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ACRE2 Release 2.5.0
This release focuses on a new radio, better TeamSpeak integration, a new antenna generation pipeline, AN/PRC-148 display and all-radios-are-mine-detectors fixes, as well as other various improvements and fixes.
New Radio - SEM 70
Another German radio meets ACRE2, featuring automatic channel selection for the first time in ACRE. You can read more about this beastly radio here.
TeamSpeak Channel Switching
One of the most requested features finally found its way into ACRE2, added by a contributor @tbeswick96. This feature allows hands-free switching between current and an Arma-designated channel.
Localization
Full Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese translations are a part of this update, as well as great effort on updates of Japanese, German and Polish translations.
4nec2 Antenna Calculation
All antenna calculation switched from using the old gain model to a new one, powered by 4nec2. This allows faster and easier addition of new antennas, read more about the process here.
Other
Other less but not least important additions include a box with radios for quick and easy access and gearing up and a radio preset for AN/PRC-77, for ability to set default channel via scripting. It is now also possible to open radios on the main ACE3 interaction point in addition to sub-action.
Additionally, default Terrain Loss coefficient has been changed to 0.5 (from 1.0), making ACRE2 slightly friendlier and more approachable to new users while still keeping it very realistic (old value was found to be a tad too much).
AN/PRC-148 had its display fixed after Arma 3's font-breaking update 1.72, and all radios are no longer mine detectors after mine-creating update 1.76. And thanks to @LordGolias SQF Linter, a lot of the code was improved that would otherwise be missed.
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ACRE2 Release 2.4.2
This hotfix focuses on fixing a rather annoying crash when running 64-bit build of Arma 3, as well as introduces improvements to antenna C++ code.
Additionally, IO and PRC77 components have been cleaned up and Japanese, Russian and Polish translations have been added and/or improved.
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ACRE2 Release 2.4.1
This update mainly focuses on bug fixing, general improvements, code clean-up and optimisations, as well as translations.
A direct speech bug, which became even more apparent with 64-bit version of Arma 3, has been fixed and loading into a mission should now be hassle-free without randomly making your character deaf!
Additionally, 117F and 152 radio menus are now compiled only once instead of twice during mission start and the antenna direction calculation will no longer rotate with hyper-rotational-speed. An optimisation was also implemented in reference to vanilla event handlers, they should no longer force the game to do time consuming stringy stuff.
ACE3 radio self-interaction will now hide itself if it has nothing useful to show, and the order of left, centre and right spatial configurations will no longer drive on the wrong side of the road.
Those using the acre_api_fnc_setCustomSignalFunc API to change how the signal gets calculated will now be able to reset it to default in scheduled environment as well. API documentation received some updates, if you were looking for something in the past, there is a good change it's there to be found now.
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ACRE2 Release 2.4.0
The 2.4.0 release largely focuses on fixing bugs and adding support for TeamSpeak 3.1 and Arma 3's upcoming 64-bit support.
Teamspeak 3.1 Support
ACRE2's TeamSpeak plugins have been updated to support TeamSpeak 3.1. They are not backwards compatible so updating to TeamSpeak 3.1 to use this version of ACRE2 is a must. The plugin auto-updater included with the Steam releases of ACRE2 is now included in all releases and has been updated to support the new plugin paths in TeamSpeak 3.1. One of the benefits of the TeamSpeak update is that the default plugin installation is now in application data so it can be copied to without requiring administrator privileges.
64-bit Extensions
ACRE2's now comes with 64-bit extensions making ACRE2 ready for the upcoming Arma 3 64-bit update.
Further CBA Setting Support
In the last release we introduced functionality with CBA Settings into ACRE2 for some client-side systems. In this release we have added several 'difficulty' settings which were previously changed by calling API functions.
CBA settings
Localisation
This release also has translations for the CBA Settings, ACE3 Interaction texts and key bind texts. To date we have translations for Spanish, German, Japanese, Czech, Italian and French languages.
Czech localisation
Complete changelog
Please see the changelog at - github
Download v2.4.0.941 from github
As always please report bugs on our github tracker. If you would like to discuss ACRE feel free to join our public slack (link is on our github page).
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ACRE2 Release 2.3.0
Open sourcing
With this release ACRE2 is now officially an open source project. ACRE2's source is now available on GitHub under the GNU-GPL3 license. The entire project is open sourced including the C++ extensions and TeamSpeak plugins. Anyone is welcome to fork the project as long as conditions of the license are met. Everyone is also welcome to contribute and create pull requests to the project as long as they follow the coding standards.
