#115: the lancer winds up once, and leaves hard

One back and forth rather than two and a half, over 0.85s rather than 1.2.
The tell is a recoil and a spring; repeating it turned a wind-up into a
fidget and the player stopped reading it as "about to happen".

And the charge is 1650px/s, up from 950, which read as a fast drift rather
than as the thing the whole wind-up was promising.

The test counts how many times the wind-up crosses its anchor: one back and
forth crosses exactly once, two would cross three times.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

enemies/EnemyLungeComponent.gd

@@ -32,14 +32,21 @@ enum Phase { HUNT, WINDUP, CHARGE, RECOVER }
 # The drift in HUNT is deliberately slower than the charge by an order of
 # magnitude: the approach is a stalk, the charge is the attack.
 @export var approach_speed_factor: float = 0.5
-@export var windup_time: float = 1.2
+# Shortened with the cycle count (#115): one back-and-forth in the time two
+# and a half used to take would be a slow-motion tell.
+@export var windup_time: float = 0.85
 # #96 to the letter: the trajectory line appears 300ms before it leaves.
 @export var telegraph_time: float = 0.3
 # The "small back and forth" - it recoils along the charge axis, so the
 # motion reads as winding up to spring rather than as drifting.
-@export var windup_sway: float = 30.0
+@export var windup_sway: float = 34.0
-@export var windup_cycles: float = 2.5
+# #115: exactly ONE back and forth, not two and a half. The tell is a recoil
-@export var charge_speed: float = 950.0
+# and a spring; repeating it turned a wind-up into a fidget, and the player
+# stopped reading it as "about to happen".
+@export var windup_cycles: float = 1.0
+# #115: and it leaves hard. At 950 the charge read as a fast drift rather
+# than as the thing the whole wind-up was promising.
+@export var charge_speed: float = 1650.0
 # It flies THROUGH the locked point rather than stopping on it. A charge
 # that halted exactly where the ship used to be would look like it was
 # aiming at empty space on purpose.
@@ -93,7 +100,10 @@ func _tick_hunt(enemy: Node2D, delta: float) -> void:
 		return
 	var to_target: Vector2 = target.global_position - enemy.global_position
 	var distance: float = to_target.length()
-	if distance > detection_range or distance < 0.001:
+	if distance < 0.001:
+		return
+	# #113: see EnemyPursuitComponent.
+	if not EnemyTargets.ignores_range(enemy) and distance > detection_range:
 		return
 	var direction: Vector2 = to_target / distance
 	if distance <= lock_range:

tests/test_lancer_enemy.gd

@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ extends SceneTree
 #   B. from beyond lock_range it does NOT charge - it closes slowly, so the
 #      player sees it coming
 #   C. once locked it holds station for the wind-up and rocks back and forth
-#      along the charge axis instead of drifting toward the target
+#      along the charge axis instead of drifting toward the target - ONCE
+#      (#115), because repeating the tell turned a wind-up into a fidget
 #   D. the trajectory line comes up during the wind-up and lasts about
 #      300ms - not the whole wind-up, and not nothing
 #   E. the charge is straight, fast, and aimed at where the target WAS: a
@@ -42,6 +43,8 @@ var windup_seen: bool = false
 var windup_anchor: Vector2 = Vector2.ZERO
 var max_sway: float = 0.0
 var max_lateral: float = 0.0
+var sway_crossings: int = 0
+var last_side: int = 0
 var telegraph_time_seen: float = 0.0
 var charge_start: Vector2 = Vector2.ZERO
 var dodged_to: Vector2 = Vector2.ZERO
@@ -141,7 +144,16 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> bool:
 					windup_anchor = lunge.charge_anchor
 					charge_locked = lunge.locked_point
 				var offset: Vector2 = lancer.global_position - windup_anchor
-				max_sway = maxf(max_sway, absf(offset.dot(lunge.charge_direction)))
+				var along: float = offset.dot(lunge.charge_direction)
+				max_sway = maxf(max_sway, absf(along))
+				# One back-and-forth crosses the anchor exactly once: out one
+				# way, back through it, out the other. Two would cross three
+				# times.
+				if absf(along) > 2.0:
+					var side: int = 1 if along > 0.0 else -1
+					if last_side != 0 and side != last_side:
+						sway_crossings += 1
+					last_side = side
 				var across: Vector2 = Vector2(-lunge.charge_direction.y, lunge.charge_direction.x)
 				max_lateral = maxf(max_lateral, absf(offset.dot(across)))
 				if lunge.is_telegraphing():
@@ -170,7 +182,10 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> bool:
 					max_sway, lunge.windup_sway])
 			if max_lateral > 1.0:
 				return _fail("it wandered %.0fpx sideways during the wind-up instead of holding station" % max_lateral)
-			print("wind-up: rocked %.0fpx back and forth, %.0fpx sideways" % [max_sway, max_lateral])
+			if sway_crossings != 1:
+				return _fail("the wind-up crossed its anchor %d times - #115 asks for exactly one back and forth" \
+					% sway_crossings)
+			print("wind-up: rocked %.0fpx back and forth once, %.0fpx sideways" % [max_sway, max_lateral])
 
 			# 300ms of line, give or take the frames either side of the
 			# threshold. Both bounds matter: a line up for the whole wind-up