EASY grows a backbone, and the door out steps below the blood

Two phone verdicts. "easy is now way too easy" — its first cut was tuned
before HARD taught us which dials bite, and with reaction 0.62 and a 0.62
quality cap it had become a training dummy. EASY is a mild step below MEDIUM
now (flub 0.18, quality 0.76, reaction 0.54, speed 0.9): beatable without
being able to fall asleep on it. And the quit chip sat exactly on the BLOOD
panel's corner in the splatter modes — it rides 40px down now, below the
pips' strip, one position with one meaning in every mode. Verified live over
a zombie run: pips and door stacked, nothing touching.

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

src/config.js

@@ -666,7 +666,9 @@ export const MENU = [
 // Speed calibration: the zombie RUNNER covers 2.8 x 1.8 x 1.22 = 6.15 m/s with no reaction gate,
 // and Oliver clocked HARD as slower than him — HARD now moves 4.3 x 1.5 = 6.45.
 export const DIFFS = [
-  { id: 'easy',   name: 'EASY',   flub: 0.30, quality: 0.62, qMin: 0.45, speed: 0.80, reaction: 0.62, reach: 1.45, serve: 0.75, smart: 0,   recover: 0.4 },
+  // EASY's first cut (flub 0.30, quality cap 0.62, reaction 0.62) was "way too easy" once HARD
+  // taught us which dials bite — it is a mild step below MEDIUM now, not a training dummy
+  { id: 'easy',   name: 'EASY',   flub: 0.18, quality: 0.76, qMin: 0.45, speed: 0.90, reaction: 0.54, reach: 1.52, serve: 0.9, smart: 0,   recover: 0.45 },
   { id: 'medium', name: 'MEDIUM', flub: 0.10, quality: 0.86, qMin: 0.45, speed: 1.0,  reaction: 0.45, reach: 1.6,  serve: 1.0,  smart: 0,   recover: 0.5 },
   { id: 'hard',   name: 'HARD',   flub: 0.01, quality: 1.0,  qMin: 0.70, speed: 1.50, reaction: 0.22, reach: 1.85, serve: 1.15, smart: 0.8, recover: 0.85 },
 ];