6 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Josh Creek	9f28c02488	feat(multiplayer): Phase 5 task 5.1 - match lifecycle state machine ... Adds the §6.1 state machine, its broadcast, and the client side that follows it. Physics, freezing and input are deliberately NOT gated on state yet - 5.3 and 5.4 own freeze/unfreeze at kickoff and goal, and doing it here would change the conditions every Phase 4 prediction gate was measured under. scripts/match_state.gd holds the enum and transition table as pure data with no scene or RPC dependency, so the table is checked exhaustively rather than by example: every state reachable, every state has an exit, no self-transitions, abort-to-LOBBY from anywhere per §6.4, illegal shortcuts rejected, unknown values refused rather than coerced. The enum values are the wire format - match_state has been a u8 in the snapshot header since §2.4 - so a test pins them; only append, never renumber. The server validates every transition and push_errors an illegal one rather than following it. Clients deliberately do NOT enforce the table: authoritative state must be accepted, and a late joiner legitimately jumps straight to PLAYING. Two channels carry the state. state_change (reliable, channel 0) is prompt and carries an absolute at_tick, never a duration. The snapshot's match_state byte is the catch-up path for a client not yet sent a transition - a late joiner, or the window between scene load and the first RPC. The byte needs a tick guard, and this was found the hard way. Snapshots are unreliable_ordered on channel 2 and ordering holds only within a channel, so a state_change for tick N routinely arrives before an in-flight snapshot from tick N-2. Without the guard the client applies the new state then gets dragged back by the older byte, oscillating on every transition - observed directly as LOADING -> WARMUP -> LOBBY -> PLAYING -> LOBBY while running a deliberately-broken-byte control. Only a byte at least as new as match_state_since_tick is accepted. WARMUP_TICKS/GOAL_PAUSE_TICKS are honest placeholders so 5.1 drives real transitions to verify against; 5.3 and 5.4 replace them. The server also leaves LOADING immediately rather than waiting for scene_ready, which does not exist yet. New smoke flag --exercise-match-state, passed to both roles: the host forces a goal to drive a GOAL_PAUSE cycle, the client records the sequence and asserts every consecutive pair is legal, that ticks are monotonic, and that the wire byte agrees with its own state. Observed LOADING -> WARMUP -> PLAYING -> GOAL_PAUSE -> WARMUP with tick deltas matching the configured durations exactly. Verified against a control: hardcoding the snapshot byte back to 0 fails both the byte assertion and the transition-legality assertion. The byte is asserted separately from the RPC precisely because everything else in the check is RPC-driven and would pass with a dead byte - the same gap that hid the Phase 4 label bug (gotcha 47). Regression: 81 unit tests; 60s free-flight LAN (p99 0.148m, 0 hard snaps, marker 0/3364); transition gate 0.00%; ball contact; two-bot CI.	2026-08-21 09:31:22 +01:00
Josh Creek	2325313ad2	fix(multiplayer): adversarial review fixes for Phase 3 ... An Opus subagent's adversarial review of Phase 3 found a critical, silent, permanent bug plus eight smaller real issues, all empirically verified with real two- and three-process runs: CRITICAL: InputJitterBuffer's 32-entry ring permanently bricked a player's input once the un-consumed backlog exceeded the ring's capacity - a fresh arrival would land in the exact slot consume() was still waiting on, and since both counters only ever advance, the gap never closed. Reproduced with a real SIGSTOP/SIGCONT host freeze: client movement dropped from ~26m to 0.00m at ~0.7s, worse under real loss (a lossy link lowered the fatal threshold to ~400ms), and reachable via ordinary clock drift with no external trigger at all. Fixed by tracking the highest seq ever ingested and having consume() jump directly to what the ring can still provide once the gap exceeds capacity, instead of starving through an unrecoverable span. Re-verified with a 3s freeze (well past the original threshold): full recovery. HIGH: InputLeadController's release logic was gated on its own past attacks (lead > LEAD_MIN) rather than the real server-reported depth, so a backlog it didn't itself cause was never drained. Fixed to gate on actual depth vs target. MEDIUM-HIGH: the rate limiter's "N consecutive