Shaded War 3.0.0 (BETA.629)

The biggest update so far. It covers everything since 2.4.0-BETA.309: new drones and missiles, a rebuilt FPV and Shahed experience, a new visual effects and lighting pipeline, realistic sound, compatibility with other mods, and many fixes.

Back up your worlds before updating. Some items have been removed (see "Breaking changes").

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New content

P1-SUN Interceptor Drone

• A new FPV interceptor for hunting Shaheds. It has a bullet-shaped body, pusher props at the tail and a nose camera. It takes off on its tail and flies nose first.
• Fast enough to always catch a Shahed-136.
• Proximity fuse: a direct hit destroys a Shahed in the air, a near miss shreds its wings. The fuse also triggers on the FP-5 Flamingo and the Geran-5.
• Its own Betaflight-style OSD with battery voltage, current draw and used capacity.
• Realistic battery: drain depends on throttle.
• Its own synthesized rotor sound and an airflow layer that grows with speed.

Geran-5

• A new jet attack drone. It is fired from the FP-5 Launcher and guided through the monitor.
• Detailed model with damage states, a booster stage and its own jet engine sound.

FP-5 "Flamingo" cruise missile

• A new cruise missile with its own FP-5 Launcher and FP-5 Monitor. Targets are set by coordinates.
• Staged flight: a solid-fuel booster burn, climb, cruise and a terminal dive.
• Heavy, missile-like guidance. The missile builds speed gradually and turns with inertia, so it does not steer like a drone.
• Has a minimum launch distance; the monitor warns when the target is too close.
• Thick white booster trail, a glowing nozzle and a persistent smoke trail.
• A damaged missile glides down instead of flying on. A damaged missile cannot be launched.

Shahed-238

• A new jet-powered Shahed, available in white and black, each also in a 0.5x speed version.
• Its own model, launcher pose, jet engine sound and exhaust effects.

New FPV models

• New models for the standard 7" FPV and the 7" Strike FPV, with animated rotors.

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FPV drones

Controller and gamepad support

• New controller setup with a step-by-step wizard:
  • device selection, with automatic detection of transmitters in USB joystick mode and gamepads;
  • stick wizard that assigns and calibrates each axis, with live stick previews;
  • arm switch setup on any button or switch, with an invert option;
  • axis ranges and a deadzone setting.
• New Controller Rates screen with Betaflight-style RC Rate, Super Rate and Expo, presets and a live rate preview.

Betaflight Configurator

• The FPV Configurator has been rebuilt as a Betaflight-style configurator.
• Rates per axis (yaw, pitch, roll) with a rate preview chart.
• Physics settings: motor KV, prop diameter and pitch, drag, thrust and 3D mode.
• Rate presets (Cinematic, Freestyle, Racing) and turn speed presets.
• Drones can be named.
• Settings are saved per drone.

Flight

• Smoother, more responsive control: client-side rotation prediction now corrects against the server.
• Fixed control loss and odd behavior when drones fly far away or into unloaded chunks.
• The pilot's body no longer gets replaced by a decoy copy while flying. The player now stays in place, and the camera follows the drone.

Video and HUD

• New analog FPV video: noise, tearing and frame drops follow the receiver's signal, not your FPS.
• Reworked OSD and HUD buttons.

Pilot experience

• The FPV controller is now held with both hands in first and third person.
• The controller and hands no longer show up through the drone camera.
• While flying, the hotbar, mouse scroll, attack, use, item drop and hand swap are blocked, so you cannot use or drop items by accident.

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Shahed and the monitor

• Reworked Shahed-136 model.
• New digital video link: the image degrades with distance, link quality and jamming.
• New Shahed OSD in the same style as the FPV one.
• Optional engine vibration in the monitor camera.
• Control range up to 10,000 blocks, configurable.
• Restyled launch monitor for the Geran-5 and Flamingo.
• Damaged Shaheds trail smoke.
• Fixed Shahed-238 smoke being inconsistent when entities load and unload.
• Monitor tooltips show which drone or missile is linked.

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Explosions and visual effects

• New mod-owned VFX pipeline with its own lighting, bloom, volumetric light, contact shadows and particle trails.
• Explosions light up the world around them and briefly flash the camera.
• Heavy blasts and launches light up the night sky in their direction.
• Explosions reworked around ground dust and a rising smoke plume.
• Explosion effects for FPVs, Shaheds and the Flamingo are synchronized between server and client and show up without delay.
• Shrapnel fixes.
• Quality options with an AUTO profile that scales the effects down on low FPS.
• All effects can be tuned or turned off in the client config.

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Sound

• Explosion sound now travels at the speed of sound (343 blocks per second): you see a far-away blast before you hear it.
• Directional explosion audio: the ear facing the blast hears it louder, with distance falloff and air absorption.
• Concussion: a close blast deafens the world for a few seconds and leaves a fading ringing in the ears.
• New layered missile audio for the booster, air inlet, exhaust and airframe, with Doppler and directivity.
• New synthesized engine sounds for the FP-5 and Geran-5.
• New physically modelled 3D rotor sound for FPV drones that follows motor RPM.
• All of it is configurable in the client config.

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Long-range visibility

• Missiles and drones now stay visible far beyond normal render distance.
• Fixed the Flamingo and Geran-5 disappearing (model and hitbox) more than 3,000 blocks from the world origin. The same bug affected Shaheds and FPVs at long range.
• Distant missiles are no longer hidden by fog.

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Mod compatibility

• Immersive Vehicles (MTS):
  • vehicle guns can shoot down drones and missiles;
  • Geran-5 hits damage vehicles based on the vehicle's own HP;
  • vehicle rendering works correctly while you look through a drone camera.
• MANPADS from IV packs can lock onto and shoot down Shaheds and missiles.
• Entity Culling: missiles and drones no longer vanish or freeze.
• Drone damage respects PvP and team rules even when the drone's owner is offline or not flying it.

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Fixes and performance

• Fixed edge cases with drones unloading while being controlled.
• Better performance for explosions and particles.

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Breaking changes

• Shahed-136 (Black) has been removed as part of the model rework. The Shahed-136 now has a single variant; the black and white versions are now only for the new Shahed-238. Old black Shahed-136 items will disappear from existing worlds.
• The player decoy body that stood in for you while piloting has been removed.

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Requires GeckoLib.

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