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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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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { P, O, ball, score, crowd, G, other, deuceSide, setupPoint, sendBoy, res
import { audio, pock, swish, whoosh, applause, voice, sfx, aww, zombieMusic, zombieDuck, menuDuck } from './audio.js';
import { axisX, axisZ, takeFlickAim, touchPX, resetInput } from './input.js';
import { W } from './render.js'; // runtime-only cycle (render imports gameplay), same pattern as input/zombies
import { updateZombies, spawnZombie, spawnRacketZombie, spawnMachine, spawnChapterBoss, zombies, gore, explode, meleeSwipe, extras, parts, pellets, shots, playerGore, eatenBleed, resetZombies , firePellet , spawnBarrel } from './zombies.js';
import { updateZombies, spawnZombie, spawnRacketZombie, spawnMachine, spawnChapterBoss, zombies, gore, explode, meleeSwipe, extras, parts, pellets, shots, playerGore, eatenBleed, resetZombies , firePellet , spawnBarrel , fireBeam } from './zombies.js';
// ------------------------------------------------------------- ballistics ----
// Launch ball from (x0,y0,z0) so it arrives at (tx, tz) with horizontal speed s under gravity g.
@@ -264,6 +264,15 @@ function hitServe(sv, quality, aim = null) {
// rack's call now. GUN (slot 4) never reaches here; it starts a burst before the serve.
const wsel = G.mode === 'splatter' ? G.weapon : 0;
const wid = wsel === 0 && !G.temp ? 'ball' : slotId(wsel), armed = slotStock(wsel) > 0;
// THE LASER fires instead of the ball, down the lane this serve was aimed at. Everything else
// about the gesture is untouched — the pull, the aim, the release — which is the whole point of it.
if (wid === 'laser' && armed) {
spendSlot(wsel);
fireBeam(ball.vx, ball.vz);
ball.active = false; G.phase = 'over'; G.overT = 0.5;
sv.pose = 'serve'; sv.poseT = 0;
return;
}
ball.bomb = wid === 'bomb' && armed;
if (ball.bomb) spendSlot(wsel);
ball.flame = wid === 'fire' && armed;
@@ -878,21 +887,18 @@ function racketAI(rz, dt) {
}
}
// A GUN-like weapon isn't a ball — committing to one braces you at the baseline for a window (the
// same mode a horde uses) and the serve gesture spends it instead of serving. Generalised from
// tryGunBurst: 'burst' weapons auto-fire at their own rate for `len` seconds, 'shot' weapons hold
// the same stance but fire one per TAP until the magazine is out. G.mgT stays the mode timer for
// BOTH, which is why the eighteen `!(G.mgT > 0)` guards across five files did not have to change.
// A BURST weapon isn't a ball — committing to one braces you at the baseline for a window (the same
// mode a horde uses) and it fires ITSELF for `len` seconds while your finger only steers. G.mgT is
// the mode timer, which is why the eighteen `!(G.mgT > 0)` guards across five files never changed.
// There was briefly a third kind that fired one round per tap; Oliver read it as the weapon being
// broken, so a barrel weapon is now either this or a serve. Nothing waits for a tap.
function tryArmGun() {
if (G.mode !== 'splatter') return false;
const id = slotId(G.weapon), w = WEAPONS[id];
if (!w || (w.kind !== 'burst' && w.kind !== 'shot') || slotStock(G.weapon) <= 0) return false;
const slot = G.weapon;
if (!w || w.kind !== 'burst' || slotStock(G.weapon) <= 0) return false;
G.gunId = id;
if (w.kind === 'burst') { G.mgT = w.len ?? TUNE.mgPickupLen; G.gunShots = 0; spendSlot(slot); }
// a 'shot' weapon spends per ROUND, not on commit, so the magazine IS the stock: hold the stance
// for as long as it could take to empty it, and gunShots ends the window early when it runs out.
