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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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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
import { TUNE, UI, COURT, VOLLEY, CONTACT, BOSS_ART, WEAPONS, BARREL_WEAPONS, woundStage, EATEN_BURST, EATEN_SUMMARY, EATEN_FEED_R } from './config.js';
import { G, P, ball, sendBoy, setupPoint } from './state.js';
import { splat, moan, pock, voice, boom, swish, shriek, aww, sfx } from './audio.js';
import { splatPoint, cheer, spentBall, resolveInterlude, showModal, endBossFight, aside, grantWeapon, weaponModal } from './gameplay.js';
import { splatPoint, cheer, spentBall, resolveInterlude, showModal, endBossFight, aside, grantWeapon, weaponModal , dragContact } from './gameplay.js';
export const zombies = []; // {x, z, v, walkT, variant: 'a'|'b'|'c'}
export const gore = []; // lawn decals {x, z, r, a} — the flat ground layer
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ let spawnT = 1.5, moanT = 3;
// gameplay.restartRun — a restart is in-place now, not a page reload.
export function resetZombies() {
for (const a of [zombies, gore, piles, parts, pellets, extras, shots]) a.length = 0;
spawnT = 1.5; moanT = 3; mgTick = 0;
spawnT = 1.5; moanT = 3; mgTick = 0; lastBarrel = null;
}
export function spawnZombie(x, z, variant) {
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ export function spawnZombie(x, z, variant) {
if ('fgsdehk'.includes(variant) && !G.seen['v' + variant]) { G.seen['v' + variant] = true; aside('ump_dress_code', 0.8); }
if (variant === 'o') { // the weapon barrel: a rolling pink target with a weapon inside it
zb.v = 0; zb.hp = zb.hpMax = TUNE.barrelHp;
zb.wid = BARREL_WEAPONS[Math.floor(Math.random() * BARREL_WEAPONS.length)];
zb.wid = pickBarrelWeapon();
zb.dir = Math.random() < 0.5 ? -1 : 1; zb.roll = 0;
}
if (variant === 'm') { // the rogue ball machine: furniture, not a body. It never SHAMBLES...
@@ -62,6 +62,25 @@ export function spawnZombie(x, z, variant) {
zombies.push(zb);
}
let lastBarrel = null;
// WHICH weapon is in the barrel. A flat 1-in-4 gave Oliver the laser "almost every time" and the
// beacon never — four samples is far too few for uniform to feel uniform. Weighted, gated on the
// run so the rocket is genuinely a late-game find, and it never hands you the same thing twice in
// a row, which is the part a player actually notices.
function pickBarrelWeapon() {
const pool = [];
for (const [id, b] of Object.entries(BARREL_WEAPONS)) {
if (G.runGames < b.from) continue;
if (id === lastBarrel) continue; // never twice running...
for (let k = 0; k < b.weight; k++) pool.push(id);
}
// ...unless it is the only thing unlocked, in which case repeating beats handing out nothing
if (!pool.length) return lastBarrel || 'beacon';
const id = pool[Math.floor(Math.random() * pool.length)];
lastBarrel = id;
return id;
}
// A WEAPON BARREL, rolled across the far court. Shoot it and you get what is inside, armed on the
// spot. It is the only source of the four weapons that are not on the duel ladder, and it is pure
// upside — it never attacks, never scores, and rolls off on its own if you ignore it.
@@ -250,11 +269,13 @@ function pickVariant() {
// to learn — so he can arrive EARLY and thicken the ordinary crowd, which the shambler mix alone
// never did. He is also the only advanced body that shows up in a horde (see spawnHordeZombie).
if (g >= 4) pool.push('d');
// The late roster, in the order the crowd should learn it: a stock-sized body that no longer dies
// to two (game 3), then a bigger one (game 8), then something heavier than the brute (game 15).
if (g >= 3) pool.push('e');
if (g >= 8) pool.push('h');
if (g >= 15) pool.push('k');
// The late roster, spread WIDE on purpose. They were at 3/8/15 and Oliver had met the whole cast
// by about game 10 — "let's introduce them more gradually". One new body roughly every seven
// games now, and the ORIGINAL four keep their gates exactly (the curve through ~game 12 was
// already tuned; see the calibration rule in HANDOFF).
