MH Warfare — Changelog

0.7.0 Beta 5

Beta 5 is a major infantry weapons, physical ballistics, combat presentation and performance update. It introduces the Makarov PM and AK-74M weapon systems, persistent physical bullets, improved weapon handling and animations, realistic magazines and ammunition, bullet impacts, casings, long-range projectile continuity, improved Remote View behavior and additional combat presentation improvements.

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Infantry Weapon System

• Added a shared infantry weapon framework for current and future firearms.
• Added first-person and third-person weapon handling.
• Added aiming-down-sights support.
• Added weapon-specific hand positioning and animation support.
• Added synchronized multiplayer weapon presentation.
• Added physical spent-casing entities.
• Added shared magazine and ammunition handling systems.
• Added weapon inspection support.

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Makarov PM

• Added the Makarov PM pistol.
• Added a separate 8-round PM magazine.
• Added separate 9x18 mm ammunition.
• Added semi-automatic firing.
• Added functional safety control.
• Added magazine insertion and ejection.
• Added individual cartridge loading and unloading.
• Added slide-lock behavior after the final round.
• Added dedicated firing, reload and handling animations.
• Added physical iron-sight aiming.
• Added weapon-specific firing and handling audio.
• Added physical casing ejection with ground collision and settling.

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AK-74M

• Added the AK-74M assault rifle.
• Added a separate 30-round magazine.
• Added separate 5.45x39 mm ammunition.
• Added SAFE / SEMI / AUTO fire-selector modes.
• Added automatic fire at approximately 600 rounds per minute.
• Added magazine insertion, removal and replacement.
• Added individual cartridge loading and unloading.
• Added dedicated reload and weapon-handling animations.
• Added physical iron-sight aiming.
• Added animated magazine ammunition visibility.
• Added dedicated AK-74M firing and mechanical audio.
• Added physical casing ejection.

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Physical Infantry Ballistics

• Replaced simple infantry projectile behavior with persistent physical bullets.
• Added gravity-based bullet flight.
• Added aerodynamic drag and wind influence.
• Added swept block and entity collision.
• Added continuous projectile movement across chunk boundaries.
• Bullets can continue travelling through long-distance unloaded-terrain routes.
• Unknown terrain is never treated as empty air; bullets wait until required terrain is available before continuing.
• Added a narrow terrain-loading corridor following the actual bullet trajectory.
• Removed the normal 256-bullet-per-player flight limit.
• Added bounded scheduling and workload protection for very large numbers of active bullets.
• Improved large-volume bullet simulation performance.
• Improved multiplayer tracer continuity.
• Tracer rendering uses an independent bounded render budget to protect client FPS.

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Damage and bullet impacts

• Infantry bullets can damage players, mobs and supported drone platforms.
• Added headshot detection with increased damage.
• Added projectile-based firearm damage handling.
• Added bullet impact marks on world surfaces.
• Impact marks remain temporarily before fading.
• Added bounded impact-mark density to protect client performance.
• Improved repeated-hit behavior for automatic weapons.
• Existing armor and normal damage protection remain supported.

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Weapon presentation

• Added synchronized weapon recoil presentation.
• Improved hand-to-weapon alignment.
• Added skin and sleeve rendering with weapon animations.
• Improved first-person ADS alignment with physical weapon sights.
• Added third-person aiming and rifle handling poses.
• Added magazine handling during reload animations.
• Added dedicated weapon inspection animations.
• Improved muzzle smoke placement so effects originate from the rendered weapon muzzle.
• Added smaller weapon-specific muzzle smoke.

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Weapon audio

• Added positional firearm handling audio.
• Added magazine insertion and removal sounds.
• Added reload and mechanical action sounds.
• Added dry-fire sounds.
• Added safety / fire-selector sounds.
• Added cartridge handling sounds.
• Added distance-aware firearm audio.
• Nearby weapon sounds follow the firing player.
• Distant gunshot layers remain positioned at the original firing location.

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Drone Workshop

• Improved the universal drone assembly interface.
• Reorganized component layout for different drone configurations.
• Improved 3D aircraft preview controls.
• Improved preview rotation and reset controls.
• Improved animated component connector presentation.
• Preserved existing assembly inventories, component rules and saved drone state.

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Remote View and high-speed UAVs

• Improved Remote View stability during high-speed drone operation.
• Improved camera continuity when aircraft simulation temporarily waits for terrain.
• Improved terrain-stream recovery without introducing aggressive synchronous generation.
• Added workload-aware Remote View renderer recovery.
• Improved Remote View behavior after closing and reopening drone control.
• Improved chunk-priority handling for active high-speed aircraft.
• Preserved existing RF, EW, signal and Ground Station systems.

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Long-range drone presentation

• Improved distant UAV movement interpolation.
• Improved distant aircraft attitude and roll presentation.
• Reduced visible stepping on long-range drone proxies.
• Improved high-speed aircraft presentation outside normal short entity-view distance.
• Existing physical aircraft simulation remains server-authoritative.

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Long-range explosions

• Improved distant explosion visibility.
• Added bounded long-range explosion smoke presentation.
• Added distance-delayed explosion audio.
• Improved smoke consistency between near and distant explosions.
• Added improved thermal explosion-cloud presentation.
• Distant visual effects do not force-load terrain.

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Performance and scalability

• Reduced unnecessary terrain loading around physical bullets.
• Bullet terrain requests now follow a narrow swept trajectory instead of a large surrounding area.
• Improved priority scheduling for projectile chunk requests.
• Reduced unnecessary work while bullets wait for terrain.
• Added bounded cold-terrain generation workloads.
• Improved performance with hundreds of simultaneous physical bullets.
• Client tracer rendering remains bounded independently from actual projectile simulation.
• Preserved bounded drone and Remote View chunk-loading systems.

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Summary of the biggest Beta 5 additions

• Makarov PM.
• AK-74M.
• 9x18 mm and 5.45x39 mm ammunition systems.
• Physical magazines and cartridge handling.
• Persistent physical infantry ballistics.
• Gravity, drag and wind-affected bullets.
• Long-range bullet chunk continuity.
• Removal of the normal 256-bullet flight limit.
• Physical spent casings.
• Bullet impact marks.
• Headshot damage.
• Improved weapon animations and hand positioning.
• Weapon inspection.
• Expanded firearm audio.
• Improved Drone Workshop.
• Improved Remote View and high-speed UAV continuity.
• Improved distant drone presentation.
• Improved long-range explosion effects.
• Broad projectile, rendering and multiplayer performance improvements.