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 Joe DiPrimaandClaude Opus 5
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#32: correct the stale "no field complaints since" note + record the frame-time A/B
Found while checking whether a player had reported this before: the code already
carried a prior analysis of this exact error which deliberately decided NOT to
act on it, concluding the 2026-07-23 atomic-delete fix (
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Opus 5
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ad9dfade88 |
#32: POOL the OpenAL sources instead of creating and destroying one per sound
Every 4.11.674 player log is saturated with acquisition failures -- 3031, 4657, 5245, 6275, 6571 across five machines. In Lynx's largest session the first failure lands 9.3% in and they continue to 96.8%: once it starts it never recovers for the rest of the match. CAUSE: RequestAudioChannels called alGenSources() per sound event and ReleaseSourceSet called alDeleteSources() on release -- create and destroy per sound. OpenAL sources are a scarce driver resource (OpenAL Soft caps a context at 256) and a combat burst churned straight through the ceiling. The two counters looked contradictory and were the tell: ACQUIRE FAILED always printed live=256 while the 30s census printed live=6. Same global, sampled at different moments -- sources spike to the cap during a burst and drain back between them. Churn, not a steady leak. FIX: generate sources once, up to a cap, and recycle them through a free list. Release scrubs and parks instead of deleting. Steady-state play performs no AL allocation at all. The scrub is load-bearing, not hygiene: a recycled source carries whatever the previous owner set, and the engine sets AL_LOOPING per sound (L4AUDLVL.cpp:327). Hand a looping source to a one-shot and it plays forever -- which is the "sound stuck looping" family (#51, #5). Every reusable property is reset at the single point where a source changes owner. VERIFIED (scratchpad/night8/audiopool.sh + the two-node mp_burst.sh): solo, sustained fire : 0 failures, pooled 152, reuses 21998 two nodes, 4 min : 0 failures on both, pooled 148/149, reuses ~7000 each ⚠ HONEST LIMIT: the bench does NOT reproduce the field failure -- the PRE-fix binary also scores 0 on it (peak 49 live), because solo/2-node combat is not dense enough to reach 256. So this verifies the pool works and allocates nothing in steady state; it does NOT by itself prove the field failures are gone. The five field logs remain the "before". Peak demand is set by how many audio COMPONENTS are alive (each reserves a SourceSet of up to 25 voices and holds them), not by audible sounds: measured high-water 138 solo, 149 two-node. That scales with player count, so the cap is set near the driver ceiling (240) and the pool now logs its high-water mark once per 25-source band -- so the next playtest sizes this from field data instead of a guess. Growth also self-limits: if a driver offers fewer sources than the cap, alGenSources simply fails, growth stops, and the pool recycles what it has. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Opus 5
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bench: two-node CROSS-POD damage verification for the #95 burst change
Projectile damage now Dispatches directly at the victim instead of going through
the shooter's SubsystemMessageManager, so cross-pod delivery had to be proven on
real nodes rather than assumed.
RESULT: cross-pod delivery intact, and the cluster count survives the wire.
Node A fired 38 missile rounds with bursts {1:5,2:6,3:6,4:7,5:7,6:7}; node B
received exactly the matching zone applications {2:12,3:18,4:28,5:35,6:42} --
i.e. rounds x burst, per burst band, exact. 135 of B's 142 explosive
applications carried burst > 1 (the manager path used to drop it to 1).
Energy stayed at burst 1 on both nodes; no crash on either.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Opus 5
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c23d06cbb5 |
KB: correct the burstCount claim -- it is honoured by the CALLER, not cosmetic
The KB asserted as [T1] that "burstCount is cosmetic for zone damage". Half of that is byte-verified (DamageZone::TakeDamage @0041e4e0 really does ignore it); the other half was an inference that inherited the [T1] tag and then justified task #62's salvo-lead design -- which silently divided every missile salvo by its missile count (gitea #95). Corrected in both places it appeared (combat-damage.md:334 and :884): the CALLER, Mech::TakeDamageMessageHandler @0x4a0423-0x4a04d8, applies TakeDamage burstCount times and re-rolls the struck zone per burst. burstCount = number of applications; load-bearing for missile cluster count, splash falloff and the gyro bounce. Also records that the arcade Missile dispatches DIRECTLY at the victim rather than through the message manager (whose consolidation drops burstCount). New gotcha 24: a verified fact, over-generalised, becomes a wrong design premise. Detection smell -- a "cosmetic/unused" claim about a field other code still computes carefully. Nobody spends instructions randomising a decorative value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Opus 5
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#95: REVERT the salvo-damage hack; deliver the cluster the way the binary does
Supersedes the mislanch change in |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Opus 5
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efc3e9ff1a |
#95/#84: missile salvos deliver their FULL authored damage, and stop double-exploding
THE SALVO DAMAGE (#95). Players measured an LRM 15 landing "3ish points". The logs agreed: [projectile] IMPACT damage=3.33333 (Oracle, LRM15) and 3.5 (Rajel, LRM10). Those are right PER MISSILE -- 50/15 and 35/10 -- and the bench shows why the salvo still under-delivers: each launcher pushes N rounds of which exactly ONE carries damage. Two individually-correct changes composed into an N-fold shortfall: * The ctor does what the binary's MissileLauncher ctor does (@0x3ac/@0x3d4): damageData.burstCount = missileCount; damageData.damageAmount /= missileCount; The record holds the PER-MISSILE amount plus the count; the arcade reconstitutes amount x burstCount when it applies the hit. * Task #62 then correctly stopped the port applying the hit once per visual round (that was ~missileCount-x too lethal) by damaging only the lead round -- but handed it the already-divided amount. Our DamageZone::TakeDamage is `damageLevel += amount * scale` and drops burstCount, so the salvo delivered amount/missileCount. Since the port collapses the cluster to one damaging round, multiply the count back in there. Bench: an SRM6 salvo now lands amt=35 (the authored total) taking a zone 0 -> 0.556, where it previously landed 5.83. THE DOUBLE EXPLOSION (#84). Oracle: "missile appear to register hit explosions twice, once where target was and again where the target is." There are two spawn sites: BTSpawnRoundDetonation at the round's own impact point, and the message manager's bundled explosion at the CONSOLIDATED point a frame later. The duplicate was known and thought harmless -- "among a rippled volley it is invisible" -- which held only while a salvo landed N detonations. A projectile now marks its weapon (MarkRoundDetonated) and the consolidation skips queueing a second blast for it; direct-fire weapons never mark, so lasers/AC keep the bundled explosion they rely on. Bench: 4 missile impacts -> 4 SKIPPED, while 11 direct-fire hits still queue normally. SWEPT CONTACT (#84 tail). Contact was a 10-unit sphere sampled only at the END of each step. With the authored thruster live (#84) field rounds arrive at v=955 -- a ~16 unit step at 60fps, larger than the radius -- so samples can straddle the target. (Pre-#84 rounds flew ~100-300 = a 1.7-5 unit step and could never skip it: the velocity fix exposed this, it did not cause it.) Now tests the whole segment travelled and bursts at the point of NEAREST APPROACH, which also stops the detonation being flung past the target at speed. RETRACTION: I posted tunnelling as the leading explanation for the lost salvo. The bench disproves it -- zero fizzles, and the "missing" rounds are the dmg=0 visual rounds of the cluster, which never registered damage by design. The sweep is kept as speed-independent robustness, not as the #95 fix. Bench: scratchpad/night8/salvo.sh (BT_PROJ_LOG + BT_FIRE_LOG). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Opus 5
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KB: night-8 playtest intelligence (build 4.11.674)
