B1 SEPARATION: pairwise soft-collision pass INSIDE EnemyAISystem (sole
enemy-Position writer preserved; O(n^2) fine at MaxAlive<=14). Knocked/
lunging enemies keep committed motion but still push neighbours; the boss is
never pushed; enemies yield a small personal radius around players (below
melee range per review B1-1); displacement goes through the swept move so
nothing shoves through walls. SeparationMaxSpeed = live knob.
B2 POISE: the windup-cancel lived in the knockback CONTINUE branches (grunt/
charger/spitter). Threshold on the EXISTING KnockbackState.Speed channel:
light melee (6) nudges without interrupting; the finisher (10.8) and cone
(8) stagger as before. StaggerKnockbackSpeed = live knob (default 7).
B4 BOSS LUNGE: a telegraphed gap-closer on its own cooldown when the target
sits outside slam reach (repositioning - the slam stays the damage beat).
BossState.PendingAttack (server-only byte) disambiguates the shared windup
elapse (review-confirmed: naive reuse would SLAM on a lunge elapse);
LungeState.UntilTick spans windup+travel so the existing IsLunging ghost bit
replicates the tell, and the client draws a travel wedge instead of the slam
ring while it is set.
B5 PARTY HP SCALE: boss Health x(1 + 0.75/extra LIVING expedition player) at
spawn (not RunParticipant - dead-respawned members park at base). Max is a
GhostField so the bar stays truthful.
B6 RUN-FAILED BANNER: silent wipes used to land players home with zero
explanation. Client detects the (in-run)->Staging edge with a launch-cached
Charge (NEVER Returning - a 1-tick transient that precedes the bank by a
tick) and shows EXPEDITION FAILED for 6 s.
B7 FIRE ANIM: the class ability finally moves the body - a stateless window
from replicated AbilityCooldown.NextFireTick minus derived CooldownTicks
(works for predicted local + interpolated remotes, no cached edges).
456/456 EditMode; live Play smoke: launch -> 5 kills credit the room clear
through the corpse window -> boon window opens -> corpses expire clean, no
exceptions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Server: HealthApplyDamageSystem marks EnemyTag Dying{UntilTick} (TickUtil.
NonZero, ~54 ticks) on the lethal 0-crossing instead of instant destroy,
zeroes every live cue (replicated AttackWindup, LungeState + IsLunging bit,
KnockbackState), destroys on expiry; plain-world tests keep instant destroy
(no NetworkTime) so the suite's assertions stay meaningful.
Every consumer now ignores corpses (all confirmed entity-count/unfiltered by
the design review): EnemyAISystem all 4 passes, BossAISystem brain + summon
cap, RoomEnemyDirector room-clear + MaxAlive fit, WaveSystem cap + cleared,
CyclePhaseSystem breach wipe + DefendCleared, ThreatDirector timeout cull,
TurretFire targeting, CoreDamage drain, ProjectileDamage snapshot (corpses
are not shields), AbilityFire auto-aim candidates, debug cull + telemetry.
Wipe passes skip Dying to avoid cross-ECB double-destroys.
Client: EnemyAnimationDriveSystem finally drives the controller's IsDead
param (Health.Current<=0 is the replicated death read; corpse locomotion
zeroed); CombatFeedbackSystem moves the kill CRUNCH to the 0-crossing (the
prune-edge timing would land it ~1 s late) - the prune keeps a small
dissolve puff for corpses and the legacy full read for alive-vanish culls.
456/456 EditMode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
'sand 1' shipped pure-white BaseColor - the whole desert washed out and
characters/telegraphs sat on a bright field. Project-owned copy
(Mat_Ground_Arid_Dark, 0.72/0.68/0.63) assigned to both room-slot grounds;
the Synty pack asset stays pristine. Clarity doctrine: ground darker +
lower-detail than characters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SLICE A - rooms become places: ExpeditionBiome duplicated to sub-slot 1
(X+1500) - ground, 205 decor children, rim cliffs, ambience; collider ring +
3 landmark colliders duplicated in the subscene; NEW in-room cover at BOTH
slots (4 collidable rocks each: Environment-layer box colliders in the
subscene + matching Synty rock meshes in Game.unity, placed clear of the
landing point, portal spot, spawn ring and boss spawn). Half of all rooms
previously played on a literal void.
SLICE C - owned FX wired: VFXConfig gains Portal + EnemySpawn slots
(FX_Portal_Round_01 / FX_Dust_Big_01 from PolygonParticleFX); the portal
beacon prefers the authored effect (procedural pillar stays as fallback);
enemies get a spawn-emerge cue on the ghost add-edge (primed-scan guard
skips the connect flood).
SLICE D (teaching) - the two undiscoverable verbs are now taught: dash on
the Move step, class ability + attack on the Rooms step (scheme-aware
glyphs); How-to-Play Controls adds Class ability + Dash rows and fixes the
wrong RT glyph; Loop step 1 mentions class pick + prep; the stale '50
starting Ore' now interpolates Tuning.StartingOre.
456/456 EditMode.
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- The center-top phase banner read the CyclePhase label ("AT BASE") inside
expedition rooms - now shows ON EXPEDITION whenever a run is past Staging.
- The location-line switch had no RoomExplore case, so "choose your boon"
stuck through the whole loot window - added the portal-steer line.
