- the music slot refuses everyone while a cinematic runs: the suppression was checked at two of the four callers, and the other two — the zone intro fanfare and SMSG_PLAY_MUSIC — played over the narration to their end, the fanfare even stamping its once-per-cooldown play under a shot you couldn't hear it through; the guard moved into the slot itself, the reference's own shape (its music pump dies at its own first instruction), and the narration now holds its own line in the voice budget, where before the client believed it had one more free voice than it did for the length of every cinematic
- zone chat channels stop rejoining under a cinematic: the join walk reads the streamed area, which during a fly-by is wherever the camera is, so joins fired against zones the player was only looking at; the reference gates exactly this at two sites and rejoins once at the end — which our still-armed walk now does by simply falling through on the next frame
- a lootable corpse sparkles: the reference watches the corpse's dynamic-flags loot bit and spawns its hard-coded "Loot Art" effect row — Particles\LootFX.m2 at the body's attachment point, no scale, colour or lifetime set, the asset's own emitters being the whole look — the same asset at the same tag our lootable dead units already wore, so both share one arm; the corpse ground decal, meanwhile, is (almost certainly) dead code; and the probes see a corpse as its own entity kind again — the death probe had been identifying it by a heuristic a refactor outdated, so it failed runs whose wire was entirely correct
- the player controller splits along its concerns: one 1705-line function becomes six modules (the netted axes, posture, transport riding, the move-flag words, writing the frame onto the body, and the frame order itself), player.rs 2093 → 438 lines with zero behaviour change — checked by a source-line multiset and a live A/B of the same scripted key drive producing the identical opcode sequence and flags (walk 7.000 vs 6.978 yd/s, phase not physics)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
