What changed in Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered in 2026

A soldier carrying both binoculars and night-vision goggles raises the binocular model instead of the night-vision model.

Windows profiles, settings, caches, and custom media work when the user or folder name contains non-ASCII characters.

Gastovski now sits on the office chair in the CWC prologue and epilogue scenes.

Leaving a multiplayer session after server traffic stalls now offers Disconnect and closes the session instead of opening an unusable debriefing screen.

Holding the Turbo modifier while driving now increases vehicle speed.

Total-conversion mods can replace the base game configuration without unwanted vanilla classes appearing in the editor.

The 1985 and Resistance campaigns show the correct debriefing text and linked Intel page for every reachable mission outcome.

Map zoom in, map zoom out, and cheat entry can be rebound, with localized control names in all eight supported languages.

Dedicated servers no longer hang during shutdown when a player connection arrives during session teardown.

Text input and IME processing is active only while an editable text field has focus, preventing unwanted pop-ups and swallowed keys.

Runtime mission objects no longer reuse terrain object IDs, preserving damage and scripted access to map objects.

Windows crash dumps preserve the original exception location and retry with a smaller dump when a full dump cannot be written.

Audio is silent while the game is unfocused and resumes at the correct position when focus returns.

Mods can provide their own single-player missions, multiplayer missions, editor templates, and intro cutscenes without files being copied into the player profile.

The CWC prologue shows the telephone handset in Gastovski's hand, and binocular-slot items supplied by mods are also drawn correctly.

Multiplayer and standalone missions can save and restore scripted status data such as persistent loadouts and mission options.

Profiles created before the new actions were added receive their default bindings without losing existing custom bindings.

Mod islands can provide their own main-menu intro scenes from an Anims folder.

Custom profile field-of-view values remain active after startup and window-size changes.

AI heal, rejoin, and remote-command processing no longer retain destroyed temporary subgroup data.

Brightness and gamma are shown and adjusted as exact decimal values, and untouched profiles receive the intended 1.2 gamma default.

Mods can provide replacement TrueType fonts, including fonts with non-Latin character sets.

HTML entities in mission descriptions display correctly as accented characters and non-breaking spaces.

Now detects and installs updated revisions of mods from the MODS storage.

Classic 4WVR and RVW community islands once again load their buildings, walls, trees, and other placed objects.

New and existing profiles that used Unlimited now default the frame-rate limit to the display refresh rate, while Native and Unlimited are explained in all supported languages.

Saved difficulty options such as Enemy Tag and Ultra AI remain active after restarting the game.

Recoil settings inherited through temporary configuration classes no longer use expired configuration data.

Invalid launch options and early startup failures show a dialog with the relevant log and crash-report locations.

On unlocked non-JIP servers, late players wait for the next mission while players already connected continue into the current mission.

Perform Action appears in the Gunner controls, while Fast Forward and Slow Forward appear in Vehicle controls.

Dedicated servers no longer crash when a script updates an objective that would normally display an on-screen hint.

Windows warns before startup when an outdated Microsoft Visual C++ runtime is loaded.

The controls screen accepts modifier-only and modifier-plus-key bindings, lets players clear either binding slot, highlights the selected slot, and scrolls long key names.

Desktop launches keep the ten most recent game logs and crash reports in the user data folder.

Gamma correction now works consistently on Windows and Linux without changing the whole desktop display.

Squad names, member details, and insignia remain available to join-in-progress players and resolve correctly from profiles with non-ASCII paths.

Available for compatible missions.

Support for modern peripherals and Steam Deck.

Optimized for current systems.

Remastered clients cannot connect to classic servers and vice versa.

Remastered version does not replace the classic version.

Allows community to study and experiment with the technology behind the original game.

The remastered version of Arma: Cold War Assault is now available, preserving original gameplay while modernizing the engine.

Renderer tuned to preserve the original atmosphere.

Remastered version uses separate profile and configuration data.