over-budget seconds" streak hard-reset to 0 on any clean window, letting a duty-cycled flood (burst, one clean window, repeat) sustain ~33x budget indefinitely with zero warnings. Replaced with a leaky-bucket accumulator immune to the same evasion by construction. MEDIUM: the seq > server_tick + 20 guard compared two unrelated clock epochs (server process uptime vs. client's own from-zero seq numbering), so it never actually protected anything on a long-running server and could silently drop an honest client's input forever. Bound against the buffer's own last_applied_seq instead. MEDIUM: InputJitterBuffer.stalled was computed but never reached the wire - the one signal that would have made the ring-overflow bug visible anywhere. Now wired through _ship_to_net_body_state. MEDIUM: task 3.6's CI driver's assertions didn't depend on client input reaching the server at all, so it kept passing with the ring-overflow bug actively triggered. Added real ship-movement and non-stalled checks, sampled while bots are still connected (an initial attempt sampled after their own legitimate disconnect, which starves identically to the bug). LOW-MEDIUM: a lead change silently mislabelled _input_history's older entries, since the wire format has no per-entry seq field. Fixed by handling each delta case (ordinary/release/attack) on its own terms. LOW: bandwidth and snapshot-loss overlay metrics froze at their last value during a total outage instead of decaying - exactly when they matter most. Both now report honest post-outage values. LOW: a guard comment on NetworkManager._ping misdescribed the actual disconnect_peer() arguments in use. Corrected. New permanent regression tests: test_ring_overflow_resyncs_to_fresh_data _instead_of_starving_forever, test_release_drains_a_backlog_it_never_ caused_itself, and client-abuse-flood-dutycycle (reproduces the exact duty-cycle evasion). Full regression suite, including the net-sim-latency milestone gate, all abuse roles, and the CI driver, re-run clean after every fix.	2026-08-20 15:28:44 +01:00
Josh Creek	9d8a8080ba	feat(multiplayer): Phase 3 task 3.7 - debug net overlay extension ... Extends net_debug_overlay.gd (Phase 1's RTT/offset display) with the rest of task 3.7's list: jitter (new RFC3550-style EWMA in NetworkManager, computed from raw per-sample RTT before Phase 1's own min-filtering, since that filter is deliberately jitter-insensitive by design), input buffer depth and input_lead (both already tracked client-side for task 3.3), snapshot loss (a new EWMA in networked_match.gd over each received snapshot's own server_tick gap - snapshots go out at a steady one-tick cadence, so a gap is direct evidence of a drop or reorder), snapshot age (computed on demand from the same bias-corrected tick estimate the interpolator itself uses), and bandwidth (new rolling per-second byte counters in MatchSim, on the two 60Hz hot-path channels only). Prediction error is deliberately omitted with a comment explaining why: there's no client-side prediction to measure until Phase 4. Verified values are live and plausible, not just present, by calling get_net_debug_stats() directly in a real two-process test and checking the numbers make sense: bandwidth matched the wire format's own byte math almost exactly (measured ~2400 B/s sent against a computed 40B x 60Hz, ~3540 B/s received against 59B x 60Hz), and buffer depth/lead/loss all moved in the correct direction between a clean LAN run and one under simulated 60ms latency + 10% loss. Full regression suite re-run clean.	2026-08-20 13:32:16 +01:00
Josh Creek	b290f49143	feat(multiplayer): Phase 3 task 3.4 - input validation, rate limiting, disconnect policy ... MatchSim._recv_input now validates before decoding (§3.1 steps 2-3): per-peer rolling-1s rate limiting (packet count AND byte budget, dropping over-budget packets and disconnecting after 3 consecutive over-budget seconds), and framing validation (redundancy count and payload size checked against NetCodec's own layout before unpack_input ever runs, disconnecting after 20 malformed packets). Framing has to be validated explicitly rather than relying on decode failure: StreamPeerBuffer silently zero-fills past EOF instead of erroring, a finding from Phase 2's adversarial review. networked_match.gd's _on_input_received now rejects any seq claiming to be more than 20 ticks ahead of the current server tick (§3.1 step 4) and counts (rather than silently ignoring) input from a peer with no slot, for