H2 was the audit's sharpest finding: in Game.unity every player spawned
with four ability sockets pointing at SparkIds the baked AbilityDatabase
did not contain, so all four resolved to Damage=0 Range=0 Cooldown=0.
Melee and dash were the only working combat verbs in the built game.
Cause: the 5 LANTERN Sparks were added to GymSub.unity and never to
Gameplay.unity.
- Gameplay.unity's AbilityDatabaseAuthoring now carries all 9 defs (the
4 legacy ids keep their numbers; Sparks are 5-9) with their effect
prefabs. Live-verified in Play: sockets now read
Vortex 8dmg/6range/420cd, Blink 20range/1cd, Hook & Pull
15dmg/25range/120cd, Light Zone 6dmg/5range/480cd.
- Removed 6 orphaned authoring GameObjects the purge left behind in the
subscene (StorageSpawner, StructureCatalog, ItemDatabase,
SpitterProjectileConfig, BoonCatalog, MetaCatalog) and the RoomDressing
object in Game.unity — the latter is what scattered 47 Synty desert
props into the seabed murk.
- Deleted 4 now-unreferenced prefabs: EnemySpit, Pylon, Storage, Wall.
- Frame rename (M4): FrameKind.Warrior/Ranger -> Bathynaut/Harpooner,
93 identifier sites. Byte values pinned (2/3), so no ghost-hash or save
impact. The menu said "Warrior"/"Ranger" to players three weeks after
the frames were renamed in design.
- Menu now reads LANTERN / "Light is territory — co-op descent" instead
of "PROJECT M" / "Frontier colony — co-op" (the Awakening-Engine
tagline, two directions stale).
- Removed the "Replay Tutorial" button and the Settings ONBOARDING
section: both drove coach-marks DR-051 deleted. The settings fields
still round-trip so existing settings files load unchanged.
All four project scenes + all prefabs verified free of missing scripts.
Server measured at 59.6 ticks/s against a 60 Hz target. 295/295 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Enum renamed in StatIds.cs (byte values unchanged - serialized definitions/saves
never re-mean); all call sites + doc mentions swept (ClassTraits, PlayerAuthoring,
CharacterStatsDefinition field type, menu/UI, tests). CharacterStatsDefinition SO
CLASS name kept (asset-binding risk; deferred per plan). 390 green.
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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <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>
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