic vessel status info to bottom bar [NEW] Added Algeria and Bulgaria as nations, added Bulgarian, Romanian flags (for ships and UI) [NEW] Algerian Nanuchkas and Osa IIs [NEW] Engage status in bottom bar tooltip [NEW] Ability to block flightDeck AI from mission.ini

22-Nov-2024: 0.1.0.5 Build #96 (14915) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Encyclopedia should accept modded weapons [FIX] Relative file paths for mods should work properly now [FIX] All objects are hard limited to not go over 100k feet [FIX] Landing aircraft and helos are hard limited to not go below 0 ft [FIX] Fixes to handle problematic states in flight deck [FIX] Airfields are also limited to x30 TC when performing AirOps [FIX] Null refs [FIX] Description in Charlies mission [FIX] Aircraft can derailed between last approach waypoint and touchdown point [MOD] Experimental: FFAR require vertical alignment [MOD] Russian and German translations [NEW] Button to show/hide colliders for modding help

30-Nov-2024: 0.1.0.6 Build #97 (15037) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Helicopter blades clipping through hangar on Belknap [FIX] Anti sub missiles could go to space while attacking noisemaker [FIX] Blank News Item [FIX] ASW range of Metel and Rastrub was limited by incorrect horizon [FIX] Abrams turret [FIX] Underwater range of D/E submarines was much less than expected on slow speeds [FIX] Blocked waypoint deletion for landing Aircraft [FIX] Aircraft not selected weapon by click if outside range brackets [FIX] Wrong Hatch reference in Charlies HatchCloseAnim_8 [FIX] Submarine could be spawned below crush depth in Encyclopedia [FIX] Single click file selection [FIX] Bugs on Spruance, Garcia [FIX] Double despawning of parachute effects [FIX] Missiles and bombs with seekers lost targets when intercept point moved out of seeker FOV [FIX] Add second layer back to Emcon Menu [FIX] Towed decoy cable could not get initial state on deploy [FIX] Ka-25 and Ka-27 ASW helicopters use the vgs-3 dipping sonar model instead of the American one [FIX] Mission Editor: Any mission now saved only when all data is proccessed correctly on WriteFile, so faulty saves should not corrupt mission files anymore [FIX] Mission Editor: When user returned from Play -> Exit journey, all changes were lost because original mission file was loaded instead of the temp mission file [FIX] Mission Editor: SelectedUnitInGroup was not nullified when adding new group, so data of last selected unit in previous group was modified when adding new group [FIX] Rare race condition where the positioning of the units could go wrong during mission start up [FIX] SystemName was not used for towed decoy systems [FIX] Incorrect waypoint array member was used for ToLower(), made subs to ignore waypoint depth settings on load from mission file [FIX] Cut-off for MissileGroup leader to prevent MissileGroup non-activation at waypoint [FIX] Allow loading of voicover from mod folder [FIX] Corrected usage of OTH multiplier value for ESM systems in all cases (was only in one case) [FIX] ESM detection was overrated because there was no division by 1000 to get correct value of incoming power in kilowatts [FIX] Some weapons like ASROC acted weirdly in case of a relocation event (basically stopped their ballistic move and dropped 90° vertically) [MOD] Updated steamworks plugin to latest 2024.8.0 [MOD] Russian, German and Chinese translations [MOD] Updated Manual to v1.8 (11/18/24) [MOD] Descriptions for NATO missions (thx Dave!) [MOD] Better ammo selector rules for AutoAttackByClick [MOD] Enabled relative light and shadow culling for the camera [MOD] Type 205 submarine mesh fixes, LODs, colliders [MOD] Bomb drop time uses ballistic equation [MOD] Sensor Menu should ne show correct state. Prep for Silent Running Button. [MOD] Convergence zone bonus is now applied only when both sensor and target locate in positions where bottom level is deeper than 3000 feet [MOD} Tweaks to terrain meshes around Suez Canal and Bosphorus [MOD] Adjust bomb drop timing to account for dive [MOD] Make Formation Manager clicks require less precision [MOD] Aircraft Divebombing experimental state [MOD] Renamed jammers on Israeli ships to universal one instead "defensive" because it created some confusion among players [MOD] Collision avoidance overhaul, should work more adequate now [MOD] Tweaks to Popup and Dive attacks [MOD] Jamming of missiles targeting vessels will always make them go into water [MOD] Make max launch altitudes more generous [NEW] Allow Delete of Files through File Picker [NEW] Cavitation Toggle for Subs. Going to flank auto allows cavitation. [NEW] Modification to Bottom Bar weapons display [NEW] New player waypoint / return to formation / resume course command Ceases fire and sets state to Tight if it was weapons free [NEW] Support for custom rotation axis of depth planes for submarines [NEW] MinDepthForConvergenceZones parameter in feet to environment.ini [NEW] Successful defensive ECM spoofing of incoming weapon now registered in Event Log and displayed as message [NEW] Passive seeker range override for SARH misisles to avoid situations when seeker enables earlier than it can potentially see anything [NEW] ESM sensors now have 1.3 default radar horizon bonus for detection; Band Stand radar + Band Stand ESM to Tarantul; Band Stand ESM for Nanuchkas [NEW] Invert y axis option for camera movement [NEW] Separate min detection treshold value for ESM/anti radiation seeker to make ESM detection less omnipresent