- Storage crate floated 1u: GridOrigin.y=1 is the CC capsule-CENTER plane;
CellToWorld returns it, and the crate's mesh pivot is at its base (Turret/
Wall pivots are centered, which is why structures look grounded). The
container now sits on the terrain; same grounding for the portal beacon,
whose pos.y was the capsule plane too.
- Beacon HDR 2.6/3.4 bloomed into a white egg that swallowed the prompt -
tamed to 1.2/1.55 + slimmed the pillar.
456/456 EditMode before and after; Play smoke: crate at y=0, banner correct
at Staging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The room-exit portal was invisible in the first playtest - players loitered
out the 30s ExploreGrace timeout. Adds RegionMath.ExpeditionPortalPos as the
single client-derivable portal-position authority (HUD prompt + beacon can't
drift), a pooled breathing HDR pillar in CombatFeedbackSystem shown only
during RoomExplore, and an in-range/out-of-range two-stage prompt.
Also repairs the comment-swallowed _portalMat initialization (NRE in
OnStartRunning killed ALL combat feedback each session and auto-paused the
editor via Error Pause). 456/456 EditMode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Portal-gated rooms: new RunLifecycle.RoomExplore loot window; room+nodes
persist past the last kill; PortalInteractRequest -> server-only PortalCommand
advances (client derives the portal pos). RunDirectorSystem moves teardown off
the InRoom edge, relocates the boss-branch/route-gate into the RoomExplore exit,
and advances an empty expedition immediately (incl. a boss clear).
Class-at-base via a shared ClassSwapUtil (meta-band strip + per-class
MetaTierState replay, so the base RPC and the dev SetClass can't drift);
ClassSelectRequest Staging-gated. Per-run PREP buffs (PrepPurchaseRequest,
PrepCatalog): once-per-run == the row's prep StatModifier band is present,
TotalOf-before-Withdraw atomic, stripped on Returning beside the boon band.
Health.Max promoted to [GhostField] (the one ghost-hash re-bake) so the boss +
floating enemy HP bars read it directly. Feel: melee cone connect-thunk (C3),
hit-stop throttle so a horde wipe can't stutter (C4), Spitter cornered-hold.
456/456 EditMode; two adversarial reviews (pre-code 13-confirmed folded;
post-impl clean bar the RoomExplore boss-clear dead-time, fixed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lap-1 Fabricator affordable (StartingOre 50->90); mine prompt shows IN the room;
Return no longer false-completes on death (WasOnExpedition latch + soft timeout,
never the 1-tick Returning edge); HUD keeps room/siege/ammo cues during combat
steps; Welcome needs an explicit confirm; READY panel shows FINAL DEFENSE when
goal-full; dev Force-Each-Launch hidden from public Settings. GoalProgress.Target
4->2 (~10-20 min demo). Onboarding tests updated to the new contracts (456/456).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Boss bar reconstructs the true max client-side (Health.Max unreplicated) via
Kind==Charger + expedition-pos filter; boss slam telegraph = a full ground ring
at BossSlamRadius; IsAttacking OR's IsLunging. Player body flash on hurt (distinct
red, jitter-safe threshold). Dash toward movement input when moving else facing.
Warrior cone: muzzle-cue suppressed (cone arc is its cue). Minimal finisher-only
hit-stop (PrototypeCameraRig.Hold, behind FeelConfig flag; never Time.timeScale).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
BossState (server-only) + BossAISystem: sole mover, seek -> telegraphed
radial slam (AttackWindup) -> phase-2 speed + swarmer summon. Excluded from
the EnemyAISystem Charger pass; knockback-immune at all 3 stamp sites;
arena-anchored spawn; scaled Health/HitRadius/AttackRange. Grunt windup now
commits in its last ~30% (whiffs out-of-range); Charger stagger roots; grunt
speed 4.2->5.2; swarmer telegraph synced. SweptMove + zone-enemy spawn-stamp
extracted to shared helpers. Zero new [GhostField].
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A remote/cold client added NetworkStreamInGame the instant it got a
NetworkId, before the gameplay subscene's ghost prefabs finished
streaming. The server's first ghost snapshot then hit a client that
couldn't resolve those prefabs -> "ghost ... ENTITY_NOT_FOUND" ->
forced disconnect ("nothing loads"). On loopback / fast LAN the
go-in-game handshake beats the ~0.4s entity-subscene stream. The host
never hit it (it shares the server's loaded subscene); every remote
join did -- MPPM virtual players and real networked clients alike.
GoInGameClientSystem now gates full-client go-in-game on the gameplay
subscene being loaded (HasSingleton<PlayerSpawner>); thin clients skip
the gate. Verified cross-process in a standalone build over loopback:
join ghost-prefab errors 15->0, disconnects 1->0, client stays
connected and resolves all server ghosts.
Also adds a -mhost / -mjoin <ip> command-line hook to MainMenuController
for headless co-op testing (drives WorldLauncher.StartSession, no UI).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Teaches the deep, interlocking loop — especially the inverted win condition
(you win by CLEARING EXPEDITIONS, not by surviving base sieges; DR-042/DR-043).
- OnboardingSystem: client-only observe-only PresentationSystemGroup overlay
(own UIDocument @ sortingOrder 60), soft-gated 10-beat coach-mark sequence
with a world-space ▶ pointer; never mutates sim / never destroys a ghost.
- OnboardingStepMath: pure, unit-tested step machine (snapshot + IsSatisfied +
scheme-aware prompts + pointer kinds + persisted-mask helpers).
