Yeah, specially some multithreading, this game is single thread, so each piece of the sub, player, and enemy is all beign handled by one core, spreading it out would be great
Hi! We don't usually talk much on Reddit to keep ourselves from being spread too thin across the internet, but since performance issues are a bit of a hot potato lately, I wanted to write back about this.
For one thing, we already employ multithreading in some parts of the game and have done so for a couple of years. Adding more might be helpful in some ways, but it's not a magic bullet that would improve performance across the board (in any game). Barotrauma has so many moving parts that affect performance, one-shot solutions sadly don't exist, and the task is more complex: we need to find the performance-hurting parts of the game and optimise them each individually. This is work that we do continuously, and it seems that with the Rising Tide update, there were some setbacks in the department.
We're sadly not confident that we've uncovered all the causes of those setbacks yet. That is why we are not promising a thorough fix to the recent performance issues...
Read moreWithout going into the origins of the SS13 clown as that is far from my area of expertise, I would now like to be the dev that addresses this for the purposes of Barotrauma: clowns are not Nazis in disguise and the Honkmother is not associated with Hitler (and neither are we). You may quote me saying this, too. I realise I'm probably just biting the hand that trolls here, but I feel like this is important to address: The clowns and the mother of honks are there because they are funny and as homage to Space Station 13, Barotrauma's spiritual ancestor, nothing more and nothing less.
As for trolling our subreddit with jokes in this vein: please don't, it's not actually funny.
Some time ago Neo Nazis coopted clown world and clowns as a weird sort of secret nod to each other. SS13 had a Nazi community as a result.
Honk Honk/ heil honkler is code for Heil Hitler.
Barotrauma then introduced clowns to their game, after it had been established there was a neo Nazi community involved with the clowns.
The devs have never addressed this despite this l being established before the development of this game which I find telling. I usually get downvoted for bringing this up but it's f**king real.
Without going into the origins of the SS13 clown as that is far from my area of expertise, I would now like to be the dev that addresses this for the purposes of Barotrauma: clowns are not Nazis in disguise and the Honkmother is not associated with Hitler (and neither are we). You may quote me saying this, too. I realise I'm probably just biting the hand that trolls here, but I feel like this is important to address: The clowns and the mother of honks are there because they are funny and as homage to Space Station 13, Barotrauma's spiritual ancestor, nothing more and nothing less.
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That these details about OP have been available elsewhere, even through resources shared in their post, is no excuse for anyone to shine any additional light on them – as you have now done a second time, so I have also deleted your post again for the same reason. Furthermore, arguing with me about applying the rules of this subreddit exactly as they are written is not a fruitful use of either one's time. I am not a fan of swinging the hammer, but this rule, like the others, exists for a reason, so you will have to excuse me for enforcing it on everyone equally (:
I'm not outing him, he's OP who made the entire post about the sub/game mode.
Had he been a competent admin and discussed the matter with me rather than throwing a tantrum and rage-banning me for the unforgivable crime of beating him at his own game the first time I played it, then yes we could have had direct communication.
Perhaps if I had cared even a fraction as much as he did I'd have found another way to message him but incompetent server admins are a dime a dozen (in any context not just BT) so I didn't really care. It's not like I made the reddit post, lol!!
I only brought it up because he mentioned posted about it and I figured it was worth warning other people before they get griefed what kind of server admin they're dealing with.
To be clear, what I took issue with was particularly the bit where you named the host by three different aliases. I might be tempted to intervene even if it had been just about dropping by the host's post to warn others about them, because even that is questionable in my opinion – it is after all just your opinion against someone else's, and debating who was right is not something our public, official community platforms are there for. Writing another person's screen names and calling them out on the other hand is simply unkind and hugely drama prone, so messages like that are categorically deleted wherever we see them. This is also clearly stated in the subreddit rules.
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Don't out individuals or groups of individuals, no matter how badly you think they have wronged you.
If you have feedback to give to a host, it's best to take it straight to them (and always be polite about it).
If it's related to something that moderators or developers can help with (subreddit/discord/steam forums) report posts, send a modmail or otherwise directly contact without creating a post about it.
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