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@houdhakker2

the torch is on a slope but the torch is rendered on the slopen on the block below so i was thinking that i could place a block aboave te torch witch i cant becaus there is a torch there

@houdhakker2

the torch isnt actually on that block position becaus there is a slope there its actually on the block aboave but it renders it on that position

Previously you said that you couldn’t break a block here, but now you said that you can’t place a block here. With the second issue, this is due to the torch’s bounding box being too high, meaning that a block cannot be placed above it as a result. We’ll add this to the database.

Going back to the previous issue about not being able to break a block, can you highlight which block it is?

@Zobha

Once the game is running… you can use task manager to close steam without closing the game… a handy trick if you want to switch between two accounts / trade stuff between them quickly (on the same pc)

The game relies on Steam, so it’s not really recommended to shut it down when the game is still running.

@Xaldafax

When I said low level I meant like 20 and under. After a few levels the mobs do attack you. We are being ganged up now by 2, 3, 4 mobs at once of various types and it takes multiple hits to kill something. So you will likely die and with the extreme death penalty it really hurts. This type of dynamic will cause those newer to the game and in the lower levels to not be happy. Added to this if you are able to kill everything, within a few minutes there are more mobs. This whole scenario needs to be tweaked whether it is happening with a level 50 or 5.

I don’t mind the new ai and dynamics of herds but am trying to let the developers know that it needs to be looked at more because it is not balanced.

As you quoted from a previous comment, things like this are being worked on, so it may not necessary remain the same further down the line.

@Xaldafax

Yes I mean pressing the button after a crash to send you all the reports. So there might be some in your records that show the data. If I remember right there is not a confirmation or anything showing you all received the report.

In any event, the lag hits that are crashing the game do not always generate a report. Many times it just shows the server go offline with the gray screen saying to reconnect.

Over the past 2 weeks this has been happening. I watch my ping and it seems to be random and not local to me. But when it happens I can get 1500-8000 spikes. Of course the crash makes it impossible for me to send screen shots showing the latency graphs. It takes so long to do a traceroute to the server that I almost never see the latency hit because it is gone by the time I can trace.

In any even I know this might be related to my side but I started seeing drops when going through portals again and other unstable issues after the patch. So I figured it was better to mention. I will try to provide more data if it really does continue.

If the server goes offline, it may sometimes be due to a server crash, which we receive automatically. All other game crashes should be submitted in the normal way when the option is available.

As for the lag issue, have you adjusted your Chunk Download Rate and Chunk Cache Size?

Engine: Fixing lag with "Chunk Download Rate"

The Chunk Download Rate option limits the number of chunks the game will attempt to download from the server. If the client attempts to download more chunks than your connection bandwidth can support then the game may start to lag. This will often happen when you’re in areas that contain many portals. The Chunk Cache Size (in MB) option limits the size of the chunks cached locally. The more chunks the client can cache the less chunks it will need to re-download from the server when entering wor…

You can post your lag issues here too.

@Xaldafax

Yes the additional text on the signs. The one in the bottom box that you can edit and requires other people to press “e” to see. You lose the cursor if you cursor up and you can’t move around to edit it. You need to basically delete up to the edit and retype.

It’s most likely the same issue @Heureka posted earlier in this topic (post number 95) which a bug has been logged for.

@houdhakker2

cant respawn on time of now

That’s really unusual and shouldn’t be happening, so we’ll log a bug. What were you doing exactly before this situation occurred? Was your connection to the game okay as well? If this happens again check the log file and share it if there’s anything odd with the data.

@Pannero

I found a strange thing yesterday. After switching characters my left hand behaved like i was holding down LMB. I only realised this after i warped to my plot and it started to place blocks automatically ( it had no effect in Sanctum). Everything was normal after i clicked once with LMB but this happened multiple times.

Sounds like the game can sometimes read the left mouse button input as being active when it’s not being pressed. The bug’s in the database.

@Awkanic

Worse. I pick a point, launch the grapple, then, I use R and start ascending, then, suddenly , even though the grapple is still connected,. I start falling. Release R and try to switch to WSAD for evasive actions and find thst the forwards and backwards buttons don’t work, and left and right do. Also “feels” like your being pulled backwards away from the grapple but thanks to gravity, towards the ground… Though that last part could just be perception as you can’t move forwards and gravity is pulling you.

Can’t reproduce this. Is this happening with any grapple tool in a particular area?

Also, can you confirm you’re not accidentally pressing the same button that releases the grapple tool? For example, if the grapple tool is assigned to the left hand, make sure that it’s not being pressed again unless you did want to release yourself from the grapple tool.

@Awkanic

I tagged James on over the weekend in another thread with another possible issue as our hunting group managed to all get simultaneously booted from the server multiple times. It seemed to occur whenever a group of baddies was freshly spawned, usually seconds after we engaged said baddies. I think something’s up with the mob generation code. Whenever this occured, we were unable to reconnect for several moments. Once we were back on, baddies seemed to reset. I also found it significantly easier to run in a direction and watch the mobs spawn on my screen.

Were you on any of the ring worlds during that time? We do have server crashes from those worlds.