Splatter: ball economy — one ball, fetch it back, no more toss-spam
The slingshot serve didn't fix the gameplay because four things were free at once: pure-hold auto-target with predictive lead, a hardcoded 0.62 serve quality, infinite ammo with an instant mid-rally re-toss, and a melee swish on every single tap that cleaved the whole cluster. Perfecting the pretoss/toss rhythm beat the game; no skill required. The ball is scarce now. A spent ball LIES where it died (G.loose, ringed on court) and there is no serve until it's back in your hand: walk it down (instant, and the only reason to leave the baseline), let a boy scoop it, wait out TUNE.looseMax, or watch a shambler swallow it — the one real punishment. Fire rate is a positioning decision instead of a thumb-tempo one. Also: the far backstop rebounds a ball with pace left, still lethal on the way home and volleyable (trySwing lets P re-hit their own ball in splatter); melee drops to nearest-one-only on a 1s cooldown; and the mid-rally re-toss is gone. With no ball in hand the thumb-drag steers your legs instead of the reticle — without that, walking your ball down is impossible on touch. TUNE.looseMax is the fire-rate knob. Measured: ~4s per serve standing still, ~0.4s if you go and get it. 600 taps in 10s now yield exactly one serve. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ export const G = {
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tinDue: false, // the rules called for new balls — deliver at the next changeover
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pendingGame: false, // a game just ended — flash 'GAME N' when the next one arms
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aim: null, // live two-stage serve aim {fx, fy, mag} while the thumb is down (splatter pretoss)
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loose: false, // splatter: {t} while your ball lies on the court — no serving until it's in your hand again
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fetchT: 0, // s until a ball is handed back to you (boy delivery, or fresh balls after one got eaten)
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meleeT: 0, // s of racket-swish cooldown left
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interlude: false, // sudden-death duel vs the racket zombie: falsy, or {introT} while announcing
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duelLerp: 0, // 0..1 — how far the court has returned to tennis colors for the duel
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horde: null, // active horde wave {t, spawnT, mgT} — machine-gun racket, no serving
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