Opus voice chat (port/third_party/opus 1.5.2, port/linux/src/voice_audio.c, port/linux/game/network_voice.c), relayed by the host, in the lobby too. The host decides in Server Setup > Teamplay Options: lobby voice (on by default), the game's mode (off, team near, anyone near, team, team and enemies near: the default), the near distance, and the quality, 8 to 64 kbps (24). Each player picks push to talk (V), open mic or off, the voices' volume, and the output and input devices in Settings > Audio, and mutes others from the scoreboard's menu. A speaker icon marks who talks in the lobby, on the scoreboard and in a list in game. The host takes a machine's frames only with the key it gave it over its stream, within the quality's size, 50 a second and 8 talkers at once, and sends voices only to machines that asked for them, so the network version stays.
Any player of a network game can start a vote to kick another, on any team, by picking their name on the scoreboard (right-click while it is open frees the mouse) or with the console's votekick; the host's own scoreboard also has Kick and Ban (Ban picked twice). The host alone counts (port/linux/game/network_votekick.c): votes only from each voter's stream, one per real address and again per hardware id (which only removes votes), time played on the host before starting (network.votekick_minutes) and voting, more than half of everyone with the target counted and at least two, one vote at a time with cooldowns for a failed vote's starter and target, and a passed vote keeps the player out for network.votekick_ban_minutes. Builds without it drop the new messages, so the network version stays.
Custom Edition maps are loaded from the custom_maps folder, as level
custom_maps\<name>, apart from the game's own maps of the same name. The
map lists get CUSTOM SINGLEPLAYER and CUSTOM MULTIPLAYER, by the scenario
type in the map: a custom singleplayer map plays as a campaign level, or
as network co-op from the Map screen; a custom multiplayer map plays as a
multiplayer map. A map with an OpenSauce header that asks for nothing of
OpenSauce's runs as stock Custom Edition runs it.
What the followers of player0 do (teleport, suspend, get out, board) is a
function each in coop_scripts.c, so every engine hook is one call. The
cutscene skip reverts only in a local game or on a co-op host, written as
two plain branches; a non-co-op network host no longer reverts alone.
The pause menu's revert (main_revert_map) reverted a network client's own
game state, leaving it out of step with the host. A client now ignores it,
and the cutscene skip's local revert, which a client only reaches outside
the co-op vote, is the host's or a local game's alone.
The campaign scripts only run on the host, against every player's unit,
but some of their habits assumed split-screen:
- volume_test_objects_all on the players waited for every player in the
volume at once: the Maw's bridge cutscene, a30's Pelican pickups. In
co-op one player arriving is enough now.
- Scripts name players as player0 and player1, so everyone past the
second was left out of what they did: Pelican loads (a30's pickups,
insertions), getting out, cutscene teleports and freezes, starting
profiles. Those players now follow player0 (coop_scripts.c).
- A cutscene filmed far from every player (b30's sword Elite at the
shaft door) wasn't active on clients: the cluster the scripts force
active (object_pvs_activate) now rides in the presentation's spare
bytes, and what the host's camera films is sent to clients as often as
what is next to their players.
- A mission the scripts fail (d40's timer, a50's Keyes) only respawned the
players, leaving them in the failure cutscene for good. It now reverts
like the cutscene skip does; everyone dying still respawns at the last
checkpoint. The scripts' game_revert reverts the same way.
The network version is unchanged: the presentation keeps its size, and a
host without the active cluster sends zeroes, which read as none.
Hosting a co-op level from the Map screen (CO-OP CAMPAIGN, a level and its
difficulty, then Server Setup) makes a network game on the campaign map
with no game engine, which is what co-op is. Only the host runs the
scripts and the AI; port/linux/game/network_coop.c sends clients what the
scripts do (cutscenes, camera, fades, HUD, sounds, devices, named objects,
animations), and network_actors.c drives the host's AI units on every
machine. Players spawn beside each other, respawn beside a safe teammate,
and spectate while dead or waiting. Skipping a cutscene is a vote.