Documentation
As part of going open-source we have overhauled our documentation to take advantage of Jekyll for our documentation. The new documentation system can now be found here.
New Radio - SEM52SL
This release also brings the German SEM52SL into ACRE. You can read up all about the SEM52SL here.
Under the hood
Significant tweaks have been to the ACRE codebase including switching to various CBA frameworks and updated methodologies. Part of this has included shifting the client side settings that were formerly set in the teamspeak plugin into the CBA framework settings. These are now accessible in-game via Options->Game->Configure Addons
Slack
ACRE2's development slack is also now open to the public. It is the best place to be if you want to get involved or catch up with the latest with what is happening with ACRE2. It is also the only place to get official access and support to the development versions of ACRE2. You can join the slack by using our slack-in.
Complete changelog
Please see the changelog at - https://github.com/IDI-Systems/acre2/releases/tag/v2.3.0.926
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Current Version: 2.12.0.1056
Latest Release Date: 2023-10-17
Current TeamSpeak 3 Support: 3.6.2ACRE2
The Advanced Combat Radio EnvironmentIntroduction
ACRE2 is a full fledged communications suite for Arma, allowing realistic radio and voice communications through Teamspeak 3. The original ACRE released in the Summer of 2010 set the bar for communications in the Arma series and allowed what was once the tedious and long task of organizing Teamspeak or Ventrilo channels, with multiple whisper lists and no direct communications between groups, to be reduced to a natural implementation in a single Teamspeak channel. All players are able to speak with each other directly or use in game configurable radios to communicate at longer distances providing unparalleled immersion in the Arma series.
ACRE2 takes what ACRE1 pioneered to a whole new level. With increased performance and stability ACRE2 provides and even more immersive communications experience for the Arma user. Direct voice communications has had a complete overhaul and introduced new features such as occlusion from the environment, including vehicles and buildings, as well as multi-channel audio, allowing voices to be heard from multiple sources. A new virtual language feature in the Babel System allows mission makers to designate "languages" to certain players, making those that do not speak the same language indecipherable. This presents a multitude of gaming scenarios including player translators (Babel allows multiple languages per-person) and enemy communications that are unable to be understood.
The core feature of ACRE has always been radios though, and that has undergone major improvements in ACRE2 as well. A new, extremely powerful and modular distributed data system allows for a whole manner of new features to be simulated in a robust and reliable way, and powers the most realistic real time radio simulation released in either the civilian or military market. The new data system is designed to support large numbers of radios, in a JIP compatible and persistent world setup, as well as allowing for the future implementation of highly advanced features such as data event logging and radio replay ability. While the public beta only implements two functional radios at the moment the robust and well documented framework allows for rapid prototyping and easy implementation of new radio systems by ACRE as well as the community at large. The entire system is implemented in a way to maximize commonality with current Arma modding practices, going so far to even allow individual sounds of the radios to be modded by the community or any other feature.
Requirements
ACRE2 requires the latest version of TeamSpeak 3 be installed (either 32-bit or 64-bit), as well as the Community Base Addons (CBA) for Arma 3, which is available on Steam or on GitHub here.
Download
Traditional Download: https://github.com/IDI-Systems/acre2/releases/latest
Steam: You can now find ACRE2 on the Arma 3 Workshop. Our content is published under the name ACRE_Team
InstallationInstructions & Troubleshooting: https://acre2.idi-systems.com/wiki/user/installation
ACRE2 Release 2.12.0
Just now, ACRE_Team said:All compatibility packs (Global Mobilization, S.O.G. Prairie Fire, Western Sahara, CSLA Iron Curtain and newest Spearhead 1944) are now automatically loaded when necessary. Workshop items for them have been removed. Information about different compatibilities provided in the ACRE2 package can be found on our wiki.
This release adds compatibility for Spearhead 1944's Normandy terrain by @Drofseh and the Heavy Ordnance Works team, while @veteran29 expanded S.O.G. Prairie Fire compatibility with improved racks and attentuation configs.
A freeze or deadlock in the TeamSpeak 3 plugin since TeamSpeak's v3.6.0 release has also been fixed. And thanks to @mrschick, user experience has been improved when using Radios connected to an Intercom.
ACRE2 Release 2.11.0
SpoilerNew release after a year featuring The Bra terrain compatibility for S.O.G. Prairie Fire by @Dahlgren and VOIP Information API by @killerswin2 allowing implementation of Enforcer systems to force users to connect to ACRE or purely informational use (note: Enforcer system is not provided with ACRE2).
