Made the Blight screen overlay transparent when looking away from the centre of the storm to make it clearer which direction to travel in to get out.
If you can see particles you’re at risk of destruction (you’re near the destruction radius)
Destruction VFX will last longer. Now it will fade to black over 7.5s and ‘dissolve’ over 2.5s. Colliders should also be disabled halfway through the dissolving process.
New lightning VFX to make the Blight look more dangerous
Blight will now turn on if the server hits 75% time dilation for 30 seconds and disable when it gets to 85% time dilation for 30 seconds
Blight is now visible from 6km away
Initial Blight position is no longer based on weather cell positions but on a K-M...
For my last Tech Tuesday, I described how we are going to save all of the offline ships in the world and then delete them all in a subsequent update.
Well, it turns out that as of late the PvE deployment, in particular, has been really struggling with the sheer amount of ships in the world so strange bugs such as ships not appearing have started to happen much more frequently.
Due to this, we’ve decided to bring forward the work of deleting all of the offline ships and respawning them when registered players login. I completed the work to delete offline ships today and the results are even better than we expected, so here are some graphs!
First, here’s the graph showing the number of entities in the world:
Update 30 will bring the first big changes to scanning and progression in Worlds Adrift.
First things first; scanning has been heavily reworked. We have removed the need to scan every individual object in the game. They no longer give any knowledge but their description text remains. From now on knowledge is primarily gained from databanks, lore pages and salvaging schematics.
Another quality of life change we’ve made is a new cursor icon when holding your scanner and it will change colour to highlight when something is in range to scan.
Worlds Adrift hasn’t been wiped for quite some time. On the PVP that’s not really a big deal because people blow each other up, but on the PVE server it means this:
Hi, Sylvain here, CTO at Bossa Studios, dropping in to give you quick summary of what we are tackling right now.
As some of you may have noticed if you read the forums, the Worlds Adrift team is currently undertaking some big technical upgrades to quite a few of the core systems. Whilst these upgrades will bring significant quality of improvements for players; they aren’t without their challenges. The issue with these systems is that they are usually touching a lot of the game code which was initially implemented years ago and more often than not for older versions of SpatialOS too. Code that is as fragile as it is essential. As a result, any changes made need to be scrutinised and implemented with a prudent mindset. We have planned to tackle these systems for a while, however, other features/fixes in Worlds Adrift’s release schedule took priority.. So, what we have at the moment is a few of the key systems of the game mostly working but not being as stable or as transparent ...
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