Player testimony worth keeping out of the issue tracker alone: * SENSOR PANEL model, from VGL Lynx -- the last major system without one. Sensor damage flickers the HUD (corroborated by period footage), degrades radar/map, affects the searchlight, and possibly the hot box. Gitea #105. * COOLANT LEAK severity is a THREE-level display (1/2/3 triangles + alarm); we only ever produce the lowest. Our leak rate is a continuous scalar, so either the banding is missing or the magnitude never leaves the bottom band. * MYOMER heat calibration is CHASSIS-RELATIVE: a Thor sustains seek 4 indefinitely, a chicken-walker cooks in under a minute. That spread is the acceptance test -- a uniform "too hot" indicts the drive-heat coefficient rather than the sink capacities. * RAM damage: the binary's internal-only collision divert MATCHES what players observe (gyro/myomer damage, coolant leak, NO armor damage, grinding inert). May be working as intended; awaiting a player ruling. Gitea #103. * MP stability: 5-player match, no stalls or lag spikes -- bounds how often the carried cross-fire-stall / silent-node-crash opens occur. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Joe DiPrima
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137c151951 |
#87: mech armour PANELS now darken with damage -- the .DZM material system was loaded and unused
Players: "the actual enemy mech in external view is not showing darkened armor panels". We swapped destroyed LIMB meshes but never darkened a panel. The 1995 game darkens armour through the MATERIALS. MakeMechRenderables (FUN_004cef28) built, per (damage zone, material), a watcher FUN_004573e4(material, &zone->damageLevel, 0.1f) that snapshotted the materials |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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#86: destroyed weapons can no longer fire -- the fire gates read a
never-written cell (the split-cell gotcha) Both weapon fire gates (ProjectileWeapon gate 1 @4bbd36, Emitter hard-failure @4baab9) test the binary's subsystem+0x40 for Destroyed(1). In the 1995 layout that offset sits INSIDE the embedded status alarm (statusAlarm@0x2C + level@+0x14 = 0x40) -- ONE cell, written by ForceCriticalFailure when a zone's crit cascade kills the subsystem. The port models the same address as TWO members: the AlarmIndicator AND a plain int simulationState@0x40. Every destruction path writes the ALARM (so the MFD draws its X correctly) while the gates read the plain int, which nothing ever writes -- so a weapon on a blown-off arm showed destroyed on every panel and kept firing and scoring, locally and on peers (night-7: all three testers, screenshots of a missile leaving a destroyed pod). The tell had been sitting in our own logs for weeks: [ammo] SRM6_1 -> NoAmmo (gate1): destroyed=0 ... on a mech whose launcher was X'd out. Fix: both gates now read statusAlarm.GetLevel()==1 as well as the int. Also added: the crit-cascade log names the destroyed subsystem, a BT_SELF_DAMAGE_ZONE=dz_* named-zone bench mode, and BT_KILL_SUBSYS=<name> (force ForceCriticalFailure on one named subsystem -- the exact call the zone cascade makes, so a bench can ask 'the panel says dead, does it still shoot?' without hunting for the zone that carries a given weapon). Verified A/B in ONE run: before the kill both SRM6 launchers fired 2 salvos each; after, the destroyed launcher fired ZERO (gate log destroyed=1) while its twin kept firing normally. KB: new gotcha #22 (the SPLIT CELL -- one binary offset, two port members, only one written; sibling of #1) + combat-damage entry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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seek-4 verification harness (BT_FORCE_SEEK) + the full supercharge/overheat
arc measured live BT_FORCE_SEEK=<idx> pins the seek gear in MyomersSimulation (env-gated bench; the eng-page toggle stays the authentic path) -- the supercharge loop was unreachable on a headless rig. Measured (Black Hawk, WALLTEST, full autodrive at gear 4): - cold: drive=1.42843 (exactly 0.9999/0.7), demand 87.85, actual run speed 53.7 u/s = 193 kph -- SUPERCHARGE (Oracle's pod figure: 182 for a 75-tonner; the 60t Black Hawk runs faster); - heat at ratio^2 = 2.04: myomer T 531 -> 1765 (deep past the 1000 degradation line); - heatFactor governor: drive 1.43 -> 1.10 -> 0.62 (the supercharged mech slows BELOW normal while cooked), coolant pulls T back (1765 -> 740), drive recovers to ~0.77, oscillates -- the mech self-settles into a thermally-limited cruise: 'top speed for less than a minute' exactly; - the hard freeze (drive -> 0: demand AND turn zeroed) is the same code path past failure temp, reachable when the coolant loop is compromised. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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905a4a86c0 |
RETRACTION + FIX: the myomer seek->speed coupling IS in the 4.10 binary --
restored byte-grounded; the morning's removal was export-gap blindness Player testimony (Oracle, pod veteran: seek-4 humanoid = 182 kph -- the manual's printed Super Charged figure; overheat = 'freezing up') forced a re-audit of the morning's 'no dynamic myomer->speed feed' verdict. The verdict was WRONG: a raw-image capstone sweep for FPU reads of [reg+0x31C] found the consumer inside the UN-EXPORTED master-perf region -- the same decomp gap that hid the #93 crash block. Decoded @0x4a9cf2-0x4a9da4 [T1]: per frame: MAX speedEffect@0x31C over the myomer chain (+0x7AC) -> mech+0x79C mapper->speedDemand@0x128 *= it (the SPEED coupling) if |drive| <= 1e-4 (@0x4ab16c): mapper->turnDemand@0x12C = 0 (the FREEZE) Everything the manual + the veterans describe emerges: gear 4 rides speedEffect ~1.43 into the RegisterMaxOutput gait cap (base x 1.4284 -- the two mechanisms interlock: 61.5 x 1.43 = 87.9 vs cap 87.8 measured) = SUPERCHARGE; myomer heatFactor degradation slows you; overheat freezes speed AND turn; damage slows (speedEffect carries 1-damage -- #75's original premise was RIGHT and its 'falsified' close was wrong). Restored in mechmppr.cpp, byte-grounded and better than the pre-removal draft: MAX over the chain (was first-found), NO 1.0 clamp (the old clamp ate the overdrive), turn-freeze included. BTMyomersSpeedEffectOf (unclamped) replaces the deleted BTMyomersDriveOf. Verified live: healthy drive=1.0 (no speed change), collision-rattled myomers drive 0.999 -> 0.892 -> 0.742 with demand scaling in lockstep (61.5 -> 54.9 -> 45.7). KB corrected in place (subsystems WAVE 6, pod-hardware manual audit retraction, open-questions resolved) + NEW GOTCHA #21: export-gap blindness -- 'no callers in the decomp' is not 'no callers in the binary'; sweep the raw image for the operand pattern before declaring a data path dead, and when a primary source disagrees with your decomp sweep, suspect your evidence first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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#84: missiles ACCELERATE like the binary -- the pool flew at constant
rack-eject speed; the authored MissileThruster was never applied The binary Missile hosts a MissileThruster subsystem: authored acceleration for BurnTime seconds after the MuzzleVelocity eject. Authored values decoded from BTL4.RES (type-15 missile model records, reached from the AmmoBin's ammoModelFile via the type-1 MODELLIST indirection): SRM 2.5s @ 600 u/s^2, LRM 10s @ 300 (climb 50), Streak 3s @ 300 (turn 360deg/s), NARC 10s @ 300; splash 30 all (port constant was already right); authored drag ~0.001 = negligible. The port pool flew every round at CONSTANT |MuzzleVelocity| -- SRMs 100 u/s, LRMs 30 u/s (10x slower than authored) -- the entirety of the night-7 "missiles are very slow" report, and the driver of the "explosion before the missiles arrive" perception (the salvo-lead detonates while the slow spread rounds straggle in). Fix: BTMissileThrustOf (mech4.cpp) lazily parses + caches the RES thruster table (ModelList ids aliased to their type-15 member's burn/accel); both launch paths (master FireWeapon + the replicant salvo mirror -- peers see the same speed) resolve through the launcher's bin and pass burn/accel into the pool; the advance integrates speed += accel*dt while burn remains, heading preserved. Ballistic rounds (autocannon/gauss) pass 0/0 -- unchanged. Impact log now prints v=/burnLeft= evidence. Verified live (solo, BT_SPAWN_ENEMY + BT_AF_MISSILE): thrust table 8 entries cached; Black Hawk Streak resolve burn=3 accel=300; impacts at v=277 u/s (was a constant 100). Fun authenticity note: the Black Hawk's "SRM6" fires strk (STREAK) ammo per its authored bin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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#93: fix the end-of-round PerformAndWatch crash -- the STATIC projectile
