The user challenged the 7% clock story ("i think its not just a 7% discrepancy.
did you base your analysis in the decomp") -- correctly. The stop-path trace
it forced found the real amplifier, and it is byte-grounded:
THE ARCADE (byte-verified in the #95 work): FireWeapon @004bcc60 spawns ONE
Missile entity per trigger -- no loop, missileCount never read at fire. One
Missile -> one detonation (@004be078) -> ONE Explosion entity: one 4-voice
sound + one authored smoke package per salvo. The cluster's N-fold nature is
delivered as DAMAGE (burstCount), not as N explosions.
THE PORT: the N-round visual ripple (a deliberate [T3] port visual; its rounds
are damage-0 tracers) called BTSpawnRoundDetonation at EVERY round's contact --
N full Explosion entities per salvo, N x BigExpInt x 4 voices, N x the
explosion PFX, N=2..20. Measured in a 100s solo missile bench: 559 explosion
sound setups; BigExpInt 208. On observer nodes the stale-point mirror bug
(fixed in da70bd5) DOUBLED the train again.
One infidelity, three field symptoms:
* Oracle: "prolonged smoke and explosion including sound" -- a staggered
train of 6-20 overlapping BigExpInt instances per salvo reads as one long
explosion+roar (Rajel correctly tied it to #84)
* Ronin: missile-impact smoke "so much it functioned as a smoke screen"
* #32: the saturating audio class was 1005 Static3DPatchSource requested=4
-- each surplus detonation reserved 4 more voices
FIX: BTProjectile carries salvoLead; both detonation sites (target contact +
world/terrain burst) gate on it. Master salvo: lead = round 0 (the damage
carrier). Mirror salvo: round 0, so observers see exactly one explosion per
salvo at the live target. AC/laser single rounds default lead=1 (one round =
one explosion, authentic). Non-lead rounds keep their small tracer end-puffs.
MEASURED A/B (same bench): 80 of 96 contacting rounds no longer spawn the
package; 16 leads ~= the salvo count. BigExpInt setups 208 -> 72 (~18
packages for ~16 salvos + deaths = one per salvo). LaserExplosion unchanged
in kind. Splash was already lead-only (splashBurst) -- damage totals move
NOWHERE in this change.
Also corrected the rack-tube comment that claimed "the binary's Missile
entities each launch from their own rack tube... their 12 detonations" -- there
are no 12 binary missiles; the ripple is ours.
The 28Hz audio-clock calibration from the previous commit stands, but is
demoted to what it is: a small systemic correction, not the explanation for
the field reports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
