The full circuit, workflow-researched (5 parallel dossiers over BT411 + the
engine) and adversarially reviewed (3 lenses) before landing:
Mech side: the once-per-death transition in Simulate (freeze, motion kill,
DeathShutdown sweep, MASTER-only VehicleDead(-1) to the player link);
Mech::Reset @0049fb74 (reposition + heal every hull zone + the roster
DeathReset sweep + PreRun -- the reset-based respawn that REUSES the entity);
dead-owner terms in both weapon hard gates (wrecks fall silent).
Player side: the VehicleDead(-1) branch (deathPending dedup, deathCount
bump+stamp, scenario-role life debit, +5s re-post -> the engine drop-zone
hunt) and the DropZoneReply respawn branch (reset the dead mech at the
replied drop zone; probes on a live mech are moot).
Subsystem side: the engine base virtual DeathReset implemented across the
family -- MechSubsystem (zone heal + DestroyedState clear), MechWeapon (full
powered/thermal restore + fresh Loading cycle), AmmoBin (restock from the
ctor-cached count), HeatSink/HeatWatcher/PowerWatcher/Generator/Sensor/
MissileLauncher.
Review catches fixed before commit: AmmoBin restocked through the FREED
padBuffer pointer (use-after-free -> initialAmmoCount; MechSubsystem::
resource is now documented as never-deref-post-ctor); died-hot weapons
respawned at FailureHeat (now full thermal re-init); Generator tap counts
desynced across reset (preserved); Sensor skipped the base heal; PowerWatcher
inherited a statically-bound reset; cooling toggle + connect mode restored.
Verified: kill -> wreck (0 shots while dead) -> +5s -> drop-zone hunt ->
HEALED + placed at a real drop zone -> 134 shots after respawn incl. 12 SRM
(restock proof); unowned enemy wreck settles silently; fight/smoke/novice
regressions green, zero faults.
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Weapons dump firing heat into their own sinks, sinks conduct through the
Condenser bank into the central HeatSink, temperatures drive the degradation/
failure alarms, and every powered subsystem tracks its generator through the
electrical state machine. Verified: the authentic fire-discipline game -- a PPC
spikes 77->709K per shot, relaxes to 441K across its 5s reload, and sustained
fire climbs 441->674->838->960K, brushing the authored 1000K degradation
threshold. All calibration values match the BT411 audit exactly (central bank
1.39e6, PPC sink 174000, thresholds 77/1000/2000).
- HEAT: HeatSinkSimulation (@004ad924 absorb->T->load->conduct->alarm),
ConductHeat/ComputeHeatFlow (@004ad8ac/@004ad9ec two-body equilibrium
relaxation; flow==0 exactly at uniform T), UpdateHeatLoad (15-sample filter);
heat-state enum + accessors; installed by the HeatSink ctor.
- WIRE-VERIFIED: HeatSink resource gains linkedSinkIndex -- THE missing
ancestry int that shifted every descendant block +1 (voltageSourceIndex had
been reading the linked-sink index: "power sources" appeared to be
Condensers). Conduction topology wired from it at construction:
weapons->Condensers1-6->central; Generators->Condensers; Reservoir->central.
- MECHWEAP resource: authentic pip tail (pipPosition int + pipColor 3 floats +
pipExtendedRange int) per the BT411 verified overlay; with linkedSinkIndex
this closes the whole +3 alignment mystery (ProjectileWeapon pad deleted).
True bhk1 reads: PPC recharge 5.0s (not 1.0), discharge 0.99s, range 900.
- POWERSUB: ctor resolves voltageSourceIndex -> GeneratorA-D (wire-verified),
taps via Generator::TapVoltageSource (-1 when full); PoweredSubsystemSimulation
(@004b0bd0) electrical FSM (Starting/NoVoltage/Shorted/GeneratorOff/Ready);
GeneratorSimulation partial (start/short-recovery timers).
- Weapons: power step at sim head; Loading recharge gated on electrical Ready
(authentic @4bbdf5); FireWeapon dumps firing heat. HEAT UNITS: the chain is
1e7-native with TWO authoring conventions -- energy weapons store small
(PPC=11, x1e7 from the energy algebra), ballistics store native (SRM6=5.06e7,
dumped raw; double-scaling it was the bring-up runaway-temperature bug).
- SENSOR: authentic gating (@004b1c4c) -- power step, electrical-Ready gate,
heat-state switch (Degradation x0.5 / Failure 0). Verified Ready + 100%.
Deferred: coolant depletion/venting, the novice HeatModelOff gate, the charge
model (TrackSeekVoltage/voltage sag/I2R), weapon gate 1 + jam roll, the central
sink's forward-linked drain. Zero Fail across fire + neutral runs.
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The world now executes. Entity::Execute only PerformAndWatch's entities in
application state RunningMission, reached by two RunMissionMessages
(WaitingForLaunch->LaunchingMission->RunningMission). The 2nd is dispatched by
Player::ManageApplicationStatus when the launch fade expires -- but that only
runs inside PlayerSimulation, not the launch-phase HuntForDropZone. So the
player must switch Performance onto PlayerSimulation after it spawns.
- BTPLAYER.CPP DropZoneReplyMessageHandler: after CreatePlayerVehicle +
InitializePlayerLink, choose the per-vehicle Performance by class -- Mech ->
SetPerformance(PlayerSimulation)+SetScoringPlayerFlag; else CameraShipSimulation.
- BTPLAYER.CPP PlayerSimulation: chains the authentic base Player::PlayerSimulation
(CalcRanking + ManageApplicationStatus + vehicle-pos copy + status service);
console SCORE-delta flush deferred to the scoring wave.
- SENSOR.CPP SensorSimulation: minimal-safe partial (radarPercent = 1 -
GetSubsystemDamageLevel, sensor healthy) so the roster tick path can't Fail
once RunningMission engages. The heat/electrical gating awaits the power/heat
sim wave (PoweredSubsystem/Generator/HeatSink/HeatWatcher *Simulation staged).
Verified: BT_MECH_LOG run reaches "[tick] roster live (first Sensor frame)",
two RunMissionHandler transitions, zero Fail/Exception. The mech is executed
each frame; its BODY Performance is still DoNothingOnce (real Mech::Simulate =
Phase 5.3, now the frontier).
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Sensor : public PoweredSubsystem -- the radar/targeting subsystem, using the
SURVIVING 4.10 interface (CODE/BT/BT/SENSOR.HPP) with a reconstructed SENSOR.CPP
body (from BT411 decomp). Ctor chains PoweredSubsystem, inits radarPercent/
selfTest/badVoltage, and installs the per-frame performance unless the owner is a
replicant (owner->GetInstance() != ReplicantInstance -- the clean form of the
binary's (flags & 0xC) != 4). Statics, dtor, TestClass/TestInstance,
ResetToInitialState, TakeDamage, DeathReset real; SensorSimulation (per-frame
radar) + CreateStreamedSubsystem staged.
Completes the first full vertical slice of the subsystem roster, all
compile-verified: MechSubsystem -> HeatableSubsystem -> HeatSink ->
PoweredSubsystem -> Sensor. The hierarchy backbone is proven; remaining leaves
(Generator, Gyro, Torso, HUD, Myomers, weapons) follow the same pattern.
BT: 27 ok; tree links clean.
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