else { G.gunShots = slotStock(slot); G.mgT = TUNE.shotHoldLen; }
G.mgT = w.len ?? TUNE.mgPickupLen;
spendSlot(G.weapon);
G.mgCool = 0;
ball.active = false; G.phase = 'rally';
P.pose = 'idle'; P.poseT = 0; P.swingT = -1;
@@ -900,22 +906,7 @@ function tryArmGun() {
G.flash = { text: w.label, t: 1.0 };
return true;
}
// a tap while a 'shot' weapon is braced fires ONE round. Returns true if it consumed the tap.
export function tryGunShot() {
const w = WEAPONS[G.gunId];
if (!(G.mgT > 0) || !w || w.kind !== 'shot' || G.gunShots <= 0) return false;
firePellet(w);
G.gunShots--;
// the magazine lives in the slot it came from, so a half-spent laser you never finish stays half
// spent on the rack rather than silently refilling
const slot = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4].find(i => slotId(i) === G.gunId);
if (slot !== undefined) spendSlot(slot);
if (G.gunShots <= 0) G.mgT = 0; // out of rounds: the window closes, updateZombies resumes serving
return true;
}
// slingshot serve, stage one: the pull-back starts the toss animation. The ball rises while
// you aim (dotted line, render.js); the release (dragServe) fires it. Only from a fresh pretoss.
export function serveToss() {
// A NEW WIND-UP ENDS THE LAST SHOT'S FOLLOW-THROUGH. Without this he latched: hitServe sets
// pose 'serve' with poseT 0, that only expires after POSE_TIME, and the pull frame is only drawn
@@ -926,6 +917,22 @@ export function serveToss() {
if (score.server === 'P' && G.phase === 'pretoss' && !ball.active) tossBall(P);
}
// The laser fired from a TAP (the keyboard/two-stage path). The drag path solves its own direction
// and goes through hitServe; this one has no arc to read a lane off, so it takes the held flick aim
// if there is one and otherwise fires straight up-court.
function tryLaser() {
if (G.mode !== 'splatter' || G.interlude) return false;
const w = WEAPONS[slotId(G.weapon)];
if (!w || !w.beam || slotStock(G.weapon) <= 0) return false;
const flick = takeFlickAim();
const dx = flick ? flick.fx : 0, dz = flick ? -Math.abs(flick.fy) : -1;
spendSlot(G.weapon);
fireBeam(dx, dz || -1);
ball.active = false; G.phase = 'over'; G.overT = 0.5;
P.pose = 'serve'; P.poseT = 0;
return true;
}
// release of the slingshot aim: an instant serve to the reticle (quality fixed — placement
// is this serve's power; the toss ritual keeps the PERFECT-timing power ceiling)
export function dragServe(aim) {
@@ -975,10 +982,6 @@ export function keyPressed(code) {
swish(0.3);
return;
}
// A braced 'shot' weapon (laser, rocket) fires ONE round per tap — that is the whole difference
// between it and a burst weapon, and it has to sit above the auto-fire guard below, which would
// otherwise swallow the tap as a swish.
if (tryGunShot()) return;
if (G.horde || G.mgT > 0) return; // auto-fire modes: a tap only swishes, never serves
if (G.changeover) return; // the breather is mandatory — the melee swish above still works
if (G.interlude && G.interlude.introT > 0) return; // let the umpire finish announcing the duel
@@ -992,7 +995,10 @@ export function keyPressed(code) {
if (flick) { dragServe(flick); return; } // dragServe handles GUN (burst) and the ball check
}
if (G.phase === 'pretoss' && score.server === 'P') {
if (tryArmGun()) return; // a GUN-like weapon selected: the gesture arms it, no ball
if (tryArmGun()) return; // a burst weapon selected: the gesture arms it, no ball
// ...and a LASER never tosses one either. The ray IS the weapon, so a two-stage toss ritual was
// throwing a ball into the air and then firing something else entirely.
if (tryLaser()) return;
tossBall(P); return; // plain tap: the two-stage toss ritual (tennis, and the duel)
}
if (G.phase === 'toss' && score.server === 'P') {