diff --git a/game/reconstructed/btl4vid.cpp b/game/reconstructed/btl4vid.cpp
index a57283c..42bf211 100644
--- a/game/reconstructed/btl4vid.cpp
+++ b/game/reconstructed/btl4vid.cpp
@@ -3786,6 +3786,11 @@ void BTStartWarpExpandPOV()
 // World-anchored warp (a PORT EXTENSION -- the authentic effect is POV only): an
 // OBSERVER seeing a peer respawn over THERE.  No world mask (the observer is alive);
 // expand-reveal at the peer's world point.
+// *** RETIRED (#111, 2026-08-14): no caller.  The field read the peer-visible
+// bubble as a wrong effect on the dying/respawning mech ("should just be the
+// big boom from other POV"); the authentic effect is the POV-only translocation,
+// and observers now see the un-wreck model swap itself (mechdmg.cpp).  Kept as
+// documentation of the one-warp-slot guard. ***
 //
 void BTStartWarpEffect(float x, float y, float z)
 {
diff --git a/game/reconstructed/mechdmg.cpp b/game/reconstructed/mechdmg.cpp
index 803e0f0..34b3e71 100644
--- a/game/reconstructed/mechdmg.cpp
+++ b/game/reconstructed/mechdmg.cpp
@@ -1387,7 +1387,6 @@ void
 			&& owner->GetInstance() == Entity::ReplicantInstance)
 		{
 			extern void BTRebuildMechModel(Entity *entity);
-			extern void BTStartWarpEffect(float x, float y, float z);
 			// #129 (fresh spawns smoking, peers' screens only): the wreck plume
 			// is re-armed LOCALLY on every node (entity-attached, 10s windows),
 			// and only the master's Mech::Reset ran the @004d0c14 effect
@@ -1397,13 +1396,20 @@ void
 			extern void BTStopEntityPfx(void *entity_v);
 			BTStopEntityPfx((void *)owner);
 			BTRebuildMechModel((Entity *)owner);
-			BTStartWarpEffect((float)owner->localOrigin.linearPosition.x,
-							  (float)owner->localOrigin.linearPosition.y,
-							  (float)owner->localOrigin.linearPosition.z);
+			// (#111) the peer-visible warp sphere that used to fire here is
+			// RETIRED.  It was a deliberate port extension (160b78e, "observer
+			// sees peer un-wreck") -- but the authentic effect is POV-ONLY
+			// (POVTranslocateRenderable, the dying pilot's own translocation;
+			// btl4vid.cpp's banner says so twice), and the field read the blue
+			// bubble on another mech as a wrong effect ("should just be the
+			// big boom from other POV" -- Lynx, night 9, confirmed).  The
+			// observer sees exactly what the pods showed: the un-wreck model
+			// swap itself.  This also retires the one-slot contention skip
+			// (a peer landing mid-POV-warp no longer competes for the slot).
 			// #108 forensics: UNGATED -- one line per peer respawn; a field
 			// night's ghost triage needs these without asking players for envs.
 			DEBUG_STREAM << "[respawn] replicant " << owner->GetEntityID()
-				<< " un-wrecked + warp (mode "
+				<< " un-wrecked (mode "
 				<< oldMode << "->" << mode << ") at ("
 				<< owner->localOrigin.linearPosition.x << ","
 				<< owner->localOrigin.linearPosition.z << ")\n" << std::flush;