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What and why

Autonomous rovers now patrol their authored decks, spot the hero ahead, turn the lidar red and rear for 0.5s before a straight charge. Three accepted chair hits play the five wreck poses and emit one enemy-defeated payload. Living contact costs one battery cell; normal rovers reset when the hero dies.

The controller uses real collision spawns and patrol endpoints, a measured 31×25px standing body, documented movement speeds and native approved poses. Rovers expose chair targets through the existing combat registry. This draft leaves the guard, pogo and shared fluid consumer for their assigned follow-up issues.

Issue

Closes #45
Refs #40, #41, #48

Stack

• [16/16] feat: block frontal hits with the chair guard #149 [16/16] feat: block frontal hits with the chair guard
• [15/16] feat: add up attacks and pogo slams #146 [15/16] feat: add up attacks and pogo slams
• [14/16] feat: patrol and charge with autonomous rovers #145 [14/16] feat: patrol and charge with autonomous rovers ← this PR
• [13/16] feat: save and refill at coffee machines #144 [13/16] feat: save and refill at coffee machines
• [12/16] feat: add alternating chair sweeps and contact hits #137 [12/16] feat: add alternating chair sweeps and contact hits
• [11/16] feat: add health damage and checkpoint respawn #135 [11/16] feat: add health damage and checkpoint respawn
• [10/16] feat: switch locomotion through authored bridge clips #132 [10/16] feat: switch locomotion through authored bridge clips
• [9/16] feat: follow the hero with directional camera lead #131 [9/16] feat: follow the hero with directional camera lead
• [8/16] feat: add one-way decks and ladder climbing #126 [8/16] feat: add one-way decks and ladder climbing
• [7/16] feat: follow ground slopes and slide downhill #125 [7/16] feat: follow ground slopes and slide downhill
• [6/16] feat: add variable jumps and landing poses #123 [6/16] feat: add variable jumps and landing poses
• [5/16] feat: add weighted walking and running #122 [5/16] feat: add weighted walking and running
• [4/16] feat: load authored collision with a debug overlay #120 [4/16] feat: load authored collision with a debug overlay
• [3/16] feat: load exported stages and sprite atlases #116 [3/16] feat: load exported stages and sprite atlases
• [2/16] ci: check the game with node 22 on pull requests #111 [2/16] ci: check the game with node 22 on pull requests
• [1/4] chore(shared): scaffold the phaser game runtime #94 [1/16] chore(shared): scaffold the phaser game runtime — merged

Base: feature/43-coffee-save. Human merges bottom up; retarget the next PR to main and merge origin/main into every open branch, never rebase.

Acceptance and remaining integration

• Patrol deck endpoints; red lidar and rear-up for exactly 0.5s before straight charge
• Three separate chair contacts defeat the rover; hit flash, three-frame knockback, five wreck poses and a single defeat event
• Full browser tutorial defeat using sweeps, then only pogo ([M2-S2] Up attack and down slam with a pogo bounce #40)
• Frontal guard integration and playthrough ([M2-S3] Guard with the chair #41)
• Shared black-fluid consumer on the defeat event ([M2-S9] Defeated machines leak black fluid #48)

Verification

• Node 22: npm run typecheck, npm test (113 tests), npm run build; includes main integration at e8577ab
• py -3.13 scripts/check_docs.py
• git diff --cached --check
• Tests use the actual tutorial collision file: range 640–880, spawn 760/508, exact body bounds, patrol speed 75.25px/s, half-second tell, locked 258px/s charge, forward/vertical detection, three separate sweeps, no duplicate strike, exact wreck completion, reset, hit recovery and jump clearance
• Browser rover-test: real patrol, charge, contact damage and a sweep reducing the real rover to 2/3 HP. Later player death resets it to 3/3. A full sweep-only clear remains unchecked; the controller has not been called complete.
• Physical gamepad and Vercel preview: existing deployments require Vatsal2005 to be granted project access by the owner

Reference comparison

Plan and measured tuning: docs/05 rover controller.

Reproduce: python scripts/compare.py lineup enemy-rover:idle-00 enemy-rover:drive-00 enemy-rover:charge-00 enemy-rover:charge-01 enemy-rover:charge-02 enemy-rover:wreck-04 --out game/verification/45-rover-pose-compare.png.

Idle measures 31×25px. The approved charge poses lower the mast and measure 18–21px high; their native pixels remain intact while the standing collision body stays 31×25. The red lidar points left and dust trails right, so the renderer mirrors rightward motion. No atlas or lane A changes. Browser capture is retained in ignored tmp/verification/45-rover-sweeps.png; it shows a successful hit and the ongoing encounter, not a completed tutorial clear.

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