pool held dangling entity pointers across round teardown Root cause (disasm-pinned on the shipped 4.11.659 exe): RajelAran's crash (call to 0x65676769 = ASCII 'igge', EBP-walk return btl4+0x2b91a) is the tgt->Dispatch vtable call in BTUpdateProjectiles' NON-MECH impact branch (mech4.cpp:1598; the site matches the disasm literally -- the 0x12/0x64 TakeDamageMessage ctor, the EntityID::Null ternary, the getenv gate after). The trap: the mech branch is guarded by BTIsRegisteredMech(tgt) -- but at round teardown a destroyed mech is DEREGISTERED, so a round still in flight (the pool is a static array that outlives the round; missiles are slow, #84) holding it as p.target now FAILS the mech check and falls into the !BTIsRegisteredMech branch, which treats the freed mech as a cultural icon and dispatches into freed memory. The liveness check itself routed the dangling pointer into the unguarded branch. Freed heap reused by a string -> vtable slot +0x10 read 'igge' -> call 0x65676769. (The EBP walker explains the stack shape: the faulting call pushed its return address on ESP, but the walk reads [EBP+4] = PerformAndWatch's frame.) Fix -- scrub at the source of truth: - BTProjectilesDropEntity(e): every pool entry drops a dying entity from p.target/p.shooter; called from ~Mech and ~CulturalIcon (the only free paths for targetable entities). Flight + impact code is already null-guarded on both fields. - BTProjectilesClearAll(): kills all rounds at RunMissions exit (cross- mission hygiene for the static pool). Verified: 6 short-mission cycles (45s missions with a spawned dummy + autofire, mission expiring mid-combat) -- 0 exceptions, 6/6 clean 'RunMissions returned'. The original crash was a heap-reuse race with no deterministic repro; the scrub eliminates the dangling-pointer class by construction. (Bench note: blind autofire never launches missiles -- the launcher needs a target lock -- so the exact in-flight race was not re-created; the non-regression + the pinned mechanism carry the verdict.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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ba4af90d6b |
phase-13 log: night-7 session research state (collision economy, myomer system complete, coolant leaks, the seek 4.0-vs-4.10 drift) + open-questions entry for the seek player version-probe
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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KB: manual cross-check -- myomer seek 'Super Charge' top speed is 4.0-manual behavior DROPPED by the 4.10 binary (stat sheets: Normal 143 / Super Charged 182 / Gimped 40 kph; printed ratio 1.27 vs 4.10's vestigial gear ratio 1.43)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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KB: the seek dial's real stake is TORSO TWIST (PowerWatcher zeroes twist while myomers not Ready); generator has no load model -- gears 1-3 identical on a healthy mech
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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myomer system COMPLETE -- the 'WAVE 6 mover cutover' was a phantom built on
a misattribution; the authentic couplings are all live
THE CORRECTION [T1]: @004b9550/@004b95b8 ('ConnectToMover'/'Disconnect
FromMover') are MechWeapon::ConfigureMappables/ChooseButton -- their +0x31C
is the weapon TriggerState and **(mech+0x128) is the CONTROLS MAPPER's
button roster (the MECHWEAP.CPP assert string + the trigger-edge detector
@004b9608 sit adjacent in the image). The binary has NO dynamic myomer->
speed feed: AvailableOutput has exactly TWO callers in the whole image --
RegisterMaxOutput (assembly) and the SeekVoltageGraph sampler -- and
speedEffect@0x31C is a published GAUGE attribute.
The authentic myomer system (now fully live):
1. drive heat (#85, this morning);
2. VITAL death -- myomers are the only authored vital=1 subsystem
(BTL4.RES res+0x48 scan): destroying them kills the mech via the #80
vital-crit path (this is also the ram-death mechanism -- myomers are a
0.35-weight collision-rattle target);
3. the assembly-time gait cap: RegisterMaxOutput @004b8ef0 raises
mech+0x7A0 to AvailableOutput(top gear) = base x ~1.4284 -- now called
(idempotent max, per tick; the 0x358 layout lock leaves no latch room)
with real OwnerBaseSpeed/OwnerMaxSpeed bridges; the old per-frame
reverseSpeedMax2 heal that would have clobbered it is garbage-guarded;
4. the ENG-page power curve at correct absolute scale (real base speed);
5. electrical sourcing (low gears run on a browned-out generator).
REMOVED (inventions): the mechmppr `speedDemand *= speedEffect` demand
multiplier + BTMyomersDriveOf + the Myomers ConnectToMover/MoverAttach
family. Damaged-but-alive myomers heat faster and drop the power curve
but do NOT slow the mech (gitea #75's premise is falsified by the binary;
the real damage slowdown is the LEG-damage gimp gait). Seek gears change
heat/sourcing/graph -- never speed.
Verified live: a mech at myomer dmg=0.234 (speedEffect attr 0.766)
beelines at full commanded speed with dmgGain=1.234 heat; 0 faults.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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#88 part 2: the central coolant pull-through -- HeatSink::DrawCoolant was a
return-0 stub; the Reservoir BAR now drops when a damaged mech leaks The user watched the coolant panel's level bar during the leak bench and it never moved -- correctly: a leaking subsystem drained only its own loop, because the slot-14 top-up (DrawCoolant) was stubbed. Disassembled the real base @0x4add00: the draw RECURSES UP the sink linkage, scaling by coolantFlowScale@0x15C per hop, terminating at the Reservoir's supply (@0x4af3b0 -- clamp to [0, coolantLevel], drain the tank, return granted -- already faithfully ported as Reservoir::DrawCoolant). The binary's terminal hop is the bank's slot-14 override @0x4ae8b0 resolving its reservoir connection @0x1D8 (the port's 'helper' member -- not vestigial after all); the port's existing Reservoir-ctor Attach + Reservoir override terminate the same chain equivalently (the extra bank hop scales by ctor-default 1.0). Implemented the base recursion (null-guarded -- the binary calls through the resolved link unguarded; authored topology always links) + a BT_COOL_LOG [resdraw] probe at the supply. Verified live: a destroyed myomer's damage leak pulled the central tank 6.0 -> 5.58 over ~30s ([resdraw] granted lines) -- Reservoir/CoolantMass, the cockpit coolant bar, now visibly drops as a damaged mech bleeds coolant, and DeathReset refills it on respawn. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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#88: coolant leaks LIVE -- the #64 damageZone shadow was the single break
in the leak chain HeatSink::UpdateCoolant prices the damage-driven leak from the QUALIFIED engine member (Subsystem::damageZone @0xE0): coolantDraw = zoneDamage * heatLoad, with the coolantActive hysteresis (= the ReportLeak attribute the 19 authored leak watchers ride). But the MechSubsystem ctor only ever filled its re-declared SHADOW member (gitea #64, gotcha #1), so the engine member stayed NULL forever, zoneDamage pinned 0, and a coolant leak was STRUCTURALLY IMPOSSIBLE no matter how much damage landed -- Oracle's night-7 report exactly. The #80 crit fix and the #83 collision rattle write real subsystem-zone damage, but into an object the leak reader could never see. Fix: alias the ENGINE base member to the same zone in both MechSubsystem ctors. Every shadow reader keeps working (same object); the engine base Subsystem::TakeDamage latent null-AV (#64 consequence 2) is disarmed; the full #64 de-shadow sweep remains the long-term cleanup. Verified live (solo, BT_COOL_LOG/BT_CRIT_LOG): collision rattle drove a damaged Myomers to [cool] draw = dmg*heatLoad with the level draining; sustained weapon fire rolled real crits ([critroll]) and produced 588 leak-pricing lines. Authored routing extracted from BTL4.RES: collision rattle targets HeatSinkBank 0.3 / Gyro 0.35 / Torso 0.25 / Myomers 0.35 (Condenser+Reservoir authored 0 for collisions); weapon crits select via the zone's crit-entry list. Known-remaining fidelity item (documented): HeatSink::DrawCoolant (slot 14, central top-up) is still a return-0 TODO. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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#85: myomer drive heat LIVE -- the five Mech motion operands were return-0
shims, so the reconstructed integrator @004b8d18 accumulated zero forever
The integrator, its gates and the heat plumbing were all reconstructed and
running -- but OwnerVelocityMag/OwnerDriveMag/OwnerVelocityY/OwnerMotionGain/
OwnerMass were cross-family compile shims returning 0.0f, so the myomers
priced ratio^2 * damageGain * 0 every tick: ice cold at any seek (Oracle's
night-7 panel-confirmed report).
