Dev log

2026-08-27

The fight has a voice now

Six feel systems that shipped a long time ago and were never plugged in — sound, weight, a body that reacts, and an input buffer.

Every change

2026-08-27the deploy fight has sound, weight and a body — six feel systems that shipped years ago and were never wired

2026-08-27bound the dive reward faucet before the doors open

2026-08-27the HUD was invisible to reduced-motion players, one mesh was fetched twice, and a better GPU got a darker game

2026-08-23the tune stays in one key long enough to learn it

2026-08-23gauntlet wave: the floor is a floor now, and the props have a reason to be there

2026-08-23gauntlet wave: the score has a pulse, and breaking a thing leaves a wreck

2026-08-23never serve a stale HTML shell — root cause of the legends.city black screen

2026-08-20MVP-connection swarm wave 3: ENTER THE WORLD is a beat, the dive names your Legend

2026-08-20MVP-connection swarm wave 2: the run pays, the path tells the truth, the power you picked is in the fight

2026-08-19MVP-connection swarm wave 1: creator carries into world+dive, destructibility T1a, world density lift

2026-08-10destructibility T0 reactive impact + wire the v0.60 authored wardrobe

2026-08-10power-VFX customization (DCUO colour+style) + v0.60 real wardrobe

2026-08-10fix flythrough spawn-plaza buildings (collision) + v0.59 real hands

2026-08-10movement aura powers-only + un-reverse facing + real world signage + v0.58 alive eyes

2026-08-10de-slop 26 creator strings + 44 world brands + destructibility design

2026-08-07REAL human head — MakeHuman CC0 base (v0.56) + retire the client procedural face

2026-08-07remove the interior face ink line — it scribbled the mouth (round-7 regression)

2026-08-07the nose reads from the front — final face-front shading pass (round-6 gap)

2026-08-07stage the face BARE on the FACE panel — the root cause of the face saga

2026-08-07face placement — chin/eyeline landed too low (round-4 gap)

2026-08-07wardrobe/gear/augments thumbnails (GAP 6) — 183 baked previews

2026-08-07wire the four-arms mutation to the animated body variant (assets-v0.53)

2026-08-07DCUO gaps — movement identity at creation + power-shelf breadth + role legibility

2026-08-07makeup-ink final tweaks (3.6mm surface lift + kohl/brow-bars placement)

2026-08-07makeup that sits on the face + ink pass work (GAP 3)

2026-08-07close face skin-terminator gap + wire cybernetics (GAP 5)

2026-08-07wire v0.51 face morphs (9 noses + 12 sliders + 6 wigs) + fix accent-randomizer flake

2026-08-07Mutation origin + 15-item mutation menu (GAP 5) + material differentiation (GAP 7)

2026-08-07front-facing camera fix (GAP 1) + power-pathway at creation (GAP 4)

2026-08-07faction select + garment material + creator-flow hardening

2026-08-06flip animHinge gate to the fixed state (assets-v0.50) — 0 backwards knees on all 7 bodies

2026-08-06per-part color (CoH signature) — Appearance.partColors wire (identity.ts, resolvePartColor per-slot-then-global) + creator PARTS sub-tab (per-slot primary/secondary); additive, worldHashes byte-identical, catalogHash moves (creator family)

2026-08-06A 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)

2026-08-06one-time set-password magic link — 0013_setpw_tokens (sha256 token hash, 20-min TTL, single-use atomic consume, CHECK refuses plaintext), operator-CLI mint (no public route), POST /auth/set-password redeem issuing a session, client #setpw fragment route (never hits server logs, scrubbed on read); rate-limited + non-enumerating; additive, worldHashes byte-identical, PROTOCOL_VERSION 2, +20 tests

2026-08-05email+password (additive, secure) + faces r8 hair-shading — 0012_password (scrypt password_hash, plaintext refused by a Postgres CHECK, unique email); login by email/handle, in-account set-password (typed browser-side, no operator path), same recoveryThrottle, non-enumerating 401s; recovery phrase kept + still issued. Hair shaded to 3 cel plateaus + hard spec band (band gap 15->36-39). worldHashes byte-identical, PROTOCOL_VERSION 2, +21 auth tests, migration 0011->0012 green

2026-08-05shade the head into 2-band cel planes — face-box skin on the plateaus 60.9->93.7% mean, plateaus 64 luminance apart (cheekbone/jaw now read as light/dark shapes), grey-green wash + forehead chevron + crease-scratches fixed; geometry untouched, worldHashes byte-identical, client-only

2026-08-05crew/guild (0010_crews — per-character membership + alt rule, 5 ranks x 8 preset name sets, walletless per D8, live crewTag propagation, crew chat) + moderation console (0011_moderation — append-only audit, report queue over S5 frozen evidence, live GM mute propagation, staff-gated) — streamer floor COMPLETE; worldHashes/PROTOCOL_VERSION unmoved

2026-08-05chat + the streamer floor — local(40m server-audience)/squad/crew/whisper channels, server-side filter, mute enforced at send, report-evidence (0009_chat_reports), per-channel live kill switch, district/trade off; CHAT OFF BY DEFAULT (COL_CHAT env, F7); client dock; contract/PROTOCOL_VERSION/worldHashes unmoved, +48 tests

2026-08-05party/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

2026-08-05social spine — friends + blocks (0008_social.sql keyed by character) + SocialStore + SocialGate filling S1 per-recipient FRIEND/BLOCKED, HTTP+opId endpoints (guest-refused); worldHashes/PROTOCOL_VERSION/contentHash unmoved, server 530 tests (+32)