Testing 170 - Report issues here

[vdragon]

@Nokowa

Still get the Unstable Connection way to often to play comfortably and without worrying about it.

To summarize, I sometimes need to press ‘esc’ 3-5 times before I can finally get my mouse’s pointer to press on quit and confirm before the game breaking message cuts off all menus.

It sounds like you have a similar issue to @RoyalHeavySmoker. Follow the advice given by @NL-Tim above.

Testing 170 - Report issues here

Well there could be multiple reasons why your are experiencing a slow internet connection: Slow connection, the game has high bandwidth requirements. What connection speed do you have? If I remember correctly the game required 24 mbit down. High latency between your PC and the server where the planet is running on. (For example, as EU player playing on Australian servers can cause delays and lagg). Or maybe your compter is slow or software on it is causing your traffic to delay / lagg.

Try changing your Chunk Download Rate and Chunk Cache Size options to see if it improves performance for you.

[Nokowa]

Already did that three weeks ago. It makes no difference what so ever. Also messed with cmd.exe in disabling autoconfig, etc. Changes nothing.

However, when pinging to boundless, I get 30-40ms but sometimes it shoots up to 500-600-700ms. And when it does that, the unstable connection happens (I think). It can’t be my internet since I’ve downloaded things at 80mb/s in the past no trouble. (My download is usually between 35-60)

I play wireless tho, 4 meters from the router with the 1st floor’s ground between it. Even so, I never experienced any annoying lag with any other game, except for Boundless.

I’m fine with it being like this now tho, but I do hope you guys get this fixed before you go 1.0

[Aalwein]

This is my first release so I’m not sure if these bugs have been reported before:

1. After going through warp conduits, the warp sound effect continues to play at the original location despite the portal being consumed. Logging out and back in removes the sound.

2. The “Warp to a Friend” objective won’t complete for me. The “Add a friend” and “Warp conduits placed” steps are green, but “set the location to your friend and travel through the warp” does not flag when I follow the instruction, thus the objective won’t complete.

3. When I try to craft something when my inventory is full, it says “Can’t craft in Sanctum” instead of something more accurate like “Can’t craft, inventory is full.”

[vdragon]

@Nokowa

Already did that three weeks ago. It makes no difference what so ever. Also messed with cmd.exe in disabling autoconfig, etc. Changes nothing.

However, when pinging to boundless, I get 30-40ms but sometimes it shoots up to 500-600-700ms. And when it does that, the unstable connection happens (I think). It can’t be my internet since I’ve downloaded things at 80mb/s in the past no trouble. (My download is usually between 35-60)

I play wireless tho, 4 meters from the router with the 1st floor’s ground between it. Even so, I never experienced any annoying lag with any other game, except for Boundless.

I’m fine with it being like this now tho, but I do hope you guys get this fixed before you go 1.0

If you’re still getting issues when the next update comes out, feel free to post them in the link below:

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…

@Aalwein

After going through warp conduits, the warp sound effect continues to play at the original location despite the portal being consumed. Logging out and back in removes the sound.

So you warped somewhere and then returned to where the Warp Conduit was originally constructed?

@Aalwein

The “Warp to a Friend” objective won’t complete for me. The “Add a friend” and “Warp conduits placed” steps are green, but “set the location to your friend and travel through the warp” does not flag when I follow the instruction, thus the objective won’t complete.

When I try to craft something when my inventory is full, it says “Can’t craft in Sanctum” instead of something more accurate like “Can’t craft, inventory is full.”

We hope to have fixes for these in the next update.

[Aalwein]

@vdragon

@Aalwein

After going through warp conduits, the warp sound effect continues to play at the original location despite the portal being consumed. Logging out and back in removes the sound.

So you warped somewhere and then returned to where the Warp Conduit was originally constructed?

Yes, I built a 2x1 warp conduit at Point A, traveled through to Point B, did whatever I went to do, then traveled back to Point A via a new warp - or hoofing it on foot in some cases - and the sound effect that the warps make when ready was still ambient noise at the original warp’s location (Point A). It’s persistent - so if I used another warp to get back to Point B, there would be the ambient noise at both Point A and Point B.

Basically, anytime I build and use a one-time use warp, the sound effects remain at the point of origin until I hard restart the game.

[Aalwein]

Oh! I just now realized there is a test server version and a release version - so I probably should’ve reported this on the release 169 thread. Sorry about that! Perhaps it is still relevant on 170 but I didn’t do anything but click launch game from the Steam launcher, which I’m guessing is version 169?

[Heureka]

Yes it is

[OmniUno]

Just gave the new testing server a test drive.

The mining progression isn’t feeling great. It’s not much different from usual on Epsilo. But 4 hits per copper ore on Vulpto with a diamond hammer: I really hope that you’re planning on rebalancing this before taking it to live. This will quite simply kill any farming on the ring worlds. If you want us all to play on the starter worlds there are better ways to do that

EDIT: The changes to connection handling are noticeable. It really is feeling much MUCH better. Went through a few portals without a single hickup - and the time or two the unstable connection screen did pop up did not feel nearly as invasive (without the focus switching).

[james]

@OmniUno

The mining progression isn’t feeling great. It’s not much different from usual on Epsilo. But 4 hits per copper ore on Vulpto with a diamond hammer: I really hope that you’re planning on rebalancing this before taking it to live. This will quite simply kill any farming on the ring worlds. If you want us all to play on the starter worlds there are better ways to do that

A mining balance missed this update, but we’re hoping to release it to Testing tomorrow.

@OmniUno

EDIT: The changes to connection handling are noticeable. It really is feeling much MUCH better. Went through a few portals without a single hickup - and the time or two the unstable connection screen did pop up did not feel nearly as invasive (without the focus switching).

Good to hear.

We also have some new metrics coming that should help players debug networking issues.

[OmniUno]

@james

A mining balance missed this update, but we’re hoping to release it to Testing tomorrow.

Sweet! I’ll be sure to check it out