Barotrauma Dev Tracker

I recommend checking if the game is actually using your external GPU and not your internal one. You can do this in Windows 10

Right click desktop and go to "Display settings" > Scroll all the way down until you see "Graphics settings" > Click "Browse" and find the Barotrauma shortcut or exe > Then click options > Set graphics preference to be "High performance"

Originally posted by LzNN: fua stop crying about dificulty on barotrauma ffs, 2 years of crying

Let's not be impolite, please! Everyone is free to express their opinion on these forums, and it's even true that difficulty increased with the latest update, for the reasons Fields just listed quite accurately – so the good news is that the steep difficulty increase will (partially) even itself out eventually as custom sub building is adjusted to the new values.

We generally try to avoid changes that adversely affect lots of the player-made content out there, but at times we have to make them all the same to address issues or earlier oversights. We're also working on getting big changes like this out of the way while we... Read more

Hi everyone and sorry for the inconvenience! I've merged a few of the newer threads on low performance since the latest update to respond to everyone in one place.

Since we have seen a number of reports like this in recent days, there indeed appears to be a performance issue somewhere that we've unfortunately not managed to diagnose yet. If you would like to help us, sending us diagnostic data as screenshots could be useful – please read more in this quote from my colleague:

Originally posted by Regalis: Hello and sorry to hear about the issues your having with the game. :/

We have gotten some reports about decreased performance after the latest update (even though weirdly many players are reporting drastically impr...

Read more

It is intentional that skills reset once your character dies, even if you respawn with Reaper's tax. This was changed with the Among the Ancients update, the change was prompted because of the new talent system allows gaining skills too fast, that it was seen as necessary to just reset the skills rather than just lower them on death.

Hi! Sorry for the inconvenience, there was an issue in yesterday's update that affected loading times for Asian languages. We've released a fix for that just now, so you should be able to load the game normally again. Read more about the fix here (only in English, unfortunately): ... Read more

Hi! Sorry for the trouble. We've now released a small patch to take care of this issue and a couple of other problems in yesterday's update. You can read more about the patch here (the announcement is only available in English this time, unfortunately): https://steamcommunity.com/games/6029... Read more

Hi! Sorry for the trouble. We've just released a fix to address a few issues in yesterday's update. If you are still getting this same issue after updating to the latest version, please let us know, but hopefully the patch will have taken care of this. You can read more about the patch here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/602960/announcements/detail/5070488319384762244

Hi! Sorry for the trouble, it appears there is indeed a problem with the gate NPC not spawning correctly. Please see this other thread where my colleague wrote about the same issue: https://steamcommunity.com/app/602960/discussions/1/3201491841996031757/

Thank you for the extra info!

We are aware of certain issues in the AI and pathfinding logic in particular that are causing occasional frame drops, and are working on getting rid of those and optimizing the logic. I unfortunately can't give you an exact ETA on these, but hopefully the next hotfix will improve the situation!

These issues don't seem like memory leaks though: a memory leak is a specific kind of problem that causes a program to unnecessarily take up memory. It typically doesn't manifest as frame drops or lag, but can make the program eat up excessive amounts of memory and eventually crash if the memory runs out, which doesn't seem to be the case here.

Thank you for bringing this up! To be clear, by memory leaks do you mean that the server's memory usage keeps increasing? I'm not entirely sure why that would affect the clients' framerate, but I suppose these could be related. Something that might give us a bit more clues on what's causing this is if you'd enter the command "showperf" in the debug console (which can be accessed by pressing F3) and shared us a screenshot of the view.

Originally posted by Frank Horrigan: NPCs and AI are known to cause memory leaks.

I was not aware of this either, that's something we definitely need to investigate. Have you done some kind of profiling to pinpoint what's causing the memory leaks, or how do you know it's caused by the NPCs and AI? Or do you mean they cause performance issues in general, such as framerate drops?

Originally posted by Shiro: hopefully this will be fixed asap as quickfix, and not without need to wait next large update :)

Unfortunately this is not hotfix material – fixes that are introduced in a matter of days are hugely risky as they can break the game in unexpected ways, and as such hotfixes should only contain very small and/or absolutely critical things, which this, despite being annoying, is not. However, rather than wait for the next really big update, this change might make the bugfix and quality of life improvements patch that we're currently working on and hoping to release before Christmas. More info about that closer to date!

