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Make the pink weapons throw themselves, and let the big bodies soak

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Oliver's playtest of the barrel weapons. Four notes, all four real defects.

"The bigger guys were way too easy to kill at the beginning." A bug, and an old
one. The ball-vs-body chain handled boss, g/m, s, f and a/b, and everything NOT
named in it fell through to "splat-quality kills outright" -- so the STEWARD has
died to one serve since the day he shipped with stewardHp 5 and a comment calling
it a brute's worth of hp, and the three new bodies inherited that the moment they
existed. Pellets and melee always read hp; only the ball skipped it. One generic
hpMax > 1 branch now, and measured after: shambler 2, steward 5, brute 5, ball
boy 3, bouncer 5, roller man 7 -- each exactly its hp.

"I have seen all of them by round 10." The new three move 3/8/15 -> 5/12/20. The
original four keep their gates: that curve was already tuned through game 12.

"The laser fired only when I tapped, that was confusing." The whole tap-per-round
kind is gone. A barrel weapon is now either the normal ball gesture made
spectacular or something that fires itself -- nothing waits for a tap.
 - laser is a serve, and the RAY is the weapon: no ball anywhere in it. The
   preview IS the wedge, it leaves the RACKET rather than lying on the grass, the
   release erases the plane along its own path behind a bright front, and the
   edges are hairlines instead of the heaviest lines on the court.
 - beacon and rocket are LOBBED bursts -- `arc` turns a flat pellet into a thrown
   one, solved onto the nearest body ahead, and landing is itself a hit so a
   rocket that misses still goes off where it lands. The beacon changes colour
   every ball and drags that colour behind it.
 - flamer got "way more pronounced": 30 rounds/s, a ~10 m cone, embers.

"I got the laser almost every time." A flat 1-in-4 over four items does not feel
uniform. BARREL_WEAPONS carries weight and a `from` gate now, never repeats twice
running, and the beacon is what you meet first. Measured: laser 16-28%, rocket
unlocked at game 12 so it is genuinely a late find.

