wuwiandClaude Opus 5
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The laser was playing boom() — the BOMB — so the showiest weapon in the game sounded like the least showy one. zap() is its own: a highpassed crack, two detuned saws diving through a resonant lowpass, weight underneath so it lands on a phone speaker, and a triangle that rings after the plane has gone. The dive is the whole reading; a rising sweep is a charge-up and this thing never charges. And the NORMAL hit — ball meeting a body without killing it — was borrowing pock(), the racket thock. That is a bright, dry, stationary-band click: exactly right for gut on felt and exactly wrong for felt on a torso, which is why hitting a zombie sounded like hitting a wall. thud() falls instead of sitting still, which is where the wetness comes from, with one quiet bright tick just behind the slap: something gave. The machine keeps its pock — it is furniture and it rings. Both thud() and splat() now take a size, zombieH/1.8, so 1 is a shambler, 1.5 a brute and 2.04 a chapter-4 boss. Everything pitches down and lengthens with it. Measured through a patched AudioParam rather than assumed: the body thump under a hit runs 150 Hz on a shambler, 100 on a brute, 59 on the boss. splat() got the same treatment while I was in there — a resonant band collapsing down the spectrum instead of a plain lowpass, plus a second brighter burst a beat later. One clean hit is a thud; a thud followed by spatter is a body. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>