Steve's Army 0.4.0

Vehicle Crew

• New role: Vehicle Crew — post soldiers on ships to man hull machine guns and periscopes (uses tallyho stations)
• Board crew via the crew assign stick, spawn egg on a seat, or the vehicle wheel's Mount Crew order; crew ignore infantry squad orders and are managed from a dedicated crew tab in the squad command screen
• Hull MG fire control now follows the infantry doctrine: burst discipline, suppressive fire with beaten-zone spread, and live-target verification (no more firing at dead targets)
• Crew stay seated at their stations across server/world restarts
• Dying as a soldier can respawn you into a seated crew member's seat
• Crew seats work on multi-ship vehicles (tanks built from stacked sub-ships)
• Seated soldiers now sit on the cushion instead of hovering above it

Vehicle Orders

• New vehicle control wheel — left-click ping wheel with cycling pages: MOUNT, DISMOUNT, and MOUNT CREW orders for your squad
• VS Analog Warfare mount handle integration: MOUNT/DISMOUNT prefer linked handles, creating them when needed

Misc

• Pick-block now copies enemy soldiers with their loadout too
• Fixed smoke being ignored when the perception frame optimization is enabled
• Refined role selection interaction (role dropdown controls)
• Fixed enemy soldiers spawning with infinite initial ammo
• Skin system: SkinKnife for switching skins, folder-based skin loading (stevesarmy/skins/*.png), a config to randomize skins on spawn, and automatic server-to-client skin sync
• Dropdown in the squad command screen to change an individual soldier's fireteam
• Client toggles for soldier glow and name tags

Cover System

• Cover positions that don't protect against the current threat are now hard-blacklisted
• Major reliability rework: fail-safe cover state machine, faster threat reaction, cover-target churn fixes
• Fixed full-cover peek stalling and returning deadlocks

Roles

• New Role: Support (Medic) with resupply pouch; recognizes lrtactical healing consumables
• Command sticks for repositioning soldiers to garrison points (garrison/team garrison)
• Fixed support role peeking, resupply safety, and multi-gun ammo

Commands

• Callsign squads and a full ComputerCraft command toolkit for scripting battles with computer-controlled squads

Performance

• Reduced MSPT spikes: perception frame, tactical work admission, and bounded cover searches
• Multithreaded async A* pathfinding (enabled by default)
• Optimized detection ray tracing

Fireteam Suppression System

• Fireteam suppression now governs attack/peek behavior
• If an entire fireteam is pinned, they peek less and advance more slowly while attacking
• Attacking fireteams that get suppressed deploy smoke grenades when available

Attack Mode Refinement

• The soldier at the front waits for the soldiers at the back, and stragglers speed up to catch up with the group

VS Compat

• Fixed visibility — soldiers can no longer see (or shoot) through ships