if (g >= 5) pool.push('e');
if (g >= 12) pool.push('h');
if (g >= 20) pool.push('k');
const nasty = Math.min(TUNE.nastyMax, g * TUNE.nastyPerGame);
if (pool.length && Math.random() < nasty) return pool[Math.floor(Math.random() * pool.length)];
return Math.random() < 0.5 ? 'a' : 'b';
@@ -272,6 +293,32 @@ const hitR = zb => zb.variant === 'g' ? 0.75 : zb.variant === 'd' ? 0.64 : zb.va
: zb.variant === 'm' ? 0.8 // the machine is a wide low box
: 0.55;
// THE LASER. Not a projectile: the serve gesture you already know, and instead of a ball you get a
// widening plane of light down the lane you aimed at, killing everything standing inside the wedge
// at once. Oliver asked for exactly this after a tap-per-round version read as broken — "the normal
// ball logic, but the band is blue and gets way wider at the end, like a blue plane cutting through".
// It goes through wound()/killZombie like everything else, so it cannot no-op on a boss.
export function fireBeam(dirX, dirZ) {
const d = Math.hypot(dirX, dirZ) || 1, ux = dirX / d, uz = dirZ / d;
const c = dragContact(); // it leaves the RACKET, not his feet
G.beam = { x: c.x, y: c.y, z: c.z, ux, uz, t: TUNE.beamT };
boom(0.55); G.shake = { t: 0.18, mag: 3 }; G.boomFlash = 0.08;
for (let i = zombies.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
const zb = zombies[i];
if (!zb) continue;
const rx = zb.x - P.x, rz = zb.z - P.z;
const along = rx * ux + rz * uz; // how far down the lane it stands
if (along < 0 || along > TUNE.beamLen) continue; // behind you, or past the end of the beam
const off = Math.abs(rx * uz - rz * ux); // lateral offset from the lane
const halfW = TUNE.beamW0 + (TUNE.beamW1 - TUNE.beamW0) * (along / TUNE.beamLen);
if (off > halfW + hitR(zb)) continue;
if (isBoss(zb)) { if (wound(zb, TUNE.dmgBeam)) killZombie(i, true); }
else if (zb.variant === 'o') killZombie(i, true); // it pops a barrel too, which is fair
else if ((zb.hpMax || 0) > 1 && (zb.hp -= TUNE.dmgBeam) > 0) woundBurst(zb);
else splatter(i);
}
}
// core kill: remove the zombie, spawn its gore/pile/particles, score. No ball coupling —
// shared by ball hits, machine-gun pellets, melee swipes, and extra (multi-serve) balls.
// how absurdly a variant dies: classics splash, the advanced roster DETONATES
@@ -519,13 +566,42 @@ let mgTick = 0;
// radius, a damage number, whether it stops at the first body, and what it does when it lands.
// Called with no argument by the HORDE, which is the plain machine gun.
export function firePellet(w = WEAPONS.gun) {
const spread = w.life ? TUNE.mgSpread * 2.4 : TUNE.mgSpread; // a short-lived round is a CONE, not a line
const spread = w.spread ?? (w.life ? TUNE.mgSpread * 2.4 : TUNE.mgSpread); // a short-lived round is a CONE
const a = (Math.random() * 2 - 1) * spread * Math.PI / 180, s = w.speed ?? 26; // straight up-court (-z)
pellets.push({ x: P.x, y: 0.9, z: P.z, vx: Math.sin(a) * s, vz: -Math.cos(a) * s,
const pe = { x: P.x, y: 0.9, z: P.z, vx: Math.sin(a) * s, vz: -Math.cos(a) * s,
t: w.life ?? 1.2, r: w.r ?? TUNE.mgPelletR, dmg: w.dmg ?? TUNE.dmgPellet, hp: w.hp ?? TUNE.dmgPelletHp,
pierce: !!w.pierce, boom: !!w.boom, ignite: w.ignite ? (w.igniteR ?? 1.8) : 0, col: w.col, glow: w.glow });
if (++mgTick % 2 === 0) pock(0.25, w.boom ? 420 : w.pierce ? 2100 : 1400); // every 2nd round — at 12+/s every round buzzes
pierce: !!w.pierce, boom: !!w.boom, ignite: w.ignite ? (w.igniteR ?? 1.8) : 0,
trail: w.trail || 0, col: w.col, glow: w.glow };
// A LOBBED round: it is thrown, not sprayed. Solved so it comes down about where the crowd is, so
// "it throws itself" reads as aiming rather than as a flat stream that happens to be fat.
