Splatter: the pull IS the shot — direction aims, length is power

The ball economy made it harder in the wrong way: waiting for a ballboy is
friction, not difficulty, and walking with the finger was one gesture too many
for anyone to discover. Both are out — a spent ball hands you a fresh one
again, and the thumb only ever does the slingshot.

The brake moves into the gesture instead. The pull's LENGTH is now the shot's
power and nothing else: under TUNE.zSplatQ it merely staggers, at full draw
it's quality 1.0 with the PERFECT flash and hitstop. A lazy rhythm of short
pulls can't kill anything, so tempo stops being a strategy.

The pull's DIRECTION is a ray, not a landing point, which is the ergonomic fix
for having to drag off the bottom of the phone: distance to the target no
longer costs drag length. The first shambler standing in the lane eats the
ball, whether it's 5 or 21 metres away, and the cone widens with range so
distant lanes stay pickable. Full power now sits at 95px of travel.

Also gone: the free predictive auto-lock on a directionless aim (zombieTarget
returns null with no direction, and a bare hold no longer fires at all). Melee
goes back to cleaving the cluster — it's the panic button — with the 1s
cooldown left in as the brake. The reticle reads power throughout: cool blue
only staggers, hot red kills, the drawn band grows behind you, and the pull
clicks the moment it crosses the kill threshold.

Verified by simulated touch gestures: 10px cancels, 35px = 0.31 (stagger),
60px = 0.60, 95px = 1.00; the same 60px pull reaches shamblers at 5m, 21m and
diagonally; 22 serves in 30s, so the pace is back.

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

state.js

@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ export const G = {
   tinDue: false,      // the rules called for new balls — deliver at the next changeover
   pendingGame: false, // a game just ended — flash 'GAME N' when the next one arms
   aim: null,          // live two-stage serve aim {fx, fy, mag} while the thumb is down (splatter pretoss)
-  loose: false,       // splatter: {t} while your ball lies on the court — no serving until it's in your hand again
-  fetchT: 0,          // s until a ball is handed back to you (boy delivery, or fresh balls after one got eaten)
   meleeT: 0,          // s of racket-swish cooldown left
   interlude: false,   // sudden-death duel vs the racket zombie: falsy, or {introT} while announcing
   duelLerp: 0,        // 0..1 — how far the court has returned to tennis colors for the duel