Josh Creek
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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.
Cosmic Clash
In "Cosmic Clash," the heart-pounding action takes place in variable gravity environments where vehicles hover just above the ground. In this thrilling spiritual successor to Rocket League, players engage in high-speed, gravity-defying matches set in the far reaches of space. Each pitch is situated in a unique environment or planet, offering breathtaking vistas and challenging terrain. But instead of cars, competitors pilot rocket-powered ships, each equipped with its own set of customisable features and special abilities.
Ships hover just above the ground, defying the laws of physics and adding an extra layer of intensity to the gameplay. With no friction to hold them back, players must master the art of control as they glide effortlessly across the pitch, executing precise manoeuvres and lightning-fast aerial tricks. With precise control and lightning-fast reflexes, players boost, drift, slam and even turn upside down on their way to victory, scoring epic goals against their opponents.
Whether you're soaring through asteroid fields, navigating treacherous alien landscapes, or battling in the depths of cosmic storms, "Cosmic Clash" delivers non-stop action and adrenaline-pumping excitement that's out of this world! Get ready to take your skills to the stars and dominate the galaxy in the ultimate celestial showdown!
Reason for being
Since Epic Games bought Psyonix, Rocket League has never been the same, and rather than releasing an Unreal Engine 5 version of the game, or giving any meaningful updates, instead item trading was removed and 'Rocket Racing' was added to Fortnite. With no one else stepping up to the plate, it falls to the Open Source Community to come up with a spiritual successor, to keep the spirit of the game alive.
Legality
The concept of 'vehicle soccer' cannot be copyrighted, but the original expression of ideas such as the specific code, art, music and narrative of a game can be. So long as all code, assets game design and other elements are made from scratch, this project will remain legal. The use of an alternative game engine, Godot, serves to ensure that this is achieved, as does the move to using space ships instead of cars as the vehicles.
Technical Information
This project is composed of two parts:
- Godot game
- C# backend
Contributing
Eventually there will be contributor guidelines, but for now open a PR and make sure it has been formatted according to the auto-formatting rules.
Gameplay
The core gameplay is still football/soccer but with vehicles, however there are key changes to the format used in Rocket League. The vehicles are now space ships, which hover above the surface of the pitch. This will impact core game mechanics, enabling near-immediate changes in direction (thanks to those spacefaring engines!), the ability to play upside down (which will change the way you interact with the ball in as-yet unknown ways), slamming down at full boost speed, and many more that will be discovered along the way.
Bots
There will be default bots available, trained using reinforcement learning, and it will be possible to train your own using a gym for submission to be included in the game itself. It will NOT be possible to connect bots to the game, and with the community itself ensuring rigorous anti-cheat measures are in place we will aim to keep it that way. Cheaters have no place here.
MVP
The first version of this game will be JUST the game, no server-side functionality at all. It will be a local only game where you can play against bots. Split-screen multiplayer could be added in a version 0.2 if demand is high enough. If there is sufficient interest then the server-side functionality can be added to enable online play, with a system in place to ensure that servers can be paid for (perhaps a cheap monthly subscription model?).
Monetisation
The aim for this project is NOT to monetise it. Rocket League saw terrible changes once the Item Shop was added, and even the costs for crates and keys prevented some members of the community from collecting items and fully enjoying the game. Instead, this game will, if it becomes successful enough to warrant online servers, only use funding to keep itself running, and in the event anyone needs to be employed full time to maintain it with a growing playerbase, to pay them a fair wage for their time. Any additional profit in any given year should be held for maintaining servers in the future should demand fall, or for any future needs of the game such as a large effort to upgrade to a new engine, anti-cheating measures, etc.