Release 182: Signs and Portals++!

[T4LCOMX]

respec is cool,

but would have liked to see a further reduction in costs to skill up in many areas of the tree.

[Lawrey]

Regarding mobs spawning/despawning. I think I’ve had experiences where I saw multiple mobs on compass (and some where physically seen as well) on different directions but after a few seconds or minute, after focusing on killing one of the mobs, the others somehow just magically despawn when I came back for them no matter how hard I look for them again. I guess that’s just part of the game’s optimization? Regardless, it just feels weird.

[james]

Updated OP with details of Release 182.3.

@james

Release 182.3:

• Increased maximum friend limit from 100 to 250
• Improve logic that puts the player into 2 high gaps to work with the even stronger jump strengths.
• Allow various mesh blocks (but not standard storage that is effectively a full block visually) contain liquids and have liquids pass through them etc, including beacons and storage shelves, machines and pipes.
• Allow slab/walls shapes to be either bevel or square chiselled, regardless of which was used to create the slab/wall.
• Reduced the prestige value for gleam, crafting tables, fire pits, crucibles and storage.
• Tweak water shader to avoid z-fighting in most cases when flowing through bevel/square chiselled blocks.
• Tweak portal effect to remove lines near the top and bottom.
• Fixed ore-decals from changing their rotation sometimes when neighbouring blocks are changed.
• Fixed an issue with bevel-chisels where based on direction you were chiselling, it may not have let you chisel when it should have.
• Fixed trap-doors to be symmetrical.
• Fixed an issue that allowed trap doors to continue to be placed next to a maximum-length trap door if the existing trap door was opened first (leading to some weird behaviour/visuals).
• Fixed having to re-open a location twice in the warp screen to have it correctly refresh, after a few moments the data should now populate and button become usable.
• Fixed occasional crash after exiting a portal when creatures were around.
• Fixed occasional crash when cuttletrunks appeared.

[Kirinvar]

@james

Reduced the prestige value for gleam, crafting tables, fire pits, crucibles and storage.

Awesome!
This will shake things up a bit.

(I wonder if i’m still mayor of my home town. )

Edit:
Therka Market lost 3 mil Prestige.
Can’t wait to see how hard Critonia landed, its like 100% gleam.

[Havok40k]

Critonia dropped 1.2m
Therka Market mayor flipped, too.

[boundmore]

@james

Allow various mesh blocks (but not standard storage that is effectively a full block visually) contain liquids and have liquids pass through them etc, including beacons and storage shelves, machines and pipes.
Allow slab/walls shapes to be either bevel or square chiselled, regardless of which was used to create the slab/wall.
Reduced the prestige value for gleam, crafting tables, fire pits, crucibles and storage

my favorites

[Jiivita]

@james

Increased maximum friend limit from 100 to 250

THANK YOU!!!

@james

Allow slab/walls shapes to be either bevel or square chiselled, regardless of which was used to create the slab/wall.

Awesome on the reduced prestige for Gleam

@Kirinvar

This will shake things up a bit.

i really hope so… gleam is awesome… but there are plenlty of nice blocks out there too… no need use it as the sole building marital

[Spoygg]

@james

Reduced the prestige value for gleam, crafting tables, fire pits, crucibles and storage.

[james]

Updated OP to include details of 182.4 bug fix release.

@james

Release 182.4:

• Fix an issue where the game would freeze when dragging or resizing the game window on Windows.
• Prevent a rare client crash when aborting chunk requests which are no longer required.
• Improve stability of the client chunk cache to try and prevent a rare client crash.

[HybridLogic]

@james

Removed options to disable weather and volumetricFog.

Why? Why would it ever be a good idea to give the user fewer options for optimizing the way their game plays? I was just looking for this option today (brand new player - didn’t play before update) and I couldn’t find it. Assumed it was there, because it should be.

@james

There will be more changes here in the near future.

Like adding back in the ability to turn off weather? I hope so.

[Stretchious]

Ultimately it’s because the weather will eventually affect game play … such as acid rain, fog, ice storms, pollen, sandstorms, blizzards etc. Certain weather effects will also be restricted to certain biomes, such as a sandstorm in the desert (not yet implemented).

Having the ability to turn the weather off would be like playing a game with an atmospheric dark area and just turning your gamma up to get around it. What would be the point in that?

If there are going to be weather effects that either hurt or hinder me (speed of movement etc), I personally want to be able to see where they are, so I can go into a environmentally hostile area prepared.

[willcrutchley]

Yes, I was looking for where this was mentioned, but I think you covered it @Stretchious . Basically everyone should have the same experience if a feature is going to affect the player like the weather will.

[james]

@HybridLogic

Why? Why would it ever be a good idea to give the user fewer options for optimizing the way their game plays?

Because they’re gameplay features not purely visual.

If we were to re-introduce a way to reduce the weather effects as part of gameplay then it would be via a permanent skill or temporary buff or forged equipment / wearable buff.

[HybridLogic]

@james

Because they’re gameplay features not purely visual.

If we were to re-introduce a way to reduce the weather effects as part of gameplay then it would be via a permanent skill or temporary buff or forged equipment / wearable buff.

There should still be a way to disable or at least reduce the visual affect for players with lower end systems. Those annoying area notifications that pop up every time you go anywhere a few seconds after you’ve left could contain weather information so that players with it disabled aren’t ‘in the dark’.

Edit: to be clear, what’s annoying about the geographic notifications is their pace - they disappear slowly, block other information on the screen while up (like where a portal goes), and are not at all affected by the appearance of MORE notifications - so you can have 5 of them scrolling past your screen while walking around a portal-heavy area, and it’s more confusing than helpful.

[james]

@HybridLogic

There should still be a way to disable or at least reduce the visual affect for players with lower end systems. Those annoying area notifications that pop up every time you go anywhere a few seconds after you’ve left could contain weather information so that players with it disabled aren’t ‘in the dark’.

The weather effects aren’t expensive - and assuming you’re running at (or above) min spec then they shouldn’t cause performance issues. The other options make a much bigger effect on frame time.

@HybridLogic

Edit: to be clear, what’s annoying about the geographic notifications is their pace - they disappear slowly, block other information on the screen while up (like where a portal goes), and are not at all affected by the appearance of MORE notifications - so you can have 5 of them scrolling past your screen while walking around a portal-heavy area, and it’s more confusing than helpful.

Agreed - it’s a known issue and will be fixed in a future update.

[willcrutchley]

I do love these notifications though… So keep them!

[Lawrey]

Could use some tweaking on the logic though

Fighting mobs on the borderline of a settlement causes it to annoyingly appear multiple times giving me some additional challenges.

[shadowwraith]

This game looks so astonishingly good, how close are you to a console release of the game?

[Havok40k]

Console release will be simultaneous with official pc release. There is no release date yet.