Barotrauma Dev Tracker

It seems someone has discovered an exploit that allows crashing servers by sending them a specifically crafted malformed packet, and is abusing this to take down servers. We know where the issue is and are working on a fix. We'll hotfix this as soon as we can. Sorry for the inconvenience! :/

The initial version of the campaigns were very sandboxy, with no clear sense of progression, and no goals or objectives - you just wandered around the map doing whatever. For this type of campaign, the circular map where you could easily keep moving between biomes as you pleased worked well.

As the campaign started getting a more clearly defined structure and difficulty curve, the circular map no longer made as much sense, and we felt a more linear map fit the linearly increasing difficulty better.

I also have to point out that the old map wasn't intended to be a map of the whole moon: it wasn't a cross-section of Europa and you weren't travelling to the center of Europa. It was just a normal top-down map of a circular area on (and under) the surface, and you were travelling to the center of that area, which also happened to be deeper than the edges. The ocean on Europa is by most estimates at most 100 km deep - the center is much deeper, and you would need to push ...

We've release a hotfix today that should fix this. :) Sorry for the trouble!

I agree it's somewhat hard to justify why practically all animals on Europa would be this aggressive towards the subs. It's of course something they do for the sake of gameplay, but I think there are some potential in-world explanations for it too. Maybe the smaller creatures have evolved to be extremely territorial, so any large abyss creatures that happen to wander above the abyss get quickly driven back by swarms of smaller critters? Or maybe the submarines are something so alien to them, they don't realize how dangerous they are: it's a huge, chunky whale-like thing that doesn't even have teeth, claws or fins, looks really slow and not very agile - and apparently it doesn't even have a mouth, so it won't eat you, why not go and take a bite for an easy meal?

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.

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.