observability. Verified with two new permanent regression tests (networked_match_smoke.gd --role=client-abuse-malformed / client-abuse-flood) that call MatchSim._recv_input directly with garbage bytes and a legitimate-but- too-frequent flood, respectively, bypassing the honest client encoder entirely - the same thing a hostile custom client sending raw ENet packets would look like. Both confirm real disconnection, not just that the server tolerates the abuse. Two bugs surfaced by getting these tests to actually pass cleanly: a GDScript lambda-capture-by-value mistake in the tests themselves (a plain `var disconnected := false` mutated inside a signal-handler lambda never became visible to the enclosing function - fixed by capturing a single-element Array instead, which is captured by reference); and a narrow real race where NetworkManager's own ping/pong reply could target a peer that a concurrent abuse-triggered disconnect had just removed from the same poll() batch, now guarded. (Passing disconnect_peer's `force` parameter as an attempted fix for a related one-off benign error was tried and reverted - it made Godot's own peer-list bookkeeping inconsistent, producing hundreds of errors instead of one; verified empirically rather than assumed.) Full regression suite, including the net-sim-latency milestone gate, re-run clean.	2026-08-20 13:27:03 +01:00
Josh Creek	7b150ef72e	feat(multiplayer): task 2.8 net_sim.gd, close out Phase 2 ... New NetSim autoload: seeded, CLI-driven (--net-sim-latency/-jitter/-loss/-dup) latency/jitter/loss/duplicate decorator, a true no-op passthrough unless a flag is set. Wraps MatchSim.send_input/send_snapshot per the design doc's scope, plus NetworkManager's ping/pong so the already-tested RTT/clock measurement becomes the acceptance signal for "raises observed RTT" without waiting on Phase 3's per-peer snapshot echo. Two real bugs found while building and verifying this against Phase 2's own milestone gate (a real match under --net-sim-latency 80 --net-sim-jitter 20, not just LAN): a timestamp captured inside a delayed RPC closure silently ate that side's own added delay out of the round-trip measurement instead of adding to it; and a delayed send whose target disconnected (or whose own process had already shut down) during the hold threw RPC errors, since the existing get_peers() filtering only checked validity at schedule time. Fixed by capturing timestamps before handing off to NetSim, and by having NetSim re-validate the target at fire time. Phase 2's milestone gate now passes for real: a full 1v1 under simulated 80ms latency / 20ms jitter still shows clean server-authoritative movement and zero RPC errors. Full Phase 1 + Phase 2 regression suite re-verified clean with NetSim present but inactive.	2026-08-20 08:50:47 +01:00
Josh Creek	39a41c016c	feat(multiplayer): Phase 2 server-authoritative simulation, dumb client ... Implements tasks 2.1-2.7: NetworkedMatch spawns a deterministic slot layout from the lobby roster, the server drives each connected peer's ship via RLShipController fed by decoded client input and broadcasts 60Hz snapshots, and the client renders everything (including its own ship) from a per-body NetInterpolator with no local prediction yet. Dual-time remote entities split collider updates (present-time, for correct contacts) from $Visual updates (interp-delayed, for smoothness). Camera/HUD wiring and remote engine-flame VFX fell out of the existing Ship API for free once snapshots were flowing. Three real bugs found and fixed while getting a two-process test green: an RPC method named _input collided with Node's built-in _input virtual and broke the whole MatchSim autoload from loading; networked_match.gd never called NetworkManager.poll(), so nothing sent via RPC in this scene reached the wire despite Phase 1's manual polling being wired up everywhere else; and a match_config request/response fallback (added to close a startup race) could double-deliver once polling was fixed, requiring an idempotency guard. Verified with tests/networked_match_smoke: a real headless two-process host+client run shows the client rendering 31m of server-authoritative movement from a held forward-thrust input, with thrust_z=1.0 confirmed on the interpolated snapshot mid-drive and camera/HUD both wired. Full Phase 1 regression suite re-run clean alongside it. Task 2.8 (net_sim.gd latency/jitter/loss decorator) is not yet done; Phase 2's own gate needs it before it's fully met.	2026-08-20 08:42:13 +01:00