And the barrel keeps its pink halo -- that was always procedural, painted by
drawBarrel, and never went near the chroma key. Three rings and a pool on the
lawn now, because one flat disc read as a smudge.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -230,9 +230,12 @@ export const TUNE = {
mgPelletR: 0.5, // m of extra hit radius on a pellet: a fat round. "Bigger ball = more damage."
dmgPelletHp: 2, // hp a pellet takes off a body — shamblerHp is 2, so the horde gun one-shots them
mgPickupLen: 8, // s the machine-gun tin (4th delivery) auto-fires outside hordes
shotHoldLen: 14, // s you stay braced with a TAP-fired weapon (laser, rocket) before the window
// closes on its own. Running the magazine out ends it earlier, which is the
// normal way; this only stops a forgotten rocket freezing the serve loop.
// ---- THE LASER's wedge: aim and release like a serve, and a plane of light widens down the lane
beamLen: 26, // m it reaches — the whole court, so a lane you aim is a lane you clear
beamW0: 0.35, // m half-width at the racket...
beamW1: 4.2, // ...and at the far end. It is a CONE: the spread is the point of it
beamT: 0.42, // s the wedge stays drawn
dmgBeam: 3, // hp the beam takes off anything it catches (dmgBomb is 3, and it reads the same)
// ---- the weapon barrel: the only way to get the four weapons that are not on the duel ladder
barrelEvery: 3, // games between barrels being rolled on (like the ball machine's machEvery)
barrelRoll: 2.6, // m/s it trundles across the far court — fast enough to have to be led
@@ -249,9 +252,12 @@ export const TUNE = {
// ---- the late roster. Three bodies that arrive as the run goes on, filling the gap between the
// 2 hp shamblers and the 5 hp brute and then extending past it. Each has one wound skin per hit it
// can still take, so the damage is readable without a bar (the rule the boss's missing bar set).
// These are now REAL: the ball path used to one-shot anything it had no branch for, so all three
// died to a single good serve no matter what these said. Retuned once they actually bite — 9 was
// fine as a number nobody felt and is a long grind as a number you do.
ballboyHp: 3, // the ball boy ('e') — a stock-sized body that takes three, with two wound skins
bouncerHp: 6, // the bouncer ('h') — 2.4 m, shoves through the crowd instead of shambling round it
rollerHp: 9, // the roller man ('k') — 3.2 m, hauling a court roller. The heaviest thing on court
bouncerHp: 5, // the bouncer ('h') — 2.4 m, shoves through the crowd instead of shambling round it
rollerHp: 7, // the roller man ('k') — 3.2 m, hauling a court roller. The heaviest thing on court
rollerStride: 0.62, // m he covers per lurch frame — longer than the brute's 0.5: a bigger body,
// a longer stride, or his feet slide the way the brute's used to
// fire: the flame ball no longer just kills what it touches, it starts an epidemic.
@@ -422,11 +428,15 @@ export const ZWOUND = {
// out (SLOTS, slotStock, WDESC, drawRack's three parallel arrays, and deliverTin's index mapping).
// The rack no longer has a fixed weapon per slot: G.rack holds up to four of these in the order you
// GATHERED them, and slot 0 stays BALL. A weapon is defined entirely by its row.
// kind 'serve' — arms the next serve (the four original tins)
// kind 'burst' — commits to a braced auto-fire window: `len` seconds at `rate` rounds/s
// kind 'shot' — same braced stance, but each TAP fires one and `tin` is the magazine
// The pellet fields (r, dmg, pierce, boom, ignite, col, speed) are stamped onto the round by
// firePellet, so all four new weapons are the ONE existing pellet loop with different numbers.
// kind 'serve' — arms the next serve: you aim and release it like a normal ball
// kind 'burst' — commits to a braced window that FIRES ITSELF: `len` seconds at `rate` rounds/s
// There is no third kind. A tap-per-round weapon shipped once and Oliver read it as broken —
// "the laser fired only when I tapped, that was confusing" — so a barrel weapon is now always one
// of exactly two things: the normal ball gesture made spectacular, or something that fires on its
// own for a while. Nothing in between.
// The pellet fields (r, dmg, hp, pierce, boom, ignite, arc, trail, col, speed, life) are stamped
// onto the round by firePellet, so every auto-firing weapon is the ONE pellet loop with different
