Exctoris

Last week we released our Weather Forecasting update - a new system that allows players more advanced notice of incoming storms giving them more time to prepare and make more informed decisions about what to do in-game. This meant changing several parts of the weather system, which combined to result in much more severe and frequent weather events than we originally intended.

One of the most enjoyable parts of the week for our team is seeing reactions from both fans in Discord and content creators on YouTube. This week we definitely got the message that the storms were too much.

Typically we would address this much sooner in a hotfix, but as you may be aware immediately following the update's release Auckland, where our studio is based, experienced an entire season worth of rainfall in a few hours and severe flooding (the irony is not lost on us) and much of the team is now working from home (as weather warnings are still in place) or taking time off to clean up.
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Hey all - the issue is fixed, we should be all working again! Thanks for your patience while we resolved the issue.

Originally posted by Possemaster:

Originally posted by Exctoris: If you have have done a migration in the past - you are fine.

If you are a new player - you can click ok and play and it is fine.

If you are returning after not playing for a while and haven't done a migration - the migration is down currently but you can choose to skip and play and migrate when it is back up using the [ForceMigrateButton]. When you Force Migrate it will clear all progress made after the skip, but you wil...

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If you have have done a migration in the past - you are fine.

If you are a new player - you can click ok and play and it is fine.

If you are returning after not playing for a while and haven't done a migration - the migration is down currently but you can choose to skip and play and migrate when it is back up using the [ForceMigrateButton]. When you Force Migrate it will clear all progress made after the skip, but you will have all your old data from when you last played.

- Fixing Race Condition caused due to new dropship player initialization which was causing players to die before landing on a prospect
- Added timeout check for retrieving data from the server. If migration fails a backup option is now shown to allow you to play without old data. Migration can be attempted later, however this will lose more recent data.

***New Players can now enter the game after attempting a migration, existing players who haven't migrated will have the option to skip migration. People who have already migrated will be unaffected.***

Originally posted by UnderDoug:

Originally posted by Duckett: BTW.. thanks for the heads up

I imagine it'll be included within the regularly scheduled weekly update.

You are correct, this weekly update

Originally posted by Pach: Hey, thanks for the heads up!

Is this online characters only, or will offline ones be impacted as well?

Its both, we are merging offline & online with this patch.

Its something we really want to add, along with a balance of all the energy / power systems. We are planning to do something early next year after data decentralization.

Originally posted by Des: i've got questions
1, dedi servers are always on so whats gonna happen to your base
when no one is on at that moment?
lotta storms happen and on styx stone gets damaged
would we have to build all the way to concrete before getting off every time?

There is in option in the config of the server as to how long the game runs when no-one is connected. I believe we default it to 3 minutes, then the server switches to lobby mode, and the next time you connect you will have to load up the session. While the server is in lobby mode the game isn't running so no events or anything will be happenning.

Originally posted by Des: 2, what happens when the mission is finished?

When missions finish players will be instantly rewarded with the Ren / Exotics, no need to go back up in the dropship to collect the rewards... Read more

Dedicated servers are in active development, over on discord we have some channels set up with how to access the tool, the wiki on how to host and steam branch required for you to connect.

We are looking at adjusting this soon, so that a mission-recipe unlock on one character unlocks for all.

We are planning to expand the Open World Quests with larger objectives, they will come and take a little time.

The repair tool & building upgrade tool have been combined into a single item.

I belive in this patch we re-added the ability to hit them with melee weapons and projectiles to damage them. But you can always look at them and press y to pick back up.

There was a bug with this in the initial patch but was fixed in a hotfix. It’s a bluefish greenish box that has smoke coming out of it.

Thanks for pointing this out will make an issue for someone to fix

This doesn't seem right, I'll pass it on to the team.

Yup we are addressing the gold requirement in an update shortly, we have it on our list.

Was this the geysers horde mode? And was this on a prospect or outpost?

Prospects only provide exotics 3x then it should provide enzymes. Outposts should only ever provide enzymes.

Also if you let the Vapour Condenser take too much damage it is destroyed and you need to start again. If you all log out mid wave you need to start again from the start.