port-layer papercuts for the playtest: #69 Denkou rename, #71 plasma X=minimize, #157 round-end UX (foreground handoff + lastrun clean-exit markers + bat sign-off rewording); tester-facing open-issues handout (docs/) + field-log anatomy notes
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@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ cavern.egg`. This is every option the original console exposed for a BattleTech
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- experience (4 [T1 game decode]): novice, standard, veteran, expert ← was hardcoded `expert`
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- vehicle (18, friendly→tag): Black Hawk=blkhawk, Loki=loki, Nova=bhk1, Mad Cat=madcat, Thor=thor,
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Owens=owens, Kotori=own1, Summoner=thr1, Hellbringer=lok1, Timber Wolf=mad1, Avatar=avatar,
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Satyr=ava1, Sunder=sunder, Sunder V1=snd1, Vulture=vulture, Mad Dog=vul1, Mischief=lok2,
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Satyr=ava1, Sunder=sunder, Denkou=snd1 (#69), Vulture=vulture, Mad Dog=vul1, Mischief=lok2,
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Zanin Neko=mad2 (the 18 ModelList names; matches the 2026-07-18 vehicle sweep)
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- color/camo (7, display→tag): White=White, Black=Black, Brown=Brown, Red=**Crimson**, Green=Green,
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Gray=**Grey**, Tan=Tan ← was White/Black/Crimson only
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=============================================================================
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BT411 -- ALL OPEN TRACKER ISSUES (93), SORTED FOR PLAYTESTERS
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Updated 2026-08-10 -- regenerated from the tracker before each playtest;
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grab the newest copy from Discord (or docs/ in the repo)
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=============================================================================
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HOW TO REPORT: drop a line in Discord with the issue number and PASS /
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FAIL / what you saw. Screenshots and rough times help; logs get collected
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as usual.
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A. FIXED -- PLEASE VERIFY
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#18 Engineering aux buttons crashed the game (glass windows)
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TEST: click every Engineering panel button, incl. the aux row. No crash.
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#20 Auto cooling BALANCE did nothing
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TEST: ADV control mode, press BALANCE -- coolant redistributes.
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#22 Ammo + destroyed weapons did not reset on respawn
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TEST: die with empty bins / dead weapons -> respawn full and repaired.
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#25 Gamepad turn profile (stick X could not turn the mech)
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TEST: bind an axis to "Turn" in content\bindings.txt -- mech turns.
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#27 Autocannon/Gauss dealt the wrong damage type
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TEST: ballistics should feel/score like solid shot now (no blast splash).
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#32 Audio cutting in/out late in the match
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TEST: long drop -- audio should stay clean to the end.
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#35 Owens crashed when firing lasers (Conn Man x2, long ago)
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TEST: Conn Man -- Owens, spam lasers. Believed fixed for a while.
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#36 Turning continued after releasing the pad/rudder axis
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TEST: RajelAran -- release/center the turn axis, turning stops.
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#38 Mech colors reverted on respawn
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TEST: custom paint, die, respawn -- colors stay.
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#39 Controls were live before the game screen appeared
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TEST: mash fire during load -- nothing happens until the scene shows.
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#40 Waiting/join screen burned 45-50% GPU
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TEST: GPU near idle while waiting in the join screen.
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#41 (David/Auric) launcher killed before it could run -- forensics armed
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TEST: if join.bat ever fails again, send content\lastrun_join.txt --
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it now records the exit code that names the killer.
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#43 Comm display: pilot list with KILLS/DEATHS
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TEST: all pilots listed, kills/deaths update through the round.
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#47 Jam / ammo-bay-fire annunciation
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TEST: bay fire alarm looks OK now. Still watching: does the ENG page
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button FLASH on a weapon JAM? (run ballistics hot to force jams)
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#48 Secondary/Comm MFD artifacting (stray blocks)
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TEST: if you see artifacts, say so -- the log now self-reports the
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culprit automatically.
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#50 All MFDs unclickable for a round (SAURON) } same fix --
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#56 MFD buttons drift away from where they are drawn } verify together
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TEST: alt-tab / focus changes mid-round, then click MFD buttons --
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they must stay aligned with the graphics.
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#51 Coolant flush sound looped forever
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TEST: flush coolant -- the sound ends when the flush ends.
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#53 Generators could not be switched OFF
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TEST: ENG page -- toggle each generator off and back on.
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#54 (David) all three energy weapons died for a whole round
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TEST: after your first death, weapons must still recharge normally
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for the rest of the round.
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#58 Reticle callsign plate drew as a solid rectangle
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TEST: target names under the reticle render as text on every map.
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#59 First death permanently froze parts of that player's simulation
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TEST: nothing specific -- covered by normal play after dying.
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#61 Searchlight toggle was dead
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TEST: searchlight button toggles + lamp tracks. (The visible beam and
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night-fog change are separate, still to come -- #123.)