- HowToPlayPanel: tabbed reference card (Controls / The Loop / Build / Threats /
Win-Lose), reachable from the main menu and the pause overlay.
- Per-client client-local state in GameSettings (TutorialHints + OnboardingMask
bitmask, additive) — a Join client keeps its own; a host save-wipe never
re-teaches. Settings toggle + menu "Replay Tutorial".
- Dev "Force Each Launch" toggle (GameSettings.ForceOnboardingEachLaunch):
SettingsService.Boot wipes the mask + forces hints on in-memory every launch
so the tutorial always replays fresh.
- HudSystem suppresses its own location hint while onboarding is active
(single prompt voice), via OnboardingState + [UpdateAfter(OnboardingSystem)].
Validated green: 20/20 EditMode; Play smoke confirmed overlay render, clean
U+25B6 pointer glyph, no system sort-cycle, and the force-wipe end-to-end.
Docs: DR-043 + session log; reusable lesson archived in the build-gotchas note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clears the three follow-ups deferred by the combat-overhaul pass (c3b53cef2) + the
DR-041 "needs its own ShaderGraph slice" note. All client-only, observe-only presentation
(PresentationSystemGroup; no sim mutation, no [GhostField], no server work).
- Item 1: EnemyHitFlashSystem flashes the ACTUAL enemy body by driving the stock
Entities-Graphics URPMaterialPropertyBaseColor override on the Rukhanka render-entity
LEG children (root has no MaterialMeshInfo) -- NO ShaderGraph edit, no new component type.
Lerp white->BodyFlashColor on a Health-decrease edge, decay back to white. Verified on
screen (the AnimatedLitShader honors the per-instance _BaseColor override).
- Item 2: per-remote-player slash-arc pool in CombatFeedbackSystem, edge-detected from the
replicated MeleeCombo on interpolated teammates (.WithDisabled<GhostOwnerIsLocal>());
BuildSlashMesh -> BuildSlashInto(mesh,...) refactor; local player keeps _slashMr.
- Item 3: once-per-windup near-impact strike beep folded into the danger-cone loop, gated
to a resolved local player.
- 9 new FeelConfig knobs (+ ResetDefaults).
390/390 EditMode, clean compile, zero Play exceptions. 3-lens adversarial review
(wf_8a998c6c-af9) -- no critical/major; fixed 4 minors: spurious beep at base origin before
the local player resolves, frozen tint if BodyFlashEnabled toggles off mid-flash, render-child
capture with no recovery, OnDestroy GO symmetry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the "what's missing" feel backlog from the combat overhaul investigation (wf_c6c87dc5-9c3). All
client-only, observe-only (PresentationSystemGroup), no sim/netcode change, rollback-safe; new FeelConfig knobs
default-stamped on play-enter.
- ENEMY HIT-FLASH (#1 missing): on the enemy Health-decrease edge, a bright body-scaled particle puff in the
previously-unused FeelConfig.HitFlashColor (via a new EmitColored helper using per-emit startColor) -- the staple
"I connected" read. (A true material body-flash needs an AnimatedLitShader emission property + Entities Graphics
MaterialProperty; the puff is the asset-free version.)
- MELEE CONNECT-vs-WHIFF: on the local swing, a client-side MeleeConeMath.InCone overlap over the cached enemy
snapshot -> immediate connect read (brightens the slash arc, hit-spark at the nearest enemy, a meaty low "thunk"
SFX, extra FOV punch) before the authoritative server spark arrives. Whiffs stay dim.
- KILL POP: a colored flash burst + rumble on enemy death (on top of the existing burst/shake/FOV).
- GAMEPAD RUMBLE: new RumbleUtil (auto-stopping pulse, gamepad-only, stops on focus-loss, reset on play-enter)
pulsed on local hit-taken / hit-dealt / kill, gated on AimPresentation.Scheme==Gamepad.
- FOOTSTEPS: edge-detect local locomotion from the position delta -> soft step SFX at a cadence while moving.
- DAMAGE-NUMBER TIERING: SpawnNumber scales font + life by hit magnitude (vs HitStopRefDamage) so heavy hits read.
390/390 EditMode, clean compile + Play (no exceptions; per-frame footstep/rumble-tick paths verified). On-screen
feel is the operator's eyes. Deferred (focused follow-ups): true material body hit-flash (ShaderGraph), co-op
remote-swing rendering, near-impact telegraph beep (clip reserved).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator: "the melee ability needs visual clarity, on what it does." The cleave is instant (kept — operator chose
instant + VFX), and the arc already matched the exact cone range/half-angle — but it popped whole then faded
(read as a flash) and all 3 combo steps looked byte-identical.
Client-only, observe-only (PresentationSystemGroup), no sim/netcode change, rollback-safe by construction:
- SWEEP: BuildSlashMesh takes a reveal fraction + sweep sign; UpdateSlash rebuilds the crescent each frame so the
blade wipes across the arc over the first ~60% of life, then holds + fades. Leading edge is brightest. Sweep
direction alternates per combo step -> reads as alternating strikes.
- PER-STEP RAMP: TriggerSlash takes step + comboLen; tint/brightness/life ramp per link so the chain visibly
builds to the warm-HDR finisher (steps were indistinguishable before). Facing is already snapped at the swing
edge.
