Readme 1.20

Version 1.20.3 (12-14-05)

Vehicles:

• - Fixed long standing bug with spall
• - Spall will only be created on rounds that come very close to penetration

Global:

• - Added new alternative network
• - Upon login, the client will now use the best connection available to connect to the game server

Version 1.20.2 (11-09-05)

Global:

• -Fixed a grass coloring bug when disabling vertex shaders
• -Fixed a despawn infantry CTD

Version 1.20.1 (11-09-05)

Infantry:

• - Fixed Paratroopers showing the test patch

Vehicles:

• - Fixed an issue where gunsights migt not show correctly
• - Completed range finder functioanlity on Tiger
• - Added correct plate differentiation to M10 rear armor
• - Adjusted AA/AT gun rotations to pre 1.20 speeds

Terrain:

• - Removed bushes from collision detection routines
• - Added new statues to builder's bridge
• - Updated City Building
• - Fixed a flicker bug on new grass objects
• - Modified water effects shaders to incorporate changes to fog
• - Reduced haze effect in new lighting routines
• - Fixed an issue with sun glare through walls at spawn in
• - Moved the lower cloud deck up

UI/HUD:

• - Fixed missing timer display on despawn
• - All ground vehicle EWS ranges have been increased
• - Added a max range for show friendlies (view distance)
• - increased the timeout of the mission orders window to 10 minutes

Contact Reports:

• - Contact reports confirmed by the mission-leader are shared across all same-side missions to the same target city

Global:

• - Reduced minimum AOs to 2 for low server populations
• - Added builders icons to name display
• - Fixed a CTD with vehicle pointers
• - Fixed a rare CTD with tree loading
• - Fixed the bug that caused extreme z-fighting of the lower cloud layer
• - Fixed a problem where mission leaders couldn't spawn on a mobile spawn placed while they were spawned
• - Fixed a problem where mission members might be unable to mobile spawn after despawning
• - Updated translations

Settings:

• - Added checkbox to enable shaders on grass objects (older video cards should turn this off)
• - Disabled vertex shaders on trees for Mac

Version 1.20.0 (10-24-05)

Note: All nVidia users should update video drivers for use with this patch

Infantry:

• - Added new infantry death animations
• - Added multiple patch support to infantry avatars
• - Added pistol to ATRs
• - Audited grenade loadouts
• - Audited sprint time to 75 secons
• - Added new Mills Grenade art
• - Added new art for m1935
• - Despawning while riding in an airplane will no longer give RTB

Vehicles:

• - Added British C47 transport plane
• - Added British Churchill Mk. VII
• - Added French M10 tank destroyer
• - Added German Tiger I Mk. IVE
• - Added 1942 era rounds for Tiger 88mm
• - Audited performance on 1940 88mm Flak rounds (minor performance increase)
• - Audited Opel to add oil cooling system
• - Audited Opel to move engine to front of vehicle (weight and inertia)
• - Adjusted torpedo penetration and shrapnel
• - Adjusted belting on Mg42 to 150 rounds
• - Changed the mixing on idle and engine sounds
• - Fixed the hatch sound anomaly in the SdKfz.251c
• - Fixed clock in Matilda
• - Fixed a bug with turret speeds that caused inconsistency
• - Fixed sight issue on Pz38t
• - Turret sounds now cease when a player switches positions
• - Vehicles now have dynamic rank availability based on the number of tiers available in the set
• - Destroyer crew member 2 (multi-crewed) now controls fore and aft 20mm AA batteries
• - Destroyer crew member 1 (multi-crewed) now controls the 37mm AA batteries
• - Updated several sounds

Terrain:

• - Added new grass objects
• - Added new 3d buildings to replace older models
• - Added new builders statues and memorial names
• - Adjusted cloud layer altitudes (one layer moved up, one layer moved down)
• - Updated several building LoD ranges for increase graphics performance
• - Replaced all clutter bushes with speed tree objects
• - Fixed a rotation issue with trees

AI:

• - Added HE to AI/ATG
• - Added more dispersion to all ground AI for more environmental fire
• - Removed tank targeting from 20/25mm AA-FlaK guns

HUD/UI:

• - Audited colors, transparency and fonts for easier readability
• - Added new method for Multi-crewing vehicles
• - Added mobile spawn indicator to the brigade selection list
• - Added mobile spawn indicator back into mission ready room
• - Added mobile spawn choice checkbox to mission ready room
• - Added new despawn dialog with RTB status and facility information
• - Added new branch avatars to persona selector
• - Added new squads global tab to all pages
• - Added new brigade selection page; brigades are now in a treeview with active divisions and brigades expanded by default
• - Added new ready room (new vehicle selection/multicrew interface and a simplified right pane)
• - Added tool tips for most elements (tool tips hide on mouse click)
• - Added mission tab to in game map
• - Added brigade tab to in game map
• - Added Squad Tab to in game map
• - Added new offline spawn list (tree view)
• - Added HUD pop up for mission /orders and info
• - Tree view branches now expand on double click
• - List and tree controls should now keep their scroll position over refreshes
• - Fixed a bug where the ready room would resort while players were selecting vehicles
• - Vehicles list now shows class and category information (tree view)
• - Vehicles are now sorted by class
• - Vehicles that are unavailable to the player are now shown with the reason for unavailability (rank or supply)
• - Reservig a vehicle will show the vehicle description instead of the vehicle select dialog
• - Mission leaders now cancel a mission when leaving the mission
• - All units will now receive notice of RTB status when attempting to exit the game world