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#62 Weapon knocked off the power bus stayed dark forever
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TEST: fiddle bus/generator selection on the ENG page -- weapons
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reconnect on their own (AUTO) instead of staying dead.
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#69 "Sunder V1" renamed to DENKOU
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TEST: vehicle picker shows Denkou -- era witnesses, confirm the spelling.
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#70 (Draco) torso twist lost after a death/respawn
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TEST: die, respawn, twist. Fixed a while ago but never field-confirmed.
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#71 Closing the Plasma window lost it until restart
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TEST: X the plasma window -- it minimizes to the taskbar; click restores.
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#93 Crash at end of round
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TEST: play rounds to their natural end -- report ANY teardown crash.
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#114 Missile impact smoke was a wall
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TEST: LRM exchanges -- smoke is present but no longer a smoke screen.
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#131 Reticle showed LOCK off-target / no-reg on target
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TEST: stationary targets -- lock ring matches where the reticle is.
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#137 Respawned with myomers heat MAXED (mech frozen at spawn)
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TEST: respawn repeatedly -- heat always starts normal. Oracle already
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confirmed one clean session; more eyes welcome, this one eluded us.
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#138 Glass buttons flashed at the wrong rate unless a window was dragged
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TEST: leave the MFD windows unfocused -- lamps flash at the real rate.
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#149 Glass cockpit stutter / hitching
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TEST: glass mode -- mission load and play feel smooth again.
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(Repaints now skip windows whose gauges did not change.)
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#150 Double kill credit (one kill counted twice)
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TEST: kill someone with a missile volley -- scoreboard +1, not +2.
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#146 Respawned already running (virtual throttle survived death)
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TEST: respawn -- throttle idle until YOU move it; a physical throttle
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re-syncs on first movement. Oracle confirmed the mechanic; keep watching.
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#147 Range caret vanished for the session (ticks stayed)
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TEST: nobody has re-created it. If it happens the log now catches the
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culprit red-handed ("NaN TRAPPED") -- just report that you saw it.
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#152 Torso auto-recentre / CENTER button
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TEST: CENTER (pod button / F7) recentres the torso in every control
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mode, on glass and RIO rigs too. (Era question below still open.)
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#158 (Sauron) could not move after respawn until throttle cycled
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TEST when it happens: does cycling the throttle free you?
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YES -> it is the #146 throttle-release mechanic (expected).
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NO -> report map + where you spawned (suspect: spawn-in geometry).
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B. OPEN -- HELP US REPRODUCE / NARROW (what to note when it happens)
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#24 Controller hat/look view sticks (recovers after wiggling now)
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NOTE: which controller, which direction, does wiggling clear it.
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#37 Mech torso appears BACKWARDS to other players (transient)
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NOTE: whose mech, and does it snap back -- watch peers, any chassis.
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#74 8BitDo gamepad works solo, dead in Steam MP
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NOTE: VexUbiquity -- does it still happen, and in LAN vs Steam?
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#100 Main coolant reservoir drains with NO leak shown anywhere
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NOTE: what you were doing; screenshot the ENG page when you catch it.
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#101 Round ended with 18 s still on the clock
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NOTE: exact clock value + which drop; has not repeated since.
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#102 Owens: full-throttle run -> hold reverse = animation/audio hang
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REPRO known (exterior cam, savannah). Does it still happen? It
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self-clears on a torso twist.
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#122 Throttle: normal-vs-seek-4 speeds crammed into last sliver of travel
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NOTE: which mech; era witnesses -- how did the pod lever feel?
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#125 Peers do not see the FIRST destroyed-zone graphic (2nd hit shows it)
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NOTE: victim + observer both report; paper doll vs external view.
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#126 Peer weapon fire invisible AND silent from some positions
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NOTE: positions of shooter/observer; moving fixes it.
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#128 Ramming terrain = INSTANT coolant leak (4 for 4 that night)
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NOTE: still 100%? speed at impact; which terrain.
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#130 Vulture "skating" (gliding without walk animation) in a 6-player session
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NOTE: a gait-replication fix landed since -- watch for any recurrence.
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#132 (Conn Man) persistent yellow line on the HUD in every mech
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NOTE: still there? screenshot + monitor resolution/aspect.
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#135 Coolant leak with NO flashing annunciators (+ gen buttons not
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flashing on leak, seen in glass too)
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NOTE: glass or normal mode, which annunciators stayed dark.
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#136 A SHUT leaking loop starts/stops leaking with COMPONENT toggles
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NOTE: exact toggle order if you can reproduce.
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#139 (Oracle, once) silent exit between "lobby up" and the room screen
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NOTE: if hosting dies silently again, say so and we pull the log.
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#143 One panel hit -> smoke erupts from MULTIPLE places at once
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NOTE: which panel was hit (sensor special seen); screenshot.
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#153 Basic-mode elevation limit only applies after cycling modes
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Confirmed from the report; fix pending. No action needed.