Compiles clean, no runtime exceptions (per-frame 33-vert rebuild is negligible). The on-screen feel is the
operator's eyes. Deferred to a feel follow-up (they share the enemy-cache / damage-edge code path): connect-vs-
whiff flash, co-op remote-swing rendering, and enemy hit-flash. Investigation: wf_c6c87dc5-9c3 (melee lane).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator: turrets were "super duper cheap", spammable "unlimited", "spaced weirdly", "massive and not textured".
All four were real and independently rooted (placement grid was actually fine).
- Cost: TurretCostOre 10 -> 40 (authoring default + the serialized Gameplay subscene value, which overrides the
code default). A node yields 30 Ore, so a turret is now ~1.3 nodes instead of 1/3 of one.
- Cap: new Tuning.TurretCap=6, enforced server-authoritatively in BuildPlaceSystem (count live Base turrets while
building the occupancy set; reject placement at the cap, same-tick-safe). Was unlimited.
- Model: the 1.6x Synty ballista (~5m on a 1m cell, clipping neighbours) scaled to 0.8 to fit one cell; the C5
BoxCollider shrunk to match (0.8x1.2x0.8, center y 0.6); all 6 sub-renderers swapped off the flat untextured
teal Mat_StructureOwned_Cyan to the Synty atlas PolygonFantasyKingdom_Mat_01_A (textured). Play-verified
TurretCost=40 Ore / cap=6 baked; no exceptions.
Also fixes 3 EditMode tests that pinned the old dash knobs (the prior tuning commit changed iframe 12->14 /
cooldown 45->36 but I committed it without re-running tests): DashSystemTests now derives the expected dash speed
from TuningConfig.Defaults() (robust to future tuning) + asserts now+14/+36; TuningConfigTests pins the new
defaults. 390/390 EditMode green.
Investigation: wf_c6c87dc5-9c3 (turret lane). Operator fork: 40 Ore + cap 6 (stricter).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PlayerRespawnSystem teleported a recovered player to base coords but never reset its server-only RegionTag
(every other region-mover flips RegionTag + Position together). So dying ON an expedition left you at base
still tagged Expedition: GhostRelevancy hid all base ghosts from you, base enemies ignored you, and the
expedition field/zone-director kept counting you as "still out there" (waves never stopped). No self-recovery.
- PlayerRespawnSystem: add RefRW<RegionTag> to the recovery query + set Region=Base alongside the reposition.
- Harden: drop the hard RequireForUpdate<PlayerSpawner> (a transiently-missing spawner could strand dead
players downed forever) -> TryGetSingleton with a BaseAnchor fallback, early-return only if both are absent.
- PlayerRespawnSystemTests: add RegionTag to the harness + a regression (expedition death -> respawn at base
with RegionTag reset to Base). 390/390 EditMode.
Investigation: combat-overhaul workflow wf_c6c87dc5-9c3 (death lane). Base-death case was already correct.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Player-built structures now physically block enemies (husks walked straight through walls before). Dedicated
"Structure" physics layer (slot 9) so the player passes its own walls while enemies are stopped:
- New WorldCollisionConfig.StructureMask, baked from the "Structure" layer in WorldCollisionAuthoring (mirrors
EnvironmentMask). EnemyAISystem ORs it into the movement sweep filter (CollidesWith = envMask | structMask) —
no new system, same 1-2 SphereCasts per enemy.
- Wall/Turret/Pylon prefabs get a cell-sized BoxCollider on the Structure layer (Wall's existing one relayered).
- Physics matrix: Default x Structure unchecked, so the kinematic player CC (Default) passes its own walls while
the enemy's explicit cast still hits them. Despawn frees collision for free (collider dies with the entity).
Play-verified baked filters: StructMask=512; structure colliders BelongsTo=512, CollidesWith=0xFFFFFFFE
(includes Environment for the enemy cast, EXCLUDES bit 0 so the player passes). 389/389 EditMode, no exceptions.
Server-only/static colliders -> deterministic, no client divergence. SaveData stays v5.
Phase C complete (C5-C7). A visual fun-gate (husk stops at wall, player walks through) is the operator's eyes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scoping/design-gated (wf_7c5a555e-136). Fixes "the base reads as inert after Phase A":
- C7b objective readout: new replicated ExpeditionObjective{[GhostField] byte State, short Remaining} on the
untagged CycleDirector ghost (cross-region safe). Sole writer ZoneEnemyDirectorSystem, written ABOVE its
early-returns (snapshot-above-early-return) so the HUD never freezes stale. Play-verified it replicates
server->client.
- C7a gate prompt + C7b HUD readout: HudSystem shows "GO TO THE EXPEDITION GATE" / "EXPEDITION IN PROGRESS - N
remaining" / "CLEARED - return to claim", below the siege/overrun overrides.
- C6a Aether upgrade button: un-gated BuildSendSystem.UpgradeAbility (was #if UNITY_EDITOR); HudSystem adds a
MenuUi.Button with live affordability tint (the only Aether sink was U-key only).
- C6c cold-start seed: CycleDirectorSpawnSystem seeds Tuning.StartingOre (50) into the ledger on a NEW game only
(born-correct, pre-Playback), killing the silent turret-before-fabricator deadlock. Play-verified seededOre=50.
- C6b Biomass sink: Wall cost Ore->Biomass (the dead currency now has a home). Play-verified WallCostRes=Biomass.
