Benched solo AND in MP on the same chassis: both presses reach
DuckRequestMessageHandler, zero drops, SQUAT -> squat clip parked -> RISE.
Locomotion is not the bug, and MP is not refusing it.
Added an ungated [duck] REQUEST DROPPED receipt at the consumer's silent miss.
The squatCapable==0 path skips the consumer entirely AND leaves duckState
latched at 1 with NO log today; the posture-gate miss logged only under
BT_DUCK_LOG, which no player sets. Neither fired on madcat.
What the pilot sees, traced with BT_LAMP_LOG: the button lamp is momentary
press feedback, not state --
PRESS -> [lamp] 0x13 <- 0x3c
SQUAT -> mech crouches, clip parked
RELEASE -> [lamp] 0x13 <- 0x14 <-- while still CROUCHED
so crouched and standing look identical.
Era testimony corrects the scope: the button should ANIMATE A MECH SYMBOL
beside it, standing <-> crouching (operator). Lynx: 'When a mech stops,
crouch button lowers its stance and plays crouch animation. Mech is
immobilized until crouch is pushed again, and mech rises.' Draco concurs.
Two real gaps, neither fixed here:
1. no immobilization while crouched -- nothing gates movement on duckState
or the parked leg alarm. NB a driven mech with a parked leg channel is
the [skate] signature (#52), so this may not be cosmetic.
2. no stance symbol -- no gauge element draws one, and the decomp carries no
crouch/squat/stance/duck graphic string, so it is an authored IMAGE on the
secondary MFD; find it in that gauge's element list, not by string.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NCJQkvq6G2JNrpVbA75tVZ