Operands re-grounded against the raw disasm + decomp and mapped to NAMED
members via a complete-Mech-TU bridge (BTMechMyomerMotionSample, mech4.cpp),
per the databinding rule:
+0x1C4 vec -> localVelocity.linearMotion
+0x82C vec -> localAcceleration.linearMotion (the authentic 15-ring
smoothed AccelerationLastFrame the port already maintains)
+0x20C -> moverMass (the collision divert's cell; the old "motion
gain" label was a misread)
*(+0x250) -> environment gravity (FUN_00421e2c: vy -= **(+0x250)/tick),
via GetEnvironment()->gravityConstant
So the heat physics reads: 0.005 * 1/2 m v^2 (kinetic work, per-tick/no-dt
in the binary -- kept verbatim, frame-rate note documented) + 0.2 * m g
|vy| dt (climb power) + 0.2 * m |v||a| dt (acceleration power), all scaled
by ratio^2 and (1 + zone damage). Restored the binary's fabs(v.y) (the
draft had signed vy -- descending would have COOLED).
Authored tuning extracted from BTL4.RES (18 mech records, one shared
tuning): VelocityEfficiency=0.995, AccelerationEfficiency=0.8, gears
0.3/0.5/0.7/0.9999 rec idx 2; myomer thermal profile 77/1000/2000,
conductance 1.9e5, thermalMass 2.5e5.
Live-verified (solo arena, BT_MYO_LOG + BT_HEAT_LOG): standstill generates
~0; hard circling drove Myomers T 77 -> 1225 (past the 1000 degradation
line) and the coolant loop conducted it back to ~520 equilibrium on
slowing; damageGain live at 1.048 from grind rattle.
Known-inert remainder (filed in open-questions): the climb term reads g=0
because Mover::localEnvironment is never populated in the port
(EnvironmentZone res type 23 unwired); the mover feed (speedEffect ->
locomotion) stays WAVE 6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J
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collision-pricing audit: restore the binary's crash economy -- two fixes
A. KNOCKDOWN PACING: the 0.4s gBlockCooldown contact-hysteresis is gone. It suppressed the crash knockdown for as long as contact was held, letting the kinematic drive re-slam the obstacle at full commanded speed EVERY FRAME -- continuous full-price crash self-damage, a healthy 65-tonner dead in ~2-3s of grinding (the night-7 SAURON ram death, 110 priced frames at |v|~34.7). The binary needs no guard (crash threshold @0x4ab178 read from the exe = 0.0, dispatch per blocked frame is authentic): the bmp clip zeroes the drive, and a pressed mech re-triggers the knockdown at v>6.3 long BEFORE its grind can price anything -- the type-0 divert's 0.5-pt free floor needs v>~18.5 at 65t. Wall grinding is free taps + paced staggers; only genuine fast arrivals pay. B. RAW RAM DISPATCH: the *0.001 "ram economy normalization" (2026-07-12) predated the #83 type-0 divert and became a double-normalization -- the victim's divert scale (~4e-5) compounded with it, so NO physically possible ram could clear the 0.5-pt free floor: rams were a no-op against the victim while the rammer's own un-scaled crash path rattled for real. The binary dispatches raw [T1 @part_012:15324]; the divert IS the normalizer. Also un-starves cultural-icon crunches (trucks now crush on contact per their authored armor, not after ~19 bumps). Bench (scratchpad/night7/mp_rampricing.sh): - wall leg: 150s full-throttle wall push = 125 paced knockdown binds (~1.2s cadence, iv2 40-43), 4767 crash frames ALL under the free floor, 0 rattle, 0 deaths (pre-fix: dead in seconds). - ram leg: BT_GOTO=enemy + BT_GOTO_STOP=2 rams the peer; raw amount arrives byte-identical on the victim (66239.1 tx == rx), victim prices 2.55 pts internal rattle (first ram damage to a victim in the port's history), pressed follow-ups free, 0 deaths both nodes, 108 knockdowns -> exactly 108 type-5 records on the observer (no skating regression). KB swept: combat-damage.md (the 1.3e6 moverMass mis-attribution corrected to the measured 60-90k tonnage scale), locomotion.md, rendering.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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#94: replicant un-wreck now rides the DEATH-STATE EXIT edge -- the zone
falling-edge latch was blind to zone-less (collision) deaths The peer wreck lifecycle listened to two different signals: wreck ON came from the replicated death explosion (unconditional), wreck OFF from a damage-zone falling edge (wasWrecked latch, armed only when a zone crossed >= 1.0 on the observer). The #83 collision damage prices as internal rattle and never moves a zone, so a fresh mech killed by ramming could NEVER un-wreck on peers -- the live respawned mech drove around wearing the hulk (night-7 field report: SAURON's Loki, screenshotted by both observers at the exact minute the log analysis places the ram death). MechDeathHandler::Tick now tracks prevMode and fires the rebuild + warp when the replicated MovementMode leaves the death modes {2,9} -- only Mech::Reset ever does that, and the state rides every record header, so the trigger is cause-agnostic. The zone falling edge just refreshes the cache. Side effect fixed for free: the peer respawn warp vortex now plays for zone-less deaths too (same gate). Bench (scratchpad/night7/mp_zoneless.sh + the new BT_SELF_DAMAGE_TYPE=collision harness option, which dispatches type-0 through the real TakeDamage divert): 14/14 zone-less deaths un-wrecked (mode 9->1) with zero zone rises on the observer; explosive regression leg 12/12 with zone destruction active. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Zh7PTkFy4KwTzVighLR9J |
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#82 FINAL LAYER: the peer body-channel trn-lock -- a circling limper skated because the peer's turn-arm had no walk-demand yield and the trn speed exit read a dead replicant mapper cell
The master limped clean (218x gimp-cycle records, zero trn) -- a _ReturnAddress trap on SetAnimationState(4) proved ALL peer trn arming came from the port's own mech4 turn-step block, not the type-3 reader. Two dead ends, one root: - mech4 peer arm: gated on !wantsWalk (standSpeed < bodyTargetSpeed), exits trn when walking demand appears -- the leg twin's authentic precedence (part_012.c:12013, the Standing speed test outranks the turn test). - mech2 body case 4: bspd reads bodyTargetSpeed on ReplicantInstance; the local mapper's speedDemand is a dead cell on a peer (reads 0 forever -> no exit). Verified 2-node timeline: arena circle replicant 218x state-24 / 0x state-4 (was 116x trn churn), grass circle 235-clean, knockdowns bounded, 0 deaths. Diagnostics kept: BT_TRNTRAP ra-trap, BT_ANIMIND_CAP, [gimpfeed], [replgimp] extension. KB: locomotion.md trn-lock entry + the dead-mapper-cell lesson. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QRjrTQpJd6u9XyfnUbTB3v |
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#83: the COLLISION DIVERT -- type-0 damage prices as internal rattle, never armor
The crash self-damage reconstruction (
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#82 ROOT FIX: reconstruct the crash SELF-DAMAGE -- wall-grinding now hurts,
the knockdown storm self-limits, peers keep the limp
The 'peers see a limping mech skating' report decomposed into a wall-grind
KNOCKDOWN STORM: a gimped mech held against a blocking solid re-crashes each
time its gg cycle rebuilds speed (the gg ceiling is authentically the clip's
natural speed -- bhk1 ~14.9 u/s, ceiling+divisor @0x544/0x548, loader formula
byte-matched -- so iv2 ~222 >> the 40.0 threshold @0x4ab184), and every
type-5 KNOCKDOWN broadcast floors all peers' replicants into knockdown/trn
churn: gliding + leg-lifts = skating. Turning and crushable cars were
A/B-exonerated (grass circling: 198 replicant gimp entries, 17 crunches,
zero broadcasts).
