MH Warfare 0.4.0 Beta 2

The second public beta release of MH Warfare is now available.

This update focuses on a much more stable long-range FPV experience, the new Chuyka 4.0 passive video-interception system, improved high-speed Remote View streaming, multiplayer fairness, more precise mortar controls, operator-relative spatial audio, bounded explosion and smoke effects, improved own-airframe FPV rendering, updated Baba Yaga and Chuyka models, and a large collection of stability and rendering fixes.

Highlights

• Added the Chuyka 4.0 passive FPV video detector and interception receiver
• Significantly improved high-speed and long-range Remote View streaming
• Improved multiplayer fairness for multiple active fast drones and Remote View sessions
• Added separate control, video, telemetry, and navigation signal channels
• Added reliable high-speed Molniya-1 swept entity contact
• Added precise 1-degree mortar azimuth adjustment and held-input rotation
• Added operator-relative spatial drone and incoming-mortar audio
• Added bounded explosion debris, terrain-following smoke, hot plumes, LOD, and volumetric airburst clouds
• Improved own-airframe visibility in FPV for supported drones
• Fixed Chuyka camera direction, water/translucent rendering, and player geometry
• Added refreshed Baba Yaga and Chuyka 4.0 models

Chuyka 4.0

• Added the portable Chuyka 4.0 passive analogue FPV detector
• Added four receiver bands: 1.2 GHz, 3.3 GHz, 5.8 GHz, and 8.6 GHz
• Added a stepped full-band scanning cycle
• Added read-only interception of eligible unencrypted analogue FPV video
• Added live intercepted video to the held Chuyka screen
• Added live service information to the physical status screen
• Added red signal-detected and green no-signal indicators
• Added a local warning chirp for newly detected compatible video signals
• Added Chuyka alert enable/disable and volume controls
• Added an internal battery simulation and external battery packs
• Added a dedicated receiver menu and scanning interface
• Added English, Ukrainian, and Russian localization for the receiver
• Detection remains server-authoritative
• Digital, encrypted, fibre-optic, and satellite traffic is not exposed by the receiver
• Intercepted video is read-only and does not grant flight, payload, or detonation control
• The scan packet does not expose source coordinates, direction, distance, platform name, or owner identity
• Powered receivers can continue scanning while carried in the player inventory
• Manual signal selection survives closing and reopening the receiver interface
• Automatic tuning follows the nearest eligible analogue source when no manual selection is active
• The held screen and GUI reuse the same Remote View stream instead of creating duplicate world sessions
• The player world remains visible normally while the intercepted drone view is rendered into a dedicated offscreen target
• Repeated held/menu transitions no longer unnecessarily tear down and recreate the Remote View session
• Added warm isolated-renderer reuse for faster repeated Chuyka activation
• Fixed the intercepted camera using an unconfigured or stale offscreen camera transform
• Fixed intercepted video pointing in a different direction from the actual drone camera
• Fixed water and translucent terrain becoming stretched, detached, or screen-space aligned
• Fixed player/entity geometry becoming stretched or displaced inside the Chuyka video
• Matched the isolated renderer auxiliary targets to the Chuyka framebuffer size
• Preserved the normal player camera, render target, and sound listener after every offscreen pass
• Updated the Chuyka 4.0 physical model with a wider video screen
• Reduced the top and bottom letterbox area without stretching or cropping the intercepted image

Signal and Electronic Warfare Foundation

• Split drone links into independent control, video, telemetry, and navigation roles
• Added transport metadata for analogue RF, digital RF, fibre optic, satellite receive, and disconnected links
• Added band, logical-channel, encryption, jamming-resistance, and interception metadata
• Added server-authoritative quality, latency, packet-loss, interference, and link-state snapshots for each channel
• Added role-specific range calculations while preserving existing compatibility paths
• Extended direct and SYCH-1 relay routes to calculate channel state independently
• Added platform signal profiles for SYCH-1, Wild Hornets, Mavic, P1-SUN, Molniya-1, and Baba Yaga
• Separated camera sensor type from video transport
• Added analogue RF video artifacts including noise, scanlines, desaturation, sync tearing, and moving static
• Added digital video degradation including macroblocks, unstable-frame masking, and hard video loss
• Preserved clean video behavior for non-RF transports where applicable
• Added additional signal diagnostics for control, video, and telemetry quality

