Stop the dead for the changeover instead of letting the player wander

Oliver vetoed the free movement between points on sight: he never walks
freely during play, so being able to only between points reads as the game
breaking, not as a fix. Reverted to 'rally' only, and the rule is written into
the settled-feel list so it doesn't get re-invented.

The frozen changeover is answered his other way instead — the dead wait too.
`held` in updateZombies stops their advance, their steering and the eat check
for the breather; they still bleed and burn, they just stand there, because
the umpire called time and it is still a tennis match. The path where this
actually bit: losing a duel scheduled on a changeover beat spawns five fresh
shamblers and THEN starts five seconds you have no agency in.

The stuck pose was never about movement — 'run' is the one pose expirePose
doesn't expire, and runT stops advancing outside the block, so a beat that
began mid-stride welded him to a single frame. Reset it and it's fixed for
every phase.

And he could walk off the screen in ordinary play, not just during the beat I
had added: P_BOUNDS.x is 6.5 m, portrait shows about ±4 m at the baseline.
The xVis clamp already existed but only applied during auto-fire; it now
always applies, floored at the sideline so every legal ball stays catchable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

gameplay.js

@@ -814,11 +814,11 @@ export function update(dt) {
   if (G.phase === 'toss' && !G.aim) { const sv = score.server === 'P' ? P : O; sv.pose = 'serve'; sv.poseT = 0; }
 
   // --- player movement (near half only, generous margins)
-  // In splatter it also runs between points ('over' — game beats, changeovers, set cards — and
-  // 'pretoss'): the zombies never stop walking, so gating movement on 'rally' froze the player
-  // mid-stride with the dead closing in, and left him stuck in whatever pose he held. 'toss' is
-  // the one exception — that's the aim, and the thumb is busy drawing the bow.
-  if (G.phase === 'rally' || (G.mode === 'splatter' && G.phase !== 'toss')) {
+  // 'rally' ONLY, deliberately. Letting the player walk during the between-point beats was tried
+  // and vetoed on feel: you never walk freely during play, so suddenly being able to between points
+  // reads as the game breaking, not as a fix. The frozen-changeover complaint is answered by
+  // holding the DEAD instead (see updateZombies), and the stuck pose by the reset below.
+  if (G.phase === 'rally') {
     if (G.mode === 'tennis' && ball.active && ball.lastHit === 'O') { // closest approach, for never-swung passes
       const d = Math.hypot(ball.x - P.x, (ball.z - P.z) * 0.8);
       if (!G.rallyNear || d < G.rallyNear.d) G.rallyNear = { d, y: ball.y, bz: ball.z, px: P.x, pz: P.z };
@@ -854,7 +854,11 @@ export function update(dt) {
         assist = dx;
       }
     }
-    const xLim = mgMode ? xVis : P_BOUNDS.x; // auto-fire keeps even keyboard players on screen
+    // Stay ON SCREEN — always, not just in auto-fire. P_BOUNDS.x is 6.5 m, but at the baseline in
+    // portrait the camera only shows about ±4 m either side of the centre line, so walking to the
+    // bound put the player clean off the edge (x = -6.5 projects to screen -61 of 270). Floored at
+    // the sideline so every legal tennis ball stays catchable — the court is never out of bounds.
+    const xLim = Math.max(xVis, COURT.W / 2);
     P.x = Math.max(-xLim, Math.min(xLim, P.x));
     P.z = Math.max(P_BOUNDS.zMin, Math.min(P_BOUNDS.zMax, P.z));
     const moving = mx || mz || assist !== 0;
@@ -863,6 +867,10 @@ export function update(dt) {
     if (mx) P.facing = mx > 0 ? 1 : -1;
     else if (Math.abs(assist) > 0.25) P.facing = assist > 0 ? 1 : -1; // hysteresis: small corrections don't flip facing
   }
+  // ...and out of 'rally' he STANDS. 'run' is the one pose nothing else expires (expirePose only
+  // handles swing/serve), and P.runT stops advancing outside the block, so a beat that began
+  // mid-stride left him welded to a single run frame — the "stuck mid-animation" report.
+  else if (P.pose === 'run') { P.pose = 'idle'; P.poseT = 0; }
   // splatter: you START at the baseline but you're free to advance up-court (bounded at the net by
   // P_BOUNDS) — hunt the shamblers down, especially when mopping up a won game. Auto-assist still
   // recovers you toward the baseline between shots on touch; the duel is plain tennis as ever.