01-Dec-2024: 0.1.0.6 Build #98 (15059) -------------------------------------- [FIX] Incorrect sensors assignment for weapons on Kirov and Udaloy [FIX] Incorrect radar Power/Gain settings for Cyrano family radars [FIX] Corrected Aida radar to make it usable in game [FIX] Context menu remove waypoints applied only to non-inFlight aircraft and heli [FIX] Limited intercept positions to seeker FOV for all missile types [FIX] Cloud state from SceneCreator was ignored by SensorSystemVisual due to case-sensitiveness [MOD] Russian, German and Chinese translations [MOD] Reposition state for aircraft attacks in ASuW mode [MOD] Adjusted missile group leader altitude for Granit and Basalt [NEW] Contact voice overs and contact faded voice over can be toggled in the options menu now

03-Dec-2024: 0.1.0.6 Build #100 (15093) --------------------------------------- [FIX] Another crutch to determine "we have missed the target" case [FIX] Aircraft could go into circuit while being way to high for landing to succeed [FIX] Prevented RTB order for not yet launched aircraft [FIX] Kirov's Stbd Osa FCR rest position [FIX] Error in displaying range for Metel and Rastrub [FIX] Sverdlov's gun range [FIX] Null refs [FIX] There was an incorrect alignment position in aircraft states [FIX] Typo mixing unity units and miles in aircraft attack [FIX] Helicopter landing was broken [FIX] Don 57mm orientation [MOD] More Aircraft attack state stuff, this tries to make simple attacks just launches. Long range attacks use low ingress and then popup for the most part. [MOD] Aircraft States, modifying some of the attack stuff. [MOD] Set Radar range and Altitude in Encyclopedia to Nautical Miles and Feet Respectively. Also lay some groundwork for user swappable measurement units later. [MOD] Narrow FOV value for TASM seeker to avoid horde attacks on one target [MOD] Reduced Terminal dist for TASM to avoid premature retargeting when launhcing to specific target [MOD] Disabled "distance shadowmask" for medium quality setting [MOD] Min depth for convergence zone bonus changed from 3000 to 1800 feet [MOD] Hard-limit for active sonar range [MOD] Active sonar Gain/Power for some sonars, still WIP [MOD] Updated Noesis UI to 3.2.6 [MOD] AS-4 speed/range tweak [MOD] Player units engage ONLY air targets on "Weapons Free" [MOD] F-4j gets upwards chaff as by user report: "navy phantoms were equipped with the upward firing an/ale-29" [MOD] ECMs for all US carriers, fixed some sensor mount positions [MOD] Fine-tuning of FFP [NEW] Convergence zone now applicable to Low-Frequency active sonars

04-Dec-2024: 0.1.0.6 Build #101 (15120) --------------------------------------- [FIX] Some fixes for erronous non-entry into attack states for aircraft [FIX] Phantoms sidewinder positions correction [FIX] Wrong calculation of intercept bonus [MOD] Interception bonus nerfed for high-speed missiles [MOD] MinDepthForConvergenceZones set to 3000 feet again [MOD] Another friendly fire prevention tuning [MOD] Modifications to Weapon Encyclopedia to use user changeable distance and altitude values. Also add more details to encyclopedia and localisation values for them [MOD] Russian, German and Chinese translations [MOD] Hardcoded deceleration factor value replaced by Deceleration parameter in AmmunitionParameters, it defaults to the former hardcoded value of 3.0 [MOD] AS-4 missile now uses Deceleration parameter to slow down to TerminalVelocity to simulate slowing after the start of dive due the air density [NEW] Bottom bounce for active (only LF and MF) and passive sonars [NEW] Options checkbox to allow player units to auto attack surface targets in "WeaponsFree" mode

08-Dec-2024: 0.1.0.6 Build #102 (15167) --------------------------------------- [FIX] Fueltanks could be dropped while at carrier [FIX] Null refs [FIX] M1 Abrams barrel mesh rotation fix and normalmap fx layers fix [FIX] F-15 wheels seen through Air intakes [FIX] Incorrect range for RC+Seeker missiles [FIX] Wrong ammo for T-55 [FIX] A number of fixes for gun aiming against surface tracks, mildly experimental [FIX] Albacora class chin sonar bulge shape fix [FIX] Phantoms tanks materials corrected to use proper DiffuseIBL shaders [FIX] Removed the ridiculous nerf on AIM-54 vs smaller targets [FIX] Missing merchant liveries/decals [FIX] Aircraft States take on alignment positions for LandUnits [MOD] Sonars reviewed with emphasis on active sonars effectiveness increase [MOD] Russian, German and Chinese translations [MOD] Intercept calculations for SAM [MOD] OHP and Spruance now carry AN/SQR-18A towed sonars instead TACTASS that is more modern system available from end of 80's only [MOD] Lowered the size of standard Flak airbursts, added flak_burst_large and flak_burst_large_2 for future use [MOD] T-55 Max Elevation changed from 20 to 18 degrees [MOD] Set underwater depth factor to 1 (was 2) for original depth values [MOD] Better seabed texture [MOD] Mission Editor: Massive logging for Mission file saving process, WIP [NEW] Added Noisemakers to Kilo SS [NEW] Depth dependent underwater screen rays

09-Dec-2024: 0.1.0.6 Build #103 (15176) --------------------------------------- [FIX] SAM can target closing in missiles beyond max range [FIX] Missiles used to retarget to another target at last meters of flight [FIX] Aircraft aiming problems in AI off state [FIX] Ability to spawn ports nice in encyclopedia [FIX] Null ref spam in Alignment [FIX] Uragan magazine quantity [MOD] Improved depth based fake volumetric effects

10-Dec-2024: 0.1.0.6 Build #104 (15198) --------------------------------------- [FIX] Shallow water areas should be deeper now [FIX] TLAM used to miss target and fly into sunset [FIX] Aircraft did not always launch weapons when possible [FIX] Null ref [FIX] Attempt to fix multiple minor issues in AircraftAI to make units able to attack [MOD] Russian and German translations