- C6d palette declutter: hide dead Pylon/Harvester/Conveyor from the build palette + trimmed their dev hotkeys
(catalog/prefabs stay baked, code-intact per DR-020).
389/389 EditMode + clean netcode Play smoke (ghost re-hash OK, no exceptions). SaveData stays v5.
C5 (walls block enemies) is the remaining Phase C item, sequenced separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Design-review-gated (wf_ebef4e81-dba, GREEN-WITH-CHANGES). The win-driver moves
from "survive N base sieges" to "clear N expeditions". The review overturned the
literal plan: credit on RETURN, not at the clear edge (clear-edge crediting arms
the undefended final base siege -> uncontestable terminal Loss).
- ExpeditionGateSystem: now the sole production writer of GoalProgress.Charge —
a clamped +1 per cleared expedition folded into the existing once-per-epoch
reward block, reusing the LastRewardedEpoch latch (Ore + Charge share fate) +
a SaveRequest checkpoint. No new latch, no new GhostField, no ordering change.
- CyclePhaseSystem: deleted the survived-siege +1 (the AFK win path). Victory
latch unchanged; GoalReached still arms the final base siege at cap.
- CycleDirectorAuthoring + CycleDirector.prefab: ScheduleEnabled baked OFF
(retaliation-only). A serialized prefab bool ignores the C# field initializer,
so the value is flipped in the prefab, not just the code default.
- Tests: re-pointed CyclePhaseSystemTests + EndgameWinLoseTests survived-siege
assertions; extended ExpeditionGateRewardTests (+1, no-double-credit, clamp).
389/389 EditMode green; clean netcode Play smoke (no sort-cycle, Schedule=0).
SaveData stays v5. Docs: DR-042 build record + forks resolved, CLAUDE.md
base-loop line, Backlog (A done).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- DR-042 (new): canonical loop re-shape — win-driver moves from base-siege
survival to expedition clears; blind scheduled siege retired; base siege
becomes retaliation consequence. Build order A (coherence) -> B (retaliation)
-> C (legibility) -> D (Slice 4 persistent meta).
- Backlog/Path_to_Fun/Home reconciled to the expedition-driven direction;
Slice 3 + Combat Depth marked built.
- DR-036 (END-2) flagged superseded-in-part; DR-034 (END-1) repurposed (Core
is a consequence, not the win-gate); DR-037 forward-pointer to DR-042.
- CombatFeedbackSystem: fix enemy health bar (sprite-less Filled Image ignored
fillAmount -> size via anchorMax.x).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the Combat Depth slice on top of the MC-2 server spine (56cf60cce):
MC-3 impact juice (client, observe-only):
- 7 FeelConfig fields + ResetDefaults; magnitude-scaled player-dealt-hit camera
PunchFov on the enemy-Health-decrease edge (camera-only hit-stop, never timeScale).
- Spitter Kind==2 aim-LANE telegraph (BuildLaneMesh) — reads baked SpitterState
client-side, falls back to a fixed length. True freeze + material flash deferred.
Content / wiring:
- SpitterProjectilePrefabAuthoring (the SpitterProjectilePrefab singleton).
- Both directors rebuilt to a 4-entry KIND-INDEXED roster [Grunt,Charger,Spitter,
Swarmer] + mix/MaxAlive config + the SpitterProjectileConfig singleton in the subscene.
- Real rigged models: EnemySpitter (re-skinned Kaiju, ranged poker) + EnemySwarmerUndead
(Undead-Werewolf, fast/low-HP); grunt/charger keep Werewolf/ChargerMuscle. EnemySpit =
ownerless interpolated ghost (no Health, no collider).
Post-impl adversarial review fixes (wf_febdcfdb-665):
- [MED] in-band fire gate: the Spitter committed its telegraph from ANY range (fired while
advancing from far). Now commits only when sInBand || sCornered (gives CorneredRange a
real read site) — a Spitter out-of-band holds fire and repositions.
- [LOW] EnemyProjectileDamageSystem early-returns on !ServerTick.IsValid (sibling parity).
- [LOW] EnemyAuthoring bake-time guard: errors if a prefab composes both Charger+Spitter
(would match zero AI passes -> never move).
- [LOW] tests: Spitter brain fires from Expedition (kills the Base==0 region false-green);
a direct partition-exclusion test replaces the order-masked claim; added out-of-band +
cornered negative tests.
388/388 EditMode green + two Play smokes (clean boot, fire, swept-hit, region, server==
client; rigged Kaiju spitter bakes + fires with zero console errors). Accepted as-is
(documented in DR-041): global spit soft-cap, co-op punch attribution.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the server-authoritative mechanics for three new enemy archetypes on top of
the Grunt/Charger base, plus the weighted wave-composition that introduces them:
- Spitter: a ranged Husk variant (SpitterState) that holds a preferred range-band
(advance/retreat/hold via EnemyAIMath.BandVelocity) and fires a telegraphed,
dodgeable EnemyProjectile. New server EnemyProjectileMoveSystem (integrate +
store LastStep) + EnemyProjectileDamageSystem (region-filtered swept hit-test
rebuilt from LastStep — DR-018 anti-tunnelling; players use HitRadius, structures
a const radius; at-most-once destroy). Concurrent-spit soft cap, soft-fail retry.
- Swarmer: marker tag + deterministic cluster spawn (1 slot = 1 pack;
EnemyAIMath.ClusterOffset), MaxAlive counts ENTITIES so a pack defers if it
won't fit.
