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arcattackandClaude Opus 5 08977ff128 Gitea #55: respawn now restores COOLANT / heat / generator state (+ a Generator reset re-transcribed from the binary)
THE GAP: Mech::Reset sweeps every subsystem with the virtual DeathReset
(mech4.cpp:1789), but only 7 weapon/ammo classes overrode it -- the entire
heat/coolant/power family fell through to the empty Subsystem::DeathReset base
(SUBSYSTM.h:161), so the respawn reset was a SILENT NO-OP for them.  All the
ResetToInitialState bodies already existed; nothing ever called them.  Hence the
field report: 'respawned with drained coolant'.

Added DeathReset forwarders (ResetToInitialState is not virtual, so each class
with its own body needs one): HeatableSubsystem, HeatSink, Condenser,
PoweredSubsystem, Generator.  HeatSink's also serves Reservoir -- the coolant
tank -- which has no body of its own; that is the one that refills coolant.

TWO MIS-TRANSCRIPTIONS FIXED, both verified against the binary with capstone:

1. HeatSink::ResetToInitialState chained HeatableSubsystem::ResetToInitialState
   with the comment 'FUN_004ac22c'.  But @004ac22c is Subsystem's terminus --
   disassembled: it reads the damage zone at this+0xe0, clears zone+0x158, and
   Set_Alarm_Levels zone+0x10 and this+0x2c to 0.  And the binary's HeatSink
   @004ad760 calls only @004ad884 (ClearHeatFilter), @004ad7f0 (UpdateHeatLoad)
   and @004ac22c -- never HeatableSubsystem.  Worse, HeatableSubsystem's body sets
   currentTemperature = 300.0f, CLOBBERING the startingTemperature that HeatSink
   assigned four lines earlier.  Dropped the call; the terminus work is already
   done for every subsystem by MechSubsystem::RespawnRepair (mech4.cpp:1790).

2. Generator::ResetToInitialState chained HeatableSubsystem and set
   outputVoltage = 0 -- which matches GNRATOR.TCP, but BT's BINARY DIVERGES from
   the TCP source, and the binary is what shipped.  Disassembled @004b215c
   instruction by instruction: it chains HeatSink (so the coolant refill DOES run
   for a generator), then generatorOn=1, startTimer=0, stateAlarm 0 then 2,
   **outputVoltage = ratedVoltage**, coolantAvailable=1, coolantFlowScale=1.0,
   startTimer=startTime.  Every offset matches our declared members exactly.
   The old version brought generators back from a respawn at ZERO output voltage,
   so energy weapons could never charge -- no recharge ring, no ready dot, nothing
   damaged.  That is a strong candidate for #54 (David's three dead lasers).

LIVE VERIFICATION (sim3.py, 3 mechs + force damage): 4 death/respawn cycles, and
every heat sink logged coolant == capacity on every respawn, with temp restored to
startingTemperature (77) rather than the clobbered 300.  Left as a silent
regression guard that only speaks if a respawn leaves coolant short.

KNOWN REMAINING [T3, noted in code]: Condenser's body chains HeatableSubsystem
rather than HeatSink, so a coolant loop's VALVE DETENT may still persist across a
respawn -- the binary's Condenser reset is not yet decompiled.  Do not claim
valves are fixed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0166KTsC7ADm7VXEi1HF1jNg
2026-07-25 09:19:10 -05:00
arcattackandClaude Opus 5 2518e43719 Gitea #59: the first death permanently disabled ExecuteWatchers -- simulationFlags |= 0x1 should be ForceUpdate()
Verified the claim in the binary myself with capstone before changing behaviour:
  0x4c0155:  or word ptr [ebx + 0x18], 1
+0x18 is Simulation::updateModel, a **Word** -- and the 16-bit 'or word ptr'
settles it, since simulationFlags is an LWord at +0x28 and would assemble as
'or dword ptr'.  So the authentic op is updateModel |= DefaultUpdateModelFlag,
which is exactly Simulation::ForceUpdate() (SIMULATE.h:146-147).

The old transcription wrote simulationFlags |= 0x1 instead.  Bit 0 there is
DelayWatchersFlag (SIMULATE.h:170); Simulation::Simulate then skips
ExecuteWatchers() forever (SIMULATE.cpp:461), and NOTHING clears it -- the only
ClearWatcherDelay() in the tree is in the encore path (UPDATE.cpp:215), which a
Player never takes.  So every pilot's first death permanently disabled watcher
execution on their simulation, and the replication mark the binary intended was
never set at all.  context/reconstruction-gotchas.md had flagged this exact line
as the un-audited sibling of the #12 dirty-bit class, asking for the disasm
first; that is now on the record.

LIVE VERIFICATION (scratchpad/sim3.py, 3 mechs + BT_MP_FORCE_DMG, 180s):
4 consecutive death/respawn cycles on pod3, every one completing --
  death cycle START (death #N) -> RESET at drop zone [COMPLETE]
with 'player watchersDelayed=0' after every death, and no crash.  Also
re-confirms the #57 latch fix under repeated deaths (the interleaved SWALLOWED
lines are the authentic dedup of a second notification, each followed by a
completed RESET).

Leaves a silent regression guard: the death path now logs only if it ever finds
the watcher-delay flag set again.

Rigs: sim3.py (3-mech combat + force damage), destest.py (2-node designation
proof: 18 designations, deathPending clean on all of them).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0166KTsC7ADm7VXEi1HF1jNg
2026-07-25 09:04:07 -05:00