Changelog

All notable changes to AH-64 are recorded here.

The version in AH64Plugin.MODVERSION and Build/manifest.json must always match — NetworkCompatibility is EveryoneNeedSameModVersion, so a mismatch presents to players as a lobby rejection.

1.1.2

Missile launch audio fix, primary muzzle-flash fix, a quieter radar scan, and listing updates.

Fixed

• Firing Hydra rockets or Longbow no longer leaves a missile fly-by loop running on the aircraft. The launch sound starts a loop that normally ends with the missile, so every volley stacked another whine under the rotor for the rest of the run.
• The M230 no longer flashes purple under the aircraft. The extra effect was Bandit's muzzle flash, whose sprite and light are magenta; the barrel flash is Commando's warm muzzle flash. The XM301 and M789 used the same effect.

Added

• ah64_audio_scan console command. It lists every sound currently playing in the scene, with its name and distance, for audio bug reports.

Changed

• Fire Control Radar's scan is much quieter visually. The red shockwave ring around the mast every eight seconds is gone; the radar dome on the mast now glows soft teal for about a second on each scan. The target marker and acquire ping are unchanged.
• New Thunderstore icon.
• Updated Thunderstore description.
• The README opens with a short intro line and a link to like the mod on Thunderstore.
• New README clips for the M230, XM301 and M789 showing the corrected muzzle flash.

1.1.1

Documentation only. No gameplay changes.

Changed

• The README now shows a short looping in-game clip for every skill.

1.1.0

Added

• Three distinct primary weapon models, with immediate loadout previews in character select.
• Desert and Arctic paint schemes alongside Olive, with matching lobby previews and skin-aware weapon heat.
• More airframe detail: inboard missile racks, recessed engine openings, tapered cowls and wing roots, and rotor hub detail.
• Optional Risk of Options controls for movement, primary weapons, utility, impact visuals, rotor wash and rotor volume.
• Settings reports with comments, changed defaults and pending restart values. Copy a report and open a prefilled GitHub form, with clipboard fallback for long reports; review before submitting.

Changed

• Custom Wwise rotor audio responds to movement and abilities. The local pilot hears a consistent rotor bed; remote aircraft use distance fading.
• Rotor volume is the only exposed Audio slider. Existing development audio tuning remains compatible with saved profiles.
• Refreshed primary icons and documentation, with direct bug-report, balance-feedback and discussion links.
• Builds stage locally by default; profile deployment is opt-in.
• Removed automatic rotor playback diagnostics and routine console chatter; explicit audio diagnostics remain available.

Fixed

• Primary weapon visibility and lobby skin bindings, including skin changes after asynchronous material updates.
• Gameplay materials retain their authored colors; lobby readability adjustments use separate materials.
• Rotor clearance, canopy/intake clearance and landing-gear alignment.
• Smoke Backflip starts nose-up. Hover preserves external vertical forces, equipment flight and lift volumes; AH-64 is immune to fall damage.
• Rotor wash follows terrain, and rotor blur/wash respect cloak, invisibility and death.
• The rotor sound restarts when the chopper is re-enabled, such as after a respawn or stage change.
• The smoke-ring effect used by the Hydra and Longbow launches and the dash thruster loads from its verified Addressables catalog address. The old lookup used an internal asset ID, which raised InvalidKeyException.

Known limitations

• Gameplay tuning is not synchronized between players.
• Missile rack depletion follows local special stock, including Longbow lock reservations; remote and late-join presentation needs dedicated verification.
• Laser-guided Hellfire remains deferred.

1.0.1

Hotfix for two run-blocking bugs.

Fixed

• Jump pads and launch pads work. This includes the moon pillar pads up to Mithrix and False Son's pads. The hover's altitude hold was cancelling the pad's launch within a few ticks and floating the chopper back down. The hover now hands over to normal character physics for the whole launch and takes over again on landing, or when falling back close to the ground. Pads just below the hovering chopper now trigger too, since the moon pillar pad's trigger is only about 4 m tall.
• Solutional Haunt's boss-room lifts carry the chopper. Lifts work through gravity, which the hover switches off, so they had no effect.
• Out-of-bounds recovery after a long fall lands the chopper at rest. The game's teleport keeps the downward speed, which could slam it into the ground.
• Solutional Haunt no longer sends you back to the start. The stage opens with a shaft deeper than the hover's ground sensor. After 3 seconds with no ground below, the hover's failsafe teleported the chopper back to a "safe" spot at the top. The chopper now falls through drops like any other survivor, and the failsafe only steps in after 12 seconds of fast free fall, which the shaft's slow-fall zone never allows.
• The airframe noses down when flying forward. It used to tilt backwards.