What the binary has that the port lacked -- recovered from the EXPORT GAP by
raw disasm (scratchpad/night6/gap_4a9770.txt, @4aa89f-4aaab4) -- is the crash
branch's tail: fallDirection = worldToLocal(damageForce) (FUN_0040879c, M^T v,
un-normalized), fallScalar = -(fallDirection . localVelocity.linearMotion),
and a self-dispatched TakeDamageMessage{0x64, zone=-1, the engine-computed
collision Damage verbatim}. A wall crash COSTS ARMOR, so the grind degrades
the mech instead of looping forever. That dispatch was the long-standing
'DEFERRED' note in the response policy; now reconstructed.
Falsified en route (comments + KB corrected, do not revive): the stagger's
FUN_004a4c54(1)/(0x20) 'action-request flags' feed NO drive suppressor --
image-wide sweep + full gap disasm show word[this+0x18] is read only by the
net record emitter; the bmp clip applies NO root motion (adv=0 measured); the
'gimp cap 5.8' figure was the BACK-cycle stride printed under a misleading
label (now ggCapL/R; @0x52c has no binary consumer).
Verified (mp_gimpAB rigs): arena1 wall-grind now 4 bounded strikes, limper
dies of its crashes and respawns cleanly twice (START->RESET, no strand);
grass circling unchanged-clean (198 replicant gimp states, 0 knocks).
Rig: pid capture race fixed (a missed winpid left a stale node holding the
-net port -> null runs), per-config sweep added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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KB: the wall-grind knockdown storm IS the surviving #82 skating -- A/B-isolated
Four-config matrix (mp_gimpAB.sh, [animind] replicant-state verdict): grass straight/circle = clean replicant limp (198 gimp entries; 17 car crunches during it -- crushable path broadcasts nothing, cars exonerated); arena1 straight = one wall strike, replicant recovers into the limp; arena1 circle = wall GRIND -- the bmp stagger clip's ~6.5 u/s root motion re-strikes the wall (6.5^2 > iv2 threshold 40), each rebind re-broadcasts the type-5 knockdown (26x in the user's run), and every peer's replicant lives in knockdown/recovery churn: gliding + trn leg-lifts = "skating". Turning while gimped is innocent; single strikes are benign. Authentic fix filed in open-questions: reconstruct the consumer of the stagger's action-request flags (FUN_004a4c54 bits 1/0x20 -- the drive suppressor while the bmp clip plays); the rebind guard at mech4.cpp:6861 is already marked bring-up-pending exactly that. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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bench parity: local nodes now launch exactly like a player's shortcut
Local benches had drifted from the shipped launchers and every divergence
cost a debugging session:
* no BT_START_INSIDE -> benches opened in the EXTERNAL CHASE camera while
every player starts in the COCKPIT. The first first-person look at a
bench window was misread as a broken HUD.
* novice bench eggs -> every SHIPPED egg is expert; novice gates off the
entire heat model, crits and jams, so bench combat was not field combat.
(Verified: the aligned node now boots experience=3 simLive=1
heatModelOn=1, where it used to boot 0/0/0.)
* 1-LP affinity pins -> starved the gauge executive and produced a false
"the comms panel never counts deaths" reading. Two LPs per node keeps
the documented single-box jitter fix without the starvation.
scratchpad/night6/bench_common.sh now owns the contract (bt_player_env,
bt_launch, bt_expert_egg, bt_novice_egg) copied verbatim from play_solo.bat,
with bt_assert_player_env warning if the shipped bat ever drifts. All three
4-node benches source it. The limp bench keeps a novice egg -- expert crits
the aimed leg and the mech turns-but-never-moves -- and now says so loudly.
Also: BT_SHOT_EVERY=<n> headless backbuffer capture (btl4vid.cpp), the tool
this was diagnosed with. It must sit above the warp phase-0 early-out since
that fn is the per-frame alpha-pass hook. OS screen-capture is off-limits:
a foreground-lock failure photographed the user's browser instead of the game.
KB: build-and-run.md gains the bench-parity rule + the capture diag;
cockpit-view.md gains the measured aspect/FOV finding (the surround's 2.05:1
view collapses vertical FOV to 31.5 deg vs the pod's 46.8, so fixed canopy
geometry covers 68.6% of the lower half -- NOT a regression: the shipped 643
binary reports identical geometry).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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bench: symbolic leg-zone targeting, gimp-follow/goto-release, legal egg colors
- BT_SELF_DAMAGE_ZONE=leg resolves the mech's actual leg zone via the streamed LegDamageZone flags (new Mech__DamageZone::IsLegZone) -- numeric zone ids are per-mech-type and a wrong one aims at a vital (killed the limp bench's mech instead of gimping it: 2 ticks, death cycle, respawn healed, harness spent -- 3 minutes of healthy circling). - BT_GOTO=gimp: beeline mode that prefers the nearest LIMPING peer (gimp half-states 3/4 ride the one-cell in every update record); stands and waits while nobody limps. BT_GOTO_RELEASE=1 hands the mech back to the keyboard once the beeline arrives. - MP.EGG/MP4.EGG/MP4L.EGG: color=Red and color=Blue are PATCH values, not colors (RES vehicletable colors: Black/Brown/Crimson/Green/Grey/Tan/ White) -- the two pilots carrying them rendered as untextured pastel mechs. Boreas Red->Crimson, Caicias Blue->Grey. MP4L.EGG = the 4-pilot bench egg on the open grass map. 4-node limp verification (user-eyeballed, all instances): the gimped mech step-drags with the authentic limp on every observer -- no skating (#82 holds in the 4-node overlap case). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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#45 ROOT CAUSE + FIX: the gauge executive starves in MP -- panels froze at healthy fps
Instruments repaint via the background task pump, which authentically runs
ONLY in the frame's leftover time with a floor of ONE pump per frame; the
gauge renderer is 1 of ~7 round-robin tasks and each turn advances ONE gauge
of ~140 active, with the rate mask advancing once per full sweep. On a busy
MP mission the foreground eats the whole frame budget, the floor becomes the
norm, and the whole instrument stack rotates once in MINUTES at perfect fps:
comms-panel K/D stuck at 0, recharge tickers frozen, while the tallies and
their replication underneath were exactly right. Measured: 4-node bench at
70-90 fps gave the PilotList ~2 Execute turns in six minutes.
Fix, both env-tunable, authentic behavior restorable:
BT_BG_MIN (APPMGR.cpp, default 32, 0=authentic) minimum background
pumps per frame regardless of slack;
BT_GAUGE_BATCH (GAUGREND.cpp, default 32, 1=authentic) gauges advanced per
gauge-renderer turn (a visit is only a rate-mask check
unless the gauge is due).
Verified 4-node self-damage bench: sweeps 0.006/s -> 18-20/s, PilotList ~10
Exec/s, ALL FOUR panels tracked every death live (0->11) within ~1s, bg cost
2-4 ms/frame, respawn ledger clean (40 cycles, 0 swallow / 0 mismatch).
