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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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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132 lines
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# Races & Ship Classes
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## Setting
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Three factions fight inside the massive shielding, pipes, and superstructure of
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refineries, shipyards, and mining stations — not open void. Grounded, blue-collar
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sci-fi in the vein of *The Expanse* (corporate hegemony vs. disciplined inner-planet
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military vs. gritty outer-belt miners), but built as a fast, arcade 2D tactical
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arena shooter rather than a hard-sci-fi sim. Tight factory corridors and choke
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points are the map language — see `multiplayer.md`.
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> **Status:** This replaces the previous 10-alien-race concept pool and the
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> Terran Republic / Mechanos Sovereignty / Vorg Swarm roster. Doc-only for now —
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> game code (`team_select.gd` RACES data, `GameConfig`, existing
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> `assets/images/ships/<race>/` art) still reflects the old races until that work
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> is scheduled.
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---
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## The 3 Factions
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### Apex Dynamics — The Corporate Syndicate
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**Weapon type:** High-tech energy (coherent light / plasma)
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**Visual:** Sleek, pearlescent-white hulls with razor-sharp geometric lines and
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glowing neon-blue engine trails — looks more like a high-end luxury smartphone
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than a military weapon.
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**Feel:** High-tech and precise. Wins by not being seen until it's too late.
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**Tactical ability:** **Active Camouflage** — see [Faction Abilities](#faction-abilities-universal-system)
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### Inner Sphere Navy (ISN) — The Military
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**Weapon type:** Standard-issue ballistics / ordnance
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**Visual:** Gunmetal-gray, wedge-shaped hulls with hard militaristic angles, dense
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protective plating, and prominent forward-facing gun turrets.
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**Feel:** Disciplined, heavy, frontal. Wins by tanking a choke point and forcing
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the fight.
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**Tactical ability:** **Overcharged Aegis** — see [Faction Abilities](#faction-abilities-universal-system)
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### Outer Rim Collective (ORC) — The Belters
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**Weapon type:** Kinetic / repurposed mining hardware
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**Visual:** Blocky, gritty patchwork of mismatched metal plating and exposed
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hydraulic wiring, dominated by external fuel tanks and heavy industrial hardware
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bolted onto the hull.
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**Feel:** Scrappy and improvised. Wins by controlling terrain and denying space.
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**Tactical ability:** **Proximity Scrap-Mine** — see [Faction Abilities](#faction-abilities-universal-system)
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---
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## Ship Classes
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Every faction fields the same 3-ship structure, re-skinned to its own theme:
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| Class | Role |
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| **Fighter** | Single, high-precision, high-damage shot |
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| **Gunner** | Rapid-fire spray/burst, more shots for less damage each |
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| **Tank** | Bigger and slower; fires both bullets and missiles |
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### Apex Dynamics
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| Ship | Class | Weapon |
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|------|-------|--------|
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| **Lancet** | Fighter | A single, high-precision bolt of blue coherent light |
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| **Pulsar** | Gunner | A wide, rapid-fire fan of low-damage green plasma pulses |
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| **Sovereign** | Tank | Homing micro-missiles alongside dual heavy plasma batteries |
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### Inner Sphere Navy (ISN)
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| Ship | Class | Weapon |
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|------|-------|--------|
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| **Patriot** | Fighter | A single, hard-hitting high-caliber explosive shell |
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| **Barrage** | Gunner | A relentless quad-barrel spray of fast, low-damage light bullets |
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| **Behemoth** | Tank | Heavy tracking torpedoes plus massive physical deck-guns |
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### Outer Rim Collective (ORC)
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| Ship | Class | Weapon |
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|------|-------|--------|
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| **Rail-Jack** | Fighter | A single, heavy magnetic railgun slug |
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| **Scrap-Spitter** | Gunner | A rotary scrap-cannon spraying rapid, low-damage metal shrapnel |
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| **Iron-Clad** | Tank | Unguided explosive rockets plus continuous vulcan machine-gun fire |
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## Faction Abilities (Universal System)
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Each faction has exactly one tactical ability. Every ship in that faction gets
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it — what changes per class is scale, not kind, so the ability reads instantly
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off a ship's faction regardless of which of the 3 hulls it's flying. Same energy
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cost and cooldown across factions; duration/impact scales with the hull:
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| Class | Scaling rule |
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|-------|--------------|
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| Fighter | Fast cooldown, short/light effect |
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| Gunner | Baseline cooldown and effect |
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| Tank | Long cooldown, largest/heaviest effect |
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### Apex Dynamics — Active Camouflage
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Ship turns 90% transparent and disappears from radar. Firing or taking damage
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breaks it instantly. Fighter gets a quick, short slip; Tank's lasts longest but
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is riskiest to commit a slow hull to.
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**Use:** Slip past a defender in a narrow pipe, flank, or break a missile lock.
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### Inner Sphere Navy — Overcharged Aegis
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A frontal hard-light barrier absorbs 100% of incoming damage from the front for
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a few seconds. Sides and rear stay exposed, turn rate drops, and the ship can't
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fire while it's up. Tank's barrier is wide enough to shield teammates trailing
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behind it; Fighter's is a narrow, quick poke.
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**Use:** Push straight through a defended choke point, soaking fire so teammates
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can follow.
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### Outer Rim Collective — Proximity Scrap-Mine
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Ejects a magnetized mine that arms after ~1 second and goes dark on radar.
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Detonates on enemy proximity for heavy damage in a small radius plus knockback;
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alert enemies can shoot it from a distance to trigger it safely. Only one mine
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per ship at a time — dropping a second detonates the first. Tank's mine has a
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larger blast radius; Fighter's arms faster but hits smaller.
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**Use:** Cover a retreat down a corridor, or seed a choke point/objective before
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a push.
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### The Rock-Paper-Scissors Loop
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- **ORC mines counter Apex cloak** — a cloaked ship blundering through a mined
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corridor eats the blast, which also breaks the cloak.
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- **ISN shield counters ORC mines** — the frontal barrier absorbs a mine
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detonation, clearing the path for the team behind it.
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- **Apex cloak counters ISN shield** — a slow, frontal-shielded push leaves the
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ISN ship's flank and engines open for a cloaked ship to slip around and
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punish.
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No ability wins a fight by itself — it depends on the map and the moment it's
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used, same as a smoke/flash/molotov in CS:GO.
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