A logging issue with large data packets that were causing hitching has been fixed thanks to @JonBons, who also added a friendly debug tool for diagnosing compartment attenuation behaviour.
TeamSpeak 3 Client 3.6.0 was just released, and with that, our compatibility with the new API v26. This release also marks the first release built with the new HEMTT v1 build system, which already found some significant config issues that were fixed and improved.
ACRE2 Release 2.10.0
SpoilerNew radio joins the ACRE family - the BF-888S is a low-cost portable UHF radio with range of up to 5km in ideal condition and 16 programmable channel presets. Thanks to @Jsmuk for integration and Clark for the model.
Compatibility for two Creator DLCs: Western Sahara and CSLA Iron Curtain have been added by @Dahlgren.
Attenuation system received 2 configuration updates as well, the attenuation factor between a turned-in person and another turned-out person, as well as attenuation factor for turned-out positions between different compartments. Thanks to @Timi007 and his illustrations showcasing the new configuration for mods to use.
Lastly, internal speakers of all radios were updated with an additional low shelf filter effect, making it more apparent the audio is coming from a speaker.
ACRE2 Release 2.9.1
SpoilerSmaller update featuring S.O.G. Prairie Fire's new Khe Sanh terrain compatibility (thanks to @veteran29) and support for precompiled SQF Bytecode (SQFC), drastically improving launch and execution time. This update also brings numerous fixes and improvements.
In addition, @Drofseh prepared a set of Antenna Gain Pattern videos visualizing the signal pattern of the antenna over the supported range of frequencies. Gain patterns can be used to determine the best frequencies to use in specific conditions with a given antenna. A list of antennas and their gain pattern visualizations can be found on our wiki!
ACRE2 Release 2.9.0
SpoilerThis release adds new Gestures when using the radios. Using vanilla animations, it comes with support for two types of radios. Some radios will play a chest touching gestures, and others will play an ear touching gesture. Thanks to @Cyruz143.
Compatibility for the new Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire has also been added in collaboration with the Savage Game Design team. In addition to terrain compatibility, it also adds support for using AN/PRC-77 in the co-op campaign.
Additionally, ACE Arsenal Stats were added as well as additional and improved API. Thanks to reports and ideas from the community, voice position is now smoother, especially noticeable in vehicles.
ACRE2 Release 2.8.0
SpoilerThis release adds new God Mode speaking, allowing administrators or game masters to talk with each other or to the entire server, bypassing distance. Administrators can setup custom groups via the God Mode API and only allow access to specified players.
Spectator received a new feature - ability to listen in on radios and observe who is currently speaking on them. Clicking on a player now shows a new radio selection UI. Anyone speaking on the selected radios will be displayed in the top right corner with the radio they are speaking on. Support for other Spectator displays may be provided with use of the Spectator Displays API.
Notification System received a rigidity update and support for custom displays. Curator (Zeus), Arsenal and Spectator displays (Vanilla and ACE3) will now show notifications on top.
Documentation now contains a list of all public API functions for easy reference. Additionally some issues regarding antenna positions calculation and signal were fixed.
ACRE2 Release 2.7.4
SpoilerThis patch release features a number of optimizations and continued improvements after last release. ACRE2 is now compatible with Tobii EyeTracker thanks to @eadelon. Core communications pipe between Arma and ACRE2 extensions received a performance improvement using extension callbacks. Loading speed was also improved by threading antenna and map file searching.
ACRE2 Release 2.7.3
SpoilerWith no new features but many bug fixes (including some very old ones) and quality of life improvements, this release presents a push for stability and smooth use. LOS Multipath signal model fix stands out among other important changes.
ACRE2 Release 2.7.2
SpoilerThis smaller release contains a lot of fixes as well as some requested functionality by the community.
ACRE2 Release 2.7.1
SpoilerThis release marks a large push for numerous improvements, quality of life enhancements, fixes, customization options and compatibility with Contact (Enoch) DLC (1.94).
Community contributions include rewritten and redesigned Volume Control by mharis001, featuring a slicker user interface and cleaner code, and TMZulu' various settings for customizing Transmit Notification colors. Last but not least, Brett implemented proper tags system in TeamSpeak metadata, solving crash issues when multiple radio mods (such as ACRE and TFAR) were loaded at the same time.