Also: BT_PERF now reports gaugeTurns/sweeps/active alongside bgTasks;
BT_AF_PERIOD now throttles the missile autofire group too (unthrottled spam
trips the documented FailureHeat all-weapons brick, which froze run 1 of the
cross-fire bench).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#81 follow-ups: peer warp must not stomp the POV vortex; panel draw probe; mech3 ghost symbols
Two field observations from watching the 4-node stress, both run down: 1. "A respawn happened without the blue vortex" -- REAL. The translocation effect is ONE global slot shared by the POV lifecycle and the world-anchored peer sphere (a port extension). A peer's un-wreck arriving while the local pilot's own collapse/wait/expand was in flight overwrote gWarpPhase/gWarpPOV and killed the POV vortex. Invisible before the respawn fix only because overlapping respawns barely existed; now they are routine. Fix: the POV lifecycle owns the slot -- BTStartWarpEffect self-skips while it is active ([tloc] peer warp SKIPPED). 2-node bench: 20/20 POV collapse+expand pairs, 9 peer spheres played, 11 correctly skipped; solo: 8/8 pairs unchanged. 2. "Comms panel counted no deaths" -- panel machinery CORRECT; the 4-node zeros were the bench's own CPU crush (4 core-pinned instances starved the PilotList to <0.6 Hz, so rows redrew minutes-stale). Added the arbiter: [score] panel DRAW slot/pilot/kills/deaths edge log (BT_SCORE_LOG) -- the 2-node rerun drew 0->9 / 0->11 live on both nodes, local AND replicated (SBMIRROR rows confirm owner->replicant tally flow on all 4 stress nodes). Also: the mech3 offline-authoring stubs declared every <Subsystem>::DefaultData as Entity__SharedData while the real statics are Simulation__SharedData (this engine derives Entity FROM Simulation) -- ~20 ghost symbols /FORCE silently resolved to garbage. DefaultData half fixed (SubsystemDefaultData now returns the true common base Simulation::SharedData); the CreateStreamedSubsystem stub signatures remain wrong (nested SubsystemResource* + ResourceFile*), are cold (no callers), and are tracked in open-questions + gotchas §6 stub-typedef corollary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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#81: 4-node stress PASS -- 56 overlapping death cycles, zero strands; DEATHS tally exact
Four simultaneous networked nodes, all dying every ~35s on staggered timers so respawn handshakes overlap (the field condition that stranded 6 of 8 cycles): 56 cycles, every completed one START->RESET, 0 swallowed / 0 mismatch / 0 discarded / 0 ghost / 0 crash. Scoreboard: every node's PLAYER_DEAD rows show deaths=N tally=N in lockstep (13/13/15/15) -- exactly one increment per death, so removing the duplicate VehicleDead dispatch did not drop the DEATHS column and the latch release did not double it. The kill-credit path evaluated all 56 deaths and correctly declined each self-kill (NOCREDIT self=1); KILLS uses the separate ScoreMessage path the fix never touched. content/MP4.EGG: the 4-pilot bench egg (ports 1502/1602/1702/1802, novice). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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#81 GHOST MECH FIXED: release the death latch + stop the duplicate VehicleDead
Two defects that were masking each other, both now fixed and benched.
1) THE LATCH NEVER RELEASED ON FAILURE. The binary's FUN_004c012c tail is
Post(...) ; *(this+0x290)=0 ; *(this+0x258)=0 (part_013.c:10519-10523).
We had the Post and the suppressConsole and were missing the middle
instruction, so deathPending cleared only on SUCCESS paths. One failed
respawn latched the pilot for the whole mission: every later death hit the
dedup and was SWALLOWED, so the cycle could never restart -- a transient
hiccup became a PERMANENT ghost (dead, un-Reset, still driveable, a burning
wreck on every peer that sinks after ~18s and can never be drawn again).
Binary evidence: +0x290 is written in exactly THREE places in all of
BTL4OPT.EXE (0x0b75fb, 0x0bffe3, 0x0c0a05) and all three store a ZEROED
register; there is no write of 1 -- or any non-zero, in any instruction form
-- anywhere. The dedup gate itself IS authentic (@004c05c4 does
mov edx,[ebx+0x290]; test edx,edx; jne ret), so it is kept.
2) VehicleDeadMessage WAS DISPATCHED TWICE PER DEATH. BTPostKillScore
(btplayer.cpp:2263) sent a second one "to credit a death", but that message
is the RESPAWN-CYCLE TRIGGER, not a scoreboard increment, and the tally is
already credited by the handler's ++deathTally (:538). Both fire inside the
same death transition (BTPostKillScore at mech4.cpp:2006, the hardened
authentic notify at :2110), so they were always paired. Removed; the kill
credit above it is untouched (it correctly uses a ScoreMessage).
THEY HID EACH OTHER: the duplicate made the latch look necessary, and the latch
made the duplicate invisible. Every "death ... SWALLOWED" warning in the field
logs was just the latch deduping our own duplicate -- 8 of 8 deaths, a 100% base
rate, which is exactly why it correlated with nothing when tested. Fixing
either alone makes things visibly worse (the first bench of fix 1 alone produced
a DOUBLE cycle: deathCount double-incremented, cycle 1's re-post gone stale and
tripping the drop-zone MISMATCH). That is why earlier passes at #57/#55 kept
adding clear-sites instead of finding the root; the binary broke the tie.
VERIFIED
solo: 17 consecutive death/respawn cycles, every one START->RESET,
0 swallowed / 0 mismatch / 0 crash. Pre-fix this strands permanently
after cycle 1.
MP : two nodes over a real network path with cross-machine drop-zone replies
(each node's request is answered by the OTHER machine) -- A 11 cycles,
B 12, 0 swallowed / 0 mismatch / 0 discarded / 0 crash.
harness: BT_SELF_DAMAGE_REPEAT=1 re-arms the self-damage bench after respawn
so multiple cycles can be driven (a one-death harness can never
exercise this fix). scratchpad/night6/mp_ghost.sh.
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#81 THE ANSWER: deathPending is OUR invention -- the binary has no death latch
Read BT's own respawn code and checked it against BTL4OPT.EXE itself. FAITHFUL: BT's Player::VehicleDeadMessageHandler (FUN_0042db80, part_003.c:12029) gates on message->deathCount == player->deathCount AND player+0x40 != 1 (simulationState != DropZoneAcquiredState) -- exactly WinTesla's two gates -- then runs the same closest-DropZone search skipping "win*" zones, dispatches AssignDropZone and re-posts to itself on a timer. So the retry loop and the cross-machine hunt are authentic 1995 behaviour, not a WinTesla artifact. NOT FAITHFUL: BT's BTPlayer::VehicleDeadMessageHandler (FUN_004c012c, part_013.c:10504) ENDS with *(param_1 + 0x290) = 0 -- it CLEARS the field our reconstruction calls deathPending, at the end of every death. Verified in the raw binary: +0x290 is written in exactly three places in the whole executable (0x0b75fb, 0x0bffe3, 0x0c0a05) and ALL THREE store a zeroed register (xor ecx,ecx / xor eax,eax / xor edx,edx immediately before). There is NO write of 1 or of any non-zero value to +0x290 anywhere in BTL4OPT.EXE. Two are ctor/reset sweeps; the middle one is the death handler, sitting right after the call to Post and add esp,0x14, matching the decompiled tail exactly. So 1995 has NO death-pending gate. We invented it (btplayer.cpp:505) and then needed six clear sites to patch the strandings it caused (:382 :469 :1431 :1442 :1461 :1532). #57 and #55 are artifacts of that invention. It is also what makes a ghost PERMANENT: in BT a failed respawn is harmless (the 2s re-post keeps hunting, the next death starts a clean cycle); in ours the first failure latches the pilot and every later death is SWALLOWED forever -- exactly the field signature of 8 cycles, 6 stranded, none recovering. Fix proposed in the doc (match the binary: clear instead of latch, drop the dedup gate) but NOT applied -- six sites depend on the latch and the dedup is load-bearing, so it wants a deliberate two-node bench, not a 1am edit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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#81: every MP respawn is a cross-machine round trip -- one degraded peer ghosts everyone
Two-node bench with the fixed host:local labels shows each player's drop-zone
request is answered by the OTHER machine's DropZone: A asks, B grants; B asks, A
grants. FindGroup("DropZones") iterates replicants of remotely-mastered zones
too and takes the geometrically closest, so a respawn is
my request -> an arbitrary peer's DropZone -> that peer's reply -> back to me.
