Release 225: Farming!

james · July 19, 2019, 5:39pm

Update OP with details of 225.2.

Main changes are - exposing a dark balance, improving the bloom, and fixing the portal crashes.

james:

Release 225.2:

Engine:

Exposed a Darkness setting allowing players to define their own darkness level.

This isn’t a gamma control, which would have brightened the entire screen. But rather a control over the darkness that the game will increase exposure for. Basically making things at night easier to see.

If you test this when surrounded by very dark terrain it will have a limited effect. But if balanced with normal green grass and yellow sand then it should make things much more visible.

We’ve exposed this because different displays can present different levels of darkness - it’s not possible to have a single balance for all displays.

The option is found on PC via: [ESC] -> Main Menu -> Settings -> Graphics -> Display -> Dark Balance

Improvements to HDR auto-exposure adjustment to better account for darker levels of lighting; will help in some cases that were too dark even though HDR was able to adjust for it, for example in the sanctum.

Additional refinements to the mesh & voxel lighting consistency to make them much closer. The aim is to make the lighting for the same material mesh objects (for example stone storage) and voxels (for example stone) match.

Adjusted the bloom algorithm and balance to only bloom bright things. Technically these thresholds shouldn’t be required, but without them the presentation can feel a little blurry. This change attempts to isolate the brighter areas and only bloom these.

Bug fixes:

Fixed an issue with the synchronisation of attributes (mainly buffs) between the client and server that was causing a client crash.

JaceyLive · July 19, 2019, 5:42pm

Will this update require a download or is it a hotfix?

fidach · July 19, 2019, 5:43pm

Cough cough

I think you may have forgotten some of your player base!

illuminawtyness · July 19, 2019, 5:43pm

*better player base

Havok40k · July 19, 2019, 5:44pm

LMAO your inbox is about to get flooded!

james · July 19, 2019, 5:49pm

Option is also available on PS4. [MENU] → blah.

fidach · July 19, 2019, 5:51pm

Ah, I see.

You just assumed all the PS4 players are super awesome and smart and would know where to go anyway.

OK, I get that

NerArth · July 19, 2019, 5:51pm

Well, aren’t you?

fidach · July 19, 2019, 5:52pm

I know I am, cos my mum told me so…

JaceyLive · July 19, 2019, 6:01pm

Servers are back on

Bones · July 19, 2019, 6:04pm

Looks great!!

Bones · July 19, 2019, 6:05pm

Can I get a refund on the 500 gem torches I bought Lol .

bucfanpaka · July 20, 2019, 2:27pm

Just a minor note, didn’t think worth starting a new thread over but wanted to mention it - I had put out a plinth with some free goo kernels for a friend, noticed on the notifications when they sold out that part of it was starred out. Looks like the filter is picking up on a bad slur word there.

Tagris · July 20, 2019, 11:40pm

Having so much fun with the new farming update! Got my Exo Yam farm up and running! Just need to get those seeds to multiply! hehe

majorvex · July 20, 2019, 11:45pm

lmao1

GrayFrequency · July 20, 2019, 11:51pm

tenor

lionessmo · July 21, 2019, 3:53am

Great job adjusting the lighting. I’ve adjusted the light balance and it’s very easy for me to see again. I’m keeping my light epic skills, but it’s very playable at this light level for myself.

Thanks for fixing it so quickly!

kristjan · July 22, 2019, 3:18pm

Can I just say Goo farming is awesome!!

james · July 23, 2019, 9:57pm

Updated OP with details of Release 225.3. Main changes are fixes to the attribute system that were causing issues with the presentation of the forge and character status effects.

james:

Release 225.3:

Lava to work as a light-source when held in the player’s hand.

Shortened localised versions of View Full Release Notes to fit text box.

Fix for forge sometimes showing the an item from the previously viewed forge in its queue.

Fix for attributes not being set up correctly on the forge possibly causing client misprediction of the applied boons.

Fixing goo crop rendering in some tighter sloped environments rendering the crop again inverted 1 block below.

Fixed not getting XP/progression for harvesting crops after change to allow targeting crops directly for interaction.

Edited sort to sought in Juicy Starberry Seed description.

Fixed a server crash caused by using an undo-chisel on grass blocks in certain configurations; these cases will now correctly either remove the long-grass part or convert the grass to soil as appropriate based on the rules for where grass is valid to exist.

NerArth · July 23, 2019, 10:06pm

This minor release also fixed sanctum edit I think – for some reason it was broken after farming released.