Squad Tab:

• - Added text fields for 8 character squad callsign
• - Added text fields for 40 character squad name
• - Added text fields for 255 character squad description
• - Added text fields for 80 character squad homepage URL
• - Added text fields for 400 character message of the day
• - Added ability for HC staff with the MOTD permission to change the side MotD - Added ability for HC staff of Colonel and above to edit Brigade MotD
• - Added fields for primary and second languages
• - Added in-game squad member (detailed list including country, branch, brigade, mission and nearest city)
• - Added "squad rank" to allow control over member permissions
• - Added in-game squad management
• - Added basic management: create, disband
• - Added resign: allows co/xo to step down while promoting someone else to their role
• - Added member management: recruit, accept, decline, leave, kick
• - Added chat based commands in addition to button commands:
• - /recruit <gamename>
• - /accept
• - /decline
• - /leave
• - /create <shortname> <longname>
• - /disdand
• - /remove <gamename>
• - /promote <gamename>
• - /demote <gamename>
• - /resign <gamename> (demotes self to XO and give <gamename> CO rank)
• - If the CO or XO try to /leave a squad with 5 or less members, the squad is disbanded
• - If anyone leaves a squad with 2 or less members, the squad is disbanded

Squad Voting:

• - Added /voteco command

Map:

• - Added min-map / compass toggle (cursor click on mini-map)
• - Added right click menus for map interaction
• - Added waypoints and a menu list of current waypoints
• - Added contact reports
• - Added mission members to the map
• - Fixed map double click bug
• - Fixed the city finder to recognize non-English characters
• - The map now opens with 'center on me' selected by default each time it is accessed

Waypoints:

• - Mission leaders may now right click on the map to set waypoints
• - Waypoints have right click menus
• - Waypoints can be made Active and will draw an arrow to them on the map
• - Waypoints have a name field for up to 10 characters
• - Waypoints have a notes field that will show a note up to 128 character
• - Attack waypoints appear as red triangles
• - Rally waypoints appear as blue triangles
• - Waypoints default to being named A1, A2 and A3, or R1, R2 and R3
• - Waypoints can be edited once they are placed
• - Waypoints will be sent to all mission members
• - Waypoints can be set to active
• - Mission Target and Origin are now displayed as waypoints

Contact Reports:

• - All friendly players on your mission will appear on the in game maps
• - Players on a mission can right click on the in game map to make a contact report
• - Players can select from infantry, ground, air or sea contacts
• - Contact reports are then sent to the missionleader for confirmation
• - The mission leader will see who the report is from and can mark the contact report as approved or delete the report
• - Approved reports will go out to everyone on the mission
• - All contact reports (approved or pending) will time out after a few minutes

Manuals:

• - New manuals global tab setup allows you to more easily access game manuals
• - Added new comprehensive vehicle descriptions
• - Added vehicle pictures
• - Offline vehicle lists now remember their state between spawns
• - Fixed spelling and informational errors in some launch tips

Keymapper:

• - Added headers to keymapper categories
• - Reordered several keymapper items
• - Renamed several keymapper items

Name Display:

• - Moved non rank icons to the right of the in game name display
• - Added mission leader icon
• - Added commander icon
• - Added builder icon
• - Added trainer icon

Chat:

• - Improved text editing (edit keys, line wrapping and vertical cursor)
• - Visual improvements to tooltips (resizing and border)
• - Improved tabview (tooltips per tab and right aligned tabs)
• - Improved who commands including /hc, /trainers, etc. (/hclist for old view)

Global:

• - Added new lighting routines
• - Updated UI and Host Messge translations
• - Fixed a cause for several UI related CTDs
• - Modified collision routine for increased performance

Host:

• - Improved host performance throughout the processes by reducing calls
• - Host is now able to provide clients with updates to the mission roster when they are spawned
• - Fixed a scoring bug which could cause random sortie scores and loss of AAR

Settings:

• - Added Post Render Filtering option to settings for new lighting routines
• - FSAA will not work with new lighting enabled
• - Added color options for setting mission mates and mission leader colors
• - Changed tree settings to be more easily understood
• - Removed "no frame run ahead"
• - Removed ability to turn off multi-texturing (auto-detect support)
• - Removed some tree settings

PlayGATE:

• - Added new PlayGATE to fix final issues with Win98/2k/NT installs to directories with spaces

Performance:

• - Dramatically reduced memory footprint
• - Improved Chat performance
• - Implemented new model structure to reduce render load
• - Added serialized object deletion to improve stutters
• - Optimized water shaders
• - Optimized texture support routines
• - Optimized vertices calculations
• - Optimized vertex buffer objects
• - Optimized materials loading
• - Optimized terrain loading of new areas for reduced stutters
• - All textures now generated at initial load (increased load time, reduced stutters)
• - All vehicles now generated at initial load (increased load time, reduced stutters)