With 5 players that is 5 round trips through arbitrary peers, and ONE degraded
peer can strand everybody else's respawn. That finally explains the otherwise
unexplained field datum that one machine stopped processing the death-transition
stream 57% into a match and never recovered (0 explosions/wreck swaps/burials
while four other machines logged 4/4/4) -- a node in that state cannot answer
anyone's respawn. It also explains why solo is 100% reliable (in-process) and
why a healthy 2-node bench passes.
Also fixes the instrumentation before it costs a night: every [dz] line printed
"entity 1" because a player's LOCAL entity id is 1 on every machine -- with five
players the log would have said a respawn stalled but not WHOSE. All [dz] lines
now print host:local (including the usedBy= owner of each busy slot).
Doc: two candidate fixes recorded (prefer a locally-mastered DropZone / make the
reply path tolerant of a deathCount that is ahead of ours), neither to be guessed
at -- the [ghost] DISCARDED line's mismatch direction decides it in one line.
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#81 ghost: light the SILENT DISCARD -- the only path a respawn can vanish on
Walked the respawn handshake end to end and measured the assumptions. Two
eliminations and one find:
ELIMINATED: the engine hunt re-posts to itself every 2s forever while the mech
is dead (PLAYER.cpp:325-327; its only state-based exit never fires, see below),
and the DropZone re-grants the SAME slot to a repeat request from the same
requester+deathCount even while busy (DROPZONE.cpp:182-194). So neither a
transient "no slot" nor a single lost reply can strand a respawn -- the request
keeps being re-sent and re-granted. A permanent strand needs a permanent cause.
THE FIND: BTPlayer::DropZoneReplyMessageHandler ends
if (!playerVehicle) ... else if (deathCount == message->deathCount) ... else { return; }
and that last branch was a BARE RETURN WITH NO LOG. The drop zone grants a
spot, replies, the numbers disagree, the reply is dropped, deathPending stays
latched, the mech is never Reset -> permanent ghost, zero evidence. That is
why 6 of 8 field cycles stranded silently. Now always-on, printing the
DIRECTION of the mismatch: msgDeath < ours = genuinely stale (dropping is
right); msgDeath > ours = our counter is behind and we just threw away a LIVE
respawn -> points straight at #45 (the death tally does not replicate).
Deliberately NOT auto-recovered: guessing would be a stand-in, and the wrong
guess resets a mech that is still alive.
LANDMINE DOCUMENTED IN CODE: Set_Alarm_Level is an empty stub (btstubs.cpp:87),
so the death path's Set_Alarm_Level(this+0x2c,1) and the reply's (+0x2c,2) are
no-ops. Their values decode against Player's enum as DropZoneAcquiredState(1)
and VehicleTranslocatedState(2), which makes "these should obviously be
SetSimulationState() calls" both attractive and CATASTROPHIC: the engine hunt is
gated on GetSimulationState() != DropZoneAcquiredState, so setting 1 on death
would stop AssignDropZone ever being dispatched and ghost EVERY pilot. Measured
our simulationState at 0x24 (not 0x2c) and the write leaves it 0; in the binary
+0x2c is the Simulation-base alarm (the field the mech side calls graphicAlarm,
@0x4ac126 "owner alarm+0x2C -> level 9"), which our layout models only on Mech.
Verified solo: a healthy death+respawn logs the grant and the RESET and emits
ZERO discard/gate-off lines (no false positives).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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docs: GHOST_MECH_ANALYSIS -- the field analysis, durable across sessions
The ghost and the "wreckage moving and shooting" are the SAME failure at two ages: a stranded respawn (drop-zone reply never arrives) leaves the mech never Reset and never repainted, and the render-side wreck swap is ONE-WAY -- so the pilot drives a burning hulk that sinks (pure ~18s timer, btl4vid.cpp:1277) and then cannot be drawn at all. Records: the 8-cycle ledger (only 2 of 8 reached RESET; stranded correlates with ghosting 8/8 and 10/10); the host did not ghost because he never died; the SWALLOWED warning is BENIGN (100% base rate) and two earlier readings of mine that were wrong (spurious resets = aggregation artifact, per-match player IDs); the WinTesla-vs-1995 provenance caveat on DROPZONE.cpp; what the new instrumentation already killed (slots=8, so dropzone=one is not the bottleneck); and the four-separate-bugs breakdown of the "desync cluster" including the machine that stopped processing the death-transition stream mid-match. Raw per-machine logs + the verbatim agent findings stay in scratchpad/night6/ (uncommitted -- machine names + Steam identities). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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drop-zone / respawn instrumentation: make the GHOST MECH visible in field logs
The ghost (a player who dies, never respawns, stays dead-but-driveable and is a
wreck on every peer) traces to a respawn stalling on drop-zone acquisition:
DropZone::AssignDropZoneMessageHandler grants a slot only if IsAvailable(), and
when none is free it reposts to ITSELF every 0.1s at MaxEventPriority and never
replies -- so deathPending is never cleared. This whole subsystem was DARK: not
one drop-zone line in a full night of field logs.
ALWAYS-ON (no env gate -- rare, catastrophic, field-only, same rationale as the
#57/#59 guards; volume bounded and rate-limited):
[dz] POOL -- slots + downTime + proximity radius, once per mission
[dz] GRANTED-- one per respawn, with the WAIT time; tags (GHOST RECOVERED)
when a long-stalled request finally lands (what testers see as
"it fixed itself")
[dz] STALL / GHOST LIKELY -- escalating, per-waiter rate-limited, and it names
WHY each slot is busy (age + last user), which discriminates
cooldown saturation from proximity blocking -- different fixes
[dzreq] -- the REQUESTER half: re-try count for this death, and msgDeath vs
our own deathCount. The engine gates the hunt on those being
equal AND the DropZone resend net is keyed on the same value, so
a mismatch breaks both silently (cf #45, tally replication).
BT_DROPZONE_LOG=1 adds the verbose per-request slot dump for bench work.
First run already overturned a theory: slots=8, so an 8-slot pool cannot be
cooldown-starved by 5 players (max 5 on cooldown at once) -- the shared
dropzone=one in eggmodel.py is NOT the bottleneck. Suspicion moves to the
handshake (lost reply / deathCount mismatch).
Verified with NO env vars set, exactly as a tester runs it: 4 probe lines for a
full death+respawn cycle, all in the normal day log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#82 peers see a limping mech SKATING: the mech erased its own gimp cell every frame
The binary's one mech+0x40 IS Simulation::simulationState, which rides EVERY
update record header -- so in 1995 a peer's replicant learned the gimp level on
every packet and its gait limped with no gimp-specific replication anywhere.
The port's Mech::PerformAndWatch wrote SetMovementMode(1) every frame ("ground,
non-death, non-airborne"), which erased the level once it was mirrored in for
the warning voice (#78): the wire carried 1, bystanders walked while sliding at
limp speed, and the voice sequence restarted on every damage event (1->4 edge
per tick) instead of announcing once.
- mech4: that per-frame write now writes the AUTHORITATIVE level
(gimped ? 3/4 : 1) via a new alarm-only bridge BTMechGimpAlarmLevel -- which
deliberately never consults the cell it feeds, so a respawn-cleared alarm
cannot re-latch stale gimp out of it.
- BTMechGimpLevel: falls back to the replicated cell, with ONE-CELL precedence
(a fall/death/limbo state wins, so the normal drivers and their death latch
run -- what the binary's single cell enforced structurally).
- Reverted the #78 record guard: on a replicant the master's records are
authoritative, so pinning 3/4 against them would keep a peer limping through
a respawn. Fixed at the writer instead.
- [simstomp] trap now scoped to the watched mech with a module-relative return
address (symcrash-able) -- that is what named the writer.
- Also learned + recorded: zone damage levels replicate only when the EXPLOSION
TABLE's tier is crossed (peer measured at 0.428 vs master 0.857), so peer-side
damage state must never be inferred from them.
Verified two-node (scratchpad/night6/mp_skate.sh): the observer's replicant gets
sim=4 and its gait runs 23 -> 25 (wgr entry -> ggl limp cycle). Field clue that
cracked it: "after respawning a peer DID see the limp" (epilectrik/SAURON).
