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>
