Update 1.187.1 – Minor Improvements

Summary
Hello, Engineers!
Today's minor update brings you more dedicated server GUI and Remote Client improvements, more descriptive tool tips for trash removal settings and lots of quality of life improvements and fixes. To name a few, we have addressed a rare issue with cars, which should prevent these vehicles from experiencing explosions. And we fixed slow loading times or issue with Game is already saving.
We are so happy that you are enjoying Space Engineers multiplayer, every stream, youtube video or game session we see is an absolute blast of fun. And that is the best outcome we could have hoped for.
But in case you are experiencing any issues, please visit our new support page: https://support.keenswh.com/
We will try to help you as soon as possible.
Have fun!



New Features & Improvements

• DS GUI – support for changing loading order of mods, mod info and mod removal with a button
• DS GUI – support for properties in plugin configuration
• Remote Client – lost connection notification
• Remote Client – selecting notification shows server
• Remote Client – support for opening all profiles with one click
• More descriptive tool tips for trash removal settings in the game

Fixes for following cases

• Rare issue leading to exploding cars
• Slow loading of mods
• World can't be loaded – Exception occured: newEntity: VRage.Game.Entity.MyEntity
• System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
• System.NullReferenceException at Sandbox.Engine.Multiplayer.MyDedicatedServerBase.SendJoinResult
• System.NullReferenceException at Sandbox.Game.Entities.MyCubeGrid.MoveBlocks
• System.NullReferenceException at Sandbox.Game.Gui.MyGuiScreenMods.RefreshGameList
• System.NullReferenceException at Sandbox.Game.World.Generator.MyProceduralWorldModule.GetCellDensityFunctionRemoved
• System.NullReferenceException at Sandbox.Game.World.MyPrefabManager.CreateGridsData.OnGridsCreated
• System.NullReferenceExceptionat Sandbox.Game.WorldEnvironment.MyLogicalEnvironmentSectorReplicable.OnDestroyClient
• Crash at VRage.Steam.MySteamPeer2Peer.IsPacketAvailable(UInt32& msgSize, Int32 channel)
• Crash when spectating around Europa
• ParallelTasks.TaskException at Sandbox.Game.Weapons.MyLargeTurretBase.Closing
• Leaking entities in EntityIdentifier
• High velocity bodies freezing physics simulation/game (and ultimately servers)
• Issue when loading worlds with invalid values freezing game
• Super long loading of a world started as DS
• Shield Mods cannot affect WarHead's inner circle damage
• Issue with Game is already saving
• Inviting a friend forces him to your MP without his input
• Character standing on anything dynamic can lead to rubber-banding
• Character standing on the surface of wheels can lead to rubber-banding
• Character flying in jet-pack around a rotating grid can lead to rubber-banding when turning jet-pack off/on
• Big grids interacting with smaller grids in high velocities can lead to clipping and rubber-banding on DS
• Ore deposit markers stay in the world after removing ore detectors on DS
• Ore deposits are shown even when out of range
• Turning off "broadcast using antennas" in Ore detector turned off the deposit locations even for players in a cockpit on the same grid
• Laser Antenna disconnects beyond 4km distance on DS
• Remote Control through Antennas could become impossible and made the player stuck
• Magnetic boots of other player not indicating on DS
• Looking up and down with a tool is not fluent for other players on DS
• Programmable block running on multiplayer clients
• Programmable block runs twice per tick and can't be stopped
• Random delays before ship's physics activates
• Players should no longer be able to circumvent admin rights when making changes to factions
• Specific block limits can be overcome by moving blocks between factions
• Grids cannot be manipulated through Info screen with PCU limits set to None
• Player cannot transfer authorship of a grid when Global PCU limits are reached
• Trash Removal unsaved changes warning
• Filtering by mods in Advanced does nothing in Join Game list
• Invalid material warning in creative
• Impact sounds of predicted grids are repeated multiple times
• Moving selection in respawn screen by Up, Down arrows leads to not loading everything properly
• Double placement sound in survival
• Can't connect to a server through Direct connect
• Inventory selection is not persistent after closing the screen

07/08/2018
Hotfix 1.187.101

• Most frequent game crash: System.NullReferenceException_Sandbox.Game.Entities.Character.MyCharacter.OnBootsStateChanged
• Issue with missing emissive stripes on magboots

Thanks!
Keen Software House team

 

Yeah, I loved it too, it was great for trolling people I was sad when I had to fix it... it was a sad day.

 

Delete Steam caches before updating, or you can just reinstall.

 

Oh... we have already discussed it, but it haven't made it in, I will bring it up tomorrow. (Personally I had no idea that it is used for 90 deg rotations, learning things every day )
--- Automerge ---

Inflex would give more info about it, but that should be probably safe. Unless there were more different kinds of carsplosions. (this was after driving for some time and you went far enough from car, wheels would explode when conditions were right)

 

Ehm... I am innocent, it was not my fault! I didn't do anything, I just checked what was causing problem (there was something really wrong with mod Mech's mods: Gear and Things which crashed during 5th and 6th stage of loading)

That can be seen in log as:
MOD_CRITICAL_ERROR: [DX11] Mech's Mods: Gears & Things
2018-08-06 09:57:22.530 - Thread: 1 -> in file:
2018-08-06 09:57:22.530 - Thread: 1 -> MOD PARTIALLY SKIPPED, LOADED ONLY 6/6 PHASES, Following Error occured:

If world with mods cant be loaded, it is alway good to check log, if there is something like this, it mean world will be corrupted ( acrually there is bug in it too, 6/6 means it crashed in 6th phase and that 6th phase is not complete)

But it is great to know it is not wixed, so I have free evening

 

Hello,
as far as I can tell, there were no (intentional) changes done to functionality of wheels since 186.

If you feel like something has drastically changed and wheels doesn't work as good as they use to, please switch back to 186 via Steam backups and make some apples to apples comparison between current and last version and let us know (if possible with some videos and save of your testing world) so we can fix it.

Keep in mind that we have special page for bug and other issue reports (https://support.keenswh.com) so please forward your further responses regarding this topic to this page so it doesn't get lost in this thread.
Thank you.

 

Animations of nearby players in MP were jerky sometimes. Now it's fixed.

 

Basically interpolation of animations was really not smooth. If someone was looking up down up down, every other player would see them doing in in really not fluent way