- 4-type weighted mix: MixBands -> ZoneEnemyMath.WaveSlots/KindForSlot/
PackSizeForSlot drives both the expedition director and (fork-4a) the base siege,
with a mandatory MaxAlive cap. Legacy WaveSize/IsChargerSlot kept + parity-tested.
- Discriminator stays component-presence (no enum in Bursted systems): query-
partition guards keep each enemy moved by exactly one EnemyAISystem pass
(sole-Position-writer). EnemyTelegraph.IsCharger -> Kind byte for the client cue.
New authoring (Spitter/Swarmer/EnemyProjectile) + expanded director authorings with
tunable mix/cluster defaults. 13 new EditMode tests (mix composition + legacy parity,
band/cluster math, projectile move + cross-region + swept anti-tunnelling regressions);
full suite green before commit.
Dormant until the prefab/subscene wiring lands (next): the new systems guard on
TryGetSingleton/RequireForUpdate, so with no prefabs wired the new types stay inert.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reactivate the dormant Expedition region as a procedural combat venue.
v1 loop: walk the gate -> fight an epoch-seeded enemy wave in the
expedition -> clear -> return -> flat Ore reward (once per epoch) ->
escalated retaliation base siege.
- New sim types: ZoneEnemyTag, ZoneEnemyDirector (+ ZoneEnemyPrefab
buffer), ZoneEnemyState, ZoneEnemyMath (grunt->charger composition
by epoch). ZoneEnemyDirectorSystem (server, Burst): drip-spawns the
wave at a deterministic ring under a MaxAlive cap while a player is
out and the base is Calm; marks ClearedThisEpoch on a real clear.
[UpdateAfter(ExpeditionFieldSystem)] only (avoids a sort cycle).
- BLOCKER 1: EnemyAISystem region-filters target selection (player +
structure snapshots gain parallel region lists; no base structures /
no Core fallback for expedition husks).
- BLOCKER 3: WaveSystem, ThreatDirectorSystem timeout cull, and
CyclePhaseSystem DefendCleared + Core-breach cull all count/cull
RegionTag{Base} husks only (the breach cull was caught region-blind
by the post-impl review: a base breach wiped the live expedition
wave and spuriously paid the reward).
- BLOCKER 4: reward de-duped via CycleRuntime.LastRewardedEpoch +
ClearedThisEpoch; ExpeditionGateSystem deposits RewardOre once/epoch.
- ExpeditionFieldSystem teardown also culls zone enemies + region-
guards the clutter loop. Subscene wired with the director + roster.
368/368 EditMode green + clean netcode Play smoke. Docs: DR-040 ->
built, session log, CLAUDE.md cross-region tag-reaudit rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Editor-only class swap via the existing scalar dev-RPC family (new DebugOp.SetClass): F1/F2 keybind (ClassSwitchHotkeySystem), DebugOverlay '- Class -' buttons, and DebugCommandSendSystem.SetWarrior/SetRanger/SetClass statics. Server (DebugCommandReceiveSystem) swaps class in place on the spawned player: strips+re-seeds the ClassTraits StatModifier seeds, swaps the AbilityRef Fire slot, resets the ability cooldown, and heals a LIVING player to the new max (dead players skip the heal so respawn isn't raced). Server-authoritative + prediction-correct (same buffer-mutation path as GrantUpgrade); wire type unchanged so the RpcCollection hash is unaffected.
ClassTraits gains a shared Seeds core (spawn + swap can't drift), ClassSeedCount, IsClassSeed, a DynamicBuffer AppendSeeds overload, and Reapply. +3 EditMode tests (exact-count round-trip, value-equality fold, boundary/foreign-mod preservation); 351/351 green; Warrior<->Ranger round-trip Play-validated (server+client agree).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
MainMenuController gains a 2-class picker that sets WorldLauncher.SelectedClass;
WorldLauncher seeds a ClassSelection singleton into the client world at session start,
which GoInGameClientSystem carries on the spawn RPC. Default Warrior. Completes the
Slice 2 loop: pick a class in the menu -> spawn with its kit. Editor-default boot stays
Warrior (the menu path drives the choice). 348/348.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The per-player class travels on GoInGameRequest.ClassId (client reads a ClassSelection
singleton); GoInGameServerSystem seeds the class at spawn via ClassTraits (AbilityRef +
permanent trait StatModifiers on a reserved ClassSourceId; CharacterStatsRef stays Default
so the DRG-asymmetry deltas ride the replicated OwnerSendType.All buffer). AbilityFireSystem
gains the aim-directed Cone archetype: cooldown predicted both worlds, server-only cone
damage to living enemies (same-tick, SourceTick-stamped, like the melee cleave). 345/345.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Foundation for Two Classes (DR-037). New ids (CharacterId.Warrior/Ranger,
AbilityId.WarriorCone, StatTarget.MeleeDamage/MeleeRange); CharacterStatsRef.Id ->
[GhostField] so the owning client folds the right class stats; MeleeComboSystem
folds per-player MeleeDamage/MeleeRange off the replicated StatModifier buffer
(HasBuffer-guarded -> identity without class seeds, so behavior-preserving).
345/345 EditMode. Slice 2 design review + locked forks logged in the session note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four playtest do-now wins:
- Enemy health bars: pooled world-space Canvas, on-damage-sticky + fade,
always-on <25% HP (CombatFeedbackSystem; no new replication).