KB: locomotion.md + gotcha #25.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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hotfix: null-damageZone guard on the crit path (field crash, build 641, Conn Man's Owens)
First field session with real crits (#80) found a weapon subsystem with a NULL damageZone: Mech__DamageZone::CriticalHit -> ApplyDamageAndMeasure -> MechWeapon::TakeDamage +0xf (the engine base derefs the zone unguarded -- every 1995 subsystem shipped with one). Stack symbolized from the field log; the path was unreachable before tonight because ApplyDamageAndMeasure was a stub until #80. Guards at both choke points; a one-shot [crit] log NAMES the zoneless subsystem when hit so the root cause (build that subsystem's zone) can be fixed from the next field log. Owens crit bench: no crash, guard inert on zoned subsystems. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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particles.png recovered (#79, found by cyd) -- particle texture ships at last
content/VIDEO/particles.png (128x128 RGBA): the texture L4PARTICLES has tried to load since the engine was written. Boot-verified: [particles] device objects created (max=8192, texture=loaded). Every particle effect now draws textured -- the authored look; the arcade pods displayed untextured quads because the file never shipped. Comments updated to match. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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demo/bench harness polish: BT_SELF_DAMAGE_DELAY + two harness bug fixes + the OBS limp demo bat
- BT_SELF_DAMAGE_DELAY=<s>: hold the harness off for n seconds (capture demos: healthy walking first). Fixed its underflow bug (the countdown crossed below zero, which is also the "read the env" sentinel -- the delay re-armed forever). - The one-death latch was fed by EVERY mech's update: a mission that generated any destroyed mech entity tripped it at frame one and the harness silently never fired (random per mission roll). Now viewpoint-mech only. - run\limpdemo.cmd: the OBS capture demo -- 30 s healthy auto-walk, then the leg crosses half on the final damage tick: klaxon-klaxon-"reverse disabled" + the limp, then unlimited limp footage (waypoint 8000,8000). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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locomotion.md: correct the gimp-audio verdict -- the reverse-disabled voice is real and wired
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the REVERSE DISABLED voice (#78): SimulationState 3/4 IS the trigger -- mirror the gimp level into the engine cell
User + old-timers were right; the earlier "no voice exists" verdict was wrong. The authored mech audio has state watchers on Entity.SimulationState==3/4 (the binary's one-cell mech+0x40) that start sequence notes 29,16,40 -- two klaxon hits then Warnings01 zone 8 (key 40-41) = the "reverse disabled" voice line the testers remember. The port's cell split (graphicAlarm vs engine simulationState, gotcha #23) meant the trigger value never arrived. - mechdmg: mirror gimp 3/4 into SetSimulationState at the leg-half crossing (guarded: never stomps disabled/fall/dead states). Voice verified playing end-to-end on the bench: SetupPatch bank2 patch113 note=40 -> Warnings01_z7.wav. - mech.cpp: BT_GIMP_SAFE_BASE_READ on all seven Simulation::ReadUpdateRecord sites -- gimp is monotonic per life; a record captured pre-gimp must not stomp the cell (the loopback otherwise perpetuates the stale value and restarts the warning on every damage event). - diagnostics (all env-gated): [statefire]/[startreq]/[animind]/[gimp-sim]/ [simstomp]/[indstomp] + StateIndicator::DebugAudioWatcherCount + raised spatial-log caps. These traced the whole chain and PROVED no SetState path stomps the cell. OPEN (follow-up): a RAW writer (bypasses SetState entirely; invisible to the indicator-level trap) resets the cell between damage events -- under the bench's 1 Hz metronome harness it restarted the sequence before the 1.8 s voice note; sporadic real-play damage is unaffected (one edge -> full sequence). Needs a cdb write-watchpoint session; candidates: a recon raw +0x2c-equivalent write or a struct copy spanning it. Also decoded en route: the AnimationState triggers on the limp states play EngineShiftRev01 (the downshift foley) -- working, and NOT the voice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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locomotion.md: the gimp audio verdict (servo loop, no voice line) + rebind watch item
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audio: gated [statefire] diagnostic on AudioStateTrigger (BT_AUDIO_SPATIAL)
Logs animation-range state-trigger fires (trigState>=5, capped 60). Used to prove the #78 limp audio end-to-end: entering the gimp states fires the authored strained-servo component (statefire trigState=23 old=7 new=23, ctl Start) -- the 1995 wounded-leg sound, reachable for the first time now that the limp gait lands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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locomotion.md: record the gimped turn-step relocation find
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gimped turn-in-place (#78 field find): arm the trn step in the gimp leg driver
Field test: a gimped mech pivoted as a rotating statue. The binary's turn dispatcher (FUN_004a9b5c, master perf) runs OUTSIDE the driver selection so it arms trn for gimped mechs too -- 71f4's case 4 exists to advance it. The port relocated that dispatcher into the NORMAL leg driver's Standing case, which stops running when the gimp driver takes over. Mirror the arming (same gates + lockstep body arm) into AdvanceLegAnimationGimp's Standing case. No gimp-turn clip exists in the RES -- a limping mech step-turns with the normal trn clip, authentic. Field-verified: stepping pivots both directions while gimped, heading sweeping, clean re-entry into the wgr/ggl limp on throttle-up. [T2] Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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limp demo bat + the glass controls doc fix (SHIFT is throttle, not W)
run\limp.cmd: double-click #78 demo -- novice copy of DEV.EGG (expert crits can kill the myomers and fake a no-drive bug), 2x60 into a bhk1 leg zone via BT_SELF_DAMAGE_TICKS, BT_KEY_NOFOCUS for the glass plasma-window focus trap, and the REAL controls in the header. build-and-run.md: the "WASD drive" line predated the glass merge -- the default profile drives with the 1995 throttle lever (SHIFT/CTRL slew + stick, ALT reverse). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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the visible limp (#78): there was never a jump-jet clip set -- the 'Airborne' drivers ARE the gimp gait machines
The port had FUN_004a5bf8/71f4 fully reconstructed as AdvanceBody/Leg-
AnimationAirborne, gated on (MovementMode()==3||4) && jumpCapable@0x580 and
believed dead ("the test mech never jumps"). The binary says otherwise:
mech+0x40 in that gate is the graphicAlarm LEVEL (3=left-leg gimp, 4=right)
and +0x580 is hasGimpClips, set by the conditional loader block that probes
'wgl' and fills clip slots 22-27 (wgl/wgr/ggr/ggl/gsl/gsr) plus the four
measurements at 0x53c-0x548 (wg entry strides = speed caps, gg cycle strides).
Renamed the five jump* members + both drivers accordingly.
New: GimpBodyClipFinished @004a6344 / GimpLegClipFinished @004a7970 -- the
gimp transition machines, branched from the normal finished-callbacks. Phase-
correct limp entry (left-gimp enters 0x16/wgl only from a RIGHT step, right-
gimp 0x17/wgr from a LEFT step), gg cycles at gimp cadence, gs exits, and the
demand clamp to the gimped side's speed cap (leg cb writes it back into the
mapper -- the binary's authentic slowdown; the T3 x0.5 stand-in in mechmppr is
retired, BT_GIMP_SPEED now defaults 1.0). The binary's gimp machines have no
reverse entry -- the "reverse disabled" behavior is now binary-proven.
Reviving the dead drivers replayed two port-glue bugs (gotcha #24): the raw
*(controlSource) mapper read (null -> crash at first engagement) and the
missing alarm->member state re-sync (machine pinned in one run state). Both
fixed; bench harness gained BT_SELF_DAMAGE_TICKS=<n> to hold a zone past
LegHalfStructure without destroying it.
Bench-verified (madcat, novice, zone 16): crossing -> alarm 4 -> wgr entry
from a left step -> 8k+ frames stable in the ggl limp cycle at cadence 14.77
(vs 18.5 walk / 22+ run) with raw demand still 50. [T2]
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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