Track B. All 21 one-shot cues funnelled through FeedbackFx.PlayClip ->
AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint, which allocates a GameObject + AudioSource per call
and schedules a delayed Destroy — ~20-33 times a second in light combat. New
OneShotAudioPool is a 32-voice 3D ring behind an UNCHANGED PlayClip signature, so
all 20 consuming call sites are untouched.
Parity is the whole game here: PlayClipAtPoint sets spatialBlend = 1 explicitly (a
fresh AudioSource is 2D) and leaves the rest at stock defaults. Two deliberate
divergences, both forced by the voices being long-lived: playOnAwake = false, and
dopplerLevel = 0 because a pooled voice TELEPORTS between events and would
otherwise pitch-bend. Root is DontDestroyOnLoad (WorldLauncher does
LoadScene(Single) while the client world is alive) with a SubsystemRegistration
reset, or session two rents destroyed voices.
Authored impact VFX are pooled per prefab instead of Instantiate/Destroy per hit:
components cached per INSTANCE (refs are instance-scoped), main.stopAction forced
to None (a prefab set to Destroy silently drains the pool), instances filled under
an inactive root so Awake/Start never run — which is what makes the DestroyImmediate
in StripCosmetic safe — ps.Clear before Play, TrailRenderer.Clear after the
reposition, and a Rented flag as the at-most-once guard against a double Return
aliasing one instance to two callers.
Per-frame allocation: the slash-arc and enemy-wedge mesh builders each allocated
four arrays on every call (up to twice a frame, and once per winding enemy); HUD
and ability-bar labels rebuilt their strings every frame; damage-number fades
rewrote TextMesh vertex colours every frame; health bars pushed uGUI writes
unconditionally; two systems played back an empty EntityCommandBuffer (a
structural-change sync point) every frame.
Also closes an AudioClip leak across all seven clip-owning systems: an
AudioClip.Create'd clip is a standalone UnityEngine.Object, so destroying a
system's FX root left it alive (MusicSystem ~6.8 MB, AmbientAudioSystem ~2 MB per
client-world teardown).
CombatFeedbackSystem's TryHold call sites go with this commit because they share
the file; the camera-side removal lands in the next one.
Verified live: PlayClipAtPoint's "One shot audio" GameObject never appears again
across 270 frames of combat with kills; the VFX pool fills to its retain cap and
stabilises; real cues route through the ring. 304/304 EditMode green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes the empty-bar leak into ArtStaging / menu / pre-connect: AbilityBarSystem.OnUpdate
early-returns when there is no valid NetworkTime, so the 'hide when no local player' line never
ran. Root now DisplayStyle.None at build, flips to Flex only when the local player is found —
also kills any pre-connect flash in gameplay.
kronic