Barotrauma

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15 Mar

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Hello everyone!

Let’s have another sneak peek at our upcoming spring update.

Diving suit rebalance We always intended diving suits to be used only for acute pressure protection: during hull breaches and while swimming. However, there are not many actual downsides to wearing a suit all the time, so a lot of people do just that… which has effectively eliminated water pressure as a threat. We wanted to change that by encouraging you to take your suit off when you don’t need it. Here’s what we’re changing:

  • Slowed flooding speed to give the crew more time to suit up during a hull breach. Hulls will fill with water more slowly, so the pressure will not become lethal as quickly.
  • Added new animations to diving suits and made walking and running in a suit slower. Swimming speed has not been reduced.
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04 Mar

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Hi! We've made some changes to the bots' behaviour which should make them much less likely to OD you with opiates. I've also forwarded the point about bots trying to treat the poison you're using to cure a husk, so we'll keep an eye out to see if any issues come up related to that.


01 Mar

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Hello everyone!

The next Barotrauma update is in the works, to be released in the late spring, and it will include some improvements to the medical system. This won’t be a complete overhaul, but we have reworked medical items to give each a clearer use case and stronger progression in the campaign, as well as added a few new afflictions to create additional late-game challenges.

Here are some highlights:
  • Opiates have been rebalanced to give each a clearer use case. They also cause addiction and overdose much more easily than before, making them high-risk, high-reward treatments.
  • Infected Wounds, a new dangerous affliction caused by Thresher attacks.
  • Antibiotic Glue now has multiple uses, so one tube can be used to treat multiple limbs. It can also treat Infected Wounds.
  • Deusiz...
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12 Jan

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Originally posted by Playmaker-M1

can you perhaps write in the names used?

This would help us a lot in diagnosing this! We get reports about this every now and then, unfortunately no-one ever lets us know what kind of special symbols in the name were causing the problem, and we haven't so far been able to find a way to get the issue to occur at our end.


11 Jan

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Hello everyone!

We have just released a second hotfix for the Winter Update. Please be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer servers, and see the full list of changes below.


v1.2.8.0

Changes:
- Allow scaling most items below 0.1 in the submarine editor again. We set 0.1 as a hard limit because smaller scales caused issues with tiling items (such as labels), without realizing some sub builders have found some creative uses for heavily downscaled items (such as tiny turrets used as "dials").

Fixes:
- Fixed escorted characters trying to leave the sub if they can't find a safe hull to get to (e.g. when the sub is flooded).
- Fixed rotated structures not appearing rotated on the status monitor.
- Fixed wires getting misaligned when saving them in an item asse... Read more
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10 Jan

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Hello everyone!

The year 2024 has officially started in Barotrauma development, and we’d like to kick it off with a brief development poll.

We’re planning a new, optional challenge mode for multiplayer campaigns where respawning is limited and character death is permanent, and we have a few competing designs for how we might implement this Permadeath mode.

If you are interested, read more about the Permadeath mode on our blog[barotraumagame.com], and give your feedback via the poll attached to the blog! You wil... Read more
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07 Jan

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Originally posted by Ruberine

The bug specifically was that scaling below 0.100 in the sub editor was completely removed. I work with Decotrauma right now, and we do a lot of work on high-detail sub assemblies, so a large amount of items we use are scaled below 0.100, which ended up meaning around 1/3-1/2 of everyone’s work, including mine, is no longer correct. It had a huge impact on all of our work on Decotrauma and the subs we designed. And yeah, as I said it’s not like we expect you to put a heavy amount of developer resources into this sorta stuff, as always this part of the community is relatively small.

work with Decotrauma right now, and we do a lot of work on high-detail sub assemblies, so a large amount of items we use are scaled below 0.100, which ended up meaning around 1/3-1/2 of everyone’s work, including mine, is no longer correct.

