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BetterMuzzleFlashes Arma Reforger Mod

Enhance your experience with BetterMuzzleFlashes, offering heightened realism and enhanced visibility for muzzle flashes, accompanied by lifelike smoke effects.

59674C21AA886D57
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Ranking

Popular#45997.9Falling#110382.3
235Serversrunning this mod
120Observed players nowon servers reporting this mod
27.1kEstimated player-hours (7d)7-day data
DeploymentTop 1%98.9ahead of 99% of tracked mods by servers running it
ActivityTop 4%96.4ahead of 96% of tracked mods by play on those servers
Popularity97.9deployment and activity combined
How those 235 installs happen97% traced
  • Not identified as a dependency226
  • Required by another mod3
  • Unknown6
Last 30 days
Servers, last 30 days
234 latest261 peak, 10 Oct192 low, 4 Oct

Servers reporting the mod in each hourly observation. Last 30 days.

Daily values
Servers, last 30 days, one row per day (UTC)
DayLastPeakLowObs.
19 Sept2332412299
20 Sept23724722624
21 Sept23724322324
22 Sept24125023024
23 Sept24424822524
24 Sept24524924224
25 Sept24325524324
26 Sept25125724624
27 Sept24025322624
28 Sept23224122824
29 Sept23223922724
30 Sept24324423224
1 Oct24024423424
2 Oct21523921424
3 Oct20421820024
4 Oct21922319224
5 Oct22522921324
6 Oct23023322424
7 Oct22723821524
8 Oct24124222924
9 Oct24724723224
10 Oct24326124324
11 Oct24525423624
12 Oct24125124024
13 Oct24625024024
14 Oct24224923324
15 Oct22724522724
16 Oct22523522024
17 Oct22423121924
18 Oct23224822324
19 Oct23424223315
Observed players, last 30 days
58 latest422 peak, 11 Oct18 low, 2 Oct

Sampled player counts on servers reporting the mod; not unique players. Last 30 days.

Daily values
Observed players, last 30 days, one row per day (UTC)
DayLastPeakLowObs.
19 Sept2613341049
20 Sept2633517224
21 Sept1972764024
22 Sept1432335124
23 Sept2092463824
24 Sept1472403824
25 Sept1222292624
26 Sept2312653624
27 Sept2353763424
28 Sept1862433724
29 Sept1302032224
30 Sept1361832724
1 Oct1011722124
2 Oct1372061824
3 Oct1722632824
4 Oct2363383824
5 Oct1592375124
6 Oct1712425524
7 Oct1772523724
8 Oct2132694524
9 Oct2113086224
10 Oct2493657624
11 Oct2584228024
12 Oct2383204024
13 Oct1893103724
14 Oct1823254624
15 Oct2172343824
16 Oct1873135524
17 Oct2262755524
18 Oct2233808524
19 Oct582435815

Calculated Oct 19, 2026, 2:13 PM UTCDerived from observed server and mod activity. Trend positions describe recent observed change, not future adoption.

Summary

Enhance your experience with BetterMuzzleFlashes, offering heightened realism and enhanced visibility for muzzle flashes, accompanied by lifelike smoke effects.

