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It mostly depends on the amount of mods loaded. Personally, loading up Russia singleplayer with only vanilla content (no mods), my PC uses 3,586.4 MB of RAM.

I expect so. Wheeled vehicles are my top priority for vehicle changes at the moment, but I do want to improve all vehicle types this year.

Gotta walk before we can run! But vehicle features are going to be one of my top priorities throughout all of 2024.

You've been killing it lately with all these mods! :)

That sounded like there must be something wrong to me, so I double-checked today. My wife has a low-spec MacBook Air from ~2016 that I previously used for testing Unturned's Mac compatibility, before getting the newer M1 Mac for M1 compatibility testing. On that MacBook Air I was able to walk around one of the Buak towns facing the center mountain (most performance-intensive viewpoint) at around 20 fps low settings. Obviously 20 fps isn't ideal, but Buak is the most graphically-demanding map in the game by a long shot, and that's even having made optimizations to the base game specifically targeting the map. (other maps run much better on that laptop)

My gut expectation is that nowadays if anything runs at 1 fps there's probably something wrong. What platform are you on? Do you have any additional launch options specified in the Unturned properties window in Steam?

Glad to hear you're enjoying it! One note regarding tools like playit.gg: relatively recently, support for Steam's Fake IP and Server Codes joining have added an equivalent feature built-in. That is to say, you can join by Server Code or Fake IP without port forwarding and without tunneling software.

I agree that would be useful. Certainly comes in handy in e.g. Minecraft or Valheim. Maybe can be included in a future similar poll/survey. Though I think it would be hard to coordinate everyone to agree to sleep in a PvP server.

Are you playing at higher settings though? I've kept an old laptop around for testing and generally the framerate has improved over the years on my end.

I may as well at least add the option for auto-updating server mods. The code is mostly already there and it's been requested a few times recently. When that feature was first added it wasn't *as* important for the server mods to be completely in sync, but now the game is pretty strict about asset mismatch to block some cheats.

Hmm not out of the question. I'd been thinking mostly of controller navigation in the UI, and perhaps updating to Unity's new input system. Considering how tightly coupled with Steam Unturned is already there wouldn't be much downside to using Steam Input directly...

To expand on this: The request for easier server hosting would technically be implemented as "listen server hosting". In that mode your client would run as both the client and server simultaneously and your friends could join without the separate dedicated server software.

That's how multiplayer worked in 2.0. There is a host player in the world and everyone joins them. This approach isn't without downsides, however, and so dedicated server support was one of the absolute top priorities with 3.0. I over-corrected though and didn't factor in listen server hosting as being an important feature.

Singleplayer sort of runs as a listen server. It's running both the client and server code simultaneously. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as just enabling joining singleplayer to make listen server hosting work at this point. Lots of code the has been written with only dedicated servers and singleplayer in mind, and would function unexpectedly on listen servers.

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If you have a few minutes, I’d appreciate your input on this survey! The goal is to collect feedback on what the Unturned community is most interested in seeing in 2024: https://forms.gle/Fv4guTqb5ApacQbM9

I will post it in-game as well a little bit later. The reason for waiting is to get any comments/criticisms on the survey itself before posting to a wider audience.

Thanks for the kind words and your longtime support, Sharrac! :)

Thanks Nick! :)

Thanks shredder! :)

can you give an explanation as to the active botting of the game? if you are doing it, why?

In short: No, I'm not botting the player count.

To help clarify my side of this issue and prevent the spread of misinformation, I have written a support article here with more details: https://smartlydressedgames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/20692302395028

Similarly, in the interest of transparency, I shared the server list player numbers for 2023 in a blog post here: ...

Thanks, I hope it's worth the wait!