- Telegraph fix: new baked client-safe EnemyTelegraph sizes the danger-cone ramp
per enemy (0->1 ending at impact, fixes the Charger plateau); windup 18->22;
a windup scale-pulse.
- Build-mode toggle: BuildPaletteState.PaletteOpen hides the palette by default,
Tab / gamepad-Y toggles, with a discovery chip (HudSystem/BuildSendSystem).
- Charger committed-lunge tell: [GhostEnabledBit] IsLunging derived once/tick from
LungeState (the Dead idiom); the danger cone persists through the lunge.
345/345 EditMode (+3 IsLunging derive tests); Play-validated: ghost-hash change
did not break the handshake, bake correct (telegraph on all enemies, IsLunging
baked-disabled on the Charger, replicated to client), no runtime errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Uncommitted residue from the SL-4 visual-cohesion pass, swept up while
cleaning the worktree (unrelated to the 6.5 upgrade):
- Mat_StructureOwned_Cyan: _Color nudged to match _BaseColor (0.11,0.22,0.26)
- Gameplay.unity: a prop transform moved (0,1,8) -> (5.1,2.46,20.7)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owned structures (Turret/Wall/Fabricator/Pylon) now read cyan-owned via a dedicated Mat_StructureOwned_Cyan (dark desaturated-cyan body + a subtle cyan self-illum below the bloom gate) - replacing the shared PolygonFantasyKingdom atlas + M_Turret so there's no atlas bleed. Tuned dimmer than the Core so the Engine Core stays the single luminance peak. Completes the faction palette: dark ground / cyan owned (Core bright, structures muted) / amber Ore / orange Husks. Edit-mode-instantiated + screenshot-verified. Follow-up (deferred): the research's dark-when-unpowered dynamic (emissive only on active/powered structures) needs a small presentation system reading structure state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first pass crushed readability ('can't see anything'): dark ground x low ambient x dim sun x +12 contrast (clipped everything below midtone to black) x vignette x dark fog. Rebalanced toward legibility while keeping the dark-frontier mood: ColorAdjustments contrast 12->4 (the main fix), post-exposure 0.55->0.85, saturation 0->4; sun 0.9->1.5 cool-white; ambient intensity 0.62->1.0 with lifted cool ambient colors; vignette 0.32->0.20; ground material lifted ~18%->~28% value; fog pushed out (start 18->26, end 42->60); Core beacon range 9->13. Ground, player silhouette, Ore ring and shadows now all read; Core stays the bright cyan peak.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Research-grounded transform of the base arena from a bright meadow into a dark 'Aether Siege Outpost' reading as a concentric bullseye (Core -> Ore ring -> dark perimeter). Camera (Game.unity): pitch 45->58, FOV 55->44, dist 13->17, lead 1->0.5, follow 8->6, targetH 1.3 (telephoto so Core + arena read together, near-iso enemy spacing). Lighting: sun dimmed+cooled 1.6->0.9, ambient 1.0->0.62 dark-cool, fog Linear 18->42 dark; WorldAtmosphere base darkened. Post-FX (PostFX_Daylight): ACES kept, bloom gated (thr 1.0->1.2 + clamp 10), exposure/contrast up, saturation +6->0, added ShadowsMidtonesHighlights cool-shadow/warm-highlight split, vignette 0.15->0.32. Ground re-tinted dark teal-grey; ~390 meadow-cheer objects cut. Core staged as hero (crystal 14m->4.6m cyan glow + cyan beacon light). Ore ring pulled into the arena (23.5-27m -> 6-11.5m, count 10->12) and recoloured AMBER (new Mat_OreNode_Amber, emissive, no atlas bleed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The terminal banner gains PLAY AGAIN + QUIT TO MENU buttons so a finished run has a clear action (no Esc-hunting). PLAY AGAIN restarts a fresh Single run via WorldLauncher.StartSession (the proven menu lifecycle, no save load); QUIT TO MENU reuses TeardownToMenu (autosave + menu); both self-guard on WorldLauncher.Busy. The button row picks (Position) under the Ignore banner root, matching the build-palette idiom. AimReticleSystem (the sole Cursor.visible writer) keeps the cursor visible while RunOutcome != InProgress so the buttons are clickable regardless of aim state. 342/342 EditMode green. Co-op retry-together stays a cut slice-limit (a client's Play Again starts a solo run). See DR-036.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The client derives the climactic final siege from the replicated Charge>=Target and marks it distinctly: 'FINAL SIEGE INCOMING - Ns' during the cap-reached arming window (vs the generic 'INCURSION'), 'HOLD THE ENGINE - FINAL SIEGE' + intense red during the wave, and a last-stand location line. Pure client presentation (no sim/replication change); 342/342 EditMode green. Serves the END-2 fun-gate (the Engine telegraphs the climax + prompts deliberate prep).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
At GoalProgress.Charge>=Target a new server-only GoalReachedSystem arms a larger final siege (x live FinalSiegeMultiplier) and flips RunPhase=FinalDefense; CyclePhaseSystem latches a REPLICATED RunOutcome (Victory on clear / Loss on Core breach) and halts the director. RunOutcome is a [GhostField] byte on the global CycleDirector ghost (the client banner observes it); RunPhase stays server-only. ThreatDirector/CoreRestore/CoreDamage halt once decided; SiegeTimeout is off during the final siege. SaveData v5 persists the outcome so a won/lost run loads finished. GoalProgress.Target 10->4. Completes Path A's spine. See DR-036.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CoreSystemsTests (new): a breaching Husk drains + is consumed; idles at 0;
regen fires once per interval in Calm only; no regen mid-Siege; caps at Max.
