Worlds Adrift Dev Tracker

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On Friday we pushed the code we’ve been working on for the past couple of months to the PTS and we encountered the minor issue of most players not being able to login at all! This was highly likely given the fact that we’ve almost completely rewritten the entire login/logout system. We didn’t however expect the issues to be this drastic as obviously we hadn’t seen this during our QA process.

Initial observations indicate that logins work fine at first but then abruptly stop working completely. We can see this in the log history, green bars are successful logins, red bars are failures:

We suspect what’s happening is a concurrency issue (such as a deadlock) that only happens when there are enough players logging in at the sam...

PTS – Update 30 Patch Notes

BLIGHT 2.0

• Improvements to telegraphing:
  • 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...

Greetings Travellers,

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:

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Knowledge And Scanning Revamp

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.

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Greetings Travellers,

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:

Yup, that’s a lot of ships, specifically of...