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v1.6.8 — Guest spawn, camera, and pill sync

Tagged 2026-09-27 on merge commit 30c39a5 (PR #168).

Summary

Patch on top of v1.6.7. Two live-play reports from Jerod, both guest-only: the guest's screen
stayed on the wrong part of the map after joining, with base icons showing in unexplored fog;
and a guest that died carrying pills could not pick them back up, then died at once driving onto
the centre one, which the host showed as a damaged live pillbox. Both were reproduced with a
real host and a real join client in one test process before anything was changed.

Fixed since v1.6.7

  • Guest spawned twice. applyBoloPreamble spawns the guest locally at a random start; the
    host, which simulates guest tanks, then picks its own start and teleports the guest there
    (SRTankStatus). The camera centred once on the first pick and never moved, and the first
    pick counted as a fog vision source.
    • Fix: the join path starts the local player dead until the host places it
      (joinPathInitialState, GameSession.swift). GameRenderView re-centres whenever the
      local player goes dead -> alive, matching refresh:'s client.spawned check in the
      reference (GSXBoloController.m:2574-2598). Host and solo respawns re-centre too.
  • Own-pill pickups were never reported. The host's per-tick capture broadcast was keyed on
    a pill's owner changing. A guest re-collecting pills it already owned changed only
    ground -> onboard, so the guest never saw them leave the ground.
    • Fix: the diff in HostGameEngine.tick() also reports ground -> onboard.
  • Guest counted pill damage twice. A join client's dead-reckoning ran shellTick for
    remote shells against its own world, damaging pills locally on top of the host's SRDamage.
    The guest's armour ran low, so a pill the host held at armour 1 looked destroyed; driving
    onto it made the host superboom the guest.
    • Fix: applyRemotePlayerUpdate takes extrapolationMutatesWorld; UDPSession passes
      false, keeping player state and discarding pill, base, and terrain changes.
  • Stale fog test. aLivePlayerWithinItsOwnVisionRectResolvesLive left its player dead and
    had been failing since cb1f456. The player is now alive.

Testing

Nine new tests in Bolo 2026Tests: SpawnRecenterTests (4), JoinPathSpawnTests (2),
PillDesyncReproTests (2), and one camera test in GameViewFocusRoutingTests. App suite is
162 tests. Each new test fails with its fix removed.

Live-verified by Jerod on the 1.6.8 Desktop build, 2026-09-27: every previously observed
issue is gone and nothing new appeared.

Known, not resolved in this release:

  • The two PillDesyncReproTests and the older
    guestRequestingAndLeavingAnAllianceUpdatesItsOwnState pass when their suite runs alone and
    fail inside the full app run, parallel or serial. The alliance test fails the same way
    without this release's changes. Cause not found.
  • swift test hung twice during this work and was stopped. Of the package tests that ran,
    dispatchBuildRoadTerrainByteMatchesTheNewTerrainD40 failed, including before any package
    source was changed.

Found, not fixed

  • A guest builder's pill repair costs no trees: the host never deducts them.
  • A guest builder killed while carrying a pill drops it locally only (from code reading).
  • No tank-follow scrolling; the reference re-centres near the view edge
    (GSXBoloController.m:2600-2619).

Docs

HOSTMODELS.md moved out of docs/notes/; the two-Mac fog script, its run notes, and
U.S.A.map removed, with references updated.

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