// numbers — `arc` is what turns a flat round into a lobbed one.
export const WEAPONS = {
bomb: { label: 'BOMB', icon: 'w_bomb', tin: 3, kind: 'serve',
desc: ['DETONATES ON CONTACT', 'CLEARS A WHOLE CROWD AT ONCE'] },
@@ -438,24 +448,43 @@ export const WEAPONS = {
r: 0.5, dmg: 0.34, hp: 2, speed: 26,
desc: ['HOLD THE LINE AND SPRAY', 'A BURST, NOT A SERVE'] },
// ---- the four that come out of a barrel. Won by shooting one, never delivered.
beacon: { label: 'BEACON', icon: 'w_beacon', tin: 1, kind: 'burst', len: 10, rate: 3,
r: 1.1, dmg: 3, hp: 9, speed: 17, col: '#7fefff', glow: 1,
desc: ['A SLOW BEAT OF BIG', 'GLOWING SHELLS'] },
flamer: { label: 'FLAMER', icon: 'w_flamer', tin: 1, kind: 'burst', len: 5, rate: 16,
r: 0.8, dmg: 2, hp: 9, speed: 11, life: 0.55, ignite: true, col: '#ffa040', glow: 1, // life 0.55s x 11 m/s = a ~6 m cone
desc: ['A CONE OF FIRE', 'AND THE FIRE SPREADS'] },
laser: { label: 'LASER', icon: 'w_laser', tin: 10, kind: 'shot',
// A LOBBED tennis ball twice the weight of yours, thrown on its own beat, changing colour every
// shot and dragging its colour behind it. The showiest thing in the game and the one you meet first.
beacon: { label: 'BEACON', icon: 'w_beacon', tin: 1, kind: 'burst', len: 11, rate: 1.6,
r: 1.2, dmg: 2, hp: 4, arc: 1, hue: 1, trail: 3, glow: 1.6, speed: 19,
desc: ['IT THROWS ITSELF', 'TWICE THE BALL, EVERY COLOUR'] },
// "make this one way more pronounced": twice the rounds a second, a wider and longer cone, fat
// glowing rounds that throw their own embers, and every one of them lights what it touches.
flamer: { label: 'FLAMER', icon: 'w_flamer', tin: 1, kind: 'burst', len: 6, rate: 30,
r: 1.15, dmg: 2, hp: 9, speed: 15, life: 0.7, ignite: true, igniteR: 2.6,
trail: 2, col: '#ff8420', glow: 2, spread: 3.1, // life 0.7s x 15 m/s = a ~10 m cone
desc: ['A WALL OF FIRE', 'AND THE FIRE SPREADS'] },
// The normal ball gesture, made spectacular: pull, aim, release — and instead of a ball you get a
// blue plane that widens down the court and cuts through everything standing in it.
laser: { label: 'LASER', icon: 'w_laser', tin: 6, kind: 'serve', beam: 1,
// NOT magenta: the icon art is chroma-keyed and the key eats every pink/purple
// (min(r,b) > g+40), so a magenta laser came back as a hollow outline. Pink stays
// the BARREL's identity, where it is a procedural glow and never goes near the key.
r: 0.55, dmg: 3, hp: 9, speed: 70, pierce: true, col: '#8ab6ff', glow: 1,
desc: ['TEN SHOTS, AND EACH ONE', 'GOES THROUGH THE WHOLE LANE'] },
rocket: { label: 'ROCKET', icon: 'w_rocket', tin: 3, kind: 'shot',
r: 0.6, dmg: 3, hp: 9, speed: 22, boom: true, col: '#ffd050', glow: 1,
desc: ['THREE ROCKETS', 'EACH ONE TAKES THE CROWD'] },
col: '#3f74ff', // saturated: a pale blue washed out to grey over the lawn
desc: ['AIM AND RELEASE', 'A WIDENING WALL OF LIGHT'] },
// Lobbed, self-throwing, and it detonates like a bomb where it lands. Deliberately a LATE pickup
// (see pickBarrelWeapon) — Oliver: "best later in the game when there is really a lot going on".
rocket: { label: 'ROCKET', icon: 'w_rocket', tin: 1, kind: 'burst', len: 9, rate: 0.85,
r: 0.75, dmg: 3, hp: 9, arc: 1, boom: true, trail: 2, speed: 17,
col: '#ffd050', glow: 1.4,
desc: ['IT LAUNCHES ITSELF', 'AND EVERY ONE IS A BOMB'] },
};
// What a pink barrel can be carrying — the four above, which you cannot win any other way. NOT a
// flat 1-in-4: on that, Oliver "got the laser almost every time" and never once saw the beacon.
// Weighted, gated, and it never hands you the same thing twice running (see pickBarrelWeapon).
// weight relative chance once it is unlocked
// from games finished before it can appear at all
export const BARREL_WEAPONS = {
beacon: { weight: 4, from: 0 }, // the showpiece, and the one you should meet first
flamer: { weight: 3, from: 2 },
laser: { weight: 2, from: 6 },
rocket: { weight: 3, from: 12 }, // the late-game answer: it should never turn up in game three
};
// what a pink barrel can be carrying — the four above that you cannot win any other way
export const BARREL_WEAPONS = ['beacon', 'laser', 'rocket', 'flamer'];
export const RACK_MAX = 4; // gathered weapons the rack holds; a 5th rides slot 0 until it is spent
export const MACH_H = 1.55; // was 1.15 — waist high read as a prop you could ignore. Still furniture