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Fix permanent input-timing desync; no i-frames; UI respawn; guard dead joins
The real cause of the ship/bullet separation, which the previous commit only
half-addressed. The server dropped inputs past a lead of 12 while the client
only re-synced past 16, so a client whose lead drifted into 13-16 had every
input silently rejected while believing its timing was fine. The server coasted
on held_input and then stopped; the client kept predicting. The two separated
permanently and the reconciler fought it every snapshot -- "shoved around".
It needed two independent clocks to drift, hence "only after some time", and
nothing in the loop could notice, hence "then persists". The listen-server
diagnostic could never reproduce it: one process, one physics tick, lead
constant by construction.

Two defences: INPUT_MAX_LEAD (40) is now far wider than the client's correction
band (3..20), asserted by tests/unit/test_input_lead.gd so narrowing it fails a
test; and an ack-stall detector re-syncs when last_input_tick stops advancing,
which catches the whole class regardless of cause -- lead alone cannot, because
a wrong lead looks normal from the client. diag_prediction.gd now injects a +14
tick drift and exits non-zero unless the gap recovers.

Also:
- No invulnerability frames. Every bullet that touches a player lands; i-frames
  made dense patterns safer than sparse ones, which inverts the genre. Measured:
  a stationary player survives ~13.6s of the Warden's opening phase, ~17.5s
  drifting. spawn_grace remains the only invulnerable state.
- Death is exited with a HUD button, disabled for the first 3s. The lockout is
  enforced in SimWorld, not just by graying the button -- a client that ignores
  its own UI still waits. The interact key no longer respawns.
- Joining a server that is not there no longer drops the player into an empty
  lobby they cannot act in. Net.join() only creates an ENet object; the game
  scene now waits for the server to actually place us in an instance, with an
  8s timeout, and headless runs exit non-zero instead of idling.

Protocol 2 -> 3. 98 tests; check.sh, test.sh and smoke.sh all pass.
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Transcience

Top-down twin-stick bullet-hell with a dedicated, server-authoritative backend. Godot 4.7, GDScript, no external runtime dependencies.

Play

tools/server.sh                      # dedicated server on :27015
tools/client.sh --join --name ada    # connect a client

Or run one client and press Host and play for a listen server.

Controls — WASD move, mouse aim, LMB fire, E on the ring in the hub to enter a dungeon, hold F for three seconds to escape back to the hub.

Develop

tools/check.sh    # parse-check every script      ~5s
tools/test.sh     # GUT suite, headless           ~2s
tools/smoke.sh    # server + 2 bot clients, ENet  ~35s
godot --headless --path . --script tools/bench.gd

Read CLAUDE.md first — it is short, and the Godot CLI gotchas in it will otherwise cost an afternoon.

What is here

Twin-stick bullet hell Server-simulated bullet field, ~350 concurrent bullets at 0.24 ms/tick.
Authoritative multiplayer Clients send input only. Hits, damage, death and instance transfers are server decisions. Prediction + reconciliation for the local player.
Enemies Four readable behaviours (static, drift, orbit, approach, strafe) composed with bullet emitters.
Boss The Warden of the Fold: stationary, four phases, each adding one idea. Defined entirely as data.
Lobby hub Shared persistent instance with a portal into dungeon runs.
Emergency escape Three-second channel back to the hub, cancelled by damage.

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