Gate-3 never entered player mode: the new spawn-ground entry hold
(6dbbf95) waits for terrain under the spawn, but the K-fix1 streaming
gate skipped streaming entirely until the chase camera first engaged —
which requires player-mode entry. Circular wait; the user sat in the
fly camera with an empty world (the probe log has zero [cell-transit]
lines and no "auto-entered player mode").
K-fix1's intent was narrower than its implementation: suppress the
hardcoded-Holtburg center flash BEFORE LOGIN. The streaming tick even
has a dedicated in-world fly-camera branch (observer from
_lastLivePlayerLandblockId) that the outer gate made unreachable. The
fix gates streaming on pre-login only: once the live session reaches
InWorld, streaming runs (centered on the server-known player landblock
or the fly camera), terrain hydrates, the spawn-ground predicate flips,
and auto-entry fires. The world-geometry RENDER gate is untouched — the
pre-entry screen still shows sky only, exactly K-fix1's visual.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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