Breach Zero rehearses a launch every six minutes
We wrote the rules engine for BREACH launches and put it on a public board that runs a simulated launch every six minutes, with no token and nothing to buy.
Dev log
What shipped, and why
Write-ups when a wave of work lands. Underneath is the raw commit log, with token plumbing and infrastructure repairs filtered out.
Write-ups
legends.city is up
We rebuilt the public site as separate pages written from the game's design docs, added four short origin comics, and applied 82 fixes from an audit.
The run pays and the street has a kerb
Finished dives started paying XP and creds, capped per account per hour, and the city got new music and streets with kerbs.
The fight has a voice now
Combat had no sound, no hitstop, no camera kick, no reaction animations and no input buffer. The code was already written; this wave wired it in.
Raw commit log
- count every real change, and three new write-ups
- apply 82 verified fixes from the site audit
- comics data uses 'Vector' so the index description passes its test
- art-led Breach board + cinematic site pass
- BREACH Phase 1 (core engine, Breach Zero board, chain spike) + comic-issue site redesign
- the public front actually exists now — apps/site, staged at dev.legends.city
- the deploy fight has sound, weight and a body — six feel systems that shipped years ago and were never wired
- bound the dive reward faucet before the doors open
32 older changes
- the HUD was invisible to reduced-motion players, one mesh was fetched twice, and a better GPU got a darker game
- the tune stays in one key long enough to learn it
- remove the interior face ink line — it scribbled the mouth (round-7 regression)
- the nose reads from the front — final face-front shading pass (round-6 gap)
- face placement — chin/eyeline landed too low (round-4 gap)
- wardrobe/gear/augments thumbnails (GAP 6) — 183 baked previews
- makeup-ink final tweaks (3.6mm surface lift + kohl/brow-bars placement)
- makeup that sits on the face + ink pass work (GAP 3)
- close face skin-terminator gap + wire cybernetics (GAP 5)
- wire v0.51 face morphs (9 noses + 12 sliders + 6 wigs) + fix accent-randomizer flake
- front-facing camera fix (GAP 1) + power-pathway at creation (GAP 4)
- faction select + garment material + creator-flow hardening
- flip animHinge gate to the fixed state (assets-v0.50) — 0 backwards knees on all 7 bodies
- A persistence (guest->claimed in-place carry, 5-slot roster, operator adopt CLI) + B roster (3->5 slots, activate MB9+RONDO, 4 new archetypes = 7 selectable) + anim-regression client (hinge audit + test; both long-red rig tests FIXED — float32 yoke + spine_05->chest); worldHashes byte-identical, PROTOCOL_VERSION 2, catalogHash moves (creator family)
- party/squad — server-authoritative ephemeral squads (cap 8), party-frame HUD rendering members as Legends with 2Hz JSON vitals across shards (F5, no snapshot bit), block-gated invites; fixes an S2 gate bug; contract/PROTOCOL_VERSION/worldHashes unmoved, +18 server tests
- additive protocol module (social.ts — Chat/Social channels, LegendRef, validated chat/squad shapes, 28 tests) + cross-process SocialBus (redis pub/sub + in-process fallback, re-subscribe-on-ready, fan-in/out; redis.ts first real consumer; RedisPresence/Driver — closes F1 + the latent global-room-table need); PROTOCOL_VERSION 2, worldHashes byte-identical, server 498 tests
- activate RosterV2 — remote players render as their Legend (server-authoritative identity via CharacterStore, per-recipient diffs, F3 identity-before-appearance, pooled nameplates); zero protocol change (contract byte-identical, PROTOCOL_VERSION 2); +9 server tests, worldHashes byte-identical
- Records opens on all 3 input schemes — 44px touch HUD chip + gamepad Back/Select + input-aware card prompt (scheme.ts); sticky chain-head rule on small profiles; worldHashes byte-identical, client-only
- codex reading pane delivers on all 3 input schemes — touch drag + keyboard up/down/PgDn + gamepad focusable region (pane 96->464px portrait, 68->261px landscape); header no-wrap; NEW pip + sticky chain head on mobile; desktop unregressed (0.024% px, DOM byte-identical); worldHashes byte-identical