if (w.arc) {
const tgt = nearestAhead(); // something to actually throw AT
const dx = (tgt ? tgt.x : P.x + Math.sin(a) * 6) - P.x, dz = (tgt ? tgt.z : P.z - 12) - P.z;
const dist = Math.max(3, Math.hypot(dx, dz)), T = dist / s;
pe.vx = dx / T; pe.vz = dz / T;
pe.g = TUNE.gravity;
pe.vy = (0.35 - pe.y + 0.5 * pe.g * T * T) / T; // lands about knee height on the target
pe.t = T + 0.6;
pe.arc = 1;
}
// The BEACON changes colour every ball it throws. It is the showpiece: you should be able to tell
// it is running from the corner of your eye.
if (w.hue) pe.col = HUES[mgTick % HUES.length];
pellets.push(pe);
if (++mgTick % 2 === 0 || w.arc) pock(0.25, w.boom ? 420 : w.arc ? 900 : w.ignite ? 300 : 1400);
}
const HUES = ['#ff6b6b', '#ffd166', '#7bffa0', '#6bd5ff', '#c08bff', '#ff8bd5'];
// the best thing up-court to lob at: nearest body ahead of you, ignoring furniture you can walk past
function nearestAhead() {
let best = null, bd = 1e9;
for (const zb of zombies) {
if (!zb || zb.variant === 'o' || zb.z > P.z - 1.5) continue;
const d = Math.hypot(zb.x - P.x, zb.z - P.z);
if (d < bd) { bd = d; best = zb; }
}
return best;
}
export function spawnRacketZombie() { // one takes up residence on the far court — an opponent, of sorts
// He stiffens as the run goes on. hpMax is stored because the wound skins and bleed() anchors read
// a FRACTION of full health now — hardcoded `hp === 2` thresholds would leave a late-run boss
@@ -649,7 +725,6 @@ export function updateZombies(dt) {
// `G.mgT > 0` blocks serving, so the game locked up with the gun racket stuck on screen.
G.mgT -= dt;
// whichever gun-like weapon is armed sets the rate and the round (see config.WEAPONS). A
// kind:'shot' weapon has no rate — it fires on the TAP instead (gameplay.tryGunShot).
const gw = WEAPONS[G.gunId] || WEAPONS.gun;
if (G.phase === 'rally' && gw.rate && (G.mgCool -= dt) <= 0) { firePellet(gw); G.mgCool = 1 / gw.rate; }
if (G.mgT <= 0) setupPoint(); // ammo dry — the serve loop resumes
@@ -825,14 +900,6 @@ export function updateZombies(dt) {
continue; // soft balls pass through ON PURPOSE, for racketAI to return — that rally IS the
// feedback that it wasn't hard enough, so no clank here; see HANDOFF
}
if (zb.variant === 'g' || zb.variant === 'm') { // brute AND the bolted-down machine: soak
if ((ball.pow || 0) >= TUNE.zSplatQ) { // splat-quality hits, never stagger back
zb.hp--; splat(0.5); pock(0.6, zb.variant === 'm' ? 700 : 220); // machine rings, meat thuds
ball.vx *= 0.3; ball.vz *= 0.3; ball.lastHit = 'X';
if (zb.hp <= 0) { splatter(i); continue; } // timber
} else { pock(0.6, 300); ball.vx *= 0.6; ball.vz *= 0.6; ball.lastHit = 'X'; } // soft ball bounces off
continue;
}
if (zb.variant === 's' && ball.vz < 0 && !(zb.shieldT > 0)) { // chair up, ball at its face: BLOCKED
zb.shieldT = TUNE.shieldDown; // ...but the block staggers it — the chair drops, kill window opens
zb.z -= TUNE.zPushback * 0.5;
@@ -841,13 +908,24 @@ export function updateZombies(dt) {
continue;
}
if (zb.variant === 'f') { splatter(i); continue; } // the sprinter is GLASS — any touch, any quality, it bursts
if (zb.variant === 'a' || zb.variant === 'b') { // classic shamblers soak a splat-quality wound before they drop
// ANY multi-hit body soaks, and hp is the ONLY thing that says how many. This used to be a
// chain of per-variant branches — brute+machine, then shamblers — and every body NOT named
// in it fell through to "splat-quality kills outright" below. That silently one-shot the
// steward (5 hp, commented "a brute's worth of hp") from the day he shipped, and then the
// ball boy, bouncer and roller man the moment they existed: Oliver's "the bigger guys were
// way too easy to kill". Pellets and melee always read hp properly; only the BALL skipped it.
