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Hello everyone! It's time for another stable release of ACRE! This time major priority has been given to stability and bug fixes, with a focus on radio reliability, which we view as the core of our modification. We have found and fixed or mitigated a number of issues related to ACRE and its components, in both the TS3 plugin and the Arma code. This includes an almost total overhaul of the spectator system, which now works very well when turned on by spectator scripts.

Increased stability hasn't been the only thing achieved in this release though. Time has been spent on additional features, the most major of them being 4 different modes for direct speaking. In addition to the original static volume curve for direct speaking voice fall off we have implemented an additional 3 modes.

The first of which is our new Amplitude mode, in which the range of a persons voice directly corresponds to the amplitude of the speaker;yelling is yelling, whispering is whispering. This is the most immersive mode we have right now and really increases the feeling of being there. While this mode is very stable, it does rely heavily on coordinated calibration with the people who play, mics being too quiet or too loud will cause people to sound unnaturally louder or softer than they should be. Because of this we plan in the future to introduce a calibration tool to help stabilize people's voice levels. Until then though this mode is not the default mode.

The last two modes are also highly requested features. Taking inspiration from the original A2TS mod that ACRE owes its spirtual origins to we have introduced two modes that allow dynamic selection of the voice curve. While we do not provide an interface as of yet for these new features there is an extensive API for the system and already multiple communities in the ACRE testing group have developed their own systems for changing the range at which someone's voice travels.

Another major change has been some fixes to 5.1/7.1 handling in Teamspeak 3. While this code is still somewhat unstable due to the nature in how TS3 handles (or mishandles maybe) audio data, it is available for you to try. We hope that you have success with this, but can not guarantee any stability.

We hope that the new stability and features of ACRE 1.4 continue to impress and as always our goal is to exceed any and all expectations in regards to game communications; allowing for the most realistic and immersive communications engine within ANY current simulation or video game on the market today.

The ACRE team would like to thank the entire ArmA2 community for its support, and is proud to announce the latest stable version of the addon for everyones enjoyment.