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#154 Overheated generator never came back online + no gen-out alarm on
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thermal trip
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NOTE: Oracle saw one stuck-forever gen, later trips recovered --
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anyone else? How long did you wait?
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#155 PANIC lamp lit: ENG + WEAPON MFD buttons stop responding
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(The rapid flicker itself is AUTHENTIC -- see section D.)
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NOTE: while panic is lit, which MFDs answer clicks and which do not.
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#159 (Conn Man) lag during drops -- missiles / fire exploding in empty space
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NOTE: shooter + target + rough time; the match receipts on both
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machines can then measure the divergence directly.
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C. QUESTIONS FOR THE ERA WITNESSES (Oracle / VGL Lynx / Ronin / Draco)
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#103 Should a mech-to-mech RAM damage ARMOR, or internals only?
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(Binary does internals-only rattle -- want a player ruling.)
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#104 Mad Dog showing NARC 15 where an LRM is expected -- Ronin suspects
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NARC was never implemented in 1995. Anyone remember it firing?
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#105 Sensor DAMAGE effects: what exactly happened on-screen? (HUD flicker,
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radar degradation, searchlight?) Video/timestamps welcome.
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#120 Coolant FLUSH: to the line, or all the way to EMPTY? (Two era
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witnesses say empty; our port stops at the line.)
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#127 Weapon MFD EJECT graphic -- need a reference image/description.
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#133 Did generators X-out on the MFD when SHUT DOWN / OVERHEATED, or
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only when DESTROYED?
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ALSO (#152 rider): in the pod, did the torso auto-recentre in Mid/Adv
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modes, or only Basic? Sauron's "fought my control" suggests only Basic.
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D. SETTLED AS AUTHENTIC / DESIGN CALLS -- group opinions wanted
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#151 Panic eject costs -499 (not 0). This is the REAL 1995 scoring, verified
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to the exact point value: ejecting scores your own death as a suicide
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(you lose your kill-value) PLUS the death penalty. DESIGN CALL:
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keep authentic, or house-rule a flat eject cost?
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#119 Coolant-warning voice "clipping" at empty reservoir = authentic
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(every leak-status edge restarts the phrase; the pod did this too).
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#155 (flicker half) PANIC lamp rapid flicker at the failure edge =
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authentic; the pod's incandescent bulbs visually smoothed it.
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#23 MFDs overlapping the world view = pod-faithful design (real monitors
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clipped the eyeport). Revisit sizing/tunability?
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#77 Make the Secondary/Radar window resizable (SAURON's iPad-as-4th-
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monitor experiment). Enhancement -- want it?
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#157 "Crash at drop end" (Conn Man) = NOT a crash. Full forensics on the
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ticket: every machine that night shows clean drops, and the round-end
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exit-to-menu is the arcade's normal between-rounds flow. The separate
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lag / "missiles hit empty space" report is now #159.
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IMPROVED: the between-rounds menu should now land IN FRONT at round
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end (say so if it still hides), and the console sign-off no longer
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cries wolf on normal exits.
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E. KNOWN GAPS -- confirmed and on the list, no need to re-report
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#49 Radar/map does not draw the arena WALL geometry
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#76 Glass layout save/restore being reworked (some windows not saved)
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#83 INCOMING MISSILE alarm not implemented yet
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#90 Flames/smoke from serious damage: less than the original (tuning)
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#111 Peers see a dying mech's blue warp bubble (should see explosion only)
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#112 AFC rounds shotgun across zones (should land as one projectile)
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#113 LRM burn/hit state lasts too long
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#115 Hot box / target select not connected
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#121 Sensor HEAT has no consequences yet
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#123 Searchlight: the visible LIGHT + night-fog swap still to come
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#145 IR "predator vision": decode done, display not implemented
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#156 Fade-to-black at mission end not happening
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F. INTERNAL ENGINEERING BACKLOG (listed for completeness -- nothing to test)
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#14 Glass panel unreconstructed button handler backlog (census)
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#17 Cavern upper-butte halves lack a collision stream (authenticity TBD)
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#21 Weapon recharge arc dark after eng-page use (symptom trail -> #62)
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#28 Confirm the vital-subsystem-crit death path can fire (machinery in)
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#30 Weapon "unavailable" (level-7) display verification + accessor cleanup
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#63 PlayerStatus reads raw 1995 offsets (databinding trap, dormant)
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#64 damageZone shadow field (half-fixed; consequences disarmed)
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#65 HandleMessage non-virtual across 10 classes (latent dispatch trap)
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#66 joyconfig.bat wizard re-run claim -- people use it fine; likely closing
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#72 BTLoadPump swallows WM_QUIT during load (latent)
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#107 Destroyed HeatSink annunciates nothing (no lamp for condition 0)
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#117 KB note: per-chassis cockpit bounce was deliberate (Ronin) -- FYI
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End of list. 93 open issues total:
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38 verify, 20 reproduce, 6 era questions, 6 settled/design (one is #155's
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other half), 12 known gaps, 12 internal.
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