Entry 305

Outbreak's 206 in the survey's budget and its whole story from the new game

2026-09-29scripttestvolumes

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After 293 event 206 was the one Outbreak event left, and the one run from the new game (outbreak_whole_story) had not been made. Both now finish: 206 from its start in 82,000 frames, the whole run to 219's staff roll in 463,200.

Why 206 was slow

• Field 13 first. Block 2 puts enemy 72, a Data Bug (type 0x40, 20,650 HP), in field 13's story map. Since 299 its HP stops at half and only Data Drain ends it. It roamed out of Kite's reach while the members filled its gauge, and the pilot only walked to a broken boss in a fight, so the run never left field 13.
• The dungeon of field 72 is the game's. Its rooms are shut (SetDoor) until no foe is active. Each holds Maxwell, Forest Hsien and two Napylons (OUT enemyTbl row 289: 2,130 HP; Ola Repth, skill 154: 400 to each foe within 600 of one under half its HP, 40 of 1,045 SP a cast). A drained Napylon becomes an Astro Prince (row 288, 1,000 HP).
• The heal rules are exact. tools/test_battle_enemy_ai_rs.py had not run on Outbreak: OUT has no cmndTarget name, so GameBattle.sym now falls back to Infection's name carried (volume.va). With it, 300 cases each of select_attack, skill_list, skill_target, start_affect, routine, init_skills, and test_battle_rs.py's recovery and area_recovery: 0 mismatches. The game makes this fight this hard for a lone Kite at the new game's level 50.
• The pilot wasted it. It took each page's first skill (Gale of Swords, atk 60 at dmgRate 25) over stronger ones (Thunder Dance 80, Juk Kruz 100). It tried Gale beyond its 350 reach, and 11% of the frames went to the target menu's "no target". The walker went at the first-listed foe, not the nearest, and walked into walls when chasing. Goal-room foes past 600 were left standing, with Kite idle in 203's and 206's goal rooms.
• The goal room kills a lone Kite. After the Data Bug's drain its drained form, Comad Goo (row 61, Drill Thrust twice), took Kite's 963 HP in one blow; god's per-frame heal cannot catch that, and the game went to the title.

The changes

• The pilot walks to a field's Data Bug, fight or not; when found stopped it uses path_to over the field's or story map's hits.
• Kite's skill is the strongest (atk by dmgRate, over the foe's resistance to its element) whose reach holds the nearest foe. It comes from the page the foe is weaker to, else the other. "No target" gives the action up.
• The walker goes at the nearest foe. A chase found stopped goes round by a room waypoint. The goal room's foes are fought at any distance.
• LONE_LEVEL (75): Kite alone in a dungeon where the story wants him alone (Want::Alone: 204, 206) is raised through the console's exp, a harness aid like the boss levels. At 75 the lone rooms go in two thirds of the frames and he lives through the goal room.
• The whole run: the top page quits to the desktop when the story wants only it (Want::Leave { desktop }: 208's news). A wanted member, the party full (210's Piros after 209's Balmung and Wiseman), has the party disbanded first.
• ccGetDist on Outbreak. The only enemy-harness mismatches on Outbreak were distances one unit in the last place long. OUT main 0x001e6e70 takes sqrt.s (truncating) inline where INF and MUT call sqrtf (QUA 0x001ee540 too). enemy_ai::get_dist_on(volume, ..) now serves checkEnemy, ccSearchNearPerson, checkSkillRange, selectTarget and the escape hold. On Outbreak every enemy AI and motion check now matches in 300 cases except main, 2 of 300. INF and MUT stay at 0.

The whole run

It starts from Outbreak's own new game: the title's New Game, then ccSetupNewGame at the first Log in. Kite is at level 50 with its gear, and the members are at InitSpcParam's levels. Mutation's carry-over (ConvGame) is not ported. 201's call_lock keeps Kite alone to 204. Events end at 9,900 (201), 14,100, 77,700, 81,600, 84,300, 156,600 (206), 232,200, 233,700, 275,700, 298,800 (210), 320,400, 323,400, 338,400, 365,100, 387,900, 390,000, 391,500, 461,100 (218) and 463,200 (219).

Tests: outbreak_story_survey at 150,000 frames, all 19 done. outbreak_whole_story passes. mutation_whole_story passes (116 at 613,800, from 751,800). The piney-game suite passes (165), and piney-battle's with the new outbreak_distance_truncates. Clippy and fmt are clean.