Changed

• Over a drop deeper than the ground sensor (about 60 units), the chopper falls under normal gravity instead of sinking at a fixed slow rate. The game's own out-of-bounds recovery still catches a fall off the map.
• CHANGELOG.md now ships in the Thunderstore package, so the Changelog tab is populated.
• Feedback links now point to GitHub Issues and Discussions. Thunderstore has no package comments, so the old "comment on this page" line pointed nowhere.

1.0.0

First public release.

Added

• Real logbook lore for the survivor, replacing the placeholder text.
• Thunderstore packaging: icon.png, store README.md, this changelog, a licence, and tools/pack.ps1 — a one-command build that mirrors the assetbundle, checks version parity between the plugin and the manifest, validates the icon, and produces the release zip.

Changed

• Removed the in-game build stamp overlay. It was a playtest aid and has no place in a production build.
• Package author is now JohnstonStu, so the Thunderstore package and its install folder are JohnstonStu-AH64. The post-build deploy now globs every r2modman profile rather than hardcoding one, so a new profile no longer needs a code edit.
• The shipped assetbundle is 71% smaller — 5.62 MB down to 1.63 MB. 141 unused HenryTutorial template assets were removed: the full humanoid animation set, character meshes and textures, sword and fist VFX, and the legacy icon set. None of it was reachable from AH-64 code; all of it was being downloaded by players.
• Removed all third-party character content inherited from the template (Dante, Vergil, Neo, Rebellion meshes and textures), which the mod had no right to redistribute.
• Renamed the last template-named runtime assets to match what they actually do: the Hellfire rocket ghost, its explosion, its muzzle flash, and the rocket's material and texture.
• Restructured the Unity project so every path is AH-64's own — AH64UnityProject/, with Assets/AH64/Bundle as the single bundle-tagged folder and Assets/AH64/Source holding the Blender FBX outside it.
• The source FBX is no longer tagged into the bundle directly; its meshes ship as dependencies of the model prefabs instead.
• Removed a duplicate matAH64RotorBlur.mat that shadowed the live one under a colliding in-bundle name.
• Dropped dead template guard code and a legacy bundle-cleanup path.

Fixed

• The gatling and cannon primary variants were never registered as entity states. They ran locally but had no state index, so they did not replicate — in multiplayer other players would not have seen them fire correctly. The log showed this as "Sending state that resolves to invalid".
• Rotor wash and dash dust never rendered. Both were passing the vanilla GenericFootstepDust prefab to EffectManager.SpawnEffect, which resolves through EffectCatalog; that prefab is not registered there, so every spawn failed silently — 532 error lines in a single run. Now cloned into a registered AH-64 effect.
• The dash thruster and Hydra muzzle flash pointed at a legacy resource path that no longer exists, so neither ever loaded.
• Skins never baked — SkinDef.Bake() requires skinDefParams, and only the obsolete top-level fields were being set.
• An item display rule referenced a non-existent equipment (GainAmmo rather than Recycle), leaving an invalid key asset in the display rule set.
• Cleared a redundant per-file assetbundle tag on the rotor hover audio that duplicated the folder-level tag.

0.2.1

• Slight damage buff; attack speed now assists the primary reload.

0.2.0

• Rotor mix and cannon report reworked following the audio investigation.
• Airframe brightness lifted.

0.1.x

• Development series: airframe modelling and art passes, the hover movement model, the M230 primary and its gatling/cannon variants, Hydra rocket pods, Evasive Roll and the smoke backflip, Hellfire and Longbow specials, the Fire Control Radar passive, custom explosion VFX, and the rotor audio layers.