Vehicle Info UI showing Intercom and Rack status has been fixed and is now compatible with latest Arma 3 update (1.94). Other fixes include several issues with radios, such as not receiving transmissions or having too long range), racks and intercoms. Together with Brett, many Zeus bugs have also been squashed and Zeus' push-to-talk for Speak from Camera now automatically activates voice in TeamSpeak.
Terrain Loss coefficient default has been set back to 1.0 after recent improvements in radio and signal handling. There are now also more signal models to choose from should you wish an easier or different signal calculation. Finally, Livonia (Enoch) compatibility has been moved to main mod folder so users no longer need to load a separate mod for full experience on the new map.
ACRE2 Release 2.7.0SpoilerThis release marks the introduction of two new systems in ACRE2: the Ground Spike Antenna (GSA) will help RTOs and command elements to stay hidden behind cover or laying prone without sacrificing signal quality and, thanks to the efforts of Brett, a much improved Zeus support has been introduced that covers spectator mode, hearing nearby players, external radios and talking from the camera location. Complementing these additions, API functions have been prepared by the ACRE2 Team to help spectator modes listen to player radios.
Another improvement in this release is the inclusion of a UI for the intercom. The new UI, donated to ACRE2 by RanTa, models in detail the functionality of the AN/VIC-3 Full Functional Crew Station. New functionality has been added to the intercom to match the UI improvements.
On the signal propagation side, casual communities may find this ACRE2 release quite appealing since it allows for the first time to select the signal propagation model. Through CBA settings Arcade, LOS Simple, LOS Multipath (default) and the new experimental Longley-Rice model can be selected.
Additionally, antenna inclination mode has been added, which will help boosting your signal strength by manually or automatically aligning, within a certain range, the antenna direction as close to the vertical as possible.
Finally, noticeable improvements in the UI have also been made in the form of getting rid of the Arma 2 notification system, in favour of a more modern and stackable solution. And last but not least, support for the upcoming Contact DLC has been added (in form of an optional mod for now).
ACRE2 Release 2.6.4SpoilerThis release provides compatibility with TeamSpeak 3.3.0 and is now backwards compatible with TeamSpeak API versions 19 through 23. It also fixes SEM 70 UI scaling.
ACRE2 Release 2.6.3
SpoilerThis release provides compatibility with Global Mobilization's Weferlingen terrain, in form of an optional mod. Additionally, it includes various fixes and enhancements.
ACRE2 Release 2.6.2
SpoilerThis release introduces some quality of life improvements, adds requested events and improves some components.
ACRE2 Release 2.6.1
SpoilerThis update fixes some bugs found in the 2.6.0 stable release and improves on usability of Vehicle Racks.
- Radios can now be removed from vehicle racks.
- Fixed API function acre_api_fnc_addRackToVehicle now works as expected.
- Enabled switching radio channel on rack radios using key shortcut. Note that radios accessible only through intercom do not have this functionality. The player must be able to open the racked radio UI in order to do this.
- Added an option to start/stop using all available rack radios in a vehicle.ACRE2 Release 2.6.0
SpoilerThis update brings the following features to ACRE2, with a strong focus on vehicle gameplay that includes vehicle racks and an overhauled intercom system emulating VIC-3 functionality.
Vehicle Racks (requires ACE3 Interaction Menu)
Vehicle racks are back to ACRE2. The use of racked radios translates into longer transmission ranges due to their increase in power and the use of larger antennas. The current system supports the following racks:
- AN/VRC-103 for the AN/PRC-117F
- AN/VRC-110 for the AN/PRC-152
- AN/VRC-111 for the AN/PRC-148
- AN/VRC-64 for the AN/PRC-77
- SEM90 for the SEM70 (with GUI interface)
Overhauled Vehicle Intercom (requires ACE3 Interaction Menu)
The new intercom system integrates with the vehicular radios, allowing transmit and receive functionality to seats without physical access to the racks. In addition, it brings support for multiple intercom networks and the ability to tweak intercom volume among other features.
Together with intercom, comes the infantry phone feature, which allows members of mechanized infantry to communicate through the intercom system with the crew inside an armored vehicle.
External/Shared Radios (requires ACE3 Interaction Menu)
It is now possible to share radios with other comrades without the need of giving them. This works for personal, backpack radios and vehicular radios.