- narrative delivery system — GhostSignalDef + 37 signals wired to a server-authoritative world observer (segment reach + predecessor gate) + the Records codex UI (CodexSource model); additive LoreChan, PROTOCOL_VERSION + contentHash + worldHashes unmoved; static QA green (codex knows 37, starts empty). Dynamic trigger QA pending critic
- reconciliation FORGE integration — fix the Cleanskin/Reckoning-0 strand (4 missing flags + reachedReckoning1 lint, test-proven) + 12 doc work orders (Writ ladder budget->stance, dogs_spared, Toll pronoun, 37/5 signals); worldHashes + contentHash + PROTOCOL_VERSION unmoved
- reconciliation pass — 41 contradictions resolved to one canon, 9 owner-items open, 529-line ledger (Writ ladder SoT, name collisions w/o breaking crew_mark_found, 37/5 signals, Toll pronoun rule, rung-4 two-speaker canon)
- Wave A quality revisions (object-texts/meridian-security/amperage/doc-splice/patch close their critic SHORTs)
- Wave B — 6 sidequest files (hubs/streets/west-south + faction canon) + 4 questline-act files (undercurrent/scrapline/meridian + spine), ~17k lines; ChoiceDef/QuestDef beats authored in contract shape, flags proposed not appended
- Wave A prose — 19 files fill the empty corpus (ghost-signals, the Kindling, object-texts, society, ICE+Bleedthrough bestiary, Chrome Dogs+Meridian doctrine, 10 character scenes); writers flagged canon contradictions in-file for reconciliation
- the complete playable horde — faction variety + death & respawn
- M3 combat wire: the street is a PLAYABLE, VISIBLE fight — real enemy attacks (fieldAttack: melee+travelling bolts, dive execution lifted, fieldStrike deleted), Legend fights back (Buttons.Attack=64 on the existing InputCommand, server-authoritative raycast, C0-scaled; mouse/E/gamepad-RT/touch), additive field-channel HIT+VITALS events (PROTOCOL_VERSION unmoved, 22B snapshot untouched), client HP bar + damage feel reusing the dive. Live-fire: horde killed a fighting L30 at ~225s; player sees HP fall + fights back. worldHashes/contract/content/dive-golden unmoved; field+street fixtures moved (digest+behaviour, isolated+justified); 1504 tests. 2 real bugs fixed
- M3 F2+S4: horde+loot CONTENT (S0 director config + 3 faction pools + 5 street archetypes + L0 drop tables/rarity/affix-proc catalog/Prologue grant table, wage-now-closet-later, one contentHash move) + S4 KIND WIRE (spawn events, PROTOCOL_VERSION unmoved) — enemies render as real meshes in the server world (2 clients proven, players=Legends enemies=Hounds disjoint). Fixed a real shared-mesh re-parent bug (cloneSkeleton) that broke the dive too. worldHashes/dive-golden unmoved, 1442 tests
- M3-S3 FieldSim: the 20Hz fixed-timestep world sim (composes MoveStore/CombatStore/StatusSystem/DamageSystem/ProcEngine); ShardRoom adapter (fork E2, role=field). Enemies can run on a hostile team; spawnEntity/setIntent/despawn = S2 seams. Seat reconciliation RE-VERIFIED (HubSim==FieldSim to 0.000m over 1km boost; 2 browsers 0 snaps; no client change). Own field fixture pinned; worldHashes + dive-golden + protocol + content byte-identical
- M3-F0 sim-core freeze: team/hostility system (8 teams + HostilityTable + masked accepts, strict generalisation) + combat lanes (hit-height/qPvpMult/hitDirYaw/targetMask/poise) + CombatStore AI/pack fields — all additive, byte-identical (diveDeterminism 0x120dfde8 pinned). Unblocks the Street Director + enemy AI. worldHashes/PROTOCOL_VERSION/protocol untouched
- M3-C0 chassis bridge: combat now reads the Elden stat table (powerCurve.ts) — chassis drives HP/shield/crit/abilityRank per character (was a flat constant). Additive; dive determinism fixture byte-UNMOVED; worldHashes + PROTOCOL_VERSION + contract untouched
- M3-W1 THE SEAT: ?world client joins a ShardRoom — server-authoritative + client-predicted world (F1a). Pillar-0 (two clients see each other) + CLOSES the game-loop soft-lock (seated fledgling earns XP: L1→L3 measured). R3 reconciliation storm killed via additive handshake-fold-echo. contract.ts + PROTOCOL_VERSION + worldHashes unmoved. Reach regression: seam/fast-travel stands seat down until W4