Combatives

Combatives Beta Changelog

This beta introduces tactical leaning as a brand-new movement feature, letting players lean left or right around cover while keeping aiming, interaction, multiplayer behavior, and third-person presentation aligned. It also includes a large round of compatibility and animation fixes for HMG and Flan’s-style armor.

New: Tactical Leaning

• Added synchronized left/right tactical leaning.
• Leaning works consistently in every facing direction.
• First-person camera lean now matches the third-person player pose.
• Lean interaction origin follows the leaned player position instead of staying centered.
• Leaning is blocked by nearby walls so the effective viewpoint cannot pass through solid blocks.
• Camera movement stays smooth while walking, sprinting, turning, and crossing block boundaries.
• Improved the third-person lean stance with better hip, torso, and leg positioning.
• Added a restrained asymmetric leg brace so the pose looks more intentional and less like the entire player model was simply rotated.
• Fixed third-person lean appearing stronger or weaker depending on which direction the player faced.
• Leaning remains synchronized for multiplayer and keeps gameplay-relevant behavior server-authoritative.

Aiming & Interaction

• Fixed first-person lean direction being visually reversed.
• Fixed mismatches between the leaned camera and the actual interaction/aiming origin.
• Leaning no longer causes camera smoothing to become choppy during normal movement.
• Camera motion remains visual-only and does not distort the authoritative point of aim.

Crawling & Swimming

• Improved player-model cleanup when entering and leaving crawl/swim poses.
• Fixed stale leg transforms that could remain after returning to standing.
• Improved pose transitions when combining crawling, swimming, leaning, and ADS.
• Preserved normal walking and running animation underneath the additional movement poses.

HMG Compatibility

• Fixed a third-person ADS issue that could prevent HMG guns from firing normally.
• Fixed HMG ADS arm poses being overwritten by Combatives crawl/swim animation.
• Improved transform ordering so HMG weapon poses and Combatives movement poses work together instead of overriding one another.

Flan's Armor Compatibility

• Fixed Flan's armor arms not matching Combatives crawl/swim poses.
• Fixed armor arms not following HMG ADS positioning correctly.
• Fixed armor leg transforms remaining misaligned after leaving crawl.
• Improved armor alignment during more complex player poses.
• Flan's armor now follows the final resolved player pose more reliably across leaning, crawling, swimming, and ADS.

Multiplayer & Stability

• Improved lean synchronization between the local player, server, and remote observers.
• Fixed several direction and interpolation issues that behaved differently depending on player orientation or movement.
• Improved pose cleanup across teleports, respawns, dimension changes, mounts, and other player state changes.

FairPlay Deprecation

• The separate FairPlay JAR is now deprecated.
• Gameplay-affecting Combatives settings are now synchronized and enforced by the server, removing the main reason for maintaining a separate FairPlay build.
• Servers should use the standard Combatives JAR and control authoritative gameplay settings through the server configuration.
• Client-only visual preferences remain local where they do not affect gameplay.

Developer Notes

• Unified lean direction around a shared player-local basis.
• Separated authoritative gameplay geometry from interpolated render geometry.
• Improved ModelBiped pose capture/restoration and compatibility ordering for HMG and Flan's ModelCustomArmour.
• Java 8 compilation and Mixin annotation processing passed for the relevant Combatives changes; final in-game compatibility validation is still recommended.
• Deprecated the FairPlay distribution in favor of the new server-authoritative runtime configuration snapshot.