The red "GM mode is ON" line did not show on a session's first login, only on a relog.
In 1.12.1 the interface and the world load before `CMSG_PLAYER_LOGIN` goes out (`0x46c272`), and the loading screen drops when the player is created (`0x5debbd`). vmangos sends that create ahead of the login notices (`Handlers/CharacterHandler.cpp:675`), so the line is added after the reveal and gets its full time on screen. benilla's cover stays up through its own warm-up, about 6 s on a cold login, and the line faded underneath it. A relog is warm, so the line survived.
Server notice lines (`SMSG_NOTIFICATION`, area-trigger messages) now wait while the cover is up and fire on the frame it drops.
Test: a notice under the cover fires once, at the reveal. A live cold login shows the line the frame after the cover clears.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 86c71919284d51473602a5ee668b5f818d71d980)
Sam Sung
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