- your shadow no longer reads through the Stranglethorn river or the Stormwind mage-tower portal (in the reporter's own shot the crocolisk casting it was invisible under the surface and its shadow was not): the reference draws the blob shadow in PHASE 1 among the opaque drains (`0x6812c5`), before the footprints, the M2 opaque pass, the water surfaces and both M2 transparent passes — ours rode a +4096 sort rung above the whole world band (item 81 of the sorted transparent phase, now item 4); the footprints and the ground-target reticle move with it into a pre-water decal band at their own byte-known slots, and the print/shadow order was inverted too — the reference draws a print one slot AFTER the shadow
- the ping meter was measuring a client frame, not the server: the RTT was computed in the ECS drain, one frame or more after the pong had landed, so it read high exactly when the client was slow — the world-enter hitches inflated the first sample by hundreds of ms and the 30 s averaging ring carried it for minutes, a meter that opens at ~600 ms and sinks toward the truth over two or three minutes, as reported; the read thread measures where the packet lands now, the way `OnData 0x537b10` hands `SMSG_PONG` to `HandlePong 0x537d60` inline, the ring is 15 usable slots not 16, the average is the reference's unsigned truncating divide, and the keepalive is per-connection from the last SEND, so the first ping is a full 30 s after world enter instead of anywhere inside the load storm; localhost reads 0–3 ms where it read 58
- an extra bar's empty slot no longer loses its hotkey label (E/R/C showing in one screenshot and not the next): one line left behind by the slice that shipped the multibars with no bindings cleared the corner outright, which became a wipe of a live label the day those wells got real `MULTIACTIONBAR` bindings — painted by `UPDATE_BINDINGS`, wiped by the next repaint; the empty arm repaints the corner now, as the reference's `ActionButton_Update` never touches the text there, pinned by a test that drives the reporter's shape through the real shipped `ActionBar.xml`
- an unattended probe run opened focused and borderless over the director's work — `WOW_UNATTENDED` joins the background-window prefixes — and the world-API wall was measuring a prefix of every file: a `#[cfg(test)]` guard switched the scan off from the first test module to the end of the file, so the ceiling moves 166 → 172 as a measurement correction, not six crossings
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