CyclePhaseSystemTests: the soft-loss overrun edge ends the siege, drains the
ledger, despawns husks, withholds the goal charge, and resolves once.
StorageMathTests: DrainFraction floors per row, drops zeroed rows, clamps.
SavePersistenceTests: CoreCurrent round-trips at v4; a pre-END-1 save with no
CoreCurrent defaults to 0 (-> born full); the v3->v4 version pin updated.
TuningConfig golden pin extended with the 3 Core defaults.
See DR-034.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds CoreIntegrity{[GhostField] Current,Max,OverrunTick} on the GLOBAL
CycleDirector ghost (no new ghost/relevancy). CoreDamageSystem (server,
after EnemyAISystem): a Husk within ~3u of PlotCenter drains + is consumed;
CoreRestoreSystem regenerates only in Calm. The SOFT-loss edge lives inside
CyclePhaseSystem (sole Phase writer): Current<=0 in Siege flips to Calm with
NO goal reward, StorageMath.DrainFraction drains the shared ledger, all Husks
despawn, and OverrunTick is stamped (a transient HUD-flash pulse, not a
latching outcome - the Victory latch is END-2's). EnemyAISystem treats the
Core as a FALLBACK target so an undefended base is overrun instead of idling.
SaveData -> v4 persists CoreCurrent (0 -> born full, the EB-1 HP sentinel);
3 live TuningConfig knobs + a red HUD Core bar. Soft-loss + targeting +
breach-resolution forks operator-locked.
See DR-034.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- TurretFireSystem: seed a Charge pool for existing tests; add soft-fail-when-dry,
consume-one-Charge-per-shot, two-turrets-share-a-finite-pool.
- FabricatorProductionSystem: ledger-fed withdraw/deposit, two machines split via the
live in-loop read, and a catch-up affordability-clamp regression pin.
See DR-033.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mined Ore now has an ongoing sink: a ledger-fed Fabricator converts Ore->Charge
(1 Ore -> 3 Charge / 30t) and turrets spend Charge per shot, soft-failing (no
shot, no cooldown burn) when the shared pool runs dry.
- ResourceId.Charge=4 rides the existing [GhostField] StorageEntry ledger (no new wire).
- TurretFireSystem: single ledger resolve + atomic spend / soft-fail / partial-refund.
- Fabricator.InputFromLedger (byte, server-only) feeds input from the shared ledger,
read live in-loop so two machines split a finite pool; both modes deposit to ledger.
- HudSystem: violet Charge chip + global quiet-turret cue when siege && Charge==0.
- StorageMath.TotalOf backs the affordability read; catalog re-enables the Fabricator (4 entries).
See DR-033.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
10 new EditMode tests (312 total, all green): HealthApplyDamage destroys a Destructible at 0 + a wounded structure survives clamped; PickWeightedNearest x5 (player-only, structure-preferred-by-weight, player-in-the-way wins, raze undefended base, no targets); persistence (StructureSave.HP round-trip + writes v3, v2 in the load floor, SaveApply.ToPending maps the wounded HP - the staging-copy bug the pre-code review caught); + the StructureAggroWeight default pin. See DR-032.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Structures (Turret/Wall/Pylon) reuse the combat spine: authoring bakes Health(GhostField)+DamageEvent buffer+a Destructible tag (no HitRadius -> no friendly projectile fire; no EffectiveCharacterStats -> clamp-to-0). HealthApplyDamageSystem destroys a Destructible at 0 (occupancy auto-frees). EnemyAISystem fortress-targets the weighted-nearest of players+structures via the shared EnemyAIMath.PickWeightedNearest (StructureAggroWeight TuningConfig knob, <1 prefers structures, squared factor; snapshot above the early-return so an undefended base is razed). Persistence v3: per-structure HP threaded through 5 sites (SaveData/PendingStructure/scan-guarded/BaseRestore same-ECB born-correct/WorldLauncher via SaveApply.ToPending); SaveService floor-gate [2,3] loads old saves. Loss feedback: proximity-gated StructureFeedbackSystem; CombatFeedbackSystem suppressed for structures. Pre-code review caught the DamageEvent-buffer crash blocker + 8 majors; post-code review clean. See DR-032.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace every placeholder-cube ghost prefab with nested Synty (PolygonFantasyKingdom) models: ResourceNode->crystal, Turret->ballista, Wall->spike palisade, Pylon->crystal beacon, Storage->chest, UpgradePickup->gem, BlightClutter->rock chunk (nest as a Model child, strip colliders, reset the [GhostField] root Scale, atlas for bare FBXs). Gameplay subscene: place the BaseFieldSpawner, trim Harvester/Fabricator/Conveyor from the build palette. CycleDirector prefab bakes the schedule siege config. See DR-031.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
8 new EditMode tests (302 total, all green): BaseFieldSpawnSystem (target count + Base/Ore + cadence + top-up), ExpeditionFieldSystem teardown preserves the base field, ThreatDirector schedule arming, and melee harvest routing (base->ledger, expedition->personal inventory) which guards the cross-region leak the post-impl review caught. See DR-031.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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