Players can join a game in progress at any time.
Recover transparent geometry submit (+1,285 meaningful code, zero exact losses); reconcile COMMON ownership and Q10 85+EXT1 credit, actions/main data, and separately disclosed denominator corrections. Preserve canonical-only repairs and all held research. C09 is ordinary disclosed cleanup, not a claim of proven scaffolding intent. Clean rebuild, 1,663 tests, parks, audits, provider links and independent EXT1 check pass. Local reconciliation only.
Import only independently reviewed production changes. Preserve canonical physics and virtual-keyboard repairs; keep B3 and all unresolved holds out.
Record exactly four approved canary debits (6987 meaningful bytes), six Halo admissions and two revocations. Keep vendor ioinit/storage work separate. Full build, 8252-row sweep, 1318 tests, park/admission/fake audits and 621-object binding pass within approved debit bounds.
Do not publish donor research dumps or private assets. README and unrelated user research remain untouched. See frontier_publication_reconciliation_20260927.md for complete evidence limits and accounting.
Source from Claude donor d18a7cee; independent stock and W3 builds, full build and stable sweep: +11 meaningful /16 padded Halo code, +1796 data, zero exact losses. 1161 tools tests pass. No declaration-batch or general UB exception.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Independently gate storage + K, OQ-4 P-a/P-b1, four static-local packets and comment-only disclosures. Preserve all 7641 exact owner rows, 71 valid parks and 1161 passing tests; code/data credit unchanged. G and game_engine admission remain held because current canonical loses populate_statistic_buffer. Existing collision static-local repair is not duplicated. No donor tree, held candidate, scorer or private asset imported.
Independently reconcile W7 from 26684ca8: +1440 credited/padded bytes, 117 relocations, no new helpers or runtime owners. Retire only main_update_time's park in the same commit. Full build, stable board sweep with zero regressions, ownership/admission, warnings, fake scan and 1161 tests pass. No scorer or header changes.
Zero credit; every packet was independently adversarially reviewed (22/22 approved).
- critic_3: 72 renames of placeholder/invented static function names across 20
objects to first-party names. Each rename has Sept-2001 linker-map alignment
(cachebeta xbe / retail cache exe, several also Aug-2001), relocation-masked
body identity and matching callers; cachebeta publics show every row was a
January static. hs's radiosity_hack_{start,save,find_point}_evaluate pairing
is proven by the Sept .rdata hs_function_definition pointers; players'
create_weapon also matches HCEX.pdb. Objects: ai_debug (reviewer-amended: a
dead stub removed, its comment re-attached), transport_endpoint_winsock,
transport_endpoint_set_winsock (+ parked.json key renames), profile,
progress_bar, network_connection, saved_game_files, rasterizer_xbox_profile,
xbox_sound_cache, game_engine_king, players, hs, hs_runtime, main, decals,
rasterizer_lights, rasterizer_xbox_dynavobgeom,
rasterizer_xbox_environment_fog, rasterizer_xbox_hardware_bitmaps,
render_cameras.
- hs_compile: whitespace_characters, eol_characters and hs_type_primitive_parsers
are external (cachebeta publics, HCEX DataIsGlobal); hs_compile_finish is
static with a TU-local prototype (no public; HCEX static function).
- bink_playback: bink_playback_idle -> bink_playback_update__internal
(first-party). The bink_decompress_audio_frame rename is NOT landed: it needs
an added call whose position is unattested, the same class canonical held for
hardware_geometry in 4d1ebf17.
