wuwiandClaude Opus 5
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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>