API
API functions that deal with vehicular radios have been added for mission makers. Namely:
- acre_api_fnc_addRackToVehicle
- acre_api_fnc_areVehicleRacksInitialized
- acre_api_fnc_getMountedRackRadio
- acre_api_fnc_getVehicleRacks
- acre_api_fnc_getVehicleRacksPreset
- acre_api_fnc_initVehicleRacks
- acre_api_fnc_isRackRadioRemovable
- acre_api_fnc_mountRackRadio
- acre_api_fnc_removeRackFromVehicle
- acre_api_fnc_setVehicleRacksPreset
- acre_api_fnc_unmountRackRadio
Improvements
A new version is not exempt of optimizations, improvements and fixes, like the signal calculation fix after the 1.82 update. Translations have also received some attention although 100% localization is not yet accomplished.
Documentation
A more in depth documentation and description of the new features, both for users and mod makers, can be found on our wiki:
http://acre2.idi-systems.com/ACRE2 Release 2.5.1
SpoilerThis update mainly focuses Vanilla and upcoming ACE3 Arsenal support, TeamSpeak Channel Switching improvements, bug fixing and optimisations.
Arsenal
Vanilla Arsenal is now fully supported by ACRE2, radios will temporarily be swapped for base radios, which will make them visible and removable in the Arsenal. Additionally Arsenal will not include them in any newly saved loadouts or exports!
In addition, upcoming ACE3 Arsenal is also fully supported, displaying all radios with their channel names (as seen on picture).
TeamSpeak Channel Switching
TeamSpeak Channel Switching got improved with ability to set a Channel Password, allowing automatic switching to a pasworded channel. Thanks to CBA 3.5.0 that text is also hidden in-game! Channel name check has been improved to now compare full channel name, then words and characters at the end.
Size Reduction
Tanoa PBO, which housed height data for signal processing and was also the majority of ACRE2's size, is now removed, as map is decrypted with Arma 3 Version 1.78. ACRE2's package size went from 86 MB to 40 MB archived, resulting in over 50% reduction!
API
Custom spectator systems or other custom displays can now enjoy new API function to assign ACRE2 keybinds to that display on load. Currently only "Toggle Spectators" key is passed through, however more keybinds will be added if deemed meaningful.
ACRE2 Release 2.5.0
SpoilerThis release focuses on a new radio, better TeamSpeak integration, a new antenna generation pipeline, AN/PRC-148 display and all-radios-are-mine-detectors fixes, as well as other various improvements and fixes.
New Radio - SEM 70
Another German radio meets ACRE2, featuring automatic channel selection for the first time in ACRE. You can read more about this beastly radio here.
TeamSpeak Channel Switching
One of the most requested features finally found its way into ACRE2, added by a contributor @tbeswick96. This feature allows hands-free switching between current and an Arma-designated channel.
Localization
Full Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese translations are a part of this update, as well as great effort on updates of Japanese, German and Polish translations.
4nec2 Antenna Calculation
All antenna calculation switched from using the old gain model to a new one, powered by 4nec2. This allows faster and easier addition of new antennas, read more about the process here.
Other
Other less but not least important additions include a box with radios for quick and easy access and gearing up and a radio preset for AN/PRC-77, for ability to set default channel via scripting. It is now also possible to open radios on the main ACE3 interaction point in addition to sub-action.
Additionally, default Terrain Loss coefficient has been changed to 0.5 (from 1.0), making ACRE2 slightly friendlier and more approachable to new users while still keeping it very realistic (old value was found to be a tad too much).
AN/PRC-148 had its display fixed after Arma 3's font-breaking update 1.72, and all radios are no longer mine detectors after mine-creating update 1.76. And thanks to @LordGolias SQF Linter, a lot of the code was improved that would otherwise be missed.
ACRE2 Release 2.4.2
SpoilerThis hotfix focuses on fixing a rather annoying crash when running 64-bit build of Arma 3, as well as introduces improvements to antenna C++ code.
Additionally, IO and PRC77 components have been cleaned up and Japanese, Russian and Polish translations have been added and/or improved.
ACRE2 Release 2.4.1SpoilerThis update mainly focuses on bug fixing, general improvements, code clean-up and optimisations, as well as translations.
A direct speech bug, which became even more apparent with 64-bit version of Arma 3, has been fixed and loading into a mission should now be hassle-free without randomly making your character deaf!
Additionally, 117F and 152 radio menus are now compiled only once instead of twice during mission start and the antenna direction calculation will no longer rotate with hyper-rotational-speed. An optimisation was also implemented in reference to vanilla event handlers, they should no longer force the game to do time consuming stringy stuff.