Official Workshop description

Enhance your experience with BetterMuzzleFlashes, offering heightened realism and enhanced visibility for muzzle flashes, accompanied by lifelike smoke effects. If you want to support my work - boosty.to/suvwar //v2313 going insane //meh //v2.3.8 trying to fix 1.8 freeze #4 //v2.3.7 trying to fix 1.8 freeze #3 //v2.3.6 trying to fix 1.8 freeze #2 //v2.3.5 trying to fix 1.8 freeze //2.3.2 suppressor effects improved //2.3.1 RHS support added (more custom effects) [2026.07.05] //v2.3.0 Fix for 1.7, many tweaks and improvments [2025.11.21] - FINAL UPDATE: This mod is no longer supported. Please read the description and "Betters Mods" branch on Arma server for details. Thank you for everything. //v2.2.3 Exp - stable //v2.2.1 WCS AK12 and AKM muzzle flashes and smoke compat //v2.2.0 Fixed M2 flash, increased light visibility from shots and setted timings, tweaks for all muzzle flashes, suppressed effects improved //v2.1.10 AK sparks reduced //v2.1.9 Small fixs //v2.1.8 Tweaks for actual light from muzzle flash, updated screenshots and previewe //v2.1.3 Many effects improved, improved ground smoke, now ground smoke is affected by muzzle device (for example ak with flash hider has more ground smoke on sides), removed ground smoke for suppressors //v2.1.2 Ground smoke improved, RPG effects moved here from BHE, smoke effect improved on some weapoms //v2.1.1 Screenshot updated //v2.1.0 Suppressors reworked, RHS compability improved //v2.0.11 Some fixes. Ground smoke improved //v2.0.9 Test //v2.0.8 AK-74 more realistic smoke and flash, m16 smoke improvments, tweaks //v2.0.7 Tweaks //v2.0.6 Hotfix //v2.0.5 Hotfix //v2.0.4 Hotfix //v2.0.3 Hotfix //v2.0.2 Hotfix //v2.0.1 Hotfix //v2.0.0 Re-made from scratch, better now //v1.5.0 Experimental > Stable //v1.4.3 Improvments //v1.4.3 New ground smoke (and now side smoke, if you shoot close to wall, small hill etc) system, some improvments //v1.4.1 Horfix //v1.4.0 Optimization, improvments //v1.3.9 Description update //v 1.3.8 Tweaks //v 1.3.7 Quick update for Arma Reforger 1.0, slightly optimized muzzle smoke for some weapons. Will be continue to improving //v 1.3.6 Improvments //v 1.3.5 Improvments //v 1.3.4 Improvments //v 1.3.3 New system for muzzle flashes //v 1.3.2 Optimization, tweaks //v 1.3.1 Fixes //v 1.3.0 Optimization, improvments //v 1.2.9 Зашибись //v 1.2.8 Minor changes //v 1.2.7 Optimization, reduced ammount of smoke //v 1.2.6 Some changes //v 1.2.5 Some changes //v 1.2.2 Minor changes //v 1.2.1 Minor changes //v 1.2.1 Some impr //v 1.2.0 Big update! Now smoke is longer lifetime and other improvments! //v 1.1.3 Some fixes //v 1.1.2 Vz58 effects added //v 1.1.1 Improvments of ground smoke and others //v 1.1.0 Some improvments //v 1.0.9 Merge version from experimental branch //v 1.0.8 AK-74 Ground smoke fix //v 1.0.7 Some fixes //v 1.0.6 Added ground smoke effect, like in arma 3 (will be better) //v 1.0.5 New smoke effects for all weapons and new flashes for heavy mg //v 1.0.4 Fixed muzzle flash from MGs //v 1.0.3 Glows more, so its more noticeable from a distance //v 1.0.2 Less sparks and some fixes //v 1.0.1 First version, may be baggy

Servers running this mod

236

236 currently listed servers report BetterMuzzleFlashes in its mod list. Showing the 5 with the most players.

View all 236 servers

Versions

10
published · approved · 87.7 KiB
published · approved · 87.9 KiB
published · approved · 88.5 KiB
published · approved · 88.6 KiB
published · approved · 88.8 KiB
published · approved · 89.1 KiB
published · approved · 89 KiB
published · approved · 88.8 KiB
published · approved · 88.8 KiB
published · approved · 88.8 KiB
2.3.18Game 1.8.0.13 · 87.7 KiB · Sep 27, 2026
Dependencies: 0Scenarios: 0PublishedApproved
No changelog text is available for this version.

config.json entry

{
  "modId": "59674C21AA886D57",
  "name": "BetterMuzzleFlashes",
  "version": "2.3.18"
}

Use BetterMuzzleFlashes on your server

Add BetterMuzzleFlashes to the game.mods array of your server config.json. The config generator builds the full file, the mod manager keeps the mod list and its dependencies organized, and the config validator checks an existing config. The adding mods guide and mod dependencies guide walk through it step by step.

Fetch this mod from the API

The same metadata is available as JSON. See the API quickstart, the V2 reference, or the V1 reference.

GET https://api.reforgermods.net/v2/mods/59674C21AA886D57
GET https://api.reforgermods.net/v2/mods/59674C21AA886D57/versions

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