Comfirmed. Same issue when testing the provided repro steps.

The behaviour has also been observed with CH View Distance's interface, which i thibk comfirms that opening any GUI ia causing the controls to go haywire.

What is the plausibility of BI adding some sort of checks as MagirotV mentioned before the next major patch?

Though I understand that F3 Framework does a lot of nice things, just from talking to Khaos I have understood that its no easy process to achieve the same thing that you can with direct init field equipping. The only difference is that one will break when a player JIP's and the other wont.

Virtual Arsenal was a godsend when it came to setting up loadouts and equipment for missions but the point of it having an export button is completely useless if we can't utilise that feature.

I thank you for giving us a workaround for now, at least we can use it to stop the lengthy gearing up period at the beginning of our missions, but its rather important for a game that boasts one of the most powerful editors out there that you can at least give the units in the mission the equipment they actually need.