Ah, yeah, that was a pretty dumb oversight on our part. We set a limit to how much items could be scaled down because very small scales caused issues with specific items, and naively assumed there wouldn't be any practical use for scales below x0.1 and made it a hard limit that applies to all items. But the sub building and modding community always seems to find creative ways to use features in ways we hadn't anticipated! :D


05 Jan

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Originally posted by Ruberine

Thank you for even responding to a comment like this, and I do admit that I may have been too aggressive with it. I wrote it pretty soon after I saw that the latest update had completely broken the majority of the things I design in the sub editor, even though the bug causing it had been reported while the update had been pushed to unstable, and had been marked as a non-issue. I hadn’t thought much of the bug until then, as it seemed major (for people who do sub editing), had been reported and it was during the unstable phase, so I had assumed it was to be patched out, and as it wasn’t, it meant I was very frustrated with this topic at the time, given that I’ve dedicated several hundred hours into the sub editor. Recently though, I’ve heard that the bug in question is in line for a fix, even though it had been marked as a non-issue.

As for the comment on an update on bugfixes and stability, I had seen it myself with the context you mention removed, as I was not there when ...

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No offense taken, I get how frustrating it can be to have stuff you've spent a lot of time working on get broken by some bug or change introduced by an update! I'm curious, which specific bug in the latest update are you referring to? We could possibly bump it up in priority and try to get it hotfixed soon depending on how severe it is.

I also completely agree with what you're saying about the editors. Especially the character editor: it's so complex and unintuitive that we not even all of us in the dev team know how to use it, and I would really like to make it a little more user-friendly at some point. I unfortunately can't give any promises on when that might happen though, considering there are more pressing issues to address than an editor that's only relevant to a very, very small portion of the player base.

something that could potentially ease some peoples frustrations with it would be, if it’s possible, so that instead of marking issues that we...

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Originally posted by Ruberine

As someone with almost 500 hours in the game, it is pretty buggy and has got serious issues that should've been worked out in early access, however those are almost exclusively on the technical side of the game, and not what new/most players would see.
The sub editor is glitchy in of itself, and that's the best functioning of all the editors. Glitches are a problem, and when reported, are often dismissed as "working as intended". The creature editor is in an even worse state, as for what I know, it's barely functional, and a mess to work with anyways. There's little to no documentation on how it works, as nobody wants to use it because of how awful it is, and it has actively pushed people away from the modding scene (example: MN Creatures mod.). The encounter editor is even worse. It's barely *mentioned* online because of how obscure it is, it isn't even fully integrated into the game, you have to use console commands to access it.
The devs pay little to no attention to b...

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The devs pay little to no attention to bugs, allowing things that have been reported as significant issues to get out of betas, by just claiming it's not a problem or that they're just not gonna bother

This is kind of disheartening to read, considering we currently spend a sizable chunk of our time on nothing but fixing bugs, and have a dedicated QA team testing the game full-time to minimize the amount of bugs that make it to the public version and to help the programming team diagnose existing issues.

But I agree that there are quite a lot of bugs to iron out still, many of which I really wish we would've had time to fix before leaving Early Access.

I also admit that we can be quite hasty in closing issue reports as "non-issues" - we get so many reports about issues, that we generally can't put that much time into diagnosing a single issue and figuring out whether it's a bug or for example some issue at the player's end, or somet...

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20 Dec

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Hello everyone!

We've just released a hotfix to address issues in last week's Winter Patch. See the list of changes below, and enjoy the holiday season!


v1.2.7.0

- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the game to crash without generating a crash report (which would lead to a "pipe was broken" error if the issue happened server-side). The issue had to do with a stack overflow when throwing specific kinds of console errors: one common case was when the game failed to connect to our server to check the GameAnalytics consent, which lead to a crash on startup.
- Fixed piezo crystals sometimes spawning right at the start of the level.
- Fixed assistants not being able to pick all tier 1 and 2 talents.
- Fixed location names disappearing when locations change their type in saves started in pre-1.2 versions.
- Fixed s... Read more
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14 Dec

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Originally posted by Ok_Acanthocephala_70

Ooo this is cool! I never knew

With some clever googling you might even be able to find the original texts. ;)

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The religious writings of the Church of Husk seem to be based on the writings of some ancient Earth philosopher called "Zarathustra".

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Hello everyone!

The Winter Patch 2023 has just been released, with quality-of-life changes, balancing, optimizations, bugfixes, and a bit of new content sprinkled in as well. You can find the full list of changes at the end of this post, and a more comprehensive preview of the update in our ... Read more