Update 01.178 DEV - Multiplayer Improvements & LOD Optimizations

1st

 

yes fixes! update is dev

 

is this stable or dev?

 

Hrm. Hoping for some undocumented fixes there... and Lense Flare options.

Edit: give me a minute but i think there's some undocumented fixing going on. Let me verify that real quick.
Update: so, yeah, pleasantly surprised over here. While copypasting is still buggered it's now more cooperative. The pastegrid still seems to... "hang" or "get stuck" on something invisible but it SEEMS like they're working on it in the background. Let's hope i'm not jinxing it.

 

5lth

Thank you SO MUCH for fixing the grids when joining a multiplayer game. I can finally continue playing with my m8s. Keep up the good work!

 

Cool

 

I literally ran into issues with missing planets last night, this will be way better!

Thanks KEEN!

 

yay(?)

 

Guessing it's for Dev then, since there isn't an update available for stable atm on steam.

 

Depends. What velocity is deadly when the Engineer bumps into it? The threshhold should be slightly below that. Though i'm not much of a fan of this feature at all because a freshly placed block in space that starts drifting by default is just going to cause all kinds of havok, no pun intended; i'd have recommended against it entirely had someone asked me. Plus the problem ONLY exists because we can't turn off the placing of blocks without grids-feature. It's great to have as an option but 9 times out of 10 it results in having to track down random blocks that were the result of misclicks, sometimes behind walls where you only find them with the Space Master Tool.
We've heard talks about being allowed to turn this off; i can't remember if it was ever downright promissed but we've been waiting patiently for that for a while without it happening...

Short version: axe automatic velocity feature, add option to turn off the free placing of blocks. Maybe tie it to the R-button, that one doesn't seem to get any use anymore anyway.

 

Nope no new options to kill that annoyance and agreed on the free placement. I've had some of those misclicked blocks spawn inside already placed blocks, causing massive damage (refinery full of ore going nuclear as an example).

Edit- There is no safe velocity in SE, if it's moving roll a dice to see if the physics will kill you. Also having to remain at 0 velocity to place anything... more tedium.

 

Hey! Its a new month! Did you guys forget about the stable branch update?!

 

Is there anybody else that do not have the video ?? It says *video* but nothing...

 

"- Newly placed blocks inheriting the velocity of the player"

NOOOOO

Edit: Okay, everything is alright, this happens just over 15m/s
ALSO: THANK YOU! Finally copy pasting of stations with movable parts is working again!

 

The video is up on youtube at least.

 

@FireGuy1996 Thanks bro. Anyway I got it now. First time it did it to me, but it looked like an upload bug or something ^^

 

There HAS to be a threshold before a block inherits velocity from the player.

Otherwise...unless you are completely static when you place a block, it will move. Granted, this only really affects the first placement of a block that is not anchored to anything.... but if it were set to something low like 5m/s, then a slightly drifting player would not create a slightly drifting block when they meant it to be static. It's a question of ensuring the player only creates a moving block WHEN THEY MEAN TO....not because they were simply not 100% static.

Also....naturally....this will only be relevant in space as blocks placed on a planet will fall to the ground or be anchored to it in any case, and that would be unnoticable unless the player had a fair amount of speed up when they launched the block.

 

Do we have an lens flare turn off feature there??

 

HUD dear where are you? We are waiting for you for the third week, one update for you has been postponed! We miss you, as well as ships that do not descend during gravity themselves! About wheels and pistons we no longer remember it was a dream, a sweet dreamops:

 

Well, in Creative you can turn it off via the F12 debug menu, but it doesn't work in Survival, don't think it works in MP or at least not in all versions of it (regular vs DS, who knows, i never play MP) and we all know it won't survive the Release anyway... nope, but copypasting is more cooperative than last week. Still a little bugged but i think it's working enough to be useable again.
--- Automerge ---

I am so damn pleased that they're taking their time with that one.

 

Whilst you have been looking at this screen, could we also have the ability to chat from it too? It would be nice to ask a server where I should spawn before actually spawning somewhere.

 

And enabling gravity range still causes a crash to desktop after +2 months. I thought we were in the bug fixin period.

 

Y'know, sometimes you can work on something too much. It's called Feeping Creatures, or something like that.

Oh well, maybe they'll surprise us with a really excellent HUD, with user-programmable elements..

 

Uhm, where is the HUD you guys promised two weeks ago? I thought it would be ready? Just asking.

 

No HUD? News on that please? What about allowing merge blocks to project weld again? Still annoyed at Lense Flare, it blinds and kind of hurts when accidentally looked at. Were supposed to have some kind of protective eye sheild?
It was an okay update. Thanks Keen!

 

Nice, thanks

 

Then wherefore was there any promise that there was not even a trace? And postpone the updates without showing even the teaser at least with a hint of its existence. I do not debate that it can be beautiful for after 5 years I'm sorry use a translator

 

Still unable to launch the game after your bug...