Remote View and High-Speed Flight

• Reworked high-speed Remote View scheduling around camera-critical terrain
• Added predictive, camera-critical, and background streaming lanes
• Added bounded world-generation admission instead of repeatedly restarting unresolved generation work
• Added server load-governor and headroom checks for expensive terrain work
• Added bounded stream leases and loading ownership
• Added persistent progressive renderer-liveness recovery
• Avoided synchronous full renderer rebuilds during normal high-speed flight recovery
• Decoupled guaranteed camera coverage from predictive forward lead
• Added a client-ready bootstrap so useful first-flight delivery begins when the isolated renderer is ready
• Improved stream-center stability during fast flight
• Improved stale-packet rejection when the camera window moves
• Improved terrain and light delivery pacing
• Improved Remote View continuity through fresh terrain
• Preserved responsive drone control while background terrain is allowed to fill later
• Improved P1-SUN operation at approximately 300+ km/h without force-loading the full visual window as an entity-ticking area
• Distant background pop-in may still occur at very high speed, but camera-critical terrain and control are prioritized
• Improved recovery from temporary remote-renderer terrain loss
• Preserved the accepted Remote View radius and avoided uncontrolled radius inflation

Multiplayer and Session Fairness

• Added fair-share physical corridor scheduling for multiple fast drones
• Added rotating/round-robin ordering instead of allowing one active drone to permanently monopolize shared loading work
• Improved shared unresolved-load behavior for simultaneous high-speed aircraft
• Preserved per-viewer Remote View session isolation
• Preserved per-session acknowledgement and readiness handling
• Preserved server-authoritative control ownership and validation
• Improved behavior when multiple Remote View pilots are active at the same time
• Kept expensive shared work bounded to protect server tick time

Molniya-1

• Added bounded swept entity contact for high-speed Molniya-1 flight
• Reduced the chance of valid entity impacts being skipped between server ticks
• Preserved the existing Molniya-1 flight model, launcher flow, damage, and detonation systems
• Kept collision handling bounded instead of adding an expensive unrestricted sweep

Mortar Controls

• Added precise 1-degree mortar azimuth adjustment
• Added bounded held-input repeat for smoother continuous rotation
• Replaced coarse azimuth jumps with more controllable aiming behavior
• Preserved existing mortar ballistics, ammunition, firing modes, damage, and Remote View synchronization

Spatial Audio

• Improved drone audio direction relative to the actual operator/listener context
• Improved incoming mortar whistle direction while using FPV and Remote View
• Restored the correct local sound listener after Chuyka offscreen rendering
• Preserved existing radio and proximity-voice systems

Explosion and Smoke Visuals

• Added bounded explosion visual budgets
• Added terrain-textured debris without unbounded entity creation
• Added persistent near-surface smoke with controlled lifetime and density
• Added terrain-aware smoke placement using loaded-world information
• Added rising hot-plume behavior
• Added ceiling-aware lateral smoke flow
• Added distance-based LOD and deterministic update staggering
• Reduced the chance of large barrages producing synchronized visual spikes
• Added irregular volumetric airburst smoke for true aerial detonations
• Added multi-lobe airburst shapes instead of flat or uniform clouds
• Kept particle budgets bounded for normal and Remote View rendering
• Preserved gameplay damage independently from visual smoke complexity

