Yes, I have been reviewing maps and mods carefully to ensure that they authorize redistribution in their README file, or don't have any onerous restrictions. Several good things have been cut as a result, but so it goes. I used to do some open source development so I know how it can be... I will make a necessary final pass and contact adlabs about it when ready if anything needs to be cleared up.

Honestly with the large number of new maps & units I was able to include in a relatively small package, I don't anticipate a need to update these or add more stuff with any kind of regularity, unless some show-stopping issue pops up somehow after everything. This new stuff will probably get us to A3 with plenty of fresh action. In that sense, it's not really a change from the current model.

Everything "super cool" that I wanted to implement I can do client-side, I think. That will update with some frequency. But it'll be 100% optional.

Hype video!

Sorry about the weird music.

Skip to 2:46 for some good stuff.

What is(are) the desert island(s) in the vid? I was looking for something in a Syria type scenario, but wasn't sure if Qom was "it."

Oh oh oh. Looks like Podagorsk made the list, tentatively, anyway.

Qom Province (which is Iran) has been dropped due a licensing issue, unfortunately, so it wasn't in the video. However, there is a desert area on Island Panthera, and Capraia looks a bit deserty as well. Both were on there. And yep, Podagorsk was really small, polished, and had a lovely license -- how could I not include it?

adlabs is kindly doing some licensing terms checks on a few of the units and the Capraia map for me. Soon I should be able to announce a final list.

Winter one looks fun! Nice video.

On the one with the bridges at 0:18 (cant think of the name offhand) I have always seen that the AI refuses to use the bridges. Can you check that?

Apologies for getting a bit off on a tangent there - I don't mean to sound overly conservative. We all have ways we like to game, and that's cool. But getting back on topic, I didn't realize the expansions menu in ArmA2 was fixed in 1.60. That's a godsend over the old practice of #%&*$# with shortcuts - something which invariably caused problems for people. And kudos about lumping things into big folders. Back in the day of ArmA1, we had one folder for all the downloadable stuff. It was just @SimHQ, and that was that. Somewhere down the line we started going with separate folders for each component - presumably to make it easier to push updates down the line. The other hand is that newcomers now have to grab and install four packs to get started. I still maintain accessibility to outsiders should be important, and so I think Tao's move towards a few unified folders is a great idea.

I've been useing it since it was introduced and not noticed any problems !

I always assume that bridges don't work with AI, for whatever reason. They don't work on Sahrani for sure either, and rarely work on Chernarus even. I just work around it by not making the AI cross them...

@fatty: Yep, the fix to the Expansions menu is much of what prompted me to go for this, since you no longer have to say to a player "add all this arcane crap to your shortcut, use a confusing launcher (or some monster colorbomb UI like SIX Updater), sacrifice a goat, etc." just for players to use an addon or two.

I have a really neat fight on Thirsk winter with a crazy snowstorm effect. It should be intense.