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Every swing speed in this game, and every tuning band built on one, was read by dividing a pose that moves at the headset's frame rate by a physics step that doesn't. I measured it before changing it: about three hits in four had the two clocks more than 25% apart. Combat now reads the rendered clock, and I prefer it. Every swing speed I've measured and published here was a physics-clock reading.
In one day Astra ran four read-only code reviews of older systems: combat, the run loop and saves, loot, and the backpack. Eighteen of the findings were real bugs, each checked against the code and then fixed with a test watched failing first. The suite had been green through all of them, because it tested the arithmetic and not the order things happen in.
The camera now rides in a cradle on the backpack, and taking it out turned into four passes about which hand, and which collider, the game thought I was reaching for. The fix was to make the pack grabbable only by its carry bar.
Dropped loot now tells you what it is before you walk over: the beam means quality, a gem glints in its own color, and a soft glow and a trace up a sharpened edge mark the rest. By the last pass I called it perfect.
On 29 August we added two small files to the harness folder. .watchdog/hubprogress.json and .watchdog/itemvault.json replaced the Editor's save with a fixed one: 120 coin, eight items in the vault, no upgrades bought. Th…
In pass 23 I opened two loot chests, and both paid a Charm of Reach. That could have been luck. But the roster has six items, so two in a row is about a one-in-six event, and something that small is exactly what gets wav…
Since August, the one thing in combat that paid for effort was the committed hit. Swing fast enough and wide enough at the moment of contact, and the blow did 1.5× damage with its own spark and sound. When I last wrote a…
The bench in the hub lets you put gems into a weapon. Getting them back out is a pry bar: you hold it near a socket, pay to have the gem removed, and then work the tip around the socket's rim while levering, three arcs, …