Drop Apex Dynamics from the playable roster (2 races now: Inner Sphere
Navy, Outer Rim Collective) to simplify the 2D art pipeline; World's
race-offer logic just shuffles both remaining races instead of picking
2 of N. Also fix bullets using a constant muzzle velocity instead of
adding the shooter's own velocity, and shrink the bullet hitbox/sprite.
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Server browsing & matchmaking:
- HL2-style main menu (QUICK PLAY/SERVER SELECT/OPTIONS/PROFILE/QUIT)
replaces the old CASUAL/RANKED tiles; RANKED removed end-to-end
(menu, matchmaking-api's Mode.ranked queue path, MMR matching) until
ranked is real.
- New menu/server_select.gd lists real servers from the matchmaking
API's GET /servers and connects directly, retiring the old
unreachable menu/server_browser.gd.
- Real game-server pool: NetworkManager.host_server() self-registers on
boot and heartbeats every 8s with live player counts; API computes
available/full status from player_count, and a background sweep marks
any server offline once its heartbeat goes stale (catches a crashed
server that never deregistered).
- Server-select rows get a live UDP ping probe (query port = game port
+ 10000) instead of trusting stale DB numbers; post-connect HUD shows
live RTT off ENet's own peer stats.
Race roster overhaul:
- Swapped Terran/Mechanos/Vorg for the pivoted roster — Apex Dynamics,
Inner Sphere Navy, Outer Rim Collective — each with a 3-ship
Fighter/Gunner/Tank lineup, art cropped from concept sheets with
background removal + orientation fixes per sheet.
- Live headcount + roster + "TEAM FULL" lock on the race-select screen,
shared between the initial pre-spawn pick and the pause menu's live
SELECT TEAM swap.
- Bot personalities (bots/bot_personality.gd): aggression/caution/
accuracy/reaction/awareness traits rolled per bot instead of one
fixed AI profile.
HUD additions:
- Player list (roster, teammates white/enemies yellow, bots flagged),
kill feed, minimap, and explosion VFX on death.
- Health and energy now render as bars (hud/stat_bar.gd) instead of
text in the top-left HUD.
Ship energy system:
- Per-role max energy (Fighter 100 / Gunner 150 / Tank 250), 75 energy
per shot, flat regen (100 per 2.5s), fully server-authoritative and
piggybacked on the existing per-tick state broadcast alongside health.
- New blue "mirrored" bar top-middle of the screen (hud/energy_bar.gd)
whose fill drains from both edges toward the center instead of
left-to-right.
Ship handling tuning:
- Turn rate reduced (4.0 -> 1.0 rad/s) so a quick tap no longer
over-rotates; holding past 0.15s ramps to double speed (2.0 rad/s) for
fast full turns, gated the same way damage already is so replay during
reconciliation can't double-count the hold timer.
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- In-game chat: T=all, Y=team (race doubles as team), server-relayed and
team-filtered via new ChatManager autoload; last 10 messages shown
bottom-left (chat/chat_box.gd).
- Bot fill for casual (bots/): keeps each of the match's 2 offered races
at a minimum of 7 total humans+bots, spawning/despawning reactively as
players join/leave. Bots always fly their race's fighter and use
negative peer_ids so they ride the existing networked-ship stack
(spawning, loadout sync, health/position sync, bullet attribution) with
no special-casing. Casual matchmaking now forms with just 1 real player
queued instead of waiting for a second (matchmaking-api/).
- Borderless fullscreen with stretch scaling disabled instead of scaling
the Steam-Deck-matched 1280x800 canvas up to fill PC monitors (which
read as zoomed in) — PC monitors now reveal more world/HUD at native
size instead. Reworked main_menu/team_select/chat_box to position via
anchors relative to the real window instead of hardcoded coordinates.
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Checkpoint of the existing flat file layout prior to restructuring
into autoload/, menu/, ships/, world/, and assets/ folders.
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