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I've only tested with one mission exported to Singleplayer, but the issue appears to have been fixed in 2.0 update!!!!! 😀👍 The bugtracker issue is still open, however.

It appears that this issue (or issues) still exists in the 1.98 Old Man update. Overview attribute data still isn't being read from pbo exported to Mission folder from editor.

I just started the scenario for the first time (after Jan. 13 update). One small bug to report: soon after start there is a task to "Drive to village." I went to the map to see where I should drive to. The task text is "Accompany Arthur to his home, just outside Luganville." When I clicked on the maplink "home," its location was at the extreme southwest corner of the Tanoa map, in the ocean.

Thank heavens, the dev on Phabricator handling the issue says that a bug is the culprit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍 https://feedback.bistudio.com/T147399 🤞

Yep, and I guess it's been this way for years... 😒

I would love to hear what W0lle would have to say about this! 😅 BI is breaking their own editor functionality, and rendering many of their own Biki pages obsolete, by doing this. Not to mention wasting many hours of mission makers' time trying to figure out what is going on. There are other ways to integrate Steam data into missions. It is completely bogus that we can no longer make a mission normally to give pbo to friends or publish on ArmaHolic. 😣 Is there a workaround? I wonder if the overview data work as usual if a mission is packed as an addon instead of the export from editor as mission pbo? A pbo packed with the free version of Eliteness shows the same problem. I also tried packing with Addon Builder in Arma Tools, but the mission wouldn't open at all (I must have done something wrong).

Mission updated today for ArmA 3 1.96 and current CUP packs!

I would rather not waste time filing the issue on Phabricator unless I know that the issue is a bug rather than a known feature stealthily implemented to force users to publish missions on Steam! 😒 The fact that the issue has been around since at least 2016 suggests that the latter may be true.

Mission updated for A3 1.96 today on Steam.

Oh man. This thread is from 2016, and the issue still exists??????????????? How can that be? In 1.96 stable, I also saw the issue mentioned above that attributes of previous mission loaded in editor will display when loading a saved mission. Very frustrating. I didn't see any filed issues in A3 Phabricator for this problem..... 😖🙄

Overview text and image work fine if supplied in Steam publishing dialog when publishing or updating mission. However, the apparent inability to have overview data work normally in a .pbo made by exporting to SP/MP from Eden editor is a problem. Could it be true that BI delegated all overview data to the Steam system and removed the ability to make pbos with all overview data self-contained? Seems unlikely to me......

Hello, I've been away from A3 for over a year, and am trying to get back to mission making. I'm having a strange problem with mission overview text and images. Neither of these work as they used to, no matter if I use overviewText and overviewPicture in description.ext, or fill out the overview sections in Attributes/General in the 3d editor. No matter what I do, after exporting mission to Singleplayer from editor and selecting the mission in the scenario mission list, the overview image is not shown and the mission name comes out as the mission folder name (e.g. blahblah.island), and the author is "Unknown Community Author." Loading screen images and text work as normal. Could someone help me find out what is going on? Even more strangely, I subscribed to a mission I published on the Workshop years ago. When viewing the newly-downloaded mission under Scenarios, my overviewPicture has been replaced with my loadScreen picture, and my overviewText has been replaced with.........the description I typed in when publishing the mission (the mission description that appears on the Steam Workshop page for my mission!) What??????????????????? Have there been some major changes regarding overview text and images? Or am I screwing something else up? I spent at least an hour wading through the Biki pages and found nothing about possibly related changes..... Thanks in advance......

I saw the big 1.64 update on Steam, which I assume was for stable branch (?). Isn't that the EOL version? Or will more changes be made? To run Combined Ops, should the stable version of A2 be run, or the beta version?

Yes, I concur that Bear Rising "airport issue" has been fixed! Using A2 beta.

Does A2 beta still = A2 stable? Or should we test the A2 beta?