FPV Camera and Airframe Improvements

• Improved own-airframe visibility in FPV for Wild Hornets, P1-SUN, Molniya-1, Mavic, and Baba Yaga
• Kept physically appropriate parts of the drone visible to the operator
• Hid only the camera/gimbal subtree where necessary instead of hiding the entire aircraft
• Preserved SYCH-1's established camera behavior
• Fixed Baba Yaga's camera mount so it follows body yaw, pitch, and roll
• Removed the old yaw-only/world-up camera offset behavior
• Prevented Baba Yaga front geometry from incorrectly entering the FPV lens during body rotation
• Updated the Baba Yaga model and synchronized the camera mount with the new authored geometry
• Updated the Chuyka 4.0 model while preserving functional screen, indicator, antenna, and control bones

Performance and Stability

• Reduced unnecessary renderer teardown/recreation during repeated Chuyka use
• Reused a quiescent warm renderer shell where safe
• Kept expensive terrain work bounded by server load and per-owner budgets
• Improved fairness between simultaneous high-speed drone workloads
• Reduced the risk of repeated synchronous renderer refreshes during flight
• Preserved packet pacing and stale-session protections
• Preserved registry IDs, UUID workflows, and compatible saved drone data
• Preserved normal player-world rendering while Remote View operates in an isolated client world
• Preserved dedicated-server classloading separation for client-only rendering code

Fixed

• Fixed high-speed Molniya-1 entity impacts being missed between ticks
• Fixed coarse mortar azimuth stepping
• Fixed repeated Chuyka held/menu transitions causing unnecessary Remote View teardown
• Fixed repeated Chuyka activation paying the full isolated-renderer setup cost every time
• Fixed Chuyka intercepted video using the wrong camera transform
• Fixed the Chuyka image heading disagreeing with the physical drone camera heading
• Fixed broken water/translucent composition inside the Chuyka monitor
• Fixed water appearing as a large screen-space wedge or floating layer
• Fixed local and remote player geometry becoming stretched or displaced in Chuyka video
• Fixed mismatched auxiliary render-target sizes during the Chuyka offscreen pass
• Fixed Baba Yaga FPV camera placement not following full aircraft body rotation
• Fixed several own-airframe FPV visibility inconsistencies
• Fixed several long-range Remote View renderer-liveness and stale-terrain edge cases
• Fixed unfair shared physical loading behavior between multiple fast drones
• Fixed several spatial-audio listener-context inconsistencies during Remote View

Visual Improvements

• Added improved analogue FPV interference presentation
• Added live video and service displays to the Chuyka 4.0 model
• Added functional Chuyka alert indicators
• Added a refreshed wider Chuyka physical video screen
• Added updated Baba Yaga and Chuyka models
• Added more natural explosion debris and smoke presentation
• Added hot-plume, ceiling-flow, LOD, and volumetric airburst smoke behavior
• Improved the amount of the controlled drone body visible in FPV without blocking the camera
• Preserved English, Ukrainian, and Russian localization parity

Compatibility

• Preserved dedicated-server support
• Preserved existing registry IDs
• Preserved existing drone UUID and Drone Registry workflows
• Preserved compatible NBT data for existing supported platforms
• Preserved keyboard, mouse, and joystick control systems
• Preserved universal ordnance and mortar compatibility
• Preserved electronic warfare, radio, and native proximity-voice systems
• Preserved Remote View session isolation and server-authoritative control validation
• Install the same MH Warfare build and GeckoLib version on every client and server

Fibre FPV Scope

Experimental Khizhak-13 fibre-optic FPV development is not included in the player-facing Beta 2 release. The fibre drone, spool, cable-physics, snag, remnant, and related experimental systems remain archived as separate future R&D and are not required by this release.

Requirements

• Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.1
• Minecraft Forge 47.4.x
• Java 17
• GeckoLib 4.8.4 or newer compatible 4.x version
• Installation on both the client and dedicated server

Important

MH Warfare remains beta software.

Although this release has received extensive development and runtime testing, edge-case bugs, balance issues, very-high-speed distant terrain pop-in, and mod compatibility problems may still occur.

Back up important worlds before updating. The same MH Warfare and GeckoLib versions must be installed on the client and server.