if ((zb.hpMax || 0) > 1) {
const meat = zb.variant !== 'm'; // the machine rings and does not bleed
const heavy = 'gmhk'.includes(zb.variant); // a heavy body is not shoved back by a ball
if ((ball.pow || 0) >= TUNE.zSplatQ) {
if (--zb.hp <= 0) { splatter(i); continue; } // the second splat is the killing blow
woundBurst(zb); splat(0.5); pock(0.6, 280); // first splat: a bloody wound, not a death
zb.z -= TUNE.zPushback * 0.5; ball.vx *= 0.3; ball.vz *= 0.3; ball.lastHit = 'X'; continue; // ball spent on the wound
if (--zb.hp <= 0) { splatter(i); continue; } // the killing blow
if (meat) woundBurst(zb); // a bloody wound, not a death
splat(0.5); pock(0.6, meat ? (heavy ? 220 : 280) : 700); // meat thuds, machine rings
if (!heavy) zb.z -= TUNE.zPushback * 0.5;
ball.vx *= 0.3; ball.vz *= 0.3; ball.lastHit = 'X'; continue; // ball spent on the wound
}
zb.z -= TUNE.zPushback; pock(0.6, 300); ball.vx *= 0.6; ball.vz *= 0.6; ball.lastHit = 'X'; continue; // soft ball just staggers
if (!heavy) zb.z -= TUNE.zPushback; // soft ball staggers the light ones, bounces off the rest
pock(0.6, 300); ball.vx *= 0.6; ball.vz *= 0.6; ball.lastHit = 'X'; continue;
}
// chair-down shield zombies (and anything hit from behind) obey the normal rules:
if ((ball.pow || 0) >= TUNE.zSplatQ) { splatter(i); continue; }
@@ -860,10 +938,23 @@ export function updateZombies(dt) {
if (zb.z >= COURT.L + 0.7) { aside('ump_unsportsmanlike', 0.5); zombies.splice(i, 1); if (G.mode !== 'eaten' && !G.horde && !G.clearing) splatPoint('O'); } // it reached your baseline (during a mop-up, a straggler that reaches the line just despawns — no point for them)
}
for (let i = pellets.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { // machine-gun rounds: flat, fast, one-shot kills
for (let i = pellets.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { // gun rounds flat and fast; lobbed ones ride an arc
const pe = pellets[i];
pe.t -= dt; pe.x += pe.vx * dt; pe.z += pe.vz * dt;
let hit = false;
let hit = false, landed = false;
if (pe.arc) { // a thrown round: it falls, and landing is a hit
pe.vy -= pe.g * dt; pe.y += pe.vy * dt;
if (pe.y <= 0.05) { pe.y = 0.05; landed = true; }
}
// a colour dragged behind it — the beacon and the rocket are supposed to be seen from across
// the court, and this is what makes a lobbed round read as a THROWN object rather than a dot
if (pe.trail && parts.length < 220)
for (let k = 0; k < pe.trail; k++) parts.push({
x: pe.x + (Math.random() * 2 - 1) * 0.12, y: pe.y + (Math.random() * 2 - 1) * 0.12,
z: pe.z + (Math.random() * 2 - 1) * 0.12,
vx: (Math.random() * 2 - 1) * 0.5, vy: (Math.random() * 2 - 1) * 0.5 + 0.3,
vz: (Math.random() * 2 - 1) * 0.5,
t: 0.18 + Math.random() * 0.22, spark: pe.col || '#fff' });
for (let j = zombies.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
const zb = zombies[j];
if (!zb) continue;
@@ -882,8 +973,16 @@ export function updateZombies(dt) {
if (hit) break;
}
}
// A thrown round that reaches the ground goes off THERE, whether or not it touched a body —
// "like a bomb, the projectile is a rocket". Without this a rocket that missed simply expired.
if (!hit && landed) {
if (pe.boom) explode(pe.x, pe.z);
else if (pe.ignite) ignite(pe.x, pe.z, pe.ignite);
hit = true;
}
if (hit || pe.t <= 0) pellets.splice(i, 1);
}
if (G.beam) { G.beam.t -= dt; if (G.beam.t <= 0) G.beam = null; } // the laser's wedge fades and is gone
// ---- INCOMING hostile balls (ball machine, chapter boss volleys). Three outcomes, in this order:
// a timed swing inside the volley window RETURNS it as your own ball flying up-court, the panic