There's the meaning I was looking for in 6ff427a! Far from everything
that's done with this "mode change" variable though – and as we've seen
in 426a531, it's mostly a waste of time to immediately RE all meanings
of this variable across all bosses. So, let's keep using the raw
"phase_state" variable in ASM land.
Part of P0191, funded by nrook.
Mostly centered around the HUD, popup, overlay, boss, and player shot
functions we're about to reference in the upcoming decompilations.
Part of P0186, funded by [Anonymous] and Blue Bolt.
And actually document them correctly.
Clear: Custom duration, awards constant points per bullet during the
entire duration, plays a decay animation
Zap: Fixed duration, awards a semi-exponential bonus for all bullets
alive on the first frame, plays a, um, "zapping" animation… in
TH04, because it's bugged in TH05 :zunpet:
Part of P0149, funded by Blue Bolt, Ember2528, and -Tom-.
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