Gate (full ninja, objdiff 3.3.1): objects 383, code 1,577,237, data 2,586,915
(all unchanged); stable diff 0 regressions; parks 83/0/0; admission 11/0/2/0;
fake scan 26; pytest 1161 passed; diff --check clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- rasterizer_xbox_dynavobgeom (admission, reviewer-amended): genuine shared
declarations replace the caller-local debug-options, window and pixel-shader
views; /Od-attested vector_from_points3d/dot_product3d calls and HCEX locals
in the unlit draw; the HCEX function-static `warned` latch; MAX() for the
/Od ?: store; nine D3DINLINE wrappers static per cachebeta; rejection retired.
- damage (reviewer B+): _object_damage_body exact (1360); four statics per
cachebeta; park retired. The AOE header-helper form (patch A) stays held.
- players: January-static storage (3 rows) plus the COMMON tentative
definitions of players_globals/team_data (January linker_common records).
- hs: 839 January-static storage flags and the /Od-attested static helper
hs_enumerate_scenario_data replacing 11 hand expansions (reviewer-amended;
the real_random_range cleanup stays held with the P1 class).
- hs_scenario_definitions: first-party static byte_swap_script_syntax_data.
- player_profile (HCEX profile_color_table) and main (/Od main_exit shape):
reviewed zero-credit packets; three parks re-baselined.
Gate (full ninja, objdiff 3.3.1): Halo objects 377 -> 378; stable diff +1
strict / 1,360 padded, 0 regressions; parks 86/0/0; admission 11/0/3/0; fake
scan 26; pytest 1157 passed; diff --check clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lane D refresh packet 4: systems, +3,984 padded bytes strict exact
(11 functions), zero stable-verdict regressions; stack_walk_windows.obj is
now a whole-object code match (16/16).
- stack_walk_windows.c: _walk_up, _is_valid_ebp, _walk_stack,
_walk_stack_context and _stack_walk_with_context exact. The debug build
attests `if (ignore_levels) while (--ignore_levels) walk_up();`, the
global re-reads and the four instruction-byte locals.
- main.c: _compute_subframe_counts (debug-build byte local and ?: column
test) and _main_game_render (PIN, goto-free player-window assignment).
- bink_playback.c: _bink_draw_frame (the ((index+1)&2) corner idiom used by
interface.c and hud_draw.c; debug locals scoped to the debug block).
- draw_string.c: _parse_string; styled_font_get takes (font_index, style)
per the debug build's parameter homes.
- prime_numbers.c: _primegen as a plain sieve.
- transport_endpoint_set_winsock.c: _add_endpoint_to_set single exit.
fake_match_scan flags its listening-bit test as identical branches; the
debug build has two separate FD_SET expansions under the same test and
January's bytes carry the test, so the shape is original (commented).
_poll_endpoint_set moves to the target's 560-byte size (fuzzy 72.3% ->
98.5%); its park is re-measured in place.
- parked.json: unpark the six newly exact parked functions; refresh
_poll_endpoint_set.
Gate: ninja PASS, parks 134 active / 0 stale / 0 invalid, admission 0
contradicted / 0 revoked, castcheck clean; fake scan adds only the
adjudicated identical-branches lead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Integrate verified source and data progress; exclude unproven COMMON ownership, held UB/asm forms, and address-named data credit. Stable sweep: 23 exact functions gained, zero lost.
- _main_load_last_solo_map: MIN clamp on the terminator index (house rule 18)
- _main_get_window_count: named single-window predicate and a PIN of the
local player count (reopens its park)
- _observer_update_command: timer/last-timer/flag pointer walk mirroring
the exact sibling observer_update_velocities (reopens its park)
Rejected: _observer_update_positions (same-value carrier copy of
remaining_time), _main_crash (January writes through a null pointer),
_effect_generate_part (mismatched csprintf varargs).
Stable diff: 0 regressions; parks 236 -> 234.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five bodies landed together (set_window_camera_values alone drifts the main_update_time park); adds the genuine player_effects.h include. 5 park(s) removed. Adversarially verified (wave D park re-investigation); full build of the combined wave D set: 0 regressions, parks 402/0/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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