Hi eveyone, just to write back that we don't actually ignore either these forums or our GitHub ;) there are just so many messages and, particularly here on these forums, only one of me.

Regarding the issue at hand, we've been discussing this lately and I think it's likely we will make some changes in the near future to how crew roles are assigned. However, we've not planned those changes yet in detail so I can't tell you much more than that for now.

With that, wish you a good week!

Hi and thank you all who wrote here already, very nice reading all those nice things about us! ;)

I wanted to specify the update schedule – we usually write a "coming next week!" announcement before an update, but due to other schedules, we won't be able to do that this time around. So, just to let you know: the update is actually coming as soon as next week, Honkmother willing. The key additions will be...

- an all-new character talent system
- character visual overhaul and character customisation being added also for singleplayer
- complete overhaul of alien ruins, and
- genetics, which we've yet to introduce in more detail, plus some improvements to the medical UI and other interfaces. (And a lot of fixes as always.)

Genetics and the other last bits you can read more about on update release day, and if you're interested in finding out more about the other upcoming changes, you can do that in the three latest "Sneak peek" news posts here: ... Read more

Hello! I removed the post because it looked to me like advertising in the wrong place, plus it talked about Discord, which we also use, while making needlessly negative, unsubstantiated claims. If you would like to advertise a Barotrauma-related chatroom you host yourself, without all the unnecessary and controversial claims, you may do so on the "Recruiting Crewmates" subforum, where all manner of legitimate recruiting ads are welcome.

Thanks Greb for spreading the word! I wanted to give an additional poke here to say the patch is now live, see the announcement and changelog here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/602960/view/2942526618673855908

... Read more

Hello! It is quite unlikely that we would simply incorporate ITA, because it changes so many things, and our own campaign development is not yet finished as the game remains in early access. Rather, we are happy to observe what popular mods appear to do well and learn from that! Having many different mods around also makes for more varied possible experiences for players, so we are very happy to have a lively modder community.

As for whether we cooperate with the maker of ITA, or with our modders in general, you will be able to find both us and ITA's developers in our official Discord[discord.gg], and we are well enough known to each other. The same can be said for the maker of Thalassophobia, which I recommend you take a look at if ambitious mods that add a lot of content to the game are your cup of tea. (Sorry if I negle... Read more

Hello! This behaviour was added generally to encourage changing subs more freely to adapt to your changing environment, and more specifically because earlier, it was actually not always possible to switch subs below a certain depth – the upgrades that made your sub withstand the depth didn't carry over, and you died as soon as you switched to a new one, which was of course not intended. Rather than fix only that, we decided it might be simplest if all upgrades just carried over, hoping that would also encourage more players to play out entire campaigns rather than stay close to the beginning for long stretches of time.

OP probably did not mean anything bad by what they said, and there is certainly nothing wrong with wanting to clarify what you mean! Doing so merely ensures everyone gets the answers they are looking for, and there is no reason to react badly to that, I think.

I've not had a chance to find out any actual under-the-hood facts about the question, but I wanted to post a gentle reminder now: please be kind and considerate, keep things on topic and do not get into personal arguments.

I'll see if I can also find out something about the topic, too, before the week is out. Until then!

Let's not be unnecesasarily harsh! Massive co-op is, after all, mentioned in our official roadmap as a big maybe, and these forums welcome all kinds of discussion about Barotrauma :) Because the prospect is really quite unlikely, I wanted to weigh in and clear up our position, but that doesn't mean the topic should be shot down, either.

Hi! A slight correction – while I made that post on the old forums that you quoted there, I was in fact quoting something a colleague had written before, so those there are not my words. This is probably not important at all, but just to be clear! The text is from the transcript of a live Discord QnA session we did, quite some time ago.

On to the topic itself, I must unfortunately temper your expectations. We have many things in the Hopes and dreams section of our Trello board that are quite unlikely to happen, and this is one of those. The workload would be immense, and we would effectively be making Barotrauma into a whole another game, so a full-fledged MMO mode is probably not in the books for us. Some MMO-like elements being added somewhere down the line is more likely, and even that is still too early to discuss in any detail. Our first priority is seeing the game, as imagined now, to full release! What happens after that milestone is not yet set in stone.

... Read more