Patch 1.60 - The Good News and The Bad News

[Suma]

Good news

The good news is we have made very promising progress with multiplayer interpolation, which looks like it could have a huge impact on solving jerkiness and jumping of remote units in multiplayer. The progress was so good we are now inclined to include this in the 1.60 version, as it looks we will be able to finish this a lot faster than we expected a week ago.

Bad news

The bad news is this is likely to delay the 1.60 patch a few weeks - you are already seeing this on the state of the beta patch. While the interpolation is not enabled in it still, it contains some preparation steps which are not well tested yet, and are causing crashes, funny footsteps, visual jerkiness issue.

Please, consider the patches 84391 and newer "highly experimental" again until the situations stabilizes a bit, which we hope should be within a week.

We apologize to those who already expected the 1.60 to be released "anytime" now, we think the improvement we are likely to make within the weeks to come will make the update worth waiting for.

[Zenu]

1.60 is going to be so awesome :-). Waiting for it like a child for christmas.

[Sickboy]

Thanks a lot Suma, appreciated!

[GossamerSolid]

If 1.60 is going to make major improvements to warping issues as you say, then delay it as long as you want.

[*TCF*Jackal]

I dont see any bad news there at all! Good work guys. If that specific issue can be improved or even better, resolved, then as Gossamer says, please take your time.

[PurePassion]

I always, and especially in this case, like when you take quality as top priority.
Deliever the best work you can. When doesnt matter that much

Thanks a lot!

[LondonLad]

I'm all for delays to a patch release if there's further tweaks/amendments/changes that can be included for the better

*thumbs up here*

[Horus]

... we think the improvement we are likely to make within the weeks to come will make the update worth waiting for.

Community thinks the same

[Xeno]

Very good decision. Hopefully it brings back those players who have already given up ArmA MP

Xeno

[dontknowhow]

no need to say I agree with everything has been said so far. More quality is worth more time, unless it's years