Dynamoon

Hi! Thanks for this thread, we will be keeping an eye on it.

Not to dampen anyone's enthusiasm too much, I wanted to drop by and clarify something about our schedule: if everything goes as planned, we do not have a full year of new development time before 1.0, both because we actually hope to reach that milestone sometime earlier than a full year from now*, and because we cannot keep developing new things all the way until release – all releases require a testing and polishing phase, and this one more than any other before it.

So our "hands off" moment for the 1.0 release is coming almost sooner than we would like! With that in mind I'd like to temper your expectations a bit and repeat what we wrote on the blog[barotraumagame.com] last week: there will not b... Read more

You shan't, this time, I'm afraid. We did not have the time to make two posts, so there will only be one proper announcement on the day of the update (we like to translate our Steam announcements into a couple of different languages, and that takes time).

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Hi! You're correct that the actual anniversary date already passed, but we needed a bit more time to get everything ready for the update. Look forward to it next week!

Hi, the hotfix was announced today via patchnotes as always. You can see it, including the full changelog, here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/602960/announcements/detail/3174484827448050640

Or, if you mean the actual update and not today's patch, that was announced the week before! You can browse earlier news posts under the ... Read more

Hi, this thread seems unrelated to Barotrauma, so I am locking it. It is unclear to me whether OP or anyone else wished to provoke anyone with the topic, but as the weekend approaches and we may not be here to keep an eye on it, I think it might be in everyone's best interest to avoid further conversation here – since none of it so far seems to yield much discussion about the game itself.

Wish everyone a nice weekend!

Hi! Sorry for the trouble. This is unfortunately an actual problem in the game which somehow managed to go unnoticed all the way until release, and as such you cannot work around it. It seems to affect about half of all colony modules. We are aware of the problem now, though, and will fix it as soon as we are able to!

Hi! We've seen a few posts suggesting multithreading as a performance fix and have refrained from writing back to avoid sounding nitpicky or besserwissery, when we understand these problems are really frustrating for you. But the next update is getting close and probably will not flat-out eliminate all performance issues, so I thought I'd drop by and write a little bit about this now that it has come up again.

Barotrauma actually already employs multithreading in some places, and adding more might indeed be helpful, but only to a degree. It's not the only or most effective thing we could do to improve performance, because the current problems are probably not greatly affected by whether the game uses a single core or multiple ones. The problems also do not appear to be tied to any single cause, such as a particular hardware make, that would help to pinpoint and address them neatly. Instead, the issues that have cropped up, particularly following the latest update, are mo... Read more

Hi everyone! As the weekend approaches and this thread looks like it might be gaining an unpleasant kind of momentum, I am going to lock it – and want to confirm we've seen it and will discuss next week how we should proceed with dealing with this server, or others that might do something similar. Unfortunately I can't say more on the topic now, because it is the winter holiday season and a few colleagues who I would discuss this with are not available this week. So, we will return to the issue next week and decide then what action to take.

With that, I wish everyone a nice weekend!

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...

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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