ACE3 radio self-interaction will now hide itself if it has nothing useful to show, and the order of left, centre and right spatial configurations will no longer drive on the wrong side of the road.
Those using the acre_api_fnc_setCustomSignalFunc API to change how the signal gets calculated will now be able to reset it to default in scheduled environment as well. API documentation received some updates, if you were looking for something in the past, there is a good change it's there to be found now.
ACRE2 Release 2.4.0
SpoilerThe 2.4.0 release largely focuses on fixing bugs and adding support for TeamSpeak 3.1 and Arma 3's upcoming 64-bit support.
Teamspeak 3.1 Support
ACRE2's TeamSpeak plugins have been updated to support TeamSpeak 3.1. They are not backwards compatible so updating to TeamSpeak 3.1 to use this version of ACRE2 is a must. The plugin auto-updater included with the Steam releases of ACRE2 is now included in all releases and has been updated to support the new plugin paths in TeamSpeak 3.1. One of the benefits of the TeamSpeak update is that the default plugin installation is now in application data so it can be copied to without requiring administrator privileges.
64-bit Extensions
ACRE2's now comes with 64-bit extensions making ACRE2 ready for the upcoming Arma 3 64-bit update.
Further CBA Setting Support
In the last release we introduced functionality with CBA Settings into ACRE2 for some client-side systems. In this release we have added several 'difficulty' settings which were previously changed by calling API functions.
CBA settings
Localisation
This release also has translations for the CBA Settings, ACE3 Interaction texts and key bind texts. To date we have translations for Spanish, German, Japanese, Czech, Italian and French languages.
Czech localisation
Complete changelog
Please see the changelog at - github
Download v2.4.0.941 from github
As always please report bugs on our github tracker. If you would like to discuss ACRE feel free to join our public slack (link is on our github page).
ACRE2 Release 2.3.0SpoilerOpen sourcing
With this release ACRE2 is now officially an open source project. ACRE2's source is now available on GitHub under the GNU-GPL3 license. The entire project is open sourced including the C++ extensions and TeamSpeak plugins. Anyone is welcome to fork the project as long as conditions of the license are met. Everyone is also welcome to contribute and create pull requests to the project as long as they follow the coding standards.
Documentation
As part of going open-source we have overhauled our documentation to take advantage of Jekyll for our documentation. The new documentation system can now be found here.
New Radio - SEM52SL
This release also brings the German SEM52SL into ACRE. You can read up all about the SEM52SL here.
Under the hood
Significant tweaks have been to the ACRE codebase including switching to various CBA frameworks and updated methodologies. Part of this has included shifting the client side settings that were formerly set in the teamspeak plugin into the CBA framework settings. These are now accessible in-game via Options->Game->Configure Addons
Slack
ACRE2's development slack is also now open to the public. It is the best place to be if you want to get involved or catch up with the latest with what is happening with ACRE2. It is also the only place to get official access and support to the development versions of ACRE2. You can join the slack by using our slack-in.
Complete changelog
Please see the changelog at - https://github.com/IDI-Systems/acre2/releases/tag/v2.3.0.926
Download V2.3.0.926 from GitHub-
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ACRE2 Release 2.5.1
This update mainly focuses Vanilla and upcoming ACE3 Arsenal support, TeamSpeak Channel Switching improvements, bug fixing and optimisations.
Arsenal
Vanilla Arsenal is now fully supported by ACRE2, radios will temporarily be swapped for base radios, which will make them visible and removable in the Arsenal. Additionally Arsenal will not include them in any newly saved loadouts or exports!
In addition, upcoming ACE3 Arsenal is also fully supported, displaying all radios with their channel names (as seen on picture).
TeamSpeak Channel Switching
TeamSpeak Channel Switching got improved with ability to set a Channel Password, allowing automatic switching to a pasworded channel. Thanks to CBA 3.5.0 that text is also hidden in-game! Channel name check has been improved to now compare full channel name, then words and characters at the end.
Size Reduction
Tanoa PBO, which housed height data for signal processing and was also the majority of ACRE2's size, is now removed, as map is decrypted with Arma 3 Version 1.78. ACRE2's package size went from 86 MB to 40 MB archived, resulting in over 50% reduction!
API
Custom spectator systems or other custom displays can now enjoy new API function to assign ACRE2 keybinds to that display on load. Currently only "Toggle Spectators" key is passed through, however more keybinds will be added if deemed meaningful.
Complete Changelog and Download