Stationeers Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Nysch: Also **** whoever does your change logs, their English is atrocious.

Note, I deleted the post above and have included the censored version. Please read the steam community guidelines. It's fine to have concerns, or raise them. But be respectful of those on the forums, including developers.

MP is working in the beta, and had been progressively working more and more from the date we launched the refactor beta.

AotR offered a proof of concept of the refactor, as we had a real example that we could test. Additionally, it had a code base with more than a passing resemblance to Stationeers, meaning we were able to port the work across.

AotR has not been released because it doesn't need to be released in advance, it has a small group of people involved in testing so it is able to get feedback without taking the risk of people being disheartened by bugs etc... Just because it isn't released yet does not mean it doesn't allow drawing worthwhile conclusions about systems and new approaches.

Using that project we were able to assess the numbers to do with bandwidth, rendering, connection, logging, dedicated server etc... Of these, all of them have been successfully ported across except some of the more complex batch rendering approaches from AotR.
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The beta branch multiplayer is very functional, every day we are spending the morning playtesting ourselves. It's already dramatically better than what is on the main branch. The server browser is not functional yet, but close. So you can only play on the beta branch if you know the IP address of the computer hosting.

Hopefully some can share their experience. From the "sentry" crash reporting information, well over 70% of users are running the beta branch currently.

If you try the Beta version of the game (use the password "therewillbebugs") you will notice dramatic improvements.

A youtuber did a review today of how different the beta version is to the current game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlO1sBk7JqU&t=1s

Note this is now very stable for singleplayer.

We are being cautious, keeping the initial distrubtion low.

The password is "therewillbebugs" but I won't do a big post about it until we are sure its not going to mess people up badly. Another week or two of bugfixing before we open it up a bit!

We're doing a huge "refactor". It is not only dramatically improving multiplayer but also performance in singleplayer. We can't push these updates out incrementally, unfortunately.

Think of it like working on a car. Some changes you can do while the car still is used day to day, like refilling the petrol or wiper fluid, changing the spark plugs, changing a tyre. But some stuff requires the engine to be taken out and takes the car out of action for quite a while.

It's taking us longer than expected, but mostly because as we started fixing and making changes we discovered how much more opportunity we had - while everything was in pieces - to improve the game.

I'd also recommend:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/Oxygen_Not_Included/

Especially with their rocket stuff.

Also I REALLY like ECO. I'd recommend getting into it during a server reset, and playing with a group of friends. The dev team are fantastic as well. Also agree with all of the above as well, Astroneer is excellent.