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If you try the Beta version of the game (use the password "therewillbebugs") you will notice dramatic improvements.

A youtuber did a review today of how different the beta version is to the current game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlO1sBk7JqU&t=1s

as part of our new "insurance" changes, a default value got pushed out that is different and is causing these issues. We will deploy that change on our backend, and cleanup any issues with a script. What i means is all prospects currently have "insurance" by default, even though they do not, leaving the client and backend at odds to the real state. Apologies - it's a complicated rollout for this weeks update. Will keep you all posted and please contact me if you have lost a character.

[email protected] or post here and I will lookup ID's once we push changes.

Note this is now very stable for singleplayer.

We are being cautious, keeping the initial distrubtion low.

The password is "therewillbebugs" but I won't do a big post about it until we are sure its not going to mess people up badly. Another week or two of bugfixing before we open it up a bit!

We have I think at least seven more crash fixes coming in this weeks update. Very sorry for the trouble. We will be listing the crash fixes specifically in their own section in the changelog. Again - very sorry for the trouble hope this is fixed in this weeks update.

We're doing a huge "refactor". It is not only dramatically improving multiplayer but also performance in singleplayer. We can't push these updates out incrementally, unfortunately.

Think of it like working on a car. Some changes you can do while the car still is used day to day, like refilling the petrol or wiper fluid, changing the spark plugs, changing a tyre. But some stuff requires the engine to be taken out and takes the car out of action for quite a while.

It's taking us longer than expected, but mostly because as we started fixing and making changes we discovered how much more opportunity we had - while everything was in pieces - to improve the game.

I'd also recommend:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/Oxygen_Not_Included/

Especially with their rocket stuff.

Also I REALLY like ECO. I'd recommend getting into it during a server reset, and playing with a group of friends. The dev team are fantastic as well. Also agree with all of the above as well, Astroneer is excellent.

Will fix when we can. Sorry it was a hashing failure with the latest changes.

RESOLVED AT 5:34AM.

SOME DIFFICULTY RESTARTING A SERVICE AFTER MAINTENANCE, BUT FIXED. APOLOGIES FOR INCONVIENCE.


Scheduled Maintenance is **estimated** to begin at 4:45AM NZST (EDITED) (roughly 2 hours from now) and **estimate** it will last for a minimum of 40 minutes.

We are preparing all we need to so that the planned outage can occur and have it run fast. Please note this is the first time the service will be down, and we will be implementing important changes based on the existing load and previous outages. The service is top of the line, with the maximum available hardware. We have barely been stressing the raw processing power, but we need to make some changes to ensure timely responses. This is a very complicated update, involving our backend (database and companion services, like gateway and monitoring) and the client itself. It also includes content updates. We will do our best to resolve the maintenance as quickly as possible, but as it ... Read more

Will post updates.

10:15 PM possible a small outage only, seen to in fine now. going to keep an eye on things

10:20 PM tonights hotfix will help, as we have more seamless handling of anything intermittent in it

10:31 PM considering this outage over - but we're going to be working away on it tonight until we're satisfied.

10:55 PM note some people reported they were kicked again. possibly related to us restarting a small service. tonights update, which isn't out yet, will help smooth this over a lot more

Will post updates here.

4:27 PM SQL under unusual load. engineers investigating

4:36 PM unusual load problem identified. working on a fix.

4:49 PM found source of unusual load. found the likely issue. won't say what it is till action taken.

4:55 PM should be going back up now. apologies. will release details after tonight update. watching to confirm tho.

5:01 PM confirming resolved. i got eaten by a wolf while running around testing.

See a lot of posts and questions about it. And it's very popular (understatement) on featureupvote. We've been considering how to do it for some time. We just want to make sure it's done in the way that still makes the consequences and tradeoffs of decisions worthwhile and meaningful.

The working theory is to have you spend exotics.

It's not something we want to rush in. Im sure in the short term it would make people happy, perhaps even bump up our review score - but *rushing* it in would be very bad long term. We will do this, but we will do it right. After the rocky launch the last thing I want to do is do a poor job of respec and break the game.

Really sorry all - working as fast as we can to fix this.

Will keep you updated. apologies.

I will post live updated here. Please try keep the memes in this thread, so that we don't clutter up the forum too much.

3:26 AM Seeing a lot of errors in the logs. No clear idea of what cause is yet. SQL showed a sudden spike preceeding event. Then returned to normal. Not outright down, but degraded to the point everything times out. More to follow.

3:33 AM Im giving the engineer space to work, but he told me he has restarted everything and that might help things while he investigates the problem. I'll give him the space he needs, report to you when I can. I have now loaded successfully into a prospect.

3:38 AM okay im kicked from the prospect, like others, after loosing connection. Engineer is investigating. Restart didn't fix it, so needs to take a close look at it. Tough work for him so I'm giving him space - sorry folks - only can be patient now I know thats not easy.

3:41 AM investigating why the q... Read more

Originally posted by Godking: Can we PLEASE have the ability to respec our skill points with some cost?

We want to do this, but its complex for balance. So we will def be doing that, its a very highly requested feature. But we need some time to carefully implement it.

Originally posted by RealPain: Will there be an update to the Tech Tree and Talents? It seems to have a very bad balance for points/level or points/skill tree. One example is the ghillie outfit. How come we have to waste points in the Tech Tree AND the Talents section?

Absolutely - we had planned to do these kinds of changes this weekend. But a number of users have had a lot of problems, so we have been focused on trying to help them. We will continue to rebalance and adjust and consolidate the tech tree etc